How To Record Your Android Gameplay

How to Record Your Android Gameplay Recording gameplay on Android is incredibly easy. For starters, make sure you have Google Play Games installed on your device. Once installed, log into the app with your Google account. Doing this will give you full access to the app. Note: you must be logged into Google Play Games in both the game you are trying to record and the Google Play Games app itself for this to work....

December 11, 2022 · 3 min · 454 words · Phil Jackson

How To Recursively Change File Permissions In Linux

How to check file permission(s) in Linux When the “permission denied” error occurs on a file or a directory operation, start by checking the allocated permissions for the user, group and other. To do that, you can use the ls -l command. For example, the following are permissions for various files and directories in the “/var” directory. The output above contains specific information. Once you know the file permissions of your working directory or file, you can change them easily....

December 11, 2022 · 3 min · 540 words · David Sharr

How To Remove A Service From The Context Menu On Mac

While the menu has gotten a number of services, you might want to delete a few of those that you no longer use. It will help you keep the context menu neat and clean and should also help you get to the services that you actually use often. Removing a service from the context menu is as easy as going into the preferences panel and unchecking an item. Removing a Service from the Context Menu You do not need a third-party app to get the job done....

December 11, 2022 · 3 min · 442 words · Grace Barrett

How To Repair A Broken Laptop Keyboard

Keep reading to find out how you can put a pesky keyboard back in its place and keep the money you’d fork out for a repair bill in your pocket. Identify the Problem First things first: you need to identify the problem. If you can identify what the problem is, you can fix your keyboard and save yourself $100 (or more). Let’s go over some basics first: Is your keyboard still powered on?...

December 11, 2022 · 4 min · 774 words · Michael Letourneau

How To Reset A Nintendo Switch For Resale

Many Switch fans are salivating at getting their hands on the (rumored) “Pro” version of the console. As a result, more than a few Switch owners will be looking to flip their Switch to make some cash that they can put towards the shiny new one. Of course, before you sell your Nintendo Switch, you’ll want to factory reset your Nintendo Switch to get rid of your data. What Factory Resetting Your Nintendo Switch Does When performing a factory reset, all of the data on the console will be deleted....

December 11, 2022 · 4 min · 714 words · Anna Manney

How To Resize And Optimise Images Using Gimp

In this tutorial I will demonstrate how to resize an image using GIMP, a free image manipulation program available for Linux, OS X and Windows. Here’s the image I will be using. As you can see, it is 4096 x 3072 pixels in dimensions and 3.3MB in file size. This is definitely too large for use on the web. We will resize it to something more manageable in the steps listed below....

December 11, 2022 · 3 min · 565 words · Christina Guinn

How To Resize Video In Mac Windows And Linux

Previously, we have mentioned several software for video editing, compression and even conversion. One thing that we didn’t touch on was video resizing. While there are plenty of video editing software out there (both free and commercial), not all of them support video resizing. Microsoft’s Windows Movie Maker is one of those without the video resizing feature. In addition, for those video editors that come with video resizing feature, it is always embedded deep in the settings and is not available in the frontend....

December 11, 2022 · 3 min · 432 words · Andrew Ashton

How To Restore The Status Bar In Firefox 4

For those who are using Firefox 4 beta 7, you will notice that the status bar is now gone. In the past, whenever you hover your mouse over a link, the URL will be displayed in the status bar. With the removal of the status bar, the URL is now displayed in the address bar, alongside the existing page’s URL. Many users are angry at this change and some even petition to get Mozilla to restore the status bar....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 328 words · Frances Warren

How To Revive Your Ipod With Rockbox In Linux

What is Rockbox and Why Install It Rockbox is an operating system for classic iPods. It is an open source alternative to the iPod’s default software and it aims to improve on the original system’s deficiencies. In order to achieve that, Rockbox includes a better API for third-party applications as well as high resolution audio support. This means that, unlike the original, it is possible to run games and use higher quality codecs such as FLAC, Ogg Vorbis and Opus with your iPod....

December 11, 2022 · 5 min · 922 words · Anna Owens

How To Set A Live Wallpaper In Ubuntu With Slidewall

Like any other wallpaper changer, Slidewall allows you to pick your folder of images and change them at a regular interval. The thing that is different is that you can get it to download live wallpaper and run it on your desktop as well. If you are not aware, live wallpaper are wallpaper that updates itself on real-time. Examples are clock wallpaper and weather wallpaper. Installation Open a terminal and type the following:...

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 356 words · Lloyd Barnes

How To Set Up An Email Server In Ubuntu

Putting together a custom mail server is a huge pain. It’s really not something that you’d want to do, let alone maintain. Thankfully, there are several nice options that provide turn-key solutions. This guide is going to focus on Mailcow. Mailcow provides absolutely everything that you need for an email server pre-configured and bundled in a convenient Docker container. It even has a management interface for you to easily stay on top of your server....

December 11, 2022 · 4 min · 655 words · James Moya

How To Set Up Your Own Linux Photo Management System With Lychee

In this tutorial we’ll be using the Ubuntu server. This is not to say that Lychee will not run on other Linux server operating systems. The instructions are essentially the same, minus a few package changes. Just make sure you have MySQL, the latest PHP and Apache2 (or Nginx). Hardware Requirements a Linux server distribution that has the ability to run and install snapd any moderately-powerful old desktop PC (DDR-2 era or better) that can stay on at all times and act as a server a VPS or any other type of enterprise-grade server...

December 11, 2022 · 4 min · 839 words · Stephen Chapin

How To Setup Dual Monitors With Xrandr

Dual monitor setup in Linux has never been easier. While methods such as the xinerama extension sometimes drive people insane, using RandR (Resize and Rotate) is quick and painless. This will allow you to use both monitors as one big screen instead of two identical ones (cloning). Follow these simple steps to get started. Note: This HOWTO assumes that you are using the opensource drivers for your video card (ATI or Intel)....

December 11, 2022 · 3 min · 457 words · Keith Sears

How To Show All Active Ssh Connections In Linux

Note: depending on the system configuration, some of the commands we are going to discuss may require you to have root or sudo privileges. 1. Using the WHO Command The first command you can use to show active SSH connections is the who command. The who command is used to show who is currently logged in to the system. It allows us to view the connected users and the source IP addresses....

December 11, 2022 · 4 min · 745 words · Marty Sheroan

How To Switch A Tab To Incognito Mode Easily In Google Chrome

1. Incognito This Incognito This is a useful addon that allows you to seamlessly switch open tabs to Incognito windows with a click of the icon. Install the extension here. In your Chrome, go to the “Manage Extensions” page and scroll down till you see “Incognito This”. Click the arrow icon on the left to expand it. At the end of the description, check the box “Enable in Incognito” (the same steps apply for the rest of the addons mentioned below)....

December 11, 2022 · 3 min · 475 words · Charles Moody

How To Switch Windows 10 S To Windows 10 Home

Why Switch Windows 10 S to Windows 10 Home Windows 10 S is Microsoft’s competitor to Chromebooks. It’s made specifically for security and performance. Since it doesn’t come with the bloatware and system requirements of the full Windows 10 Home or Pro systems, it runs faster. On the other hand, it’s extremely restrictive. You’re only allowed to download apps from the Microsoft Store. If you want anything else, you have to upgrade to another version of Windows 10....

December 11, 2022 · 3 min · 637 words · Robert Loepp

How To Sync Google Chrome Data Across Multiple Devices

Fortunately, if you use Chrome, you can use the sync system that Google put into their popular web browser. With a sync set up, you can download all of your browsing data onto each device that uses Chrome. This lets you get to all of your bookmarks, passwords, and even browsing history on any device that you use. First Things First: Attaching an Account Of course, if we want Chrome to sync our data between two devices, we have to let it know that we’re the one doing the browsing....

December 11, 2022 · 4 min · 665 words · Gloria White

How To Test Chromeos In Ubuntu

Note: Before we begin, it is important to note that the ChromiumOS package will only work on 64-bit Ubuntu. Install the ChromeOS package Download the lightdm-login-chromiumos_1.0_amd64.deb file. This is a modified version of the ChromeOS which give you the the ability to login directly from the LightDM. Double-click the deb file to install in your Ubuntu machine. Alternatively, if you install the command line way: Logging in to ChromeOS After you have installed the ChromiumOS package, all you have to do is to log out of your existing session....

December 11, 2022 · 3 min · 489 words · Russell Paisley

How To Turn Kodi Into A Game Arcade Center

The user known as Zach Morris thought about this and came up with an ingenious solution: just as Kodi allows not only “local” media playback but also Internet streams, why should it be restricted to “local” games installed on your computer, especially when the Internet Archive has backups for virtually all games from the older systems that Kodi will support through emulators? The Internet Archive Game Launcher, or IAGL for short, is the result of this idea: an add-on that can “link” the existing Kodi emulator support with the ROMs available on the Internet Archive!...

December 11, 2022 · 8 min · 1568 words · Berry Nitti

How To Turn Off Autocorrect On Your Mac

While the aforementioned feature helps you write notes without any spelling mistakes, it sometimes becomes frustrating, especially when you are working with the words that the standard dictionary is not familiar with. Different regions in the world use different words that may not be a part of the dictionary. And, as you may already know, the autocorrect feature works with the standard dictionary being its base for finding the correct spellings....

December 11, 2022 · 2 min · 412 words · Kenneth Davis