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Features to Look for in a HOTAS or Flight Stick Once you’re sure you like playing a flight sim, you’ll want to invest in a HOTAS controller. It’s such an incredibly quality-of-life upgrade for any simulator. If you like a sim with mouse and keyboard, you will adore it with a HOTAS. No gameplay changes required! When you’re shopping for a new HOTAS or flight stick, consider the following attributes: Comfort, which is in part determined by stick tension and weight....

The following methods will help you to at least close the app so you can move on and will show how you can use the task manager, Settings app, and the command prompt to force close those apps. Use the Task Manager to Close an App To open the task manager, you can search for it in the Cortana search bar, or you can press Ctrl + Shift + Esc....

All you need to do is launch the photo in your browser and add some modifications in the URL, and you are all set to get the ASCII version of your photo. Here’s the entire procedure to do so for both Facebook and Instagram. Convert Facebook Photos to ASCII This should only work for the photos that have their privacy set as Public. It will not work for photos that are hidden from Public....

If a file was written on a Windows based system and is opened by a text editor on a UNIX system, it is very common for the “Ctrl-M” characters (^M) to be displayed at the end of each line of text. If a file was written on a UNIX system and opened by a text editor on a Windows system, the line break character (EOL) may not be displayed correctly....

To get started, you need to make sure that your images contain text that can be converted to a word document. It can be in the jpg or png format. A PDF file will work fine too. Next, you must also have a Google Drive account (your Google Drive account is the same as your Google account). Go to Google Drive (https://drive.google.com/) in your browser. Make sure you are logged in....

You will need to restart after installing the add-on. EasyCopy uses the context menu for copying, so you’ll need to right-click on the mouse button and look for EasyCopy in the list. You will then see a list of what information to copy from the current web page. Title Link – A hyperlinked page title in HTML format Example: Rock and roll URL – the website address of the page...

Why Install SearXNG Search engines make it incredibly convenient to browse and discover the Web. However, using a public search engine comes with a price: modern search companies such as Google use your search data to create a highly accurate profile of you. This behavior can feel intrusive to individuals who want to keep their searches private and anonymous. For example, journalists who are reporting about sensitive and controversial topics may not want to have their search queries associated with their names....

In this article we’ll go over the basics of creating your first song in LMMS, so you, too, can get into music-making. Installing LMMS LMMS is available as an appimage for Linux, executable for Windows, and dmg for macOS. Download the installer and run it on your computer. Starting Up in LMMS When you fire up LMMS, you will be confronted with something comparable to the following image. On the left you’ll find buttons for traversing your file system and selecting plugins....

Beamer is a LaTeX module that allows you to create presentation slides in a similar manner to creating LaTeX documents. Here we will show you how to use it to create presentations inside Emacs. Tip: Download our Emacs keyboard shortcuts cheatsheet to increase your productivity. How does Beamer work? Beamer is an extension of the LaTeX document system that allows you to create a customizable slides module. One key difference between Beamer and the default LaTeX is that it uses frames instead of sections....

Why Create Invisible Folders Have you ever wanted to add a quick access folder on your desktop yet keep it from prying eyes? You could use the built-in encryption feature in Windows 10 to password protect a folder. But, it’s still technically visible. This creates curiosity that you may not want. What if no one could see the folder even exists? With invisible folders, unless you know where to click or you highlight everything on the desktop, it appears as if nothing is there....

The great thing about GlusterFS is that it is very easy to use and maintain. Here’s how you can set up your own NAS with GlusterFS. What You Need: A network GlusterFS Linux Boxes 1. Set Up Your Network Your best bet is connecting GlusterFS to Gigabit Ethernet and a huge array of servers, plus storage devices. If you don’t have these on hand, two computers or VMs are usually sufficient, particularly if you are just getting the hang of it....

There are many apps with various icons, and you can bore easily of them after seeing them every day. By tinkering around with these icons and changing them to something of your liking, you can make your Mac truly yours. Note: we also have a guide on how you can extract the icon of an app on your Mac. Customizing the OS X El Capitan App Icons First, you need to select an app whose icon you want to change....

For the most part, users don’t have access to the root user. On some mainstream Linux distributions (mainly Ubuntu), there isn’t even a possibility for a user to set up the root password. In fact, they don’t even tell you the password. Linux users are able to bypass this practice by using the sudo command. This command temporarily elevates the user permission so they can run system management tasks without being a root user....

The good news is that doing these geolocation lookups isn’t only for the big corporate and mega websites. There are a number of free online services and even a command line tool for Linux which allows you to lookup IP addresses and get information about where that address is assigned. This can be very useful when you are investigating a suspicious email or strange comments left on a blog. It is also useful when using services that mask your IP address, like a VPN, to ensure that they are working as advertised....

A package manager is an application that handles downloading, installing, and upgrading a set of software tools. In this case, our package manager will be responsible for downloading and installing the different Terminal commands that we want to use. If you’re a Linux user, you’ll recognize this functionally from apt-get or yum. While there are a number of different package managers available for macOS, we’ll use Homebrew for this guide....

Unity Launcher Editor (ULE) is a python script that allows you to edit your Unity launcher. It allows you to add and remove applications to and from the launcher and also create/edit the quicklist items for each application. Compared to the previous way where you have to manually edit the config file, this is definitely a much better way. Installation Unity Launcher Editor is currently not available in the Ubuntu repository, nor is there a PPA or deb file (as of this post)....

Using Lorem Ipsum Lorem Ipsum should be very familiar for those in the design world! While it may look like a proper language, it’s actually a scrambled version of “De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum,” which itself is Latin. It makes for a great way to generate dummy text to present and demonstrate layouts with. In order to add a block of Lorem Ipsum text into your word document, type =lorem() into a document, then press enter....

Download NTFS mounter. Open the dmg file and drag the NTFS mounter icon to the Applications folder. Go to your Applications and open the NTFS mounter app. You should now see a black cat icon at the menu bar. Click on the black cat icon and (if nothing goes wrong) you should see your NTFS drive listed. Click the respective entry to mount your NTFS drive. That’s it. Note: If you are using other ways to get mount your NTFS, you will have to eject the volume first before it can be mounted by NTFS mounter....

Luckily for you, if you’ve encountered a similar issue, we’ve got the solution for you. The thing is, if you do change the language, the layout essentially stays the same. There are two methods to easily switch back to your preferred language, either via. System Preferences, or by Terminal. We’ve detailed both of these methods below. Switch Back To Your Preferred Language Using System Preferences: First, open “System Preferences” by opening the Apple Menu and selecting the fourth item on the list....

Show Page Info in Firefox On any web page, simply right click the mouse and select the “View Page Info” option Click on the “Media” tab. It will show all the media content (images, videos etc) for that page. If the web page is lazy loading its images, make sure you scroll all the way down to the end of the web page to make sure all the images are loaded....