Note: We’ve previously written about how to do this in an older version of Ubuntu, but that method doesn’t work anymore. Sync the Clock with Internet Time Servers You’ll need to start off with Administration –> Time and Date. Then use the Click to make changes button to enable the window. Then change Configuration from Manual to Keep synchronized with Internet servers. At this point you’ll probably be prompted to install NTP support, and asked for your password again, which is annoying....

Before Usually if you want a screenshot of a webpage you can only capture the visible area within the browser window… Getting the entire webpage as pieces or editing all those pieces into one larger pic is enough to frustrate anyone. But there is a much easier and quicker way to do it. After Once you have installed the extension you are ready to go…right click anywhere within the webpage and select “Save Page As Image…”....

The Boxee Remote App works over WiFi, so there is no need for to buy or install additional hardware on your PC. Plus, you don’t even need to be within the line of sight for it to work. Using the Boxee Remote App Download the free Boxee Remote App from the App Store and install it on your iPhone or iPod Touch. See download link below. Next, make sure you have Boxee running on your PC....

Before For our example we conducted a search for nature photos at Flickr. You could view them in a static format or even as a slideshow but what about something more dynamic looking? After As soon as the extension has finished installing, you will notice a new toolbar button used for launching the Cooliris tab. When you launch the Cooliris tab you will have an expandable menu system in the upper left corner....

All you usually need to do is head into the settings (make sure the Virtual machine is turned off), and then changing the network adapter to a different adapter type. For the XP testing VM we were using, switching over to the PCnet-PCI II adapter fixed the issue. After swapping out the adapter and turning on the VM, internet performance was nearly instant again. In another example, we had a Windows 7 VM running, and swapping out the adapter with one of the Intel ones made everything a lot faster over there....

When you sign up for Google Analytics, you’re given a script containing an unique tracking ID to integrate into your site. You will typically add this code to the portion of your HTML, though this may vary depending on your site. Google gives you the code right when you signup, so if you immediately add it to your site, you may never think about it again. However, if you later change your site’s theme or want to add Analytics to another part of your site, you’ll need the code again....

For all those readers who would like to get their files and folders organized, or, if they’re already organized, better organized—we have compiled a complete guide to getting organized and staying organized, a comprehensive article that will hopefully cover every possible tip you could want. Signs that Your Computer is Poorly Organized If your computer is a mess, you’re probably already aware of it. But just in case you’re not, here are some tell-tale signs:...

Steam is the most popular store and multiplayer platform for PC games, and it’s packed with features to make your gaming experience better. Here are ten Steam features you should be using that you might not have noticed. Use the Storage Manager It can be difficult to tell which games are taking up the most storage in your library, which is why Steam has a somewhat-hidden Storage Manager feature. You can open it by navigating to your Steam settings, then Downloads > Steam Library Folders....

Before As you can see it has not taken long to fill up our “Bookmarks Toolbar” and use of the drop-down list is required. If you do not keep too many bookmarks in the “Bookmarks Toolbar” then that may not be a bad thing but what if you have a very large number of bookmarks there? Multirow Bookmarks Toolbar in Action As soon as you have installed the extension and restarted Firefox you will see the default three rows display....

Nginx and Apache combined serve over 50% of the web. But Apache has seen a decline in recent years, in favor of Nginx. Is Nginx really better, and are there any benefits to using Apache? Nginx Is Newer and Faster Nginx is much more lightweight than Apache. This is a problem rooted in design—under the hood, Apache must create a new process thread for every connection. And while it may process 10 threads at a comparable speed to Nginx, when it’s scaled up to hundreds of concurrent connections Nginx takes a deciding lead....

A recent study conducted by Snyk on the state of open-source security has turned up alarming results—for NPM packages, 86% of security vulnerabilities reside in secondary dependencies that you often have little control over. What Are Secondary Dependencies? When you install something from NPM, you aren’t just installing one package, you’re installing that package, plus any of its required dependencies as well. You can view this dependency tree for your own projects with npm ls –depth=10....

We’ll take a look at automating some of the most common tasks, and while it takes a bit of time to set each one up, once you do you’ll have peace of mind knowing your system is clean and up to date. Automate Cleaning Up Your Hard Drive If you want to make sure you have plenty of space on your hard drive, and get rid of old files you no longer need, you can schedule Disk Cleanup to run in Windows 7 or Vista, which gets rid of plenty of temporary files and other stuff that doesn’t need to be around anymore....

What Is poppler-utils ? As alluded to in the introduction for this article, we need to install a small utility set named poppler-utils to help us convert PDF files to images. The poppler-utils utility set allows us to convert images to PDF, and PDF to images. Installing poppler-utils To install poppler-utils on your Debian/Apt based Linux distribution (Like Ubuntu and Mint), do: sudo apt install poppler-utils To install poppler-utils on your RedHat/Yum based Linux distribution (Like RedHat and Fedora), do:...

Note: This extension also works in Mozilla Thunderbird. Before For our example, we decided to focus on the “Tools Menu” in our Firefox Browser. Here is the menu before editing… A Look at Menu Editor’s Two Modes Once you have installed the extension you will need to access the “Options” in order to start editing menus. Menu Editor comes with two different modes…”Simple & Advanced”. Here is what “Simple Mode” looks like…to access “Advanced Mode” click on the “Advanced Mode Button” in the lower right corner....

We’ll just use the find command to search for all the files older than a certain date, and then use the –exec command to delete them. You could use the –delete command instead, but you’ll end up with a maximum arguments when there are too many files. Find Command Syntax Note that there are spaces between rm, {}, and ; Explanation for Command The first argument is the path to the files....

Every year, our editors rigorously test a wide range of products in search of the absolute best that we can confidently recommend to our readers. One of the categories they look at is external SSDs. Located conveniently in our Best External Solid State Drives of 2022 roundup sits the SanDisk Extreme, the crowned “best budget” option on the list. It’s already one of the more affordable drives you’ll find there, and thanks to this special offer, it’s even lighter on your wallet this week....

The Galaxy S22 Ultra is Samsung’s top-tier smartphone, with a massive screen, built-in S Pen stylus, and advanced cameras. Now you can get a carrier-unlocked model for $900, a discount of $300 from the original price. Samsung released the Galaxy S22 series earlier this year, and the Ultra model is the best of the bunch. The Ultra is the replacement for Samsung’s old Galaxy Note series, with an S Pen stylus that fits inside the phone when not in use....

What Is RSA Encryption? The Rivest-Shamir-Adleman (RSA) cryptosystem solved the problem of how to encrypt data so that it could only be decrypted by the intended recipient. In 1977, the co-creators—Ron Rivest, Adi Shamir, and Leonard Adleman—proposed an elegant solution based on a new way to use encryption keys. Simply put, encryption keys are very large values used in the mathematical processes that are applied to the data to encrypt it....

App Engine is a fully managed serverless compute service from Google Cloud Platform that makes managing a backend of microservices a lot simpler. It’s built around high scalability without having to manage your own servers. What Is App Engine? App Engine is in essence a set of microservices. Traditional applications are usually monolithic, meaning that you run one big runtime service on a server that handles everything. However, what usually happens in the real world is different parts of that application experience differing amounts of traffic, use, and overall load....

Because the shows go on forever. While I wound up subscribing, I had little urge to watch the rest of any series, even the good ones. You should try it out sometime. It’s safe to say that baseball is no longer the country’s pastime. People seem to be watching more television than ever before and spend the other half of their time talking about them at the office and on Twitter....