The new PC is an updated version of the existing IdeaCentre compact desktop, with the same basic square shape and gray exterior, but the similarities end there. The new model is designed to sit horizontally, or with the included stand, vertically — a bit of a throwback to the Nintendo Wii. It’s also at least partially repairable and upgradable, with easy access to the cooling fan and memory, and there’s no bulky external power supply....

To activate these features click on Start then Control Panel and click on the Mouse icon. In the Mouse Properties window click on the Pointer Options tab. Now increase the pointer speed and check the box next to Enhance pointer precision…this seems to come in really handy with touch pads on laptops. Under “Snap To” check the box next to Automatically move pointer to the default button in a dialog box....

Turn your Desktop into a Windows Phone 7 lookalike To give your Windows 7 desktop a Windows Phone 7 makeover, first you need to have the free Rainmeter application installed. If you do not have it installed, download it from the link below and run the setup. Accept the license agreement, and install it with the default settings. By default Rainmeter will automatically run when you start your computer. If you do not want this, you can uncheck the box during the setup....

NVIDIA announced its third-generation GeForce RTX GPUs, Ada Lovelace (Ada for short), succeeding the 2nd-gen Ampere and 1st-gen Turing cards. This new generation delivers up to 76 billion transistors and 18,000 CUDA cores. The new GPUs also have improved, new-gen ray tracing cores, as well as improved Tensor cores. They also come with DLSS 3, which NVIDIA claims is vastly improved from the previous version — and it can supposedly deliver a 4x increase in frame rates over native rendering....

Opera already has a customizable sidebar for quick access to music services and social media platforms, which open the specified site in a compact vertical window. Opera is now adding TikTok to the list of sidebar options, following a survey conducted by the company that reported “65 percent of the people who use TikTok from the 18-35 age group would like to use it in their desktop browser.” Play Video...

The South Korean giant announced an expanded partnership with Google to not only welcome Matter products into its ecosystem, but also to support interoperability with Google’s own Home ecosystem. If you have any smart home devices set up in Google Home that SmartThings can support as well, it will prompt you to set them up on the other app, and vice versa. Users will no longer have to manually add each of their devices one at a time, nor will they have to worry about which ecosystem their device has been configured on initially....

SaveLink in Action Once you have installed the extension you are ready to start saving links as files. You will not have to worry with any options… There are two different ways to access the extension…the first is using the “File Menu” to save the webpage you are currently viewing as a “.url file”. Here you can see that the file name is defaulting to the webpage title… Having a specific folder somewhere would be perfect for these files if you are wanting to keep your desktop clear or will be saving a lot of them....

RELATED: How to Use the BitDefender Rescue CD to Clean Your Infected PC There are a number of virus scanners available for Ubuntu, but we’ve found that avast! is the best choice, with great detection rates and usability. UPDATE This article was written a while ago, and almost all of the anti-virus applications for Linux aren’t supported anymore. Here are the ones that still work: Bitdefender ClamAV You should be able to install Clam from the Ubuntu application center....

Setup Parental Controls To setup Parental Controls in Windows 7 Media Center (WMC), scroll to Tasks in the main menu. In the Settings section click on General. From the General Settings list click on Parental Controls. Now you’re prompted to create a 4 digit access code. Make sure it’s something you remember and that you kids won’t be able to easily guess. Now in Parental Controls you can start selecting what you want to block your kids from accessing....

Algorithms are powerful things. If you’ve ever seen an ad on Facebook for a product you just talked about, you understand this fact. AI art tools use algorithms too, created through machine learning. In other words, AI art is generated by machines that have learned through the analysis of other images and ideas. If you’re an artist or simply someone who fears for the future of creativity, please don’t. AI art doesn’t exist without our input....

Anonymous While not a single person, “Anonymous” might be the most well-known hacker group in the world. You’ve probably seen the Guy Fawkes mask that some members of the community wear, inspired by the movie V for Vendetta. Most Known For: In 2011, Anonymous took down the PlayStation Network for an entire month as retaliation for Sony trying to stop PlayStation 3 hacks. More than 100 million Sony accounts were compromised in the process....

Consoles Are the Benchmark Multiplatform games released on both PC and console are designed to work on the lowest-common-denominator device the title releases on. Consoles do have some advantages in efficiency and reduced system overhead. However, suppose you have a PC that’s just a bit more powerful than the weakest current generation system. In that case, you can be confident that your PC will run games at similar settings and performance for the duration of the console generation....

Keep in mind that this is what works for me, and might not work for you or apply to your situation at all. Also note that I’m guilty of being very unproductive a good portion of the time. Create an Ideas Database The single most important tool that keeps you productive as a writer is a database of ideas. I’m using a piece of software called ActionOutline, but EverNote, OneNote, Google Docs, or any number of other tools will do the job admirably—you could probably use Notepad if you felt like it, since the real problem isn’t the tool you use, it’s you....

Companies are complicated, and it requires significantly more setup to manage the AWS accounts of hundreds of people. In this article, we discuss the best practices for managing secure access to your organization’s resources without hindering your developers with bureaucracy. Use IAM Users for Employee Accounts If you’ve used AWS before, you’re probably familiar with IAM users. They’re essentially service accounts used to authenticate things running on remote servers and to allow them to access the AWS resources they need (putting things in an S3 bucket, running lambda functions, etc....

In other parts of the world, such as China, nearly 90% of people use mobile payments. That’s more than double the U.S., but adoption is not the only problem. The infrastructure for mobile payments in the U.S. is just not there yet. Mobile Payments in the U.S. How did we get here? Let’s take a look back at mobile payments in the U.S. Apple Pay was the first mainstream proximity-based mobile payment option for a lot of people....

What You’ll Need: GMote Server software installed on your Computer. GMote app installed from the Android Market. Windows, Mac, or Linux computer. A WiFi router. You can use GMote over your 3G connection, but it will require you to forward port 8889 on your router. Download and install GMote from the Android Market. When you launch the GMote app for the first time on your Android device, you’ll be prompted to install the Gmote server software on your computer....

What is UAC? UAC is a feature of Windows Vista and 7 designed to prevent unauthorized changes to your computer. Recent versions of Linux and Mac OS X have similar prompts when changing settings or installing programs as well. This is a crucial feature that makes your computer much more secure. By default, even an administrator account in modern versions of Windows does not have full access to modify system settings and install programs....

To gunzip and untar a file in a single step, use the following—note that the z switch is the important one that tells tar to unzip it. To use bunzip2 to extract your tar.bz2 file in a single step, use the j switch instead. Ahh, nice and simple, just the way we like it.

Why do we create wireframes ? A wireframe is a sketch of a page-layout idea.A wireframe focuses on the information design of a page to ensure that the design fits into what the user needs. A wireframe usually consists of different shapes (such as boxes, ovals, and diamonds) to represent content, functional, and navigational elements. These shapes displays their placement on the page. At first it may seem like a waste of time creating rough sketches of a page....

Conversation View To access Conversation View click the View tab on the Ribbon. Then check Show as Conversations and select All Folders or Current Folder. Now you can select how you want to arrange the conversations by the To field, who messages are from, Attachments, Importance…etc. You email conversations will be arranged in the order you select. There are also different ways you can arrange your conversations by expanding the Conversation Setting menu....