How To Get A Quake Style Drop Down Terminal In Linux

I had always set a special desktop just for my terminals. Readers of some of my other articles may have noticed that when setting up virtual desktops, I always set Desktop #2 for my terminals. I typically have more than one open, so they have their own desktop workspace. I put it in between my Browser and Text workspaces because I’m frequently copy/pasting to and from those other workspaces so it makes sense to be next to each other....

December 6, 2022 · 4 min · 673 words · Terri Merritt

How To Get Notified Of New App Version On Android Without Play Store

This is what APKUpdater attempts to solve. It scans Android when it installs and notifies the user of updated versions of the apps and even provides a download link so that the user can get the app. If you’ve been looking for an easier way to go APK only on Android, this app may be of interest to you! Installation Note: to install APKUpdater, unknown sources need to be enabled on Android....

December 6, 2022 · 3 min · 472 words · Mariah Newberry

How To Get Paid Journal Articles For Free

It’s important that you have a clear idea of your topic. What’s your study about? What are the keywords that you might use in order to find related literature? Having the keywords ready can help you find what you need much faster. Step 1: Go to Google Scholar. If you’re a student, you probably have come across Google Scholar. It’s an awesome tool to search for a variety of scholarly articles, including abstracts, peer-reviewed journals and physical books....

December 6, 2022 · 3 min · 579 words · Clarence Hursey

How To Get Your Dvds Onto Your Ios Devices

Software Downloads The first and most important step to this process is to download the necessary software. You’re going to need two separate programs – Mac The Ripper and iSquint. Bascially, Mac The Ripper rips, or extracts, DVDs to your hard drive, and iSquint converts the video to be compatible with iOS devices. Mac The Ripper can be downloaded here and iSquint can be downloaded here. Note: You can also use Handbrake to do rip your DVD into iOS compatible format....

December 6, 2022 · 3 min · 441 words · Thomas Whitfield

How To Get Your Spotify Wrapped For 2022

This year’s Wrapped gives you all the usual insight into your 2022 in music, including your top artists, songs, genres, podcasts and the number of minutes you listened. There are also a handful of new features, including Your Listening Personality, which looks at the way you discover and consume music and assigns you one of 16 different Personality Types, and Audio Day, which offers insight into how your music taste changes depending on the time of day....

December 6, 2022 · 1 min · 171 words · Christine Jurado

How To Hide The Menu Bar In Os X El Capitan

At such times what you can do is hide that bar so that it no longer appears to snatch the real estate that an app can work amazingly in. With the release of OS X El Capitan, Apple announced a feature that allows users to hide the menu bar. That way you will not see the menu bar in any of your apps unless you take your cursor there and force it to show up....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 321 words · Harold Taylor

How To Install Multiple Windows Applications In Only 6 Clicks

In a nutshell Ninite is an app downloader and installer. However, it offers more than just a directory of apps to download. What makes Ninite special, is they take all the crap that most people done want — toolbars — and saves you from having to click next 50 times. Kinda makes you wish you got off your lazy butt and did created something like this doesn’t it? What apps does it work with?...

December 6, 2022 · 3 min · 531 words · Alexandria Williams

How To Install The Latest Nvidia Drivers On Ubuntu

Install Recommended Nvidia Driver This will install a fairly recent driver, but not the absolute latest. If you want bleeding edge software, skip to the next section. The advantages of following the procedure in this section are: Older video cards (4+ years) may not work with the latest driver. The utility will automatically find and recommend an older driver (if necessary) that still works with your card. These drivers are tested more and have fewer bugs than bleeding edge drivers....

December 6, 2022 · 4 min · 687 words · Cynthia Gilfillan

How To Keep Your Digital Life Synchronized

These days, most people use a variety of electronic devices every day – computers, smartphones, iPads – you name it. I think the only person left who only uses one computer is my mum. We all know how difficult it is to keep your information up to date and readily available when we need it. If you’re anything like me, you don’t want to have to remember to update your USB key before you leave the office or email yourself from your work email address to your personal email address… most often you don’t even know what you will need....

December 6, 2022 · 7 min · 1364 words · Joshua Noble

How To Listen To Tunein Radio In Vlc

Installing TuneIn Radio VLC addon To get TuneIn Radio to work in VLC, all you need is the TuneIn Radio addon for VLC. Do note that it will only work in VLC version 2.x.x. If you are still using the old version of VLC, do upgrade it to the latest version before trying out the steps below. Download TuneIn Radio from the VLC addon page. There are a few packages available....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 325 words · Hilda Espinoza

How To Make Windows 10 Look Like Windows 7

The good news is that you can keep your Windows 10 features while enjoying that Windows 7 look you like so much. The following guide will show you how you can change specific things so that you can decide how much of your Windows 10 computer you want to look like Windows 7. Modify the Start Menu Changing the Start menu will really give your Windows 10 computer a Windows 7 look....

December 6, 2022 · 5 min · 870 words · Cecil Battiste

How To Make Your Windows 10 Pc More Secure

So once you’re here, you might want to know how to enhance your security and privacy even though you’re using Windows 10. I know I do. Here’s my tips. Disable Cortana Before you go further into this guide, you’ll want to open Settings. Simply opening the Start Menu and clicking “Settings” will bring you to this screen from where you can navigate to whatever you might need. First, we’ll direct you to disabling Cortana....

December 6, 2022 · 3 min · 544 words · Amy Owens

How To Organize Your Inbox With Quickfilters In Thunderbird

If you’re not already using Thunderbird to manage your emails, you can download and install it from its website. Note: Thunderbird already has its own filter system, but it can be quite manual and troublesome to set it up. The quickFilters extension is easier to use and can get things done more quickly. Install QuickFilters Click on Thunderbird’s “hamburger button” on the top right to access its main menu. Select “Add-ons ->Add-ons....

December 6, 2022 · 3 min · 637 words · Cynthia Ijames

How To Play Android Games On A Full Screen Pc

To enjoy a polished experience and stimulating visuals in the PC similar to Android, we will consider two methods. You can either use an emulator or play the games on a browser. Both methods are valid for any Android game currently available on Play Store, in this case Street Racing 3D. Using an Emulator This is the easiest method around. An emulator, as the name suggests, is a simple tool which authentically converts your mobile app experience into the PC....

December 6, 2022 · 3 min · 561 words · Bill Lawler

How To Protect Your Online Presence From Firesheep

Before you went into a frenzy state, there are ways that you can use to protect yourself from being hacked. Use a VPN on unsecured networks Of course, the best practice is to stay off open unsecured network. But if you are urgently in need of an Internet connection and the nearest Starbucks is the only way you can get connected, you might want to consider using a VPN. There are plenty of VPN service out there, mostly will cost you a small monthly fee....

December 6, 2022 · 3 min · 466 words · Edward Brookman

How To Protect Your Ssh Server With Fail2Ban Linux Ubuntu

Fail2Ban is a simple, yet useful tool that can monitor your server from malicious attack and block them before they can wreak havoc. Installation Fail2Ban is available in the Ubuntu repository, so you can easily install with the command: For Red Hat or Centos users, you can install Fail2Ban via the EPEL repository. Once you have installed Fail2Ban, the next step is to move the configuration file to a local folder so you won’t change the main configuration file accidentally....

December 6, 2022 · 3 min · 459 words · Anna Bragg

How To Quickly Preview Files In Ubuntu Without Opening Them

If you think carefully, this problem is not limited to developers – any task that involves taking a look at multiple files one after the other is bound to take time if you do it the conventional way. So, with that in mind, I made it a point to find a solution to this problem – basically a way that makes sure that I spend as less time as possible in such scenarios....

December 6, 2022 · 3 min · 470 words · Sandra Neufeld

How To Record Interviews On Skype And Facetime On Os X

In this article we look at the various ways you can capture your video conversations on the Mac with both FaceTime and Skype. Just Grab It Obviously you could just use a screen capture software to record your whole screen. This is not ideal, as you need to crop the video afterwards. In actuality, QuickTime has a feature to record the current screen as video for tutorials and the like....

December 6, 2022 · 4 min · 715 words · Jerry Walton

How To Record Whatsapp Video And Voice Calls

These methods aren’t guaranteed to work for all phones, though, so your mileage may vary significantly. The simplest solution may actually be to use an app that supports call recording, like Skype, Messenger, Google Voice, Zoom, etc. If you don’t have a choice, though, here are some things you can try to record WhatsApp calls. Record WhatsApp calls on Android Audio call-recording apps The most convenient option for recording audio-only WhatsApp calls on Android is the Cube Call Recorder (there are other apps, but this one seems to work best), which automatically launches every time you start a call....

December 6, 2022 · 5 min · 1025 words · Allan Morales

How To Remove Duplicates From Your Spotify Playlist

Using Your Computer to Remove Duplicate Songs Thanks to the hard work of some developers, there are a number of different programs online that will remove the duplicates from your device for free. For example, Jose M. Perez – whose main focus is building apps that extend Spotify’s functionality – has created the Spotify Dedup: a website which easily lets you get rid of duplicates from your playlist. Here’s how to get started....

December 6, 2022 · 2 min · 413 words · Richard Estrada