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Before making adjustments with the monitor’s physical buttons and the color calibration tool, reset your monitor to factory color settings and turn off lights in the room to prevent glare. What “looks good” at a glance may not necessarily be accurate. The Color Calibration tool will allow for fine adjustments and proper leveling of various values. How to Access the Color Calibration Tool Start from your desktop. Right click and select the “Display Settings” option....

But Linux is an exceptionally customizable operating system. This allows users an unprecedented degree of control. In fact, parents can set up a specialized distro of Linux for children, ensuring children don’t stumble across dangerous content accidentally. While the process is more prolonged than using Windows, it’s also more powerful and durable. Linux is also free, which can make it well-suited for classroom or computer lab deployment. Linux Distros for Children These Linux distros for children are built with simplified, kid-friendly interfaces....

What Are FLAC Files? FLAC is an audio-coding format for digital audio files. FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec and employs a lossless compression algorithm. This means that the original audio data is perfectly captured and compressed when using the FLAC file format. By comparison, lossy compression (like MP3) is only an approximation of the original data. Simply put, FLAC files are significantly higher quality audio compared to “lossy” file types....

What Are Optimum Operating Temperatures? iPhones are designed to run from 32° to 95° Fahrenheit, which is equivalent to 0° to 35° Celsius. You will find this to be the case with most electronic equipment, from TVs to gaming consoles. Once the optimal temperature threshold is exceeded and you see a warning screen, the phone will automatically enter a cool-down mode. Here is what happens in a cool-down mode: Display loses brightness or goes black entirelyCharging becomes non-responsive or extraordinarily slowCamera flash is disabledSignal is weak...

How to Create and Customize a Facebook Story on Mobile If you want to create a Story from the Facebook mobile app, get started by using one of these methods. Method 1 Photo Stories Customization Options Video Stories Customization Options Method 2 How to Create and Customize a Facebook Story on PC On PC, your options for creating a Facebook Story are a bit more limited. Nevertheless, you can still create one from your computer....

Nested to-dos might not sound like a big deal right off the bat, but once you try them, you’ll never go back. However, getting started with this implementation isn’t easy, so let’s take a look at how it works. Using iPhone or iPad (First Method) Unsurprisingly, the first step is to open up the Reminders app and select a list to start working with. Once you are in a list, tap on “new reminder” and type in whatever item or action you want to add....

Clearing Your Google Search History When most people want to clear Google history, it usually means they want to clear their Google “search” history and not all of their Google app information (though we’ll dive more into that later on in the article). To delete any history data from Google’s servers, you’ll have to start by going to Google’s My Activity page. Now that you’ve done that, note the “Filter by date and product” just under the Search bar on the screen....

The bad thing is that there is no option for you to disable the bluetooth module (during bootup) in the System Settings. If you are willing to venture into the command line, here’s the fix: Open a terminal and type: This will open the “rc.local” file. This file doesn’t do anything by default and you should see only a exit 0 code in the file. Add this line before the exit 0 code:...

However, when you switch to a different user account you cannot properly shut down the system without losing the unsaved work on the other account. Moreover, all the signed-in accounts, regardless whether the user is actively using it or not, consume system resources. If you are not using the Fast User Switching feature or if you think it is not for you, here’s how to disable it in Windows. Note: though I’m showing this in Windows 10, the same procedure is applicable to Windows 7 and 8....

Disable “Save Password” for Chrome Desktop For both Windows and macOS, Chrome’s settings hold the option to permanently disable the “Save Password” pop-up window. If you want to set this for your Google account, which then synchronizes across all devices, click on your profile icon in the upper-right corner. Then, click on the small key icon under your profile name and email address. This will open a “Settings – Passwords” tap, which will have the option to turn off the slider for “Offer to save passwords....

Why the Prompt Appears Introduced a few years ago, YouTube essentially released this feature without any fanfare. To be fair, this prompt isn’t unlike a similar message that can appear on Netflix after watching for a while without any activity. Clicking “Yes” is easy enough, but why should you have to do that? It’s understandable why YouTube would want to make this change. Videos that are not being viewed don’t result in any additional traffic, which means lost ad revenue....

It was iOS 4 that gave light to the people especially to the non-techie ones. It was June, this year, that Apple formally released the iOS 4 for everyone. Of course, people were amazed with its notable feature that most of the technical population have been waiting for; it technically took four generations of iPhone OS before Apple made the greatest decision to include such feature together with a hundred others....

A common technique used by some people is to hide the files in obscure locations, such as a deeply nested folder, where other users cannot easily find it, but that’s not entirely foolproof, as it could show up in search results. Short of removing the file from the computer completely, the next best way to prevent unauthorised access to your private files is to store them in an encrypted location....

All the SMS or text messages inside your iPhone are handled by a database. Jailbreaking your iPhone open the possibility of manipulating your SMS database and export all the data within. The CSV file can also be accessed using Microsoft Excel and equivalent program. This tutorial will walk you through the process to backup and export your SMS as a CSV file to your Mac. Download the Tools Needed These are the tools you will need for this tutorial....

For some people, this isn’t a huge deal. Not having two taskbars on a dual screen setup of Gnome Shell isn’t a bother. For others, however, it can be the single reason that they feel the Gnome experience is lacking and choose to find something else for their desktop Linux experience. Enter multi-monitor-addon. It’s an extension available on github that can be installed fairly easily and works with versions 3....

What Is an SID? A Security Identifier is a unique string of values that is issued by an authority, like Windows domain controller, to each and every security principal and security group. The security identifier is automatically created when a security principal or group is created. Once the SID is created, it is stored in the security database and is retrieved as and when needed. Combining the SID and user rights, Windows gives you, the user, an access token every time you log into your system....

Loss of signal when the phone is held in a certain way Until now, you should have known that this is related to Apple Antennagate issue, not with the jailbreaking. Anyway, the method to resolve this is to apply for the free bumper given out by Apple. Apple launch an app for their customers to qualify for their Free iPhone 4 Case. Download the iPhone 4 Case Program app from the app store....

There are plenty of causes for the “KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_FAILURE” error, and we go through the solutions to fix some of its causes. Run System File Checker To run the system file checker, start by typing cmd into the search box. You should see Command Prompt. Select “Run as administrator.” Type the command below to repair corrupted system files. These may be the source of your BSOD error. Scan Hard Disk for Errors A reoccurring “KERNEL_SECURITY_CHECK_ERROR” message may be due to hard disk errors....

The source of the problem is an incorrectly-configured parameter in Pulseaudio and can show up in any Linux distributions. Thankfully, there’s an easy fix. Read on to find how you can fix the Steam games cracking sound issue in Linux with a simple tweak. Tweak the PulseAudio Daemon The fix to our problem is a two-part process, with the possibility of some troubleshooting afterward for good measure. Let’s start by tweaking PulseAudio’s daemon....

As useful as it is, sometimes the Action Center can become unresponsive. In fact, this happened to me recently, and no matter how many times I clicked on the notification icon, the Action Center wouldn’t open. If you ever face this kind of situation, here are some simple methods you can try to make the Action Center work again. 1. Restart Windows Explorer The first and obvious thing you should do when you face any sort of problem on your system is restart it....