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What Is a Window Manager? The window manager is responsible for the placement of the windows, how they are arranged on the screen, how they interact with each other, and, up to a point, their appearance. It’s easier to understand what window managers are if you look at their two different subcategories: stacking and tiling. Tiling window managers display the full contents of all active windows next to each other. They split the screen into many smaller parts and place each application in them....

Usually, you’d have to open a new incognito window and then type the URL that you want to visit. By using this extension, you can add websites of your choosing to be opened directly in Incognito Mode whenever you enter them in the address bar. Once you install the Chrome extension, click on the browser icon and choose “Show Options” to add websites one-by-one on the options page. You can also browse to the website first, and then click the browser icon and choose “Add Website” to add the URL of the current tab to Incognito-Filter....

1. Cultural References and Memes Anyone who has gone through their life believing the C.I.A. to be a stuffy bureau with no appreciation for pop culture and cheesy jokes will find their world turned upside down after this leak. As it turns out, this division of the government has a top secret stash of dank memes. They aren’t quick to shy away from various media references either, such as naming some of their projects after films including “Fight Club” and “Gremlins,” planning to name tools after various TVTropes, and even using cherished (if awful) memes as the code for some framework....

Note: As there are plenty of distros out there, we are only focusing on a few major distros. History of Linux Itself I think it makes sense to have a quick look at the history of Linux itself before we go on with the distros. It all started in 1991 when a computer science student from Helsinki, named Linus Torvalds, created an operating system kernel, as he says, “just for fun....

The post-apocalyptic series of games has arguably been PlayStation’s most-valued exclusive IP since the tail end of the PS3 era. So, it stands to reason that the studio would be considering a trilogy with a version that was designed with all of the power of the PS5 at its disposal. If the TV show adaptation has a long run on HBO, the narrative of the third game would likely provide the content for the series, as well as capitalising on the increased interest in the games derived from the TV show....

How It Worked What makes this attack so scary is how easy it is to perform. People started receiving messages that simply said “Juegas ❤️” along with an unsupported character. The errant character caused a parsing problem and threw the PlayStation 4 into a crash loop. The affected user could no longer use their PlayStation 4 unless they dove into the advanced system settings and refreshed the console. The ease of the attack meant that gamers could effectively wipe out their opposition without even firing a shot....

The One SL is, in our opinion, one of the best wireless speakers that Sonos currently makes. Where it differs from the One 2nd Gen is that it doesn’t feature any microphones for voice assistance. The SL stands for “Speech Less”, there’s no ability to command voice assistants such as Alexa or Google Assistant through this speaker. If you’re someone who takes their privacy seriously, this is the Sonos speaker....

If you are new to Linux, you may want to check out these useful Bash commands before heading to the terminal. Defining Apt-Get, Apt, Aptitude, and DPKG Regardless of all the small details that distinguish them, apt, apt-get, and aptitude are all just different calling cards for Debian’s package management system that interacts with online repositories. As if there weren’t enough of these already, there’s also one more package management tool in Debian or Ubuntu-based systems you might have heard of that deals with on-disk installations: dpkg....

Original story below: If you’ve been holding out for a next-gen console on the cheap then now’s your chance. Typically the Series S would set you back £249.99 but right now that very same console can be yours for just £189. For a bit of next-gen gaming that costs less than a Nintendo Switch Lite, it’s easily the Black Friday bargain to beat right now. For those who want to check out the other gaming deals that are running right now then you can check out our round-up of the best Black Friday deals....

The Redmi Note 11 was always intended to be an affordable phone, but now that it’s seen £90 taken off its price tag it is simply an irresistible prospect if you’re looking to save money on a great little handset. If you want to gorge yourself on even more great tech deals, make sure to go to our liveblog. There, we’ve got the best Black Friday deals waiting for you so that you can get yourself a new pair of headphones, a laptop or even a gaming console on the cheap....

1. Front-end Editor The Front-end Editor plugin allows you to make changes without having to go to the WordPress built-in editor. It’s a great tool if you have already created and published your blog and just want to make quick edits. It’s great for making edits that do not require any significant changes. However, it’s not really a standalone-type of editor. It’s more to use alongside another one. It doesn’t have any additional features to add to the WordPress built-in editor, but it is nice to have something that doesn’t require you to go to the WordPress administrative area....

Instead of trying to replace cable TV, these add-ons rely on popular online content and streaming services. You can use Kodi for direct access to your favorite streaming content, or you can use it to stream to your TV via a device like a Raspberry Pi. This list is about quality, but it’s also about personal preference. Sure, there will be some services that you don’t like and others that you wish were here....

Fragmentation Vs. Defragmentation We’ve all heard of defragmentation. But first, what is fragmentation of data? To explain this concept, one of the best example you can find is the one used by Roberto Di Cosmo in a conference of 1998: Your hard drive (or any other storing device) is like a shelf divided in boxes. All the boxes are of the same size and you use the shelf to store folders and files....

How to use Bloody Vikings! in Firefox install the Bloody Vikings! add-on from Mozilla’s web site. Firefox will need to be restarted to get Bloody Vikings! up and running. After restarting the browser, head to the add-on settings for Bloody Vikings! and open them up. You’ll see a list of all the supported disposable email address services. You can learn more about each by clicking the “About” link beside each service....

This enables you to create an emergency rescue disk on your smartphone or try out different Linux distributions instead of using many different USB pendrives or CDs. Installation DriveDroid has both free and paid versions which can be installed from the Google Play Store. The paid version is ad-free and allows resizing of image files, but is otherwise exactly the same as the free version. You can search for DriveDroid on Google Play or just follow this link....

Before you even think about using Purple Hangouts, you should probably have Pidgin installed. If for some reason your Linux distribution doesn’t ship with the well-known IM client, install it. It should be easy to find. All that’s required is opening your Linux distribution’s package manager, searching for Pidgin and installing it to the system. Installation Fedora followed by Arch Linux Arch Linux, like Fedora, has a quick and easy way to install the plugin....

A good file encryption solution makes your data effectively impenetrable to hackers and cloud companies. It will do the same for those with access to your username and account password. NordLocker is a safe file encryption and storage solution which gives you the best desired results in terms of privacy. This it does using client-side, end-to-end encryption (E2EE) technology. This is very different than storing data directly in a cloud solution such as OneDrive or Google Drive....

Needless to say, the windows registry tends to be in a mess most of the time. As a Windows user, you also might have noticed Windows becoming progressively slower as you use it, installing and removing software, going about your daily business. One of the reasons for this is because the Windows registry tends to get bloated with stale entries and such, over time and since it is stored in the memory as long as the computer is being used, it slows down the whole computer....

Vox is a music player that taps into your iTunes library, but really does not carry as much “junk” as iTunes does. Vox has been around for a while, we even mentioned in an article dated back to 2011, but unlike iTunes, Vox focuses on keeping things simple: Unlike iTunes, Vox is only a small window with your library, and nothing else. In the menus, you get access to everything you’d expect; be it Last....

1. Ask Ubuntu Are you an active user of AskUbuntu? Or that you have plenty of questions about Ubuntu and is always looking to AskUbuntu for answer? Good news for you, the AskUbuntu lens allows you to search the AskUbuntu site right in your desktop (Dash). Installation: Log out and log in again. 2. Bookmarks lens Bookmarks Lens allows you to search your web bookmarks directly from the desktop. Installation Log out and log in again....