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While some people forget to close an app after using it, others knowingly keep an app open just to take a sneak peek at it while doing other tasks, and this usually applies to the social apps that have made us their slaves. For Mac users, there is now a utility that automatically quits or hides an app after a certain period of inactivity. Quitter, as the name implies, helps you quit the apps on your Mac that have been open for some time but are not used....

Having only one hard drive holding all of your personal documents, pictures, videos and music files can be dangerous. This is why backing up your hard drive is essential. There are many ways you can do this on Linux, but the easiest, most straightforward way is by using the Gnome disk utility. Installing If you’re a Gnome user, chances are you already have this program installed. If not, using your Linux distributions package manager, search for the gnome-disk-utility package and install it....

What Is “4K” Anyway? The term “4K” has been floating around on fliers for big box retailers for years. Most often associated with televisions, “4K” refers to the resolution of an image. Image fidelity is measured by the number of individual vertical lines that make up an image. This is where we get seemingly arbitrary numbers from. For example, the standard definition is referred to as “480,” as there are 480 individual lines that make up the image....

So fret not, laptop owner, for this list of the best games to play on a low-end laptop as of 2019 is here to help you. 1. Sid Meier’s Civilization V Still arguably the best Civilization game, the fifth iteration of the history-spanning 4X series is nearly a decade old now, meaning that it runs nice and smoothly even on lower-end machines. While some will say that its successor is a bit more polished, many still see this entry as more grounded, with its single-tile cities and interesting interpretation of systems-like Religion being a bit more elegant....

The good thing about Caesium is that it is simple and easy to use. All you need to do is just upload your images, set the compression ratio and the destination to save the output, click the Compress button and it will get the job done immediately. In addition to compressing your images, Caesium also comes with options for you to save the file in another format. You can also change the dimensions of the image while maintaining the aspect ratio of the image....

If you have a restore point on your computer, and it’s not behaving properly currently, you can simply restore your computer to the point you created before, and everything should be back to normal. Creating a system restore point in Windows 10 is easy, but it requires you to go through a number of screens. Fortunately, though, there is now an easier way that lets you create a restore point with just a double-click on your computer....

For some Mac users, this is two clicks too much. Plus, if you tweet or post to Facebook often, it can become a time-consuming process. This is why the new Mac app Eggy, which lets you create keyboard shortcuts for posting to Twitter and Facebook, is so useful. Eggy eliminates the need to open the Notification Center just to post an update. Instead you can post in just one step, by using a keyboard shortcut....

Orbs helps you create simple web sites in just a few minutes even if you have no experience with web programming. Initial Setup Firstly, navigate to orbs.com and click on the “Try Demo” button to see how a static web site on Orbs looks like. Next, sign-up for a free account. The first thing you will have to do after signing up, is creating a domain name for your static website....

myTinyTodo supports as many to-do lists as you can think of, offers features such as hiding/showing completed tasks, and uses AJAX to give you drag and drop functionality. Best of all, it is free, open source, and will install on just about any web server, even shared hosting accounts. System Requirements To get started, you will need PHP 5.2.0 or greater, the PHP extensions php_mysql (for the MySQL version), php_pdo, and php_pdo_sqlite (for the SQLite version)....

In your Mac, go to “System Preferences -> Accessibility”. On the left pane, select the “Mouse & Trackpad” entry. Select the option “Ignore built-in trackpad when mouse or wireless trackpad is present”. That’s it.

If this sounds interesting, you can install Konqueror from the repositories of Ubuntu, Debian, Arch and other distributions, or from the source. Note that you’ll have to install many packages as Konqueror’s dependencies if you don’t already have KDE on your system. I recommend you also install a package called “konq-plugins” which contains browser extensions. Using Konqueror as a Web Browser Konqueror looks much like any other browser. Under the hood, it uses KDE’s own rendering engine called KHTML, which is similar to Webkit but sometimes slow when processing Javascript....

If you are like me, and are also using Google Chrome, you are in luck, here are several PDF extensions that you can use to make the whole conversion process much easier and faster. 1. Save As PDF This is my favorite extension for pdf conversion. In my experience with several other extensions, this is the best, in terms of the speed and quality of conversion. After installing the extension, you will see an icon at the toolbar....

Wineskin is simply an implementation of Wine at its core. For those who are not sure what Wine (an acronym for “Wine Is Not an Emulator”) is, it is a compatibility layer capable of running Windows applications on several POSIX-compliant operating systems, including Linux and Mac OS X. Installation The installation is pretty straight-forward. Download Wineskin. The latest version as of this post is 2.5.12. Extract the file and move the Wineskin app to your Applications folder....

But fear not because out of the ashes of the beloved CM arises LineageOS, which is the natural place to go for those people at a loss about how to move on from Cyanogen. Here’s everything you need to know about it. Why Is CyanogenMod No More? Even though that’s the question many will be asking, it’s a little misleading to say that CyanogenMod is dead – it’s just no longer going to operate under the Cyanogen brand because it’s split off from Cyanogen Inc, the company that owns the name....

With all that said, iBooks for Mac still has a few kinks that need to be properly ironed out. One example is if you have multiple books open and minimized, and you want to switch them by using the icons present in the Mac dock, you’ll need to guess because all the icons show the same title of iBooks i.e. there are no labels present on each book, all of them look alike....

1. Squidoo 2. Facebook Pages Facebook Pages combines the best of groups and profiles to create a way to interact with people interested in your charity. When creating your page, you choose a category (there is a “Non-Profit” choice), name, add a photo, and enter information about your charity. It’s a very simple way to get a web presence that will reach millions of people. You are able to promote the page on your own Facebook profile, web site, or blog....

Holiday Wallpaper The Christmas Snow App is a winter wonderland HD wallpaper app that you are going to love. The app is compatible with almost all display resolutions and will give your Android device the perfect look for the holiday season. You can choose from wallpapers with Santa in the background, the typical snowman in the front yard and more. Christmas Songs With the Christmas Songs app you will never forget another word when singing the classics this Christmas....

Cloud-gaming platforms let you play high-end games on pretty much any PC because they stream the game from servers equipped with the latest gaming hardware. You’re essentially playing a very high-quality video of the game. But with Nvidia’s GeForce Now, Google Stadia and the French cloud gaming platform Shadow offering their own variants on cloud gaming at different prices, which one should you go for? It’s time to find out....

Open a terminal and type: Scroll down the list until you find the line: Append the word “pwfeedback” to the end of the line so it looks like: Save (ctrl +o) and exit (ctrl +x). That’s it.

With most video entertainment media being streamed and downloaded these days, it’s essential that you have a versatile UHD-capable video player on your desktop or laptop computer. There are many of these available, and when another one comes along, a fair question you might ask is, “What does it have that the others don’t?” A few of the popular video players support UHD. 5KPlayer is not only a great UHD player, but it also has a number of other useful tricks up its sleeve....