Flipping through The Manual: A packable whitewater raft, suit buying made simple

By Digital Trends Staff Published August 17, 2015

Burned out on apps, keys and screens? Improve your analog life this weekend! Digital Trends’ brother site The Manual exists to give men straight-up advice, from unspoken suit rules you need to know, to the latest in fashion, food, drink, travel, grooming and culture. Here are a few of our favorite stories to appear on The Manual lately.

Trekking: The Alpackalypse is a raft you can carry to whitewater

Trekking: The Alpackalypse is a raft you can carry to whitewater — Image used with permission by copyright holder

It’s not everyday you come across an inflatable raft capable that can tackle Class V rapids and pack down into a 17 x 11-inch cylinder. Thankfully, the Alpackalypse can, while providing the welcome spaciousness and maneuverability of a hard-shell kayak.

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6 tips to simplify the suit-buying process

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Owning a nice suit is a must for any man. Tony Spear of Este’s Men’s Clothing has a few simple tips on how to buy a suit without feeling taken advantage of.

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How to make the perfect Manhattan

How to make the perfect Manhattan — Image used with permission by copyright holder

Mr. Tim Cooper, one of the partners and Beverage Director at New York’s Sweetwater Social, has put together a step-by-step process that goes into making a classic Manhattan.

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The Manual’s top ten best shaving creams

The Manual’s top ten best shaving creams — Image used with permission by copyright holder

Are you tired of using the same ol’ shaving cream? We suggest you take a look at this list of the best shaving creams out there.

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Solving the Triple F Dilemma with Trim menswear

Solving the Triple F Dilemma with Trim menswear — Image used with permission by copyright holder

The Kickstarter success Trim menswear not only makes a functional line of dress shirts, but ones which tout an incredible fit and are extremely fashionable.

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Pro tips on how to serve & enjoy Champagne

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We had dinner with Moët & Chandon winemaker Elise Losfelt where she shared her pro tips on how to serve and enjoy champagne.

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Hackers were caught hiding password-stealing tricks in people’s physical mail

QR Code scam alert.

Just when you thought you heard it all about hackers stealing passwords, something like this comes up. Hackers have been observed using snail mail, sent from a seemingly reputable source and then pushing recipients to download an app, to try and steal sensitive information.

As reported by The Register, victims received a letter from the "Federal Office of Meteorology and Climatology in Switzerland," and inside was a physical piece of paper, pressuring them to use the QR code to download an app called "Severe Weather Warning App" for Android. However, once they scan the QR code, it takes them to a third-party site instead of the official Google Play Store. Switzerland's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has already warned about the almost identical-looking app that contains the malware Coper, also known as Octo2.

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Nvidia may keep producing one RTX 40 GPU, and it’s not the one we want

The Alienware m16 R2 on a white desk.

The last few weeks brought us a slew of rumors about Nvidia potentially sunsetting most of the RTX 40-series graphics cards. However, a new update reveals that one GPU might remain in production long after other GPUs are no longer being produced. Unfortunately, it's a GPU that would struggle to rank among Nvidia's best graphics cards. I'm talking about the RTX 4050 -- a card that only appears in laptops.

The scoop comes from a leaker on Weibo and was first spotted by Wccftech. The leaker states that the RTX 4050 is "the only 40-series laptop GPU that Nvidia will continue to supply" after the highly anticipated launch of the RTX 50-series. Unsurprisingly, the tipster also reveals that the fact that both the RTX 4050 and the RTX 5050 will be readily available at the same time will also impact the pricing of the next-gen card.

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The Windows 11 24H2 update is causing even more problems

The Windows 11 24H2 update had already been giving users a real headache with problems such as bugs for visual layouts and flaws for certain wallpaper apps. And now, as Microsoft confirms in a support document, some people without administrative privileges can't change the time zone in the Date & Time view, among myriad other issues related to the important Windows 11 update.

A Feedback Hub post also reports a time issue after exiting Sleep Mode, specifically after about one out of every five overnight sleep cycles. There is also a report that the time is not syncing correctly following daylight saving time. Put differently, the update doesn't break the time zone, but only affects the toggle or makes it very difficult to modify it.