The Humanscale Float Mini is a fascinating standing desk with an impressively minimal, electricity-free design. While there may be better choices for someone looking for a triple monitor setup or an ultrawide behemoth, this could be a perfect little desk for someone looking to stand with their laptop. Since this desk is not powered, you could add casters to improve mobility within an office space or wherever needed.
Unboxing (Image credit: Humanscale)
Unboxing and First Impressions
Unboxing this desk was as expected. It was a simple process, with all the elements labeled and the tools for construction included. This desk took us about 15 minutes to assemble after unboxing everything. The included instructions were easy to follow, and thanks to the aforementioned labeling, we were always clear on what to do.
When choosing our model, we added the NeatCharge wireless charger. This of course requires power, but the desk itself remains powerless. The NeatCharge wireless charger takes up zero desk space as it uses passthrough technology and mounts to the underside of the desk. Then, on the desktop, a little conductive adhesive is added to show where to place your Qi wireless charging device to align with the charger below. This design leaves the entire desk space usable (see photo).
Humanscale Float Mini + NeatCharge (top) (Image credit: Humanscale)
Design and Build Quality
The Float Mini from Humanscale is a very modern-looking desk. Our model has a squared-off leg, a clean white metal base and leg, and a light bamboo desktop.
The lifting mechanism utilizes a counterbalance system with a simple lever so that even without a motor, this desk can raise and lower very smoothly and efficiently.
The weight capacity of this desk is a mere 60lb, so this isn't a desk to jump on, load with huge monitors or ride up and down like you can with a lot of standing desks. However, it is excellent for a single laptop, notebook, or drawing setup.
The desk utilizes a counterbalance system so you can raise the desk without the use of an electric motor. We thought this would be an inferior experience, but actually, the act of raising and lowering is relatively smooth and surprisingly easy to use.
(Image credit: Humanscale)
In Use
We found an excellent use for this smaller footprint desk in an infrequently used area of our office space as a standing desk, using just a laptop or notebook. It could be the smaller footprint or the single-leg design, but this desk fits into a corner or against a wall quite nicely without feeling like it's protruding into the room. Because of this, we noticed several team members would venture over to this desk to knock out some emails, stretch from their workspace, or get a change of scenery.
The desk can drop down to a seated height; however, we only tried this once or twice as proof of concept but never actually used it this way. We use the height adjustment to match an individual's standing height, without making drastic changes to adjust for someone sitting.
The NeatCharge is a beautiful solution for small desktops like this Humanscale Float Mini. Its lack of real estate is what makes it so attractive. Only a slight bump from the sticker shows where to place a Qi device on the charger. However, that spot is still absolutely usable if needed. We put the charger on the front right corner of our desk because we wanted to be able to place headphones or smartphones to charge while working somewhere else in our office.
NeatCharge bottom (Image credit: Humanscale)
Final Verdict
The Humanscale Float Mini with NeatCharge is a quality combination that is an excellent fit for a range of users. The minimalist design and relatively small footprint make it an ideal fit for small spaces that won't accommodate a standard desk, allowing us to make more use of our space. Adding in the NeatCharge takes the desk to the next level of practicality and productivity.
Meizu held a big launch event yesterday where it announced it Meizu 20 series phones alongside their latest Flyme 10 interface. The new Android-based firmware brings a visual overhaul dubbed Alive Design with a modernized look including new icons, widgets, menu designs and wallpapers.
Flyme 10 key features
The core system apps also receive a makeover and the signature Meizu small window mode for apps received new two-finger and long press gestures. Flyme 10 brings the Meizu OneMind 10 AI engine which promises improved frame rates, less system space usage and improved stability...
The AI revolution is in full swing, with new and better tools hitting the markets daily. That being said, Hypotenuse has been receiving some traction online for quite some time, with users lauding its pricing and functionality.
The platform itself is an AI copywriting tool that should help you speed up content delivery. But can it really provide high-quality content quickly and automate your blogging and writing? Let’s take a look.
Plans and pricing
The platform offers three pricing plans, with an option to try it out for free without giving out your credit card details. If you’re a single writer or a small business, you will probably look at the Starter plan, which costs $29 a month and offers roughly 25,000 words and 200 images.
If you have a small team that you want to test out, the Growth plan offers access to up to five users, with 87,500 words and unlimited AI-generated images (watermark-free). This plan also offers a plagiarism checker and will cost you $59 a month.
Finally, there is the Enterprise plan for larger teams; however, for the pricing, you will have to go through the sales team. An additional benefit of the Enterprise plan is a personal account manager and custom AI models that can be tailored to your brand’s voice.
While numerous features that the platform offers overlap with other AI writing assistants, there are still a few which make it unique.
The batch generator is a great tool if you have an e-commerce site on, for example, Shopify. You can import all of your products via CSV or directly through the Shopify integration and have Hypotenuse bulk write descriptions for each of them. However, make sure you proofread all of them before publishing.
Content detective is another great feature the platform offers, which allows you to quickly fact check your articles and find sources with just a click of a button.
Functions such as blog writing, content writing, summarizing and paraphrasing tools are pretty much the same as with other AI writing platforms. As long as you don’t expect miracles, you will get useful content that you can use with some editing beforehand. The same can be said of its social media captions and ad copy creation capabilities.
On the other hand, the AI image generation can offer interesting results, but be mindful that results will vary depending on the input you provide to the tool. It can be a great way of creating unique visuals for your blogs or products, but if you’re looking for a professional presentation, as with the text, the images will require editing in your favorite photo editing tool.
Interface and in use
Hypotenuse is a well-designed platform that offers ease of use through its simple yet effective UI. For example, the blog post writing workflow offers guided prompts, which are simple to follow and use. All you need to do is click away and add keywords and a topic.
A quirky new thing that the other platforms don’t offer is unique loading screens. Once you prompt the AI to create a text or image for you, you will be met with a fun loading screen that creates an impression of work being done behind the scene. Other platforms usually have a loading bar, a sand clock, or just a prompt that says, please wait.
You can find a robust Guides section on the platform that offers articles explaining all of the functionality of the platform. Interspersed with the text are also some video guides that can help you get to grips with advanced functions such as CSV importing and batch generation.
The company blog also offers information and ideas on how to use the platform, at the moment, it’s not as detailed but does offer enough for beginners. There is an FAQ, email support and also a get in touch form, which probably creates a Jira ticket for the dev team to respond to any technical issues you may have.
Depending on the plan you choose, you can get direct support from the Hypotenuse team, which can help you set up your project inside of their ecosystem. Overall, the support is excellent.
Security
As with most web-based platforms, Hypotenuse offers a detailed Privacy Policy and Terms of Service documents on the site itself. These contain the usual information that the company is following the commercially available means of protecting user data but do not guarantee it.
For payments, the platform uses third-party payment processors that adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS.
Test
We’ve given the platform’s writing capabilities a quick test to see how it handles a simple topic. The goal was to cover “Artificial intelligence helps writers be more succinct,” and since this platform doesn’t have a “paragraph” writer template, we decided to ask the AI to write a post on the topic.
Hypotenuse.AI test (Image credit: Hypotenuse.AI)
The results were solid, though the text sounds a bit “dry” and just lists the facts, with an OK conclusion. The topic that we have given it, is quite simple, so with more prompts and a more interesting topic, the results get better. But overall, if you’re looking for content that you can actually publish and provide value, you will have to do some editing.
The competition
The competition is quite stiff for these types of tools, with Jasper AI being a strong candidate. Jasper offers numerous template and integration options, providing content of similar quality. Pricing is on the side of Hypotenuse for now, but if you don’t run an e-commerce site Jasper might be a more versatile option.
Longshot AI is another platform that rivals both Jasper and Hypotenuse. It boasts the greatest set of integrations and quite a few templates. Furthermore, it has a custom AI model that is quite powerful and can create unique text that passes plagiarism checkers.
Final verdict
All in all, Hypotenuse is a great tool for creating product descriptions, unique AI-generated images, and text that can be used after some editing. On the pricing front, it could do better, but it’s accessible for small businesses and even a single writer. However, we would recommend taking the 7-day free trial (without giving out credit card details) a try before you actually decide to buy it.
Popular camera company Insta360 today announced Insta360 Flow - an AI-tracking smartphone stabilizer with 3-axis gimbal stabilization for content creators. It's advertised as an all-in-one smartphone content creation tool that comes with a built-in selfie stick, tripod, and a cold shoe.
The Insta360 Flow has mechanical stabilization for shake-free shots and uses Insta360's Deep Track 3.0, allowing it to follow subjects in real-time and automatically frame shots for creators.
Deep Track 3.0's Person Re-Identification allows the Insta360 Flow to continue tracking the same person...
Popular camera company Insta360 today announced Insta360 Flow - an AI-tracking smartphone stabilizer with 3-axis gimbal stabilization for content creators. It's advertised as an all-in-one smartphone content creation tool that comes with a built-in selfie stick, tripod, and a cold shoe.
The Insta360 Flow has mechanical stabilization for shake-free shots and uses Insta360's Deep Track 3.0, allowing it to follow subjects in real-time and automatically frame shots for creators.
Deep Track 3.0's Person Re-Identification allows the Insta360 Flow to continue tracking the same person...
In the last few days, Samsung has been under some heat over allegations that it fakes the Moon shots on the Galaxy S23 Ultra. It all started when Redditor u/ibreakphotos put a blurry image of the moon on his monitor and took a picture with the Galaxy S23 Ultra, which then produced a good-looking moon. Outlets then started to pick it up and now Samsung felt it needed to explain its process to the world.
Samsung put out a detailed and technical explanation of how its moon shot works. The article has actually been online for a while now, just in Korean, but the recent controversy gave us...
Google announced that it's rolling out some AI-assisted features to some of its productivity apps. The rollout isn't worldwide, though, as the company specifies that these features will be made available only to trusted testers in the US, similarly to its chatbot Bard. But the new functionalities will reach all users by the end of this year.
These features will be implemented into Google Docs, Gmail, Sheets and Slides. Inside Docs, for example, the interface will bring easy access to the AI so you can discuss, summarize or brainstorm as you write your piece. In Gmail, the AI...
Honor linked up with the official Guinness World Records to snap a successful attempt at doing the highest between-the-legs slam dunk.
Poland's Piotr Grabowski achieved the feet at a facility in London on January 2023, and Honor was there with the upcoming Honor Magic5 Pro flagship to capture it. Honor says the Magic5 Pro used an AI feature on its camera.
Capturing the record-breaking moment - click for larger image
We could take some details from this shot below, which Honor used to substantiate that it was the Magic5 Pro that snapped the pic. It has five shooting ranges - 0.5x...
Honor linked up with the official Guinness World Records to snap a successful attempt at doing the highest between-the-legs slam dunk.
Poland's Piotr Grabowski achieved the feet at a facility in London on January 2023, and Honor was there with the upcoming Honor Magic5 Pro flagship to capture it. Honor says the Magic5 Pro used an AI feature on its camera.
Capturing the record-breaking moment - click for larger image
We could take some details from this shot below, which Honor used to substantiate that it was the Magic5 Pro that snapped the pic. It has five shooting ranges - 0.5x...
Editing PDFs can be very important for businesses - and a limited PDF editor will stifle productivity and slam the brakes on otherwise efficient workflows.
Foxit’s PDF Editor sidesteps all of that, and more besides, making it easier to tweak an existing document. No more going back to the software where the file was originally created, performing the changes, exporting it as a PDF, only to discover another problem and go through the whole process again.
We took the latest version of this software out for testing, to see how it compares to the best PDF editors we've reviewed.
Foxit PDF Editor: Pricing
You can choose from two subscription services - ‘+’ is aimed more at businesses (Image credit: Foxit)
Flexible pricing with free trials, monthly & annual subscription, and perpetual licenses
Foxit’s PDF editing software comes in two editions: PDF Editor, and PDF Editor+.
PDF Editor is the cheapest option. It’s designed to work on the web and on Desktop computers (be they Mac or Windows), includes an AI assistant, advanced editing capabilities, the ability to convert PDFs to Microsoft formats, it can scans files and OCR them, it can compare two versions of a document to review all differences, and offers the ability to password protect PDFs. You can have this for $110 a year, or $11 when billed monthly.
PDF Editor+ is aimed more at professionals and businesses and as such includes more advanced features, including the ability to sign documents (which includes legally binding signatures), request signatures, and track responses in real time, allows you to redact sensitive information, and grants you access to Foxit on your iOS or Android device. This will cost you $140 a year or $14 a month.
There are no free versions of Foxit PDF Editor, although you can try Editor+ free for 14 days. For alternatives, we reviewed the best free PDF editors.
You can check out Foxit PDF editor by clicking here.
Pricing: 4/5
Foxit PDF Editor: Interface & experience
The interface is easy to understand, only revealing the tools you need as you require them (Image credit: Foxit)
A clean, easy to understand interface
The interface is quite simple, with a row of commands at the top, representing different aspects of the work you wish to carry out, such as ‘Edit’, ‘Convert’, ‘Protect’ and ‘Share’.
Click on any of them and the row of icons beneath it changes to display the tools suited for the selected action. The interface is well organized, only showing you the tools you need when you require them. If you're looking for a less overwhelming alternative to Adobe's Acrobat software, Foxit may serve you very well.
If you just opened the app, you’ll also see some ‘Tool Wizards’ in the middle of the interface, which allow you to quickly access frequently performed actions, namely ‘Edit PDF’ and ‘Merge PDF’.
Interface & experience: 5/5
Foxit PDF Editor: Editing
Connect the various text boxes together to create a seamless flow when editing their content (Image credit: Foxit)
Almost as easy as using a regular word processor
Should you need to make changes to an existing PDF, you need to take a trip to the ‘Edit’ section - which is actually automatically selected once you open a document.
You’ll find your PDF is divided into text boxes, which can be selected, moved around and resized at will. The text contained within one will automatically reflow as you alter its size. This also happens when you alter the content of these boxes.
You might notice that the main body of the document will likely be split up into multiple such text boxes, making editing a bit of a pain, as words won’t automatically flow from one box to another. However, Foxit has solved that problem with its ‘Link & Join Text’ feature.
Select it, then click (in order) the boxes you wish to connect together. Once done, go back to your editing, and you’ll be able to write seamlessly through the boxes.
When it comes to text tools, you have the basics you’d expect from any word processor. You’re able to change the font, its size, color and alignment. Bold, italics, underline, strikethrough, and so on, are also available, as are options to alter character, line and paragraph spacing, and character scale.
Foxit PDF editor pretty much covers most, if not all, the functions you’d need to make your necessary changes. There’s even a built-in spellchecker. It is the most versatile, flexible and extensive PDF editor we’ve yet come across.
Editing: 5/5
Foxit PDF Editor: Conversions
The conversion process from a webpage to PDF sounds great, but it failed for complex webpages (Image credit: Foxit)
Convert data from one file format to another
Foxit PDF Editor can also help you convert documents into other file formats, such as Office docs like PDF to Word, PDF to PowerPoint, and PDF to Excel. You can also convert RTF, plain text, HTML and even various image formats. This level of flexibility is great should you need to extract the content of the PDF to create something new based on it.
This conversion process works in the opposite direction too, allowing you to convert files like Word to PDF. You have options to convert from an existing file, from your scanner, based on copied data stored in your computer’s clipboard, or even convert HTML to PDF.
The latter sounded interesting but we encountered some problems: we tried converting www.techradar.com, www.apple.com, and even www.microsoft.com, but we only got various errors for our troubles. It seems it might only work for less complex, less animation heavy, less processing-in-the-background pages.
Regarding the scanner option, it’s great that Foxit PDF Editor can connect directly to your device. You can even choose for the software to automatically perform an OCR pass automatically, enabling you to edit as soon as the process is done.
This OCR software functionality isn’t restricted to the scanning process, meaning that you can use it to convert any scanned PDF in your possession. You’re given two main options: turn the scanned image into a searchable one (meaning you can use the search field to find specific text only), or convert the file to make the text editable. We found the results to be pretty good.
Conversions: 4/5
Foxit PDF Editor: Online collaboration
Foxit PDF Editor has many useful annotation tools for collaborative work (Image credit: Foxit)
Work as a team, thanks to a long list of annotating tools
As Foxit PDF Editor is aimed at businesses, it stands to reason that you’ll find online collaboration tools. These are located in the ‘Comment’ section.
From there, you and your team are able to highlight text (with multiple colour choices), link said highlighted section to a note, add a free floating note, strikeout, replace, or insert text, draw shapes, and more. There are many options here to make sure other members of your team know exactly which changes need to happen.
Online collaboration: 4/5
Foxit PDF Editor: Data redaction
Foxit PDF Editor comes with many powerful redacting tools (Image credit: Foxit)
Keep sensitive information away from prying eyes
Businesses need to protect their information. In certain industries, it’s absolutely imperative to stay compliant with global data laws - with the threat of operational, financial, and reputational damage hanging over any firm that doesn’t treat data security seriously.
There are basic ways to redact information, usually by placing a black box over sensitive data, but if it’s not done right, you can still select, copy and paste what was supposed to be restricted.
Foxit PDF Editor doesn’t work like that.
The tools for this job reside in the ‘Protect’ section. From there. You could use ‘Whiteout’, for instance. This is a simple one: click and drag the section you wish to delete, and it’s permanently removed from the document. You can’t even undo this. It’s also not possible to see if any info was there in the first place.
Another option is the ‘Mark for Redaction’ tool. This allows you to select text to be blacked out. You have more control than the Whiteout tool, although you don’t appear to have the ability to edit your selection (undoing your action is possible though). Once you’re ready, click on ‘Apply Redaction’, and after confirming this, the chosen content is no longer selectable or editable (or undoable).
It’s a powerful tool which also allows you to perform search and redact options, automatically looking through the document for a specific word for instance, or instructing Foxit PDF Editor to redact all phone numbers or emails in the file.
Redactions: 5/5
Foxit PDF Editor: AI
Is Foxit’s AI genie an ideal addition to your workflow, or just another gimmick? (Image credit: Foxit)
AI is one of those features you need to try to see if it’ll work for you… or if it’ll be as useful as a MacBook Pro’s Touch Bar
It seems software isn’t software these days without some kind of AI creeping into the code, and Foxit PDF Editor is no exception. The latest version comes with an AI-Assistant, which can help you in various ways, such as being able to summarise a document, rewrite it, translate it into over 30 languages, and if you’re not sure how to do something, ask it a question, and it will come up with instructions on how to perform the action you’re struggling to perform.
However, interestingly enough, when we tried that feature, the AI replied to us in French, even though we asked it in English and the document in question was written in English. This glitch only happened once, mind. Maybe the AI got confused by the reviewer’s surname!
AI: 3/5
Foxit PDF Editor: Scorecard
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