Who’s Going to Come After Me? Counterintuitively, headline-grabbing cyberattacks like the recent Blackbaud data breach and Twitter hack can make upper management and c-suite executives feel safe and immune to cyber threats. If there are bigger and better targets out there, why will hackers ever pay attention to their organization? But just like criminals in the physical world, there are various strata of cybercriminal. There are criminals who conduct diamond heists, and there are criminals who snatch handbags....

What Is Intel XeSS? Intel XeSS, also known as Intel Xe Super Sampling, is, in a nutshell, Intel’s response to NVIDIA’s DLSS and AMD’s FSR. It’s an upscaling technology that works by rendering frames at low resolutions and upscaling them into bigger resolutions with a negligible loss in actual image quality. It does its magic using, of course, machine learning and artificial intelligence. There are actually two versions of XeSS that you need to be aware of....

Using Media Center RSS Feeds To get RSS feeds to work with this plugin you need to subscribe to them through Internet Explorer. The first thing you’ll need to do is activate Media Center RSS Reader (link below) on their site. Next install the Media Center RSS Reader plugin (link below). Installation is easy, just select the defaults when going through the wizard. Now when you open Media Center you’ll see the RSS icon in the main menu under Accessories....

The Translation Bar For our example we decided to add the bookmarklet to SeaMonkey. To add it to your favorite browser simply drag the bookmarklet to your browser’s “Bookmarks Toolbar”. Clicking on the bookmarklet will open the Google Translation Bar. The toolbar displays with a default of “Translate to English” and you can “Turn off Detect Language translation” if desired. Notice that you can easily close the toolbar using the small “x” at the end of the right side if you no longer need it active....

The other day we showed you how to add the Post Draft to Blog button to the Quick Access Toolbar. Today we look at adding anything from the Ribbon to it for easier access. Before To add a picture in the previous version you just needed to click Picture on the right hand section and made it rather easy to create posts. However, everything had its place, and there weren’t a whole lot of customization options....

Apple has informed users of a possible downturn in shipments as a result of a factory disruption at Apple’s primary iPhone 14 Pro assembly facility in Zhengzhou, China. This stems from a state-mandated quarantine, following a COVID-19 outbreak at that location. The pandemic is still raging worldwide, but China is one of the only countries in the world to still use a radical, zero-tolerance approach to the virus and its spread....

What We’re Looking for We are looking for experienced freelance writers to cover the complicated and ever-changing world of IT, and present complex solutions in a way that’s easy to understand for both new and experienced readers. We’re looking for writers with specific expertise in at least a few of the following fields. General Linux/Windows system administration experience is expected. Experience running system deployments on cloud services (AWS, Azure, GCP, DO) Solutions architecture, the ability to design and deploy appropriate services to meet a business need DevOps, Agile development Docker & Containers Machine learning, big data computing Cybersecurity Database administration Cloud-based web hosting Programming & software development...

Miro is a cross platform application that runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux. We’ll be using Miro on Windows 7, so your screens may look slightly different. Installation Download and install Miro Video Player. You find the download link below. You’ll want to pay close attention because Miro asks you if you want to install a handful of search features with the player. You can easily opt out by deselecting any or all of the options....

CCleaner Pro for $1 ($29.95 Value) The longer you use your PC, the more gunked up it gets with temporary files, data caches, and other digital waste. Luckily, clearing out the clutter is both easy and affordable with CCleaner Pro, now just $1 ($29.95 value) for a limited time. CCleaner Professional is a leading PC maintenance tool that’s been around since 2004. Our editors have covered it extensively over the years, from what it can do, to how you can leverage its features, and even why its latest update makes CCleaner more useful than ever....

Gigabyte has announced a range of new gaming monitors, including the G24F 2 and the G27F 2. The former is a 23.8-inch model with a 180Hz refresh rate, while the latter is a 27-inch version with a 165Hz refresh rate. Perhaps the one that might catch your eye the most, though, is the M27F A. It has a similar feature set to the G27F 2, except that we have KVM support....

What Is OCR? The OCR acronym stands for Optical Character Recognition: a software program and system whereby a computer can read the text inside images. Imagine taking a photo of your favorite passage from one the Lord of The Rings books. You’d like to quote it elsewhere, but all you have is a photo. OCR Software can help you by parsing that photo/image and finding all text within it. The OCR Software will then, for each letter discovered, analyze the graphical dots seen in the image, and translate/transform that into actual text a computer can use, for example in a word processor....

Use the xq Utility You’ll want to use a custom made utility for this, rather than trying to parse it with something like regex, which is a bad idea. There’s a utility called xq that is perfect for this task. It’s installed alongside yq, which works for YAML. You can install yq from pip: Under the hood, this utility uses jq to handle working with JSON, so you’ll need to download the binary, and move it to somewhere on your PATH (/usr/local/bin/ should work fine)....

A combo chart combines a column and line graph into a single chart. The result is a simple way for you and your audience to view each data series in a new way. Set Up the Data Combo charts are helpful when you want to show a relationship between two or more data sets that are measured differently. For example, you may use a combo chart to show projected sales and actual sales, temperatures with precipitation amounts, or revenue and income with profit margin....

There are plenty of ways to make a presentation that stands out in Microsoft PowerPoint. One way is to create action buttons. Whether an arrow to advance the slide or a play button to start a video, making action buttons is easy. Let’s take a look at how to make these nifty buttons. Add the Button and an Action Open your presentation and head to the slide where you want to add the button....

Slack just announced their latest take-over-the-business-world feature, which is intended to let you easily send a direct message to anybody that works for any other business… assuming they use Slack, at least. Here’s how to turn off Slack Connect before PR companies start spamming you. Wait, Why Disable Slack Connect? Slack Connect already allows you to share channels with other organizations, and now it allows you to send and receive DMs with anybody at any other organization....

We’re huge fans of the VistaSwitcher alternative for Alt+Tab, but unfortunately a recent bug has made it almost unusable for many of us, with lots of blank windows showing up in the list. Here’s how to fix it with a quick settings change. Naturally, we’re sure that the excellent programmer who created VistaSwitcher will be fixing this bug soon, but he’s also included a feature that solves the problem—and you’ll quickly see that it isn’t his fault anyway....

Load Balancers are network devices that you can use to distribute traffic across multiple servers. AWS’s Elastic Load Balancers are a managed service providing load balancing for your EC2 instances, and enabling the use of Auto-Scaling. What Is a Load Balancer? Rather than having one large web server handle all the work of serving your application, Load Balancers allow you to instead have two or three smaller servers that each handle a portion of the work....

Have you ever noticed that the thumbnails for your most visited sites in Chrome aren’t refreshing like they should? Here’s how you can flush your old icons and get the latest screenshots of your websites in your New Tab page. Many of us use Google Chrome as our default browser, and have come to rely on the new tab page to get us our favorite pages. Unfortunately, we’ve also noticed that Chrome often seems to get stuck on the same thumbnails and doesn’t refresh them as it should....

In our final article on the series of installing WHS Vail in VMware products, today we look at installing it in the free VMware Player. So fare we have covered how to install Vail in VMware Workstation which offers a free 30 day trial, but requires a license after that. We also took a look at installing Vail on VMware Server which is completely free for personal use. Installing WHS Vail on VMware Player is pretty straight-forward, though you need to make sure to follow the correct steps and settings....

You probably want to know when your server is running out of disk space. An easy solution is to configure a cron job to run daily and send you notifications over Slack if there are any issues. Get Disk Space With The df Command The command for viewing disk space on Linux is df -h (for output in a human readable format): This lists each mounted filesystem, how big the physical disk is, and how much is being used....