With the release of iOS 16, your iPhone (or iPad) can isolate subjects from photos you’ve taken. This separates the subject from the background so that you can send it separately in a message, or use it in other apps. How to Lift Subjects From Photos or Videos Thanks to the wonders of machine learning, it’s now possible to isolate and export subjects from photos on iPhone. This works across the operating system, but it’s arguably most useful in the Photos apps for isolating subjects in photos you have taken yourself....

What is an SSL Certificate? SSL is the encryption method used to secure HTTPS connections, and if your site is encrypted with it, your user’s browsers will show the padlock symbol in the URL bar. An SSL certificate is required to use SSL, and you can get one from a Certificate Authority (CA). The CA acts as a third party to verify that your connection is legitimate and that you are who you claim to be (i....

Install Amarok In case you don’t have Amarok, you can install it by dropping down to terminal. To open a terminal window click ALT+F2 and type “gnome-terminal” (without quotes). Or from the menu Applications \ Terminal. In the terminal window, type the following command and wait a couple of moments while Amarok is installed. In order to enable support for mp3 format, type the following commands on your terminal window one by one....

In this tutorial we look at Bash case based conditional statements. We review practical examples, and discuss when a Bash case .. esac statement is best employed over a more traditional if .. then .. fi statement. Bash case .. esac Statements in Bash Natively available from within the Bash shell, case conditional statements, formulated using the case and esac idioms (an idiom is a word or a group of words, or a keyword, with established usage patterns; a form of expressing a computer language), one can construct a complex conditional case-by-case (hence the term case) lookup and execution-per-case statement....

Microsoft released the Windows Subsystem for Linux on the Microsoft Store over a year ago, but so far, it has only been available as a “preview” there. Now, it’s now generally available for all Windows 10 and Windows 11 users. The WSL in the Microsoft Store is dropping the Preview label, and it’s now generally available for everyone using a recent version of Windows. From now on, it’s becoming the standard way to install the WSL on a Windows system — running the wsl –install command will now download the Microsoft Store version, and likewise, updating it will also now bring you to the Store version as well....

Getting Started with Googsystray This is the window that will appear the first time that you start Googsystray. The first thing that you will need to do is add any accounts that you would like to monitor. Click on the “Add Button” to get started… Clicking on the “Add Button” will produce a temporary generic account listing. Highlight the generic listing and click on the “Edit Button”. Clicking on the “Edit Button” opens a small window where you can give the account a custom name and enter the relevant account information....

Whan Ransomware Strikes A ransomware attack installs malware on your network. It encrypts your data and demands a cryptocurrency ransom to decrypt it. The most common attack vectors are still a phishing attack or exploiting a Remote Desktop Protocol connection, often by taking advantage of poor password management. From the threat actors’ point of view, ransomware is massively profitable and a relatively easy cyberattack to accomplish. According to a report by the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA), 45 percent of victim organizations pay the ransom....

This same tip works in more than one operating system, so we’ll detail how to do it in every way we know how. Open a File Browser in Windows We’ve actually covered this before when we told you how to open an Explorer window from the command prompt’s current directory, but we’ll briefly review: Just type the follow command into your command prompt: Note: You could actually just type “start ....

Setup So, you have one set of links (i.e. news or social) for when you first open your browser and start your day. But when you finish with those you have to manually open up your links for work. You could use a “Bookmarks Folder” to open those links as a group, but a “Menu Listing or Status Bar Icon” can work just as well. Clicking on either the “Menu Listing or Status Bar Icon” will open up the following window....

Microsoft Azure offers many different virtual machines for use, but Windows Server 2019 remains one of the most recent and a commonly deployed operating system. There are several ways to deploy this server OS, but in this article we are going to explore how to do this in the Azure Portal. Provisioning Windows Server 2019 First it is necessary to navigate to the Virtual Machines (VM) section within the Azure Portal....

How it Works Remote Potato installs server software on the host computer running Windows 7 Media Center. Once the software is installed, we’ll need to do some port forwarding on the router and setup an optional dynamic DNS address. When setup is completed, we will access the application through a web based interface. Silverlight is required for Streaming recorded TV, but scheduling recordings can be done through an HTML interface....

A brief demo appears to show a Tesla Model Y driver getting a passive-aggressive text from her boss that says, “Have time for quick sync later? Want to get your feedback. :).” And then this poor woman proceeds to hop on a Zoom videocall while charging the vehicle. It’s the stuff dreams are made of. Play Video While details of how exactly it would function have not yet been released, it appears that Zoom will use the vehicle’s cabin camera, so they can see what the camera sees and use it as a live feed....

A brand called MelGeek has released a mechanical keyboard that looks like it’s made of LEGO. It’s called the Pixel (not to be confused with Google’s hardware lineup), and it has a cool, blocky tenkeyless design. Everything around it is modeled to look, and work, like LEGO. The keycaps, for one, are LEGO pieces rather than standard keycaps. And the sideboard also has LEGO studs everywhere, so if you have a LEGO set, you can use it to customize your keyboard to your liking....

The reach of GDPR doesn’t stop at the borders of Europe. Using non-European cloud platforms and Software-as-a-Service from within Europe just got a lot more complicated. Data Protection and Cybersecurity Data protection and cybersecurity are different, but related topics. Cybersecurity is the collection of technologies, controls, and behaviors that combine to form an organization’s response to the risk of cyberthreats. Cybersecurity means keeping the bad guys out and the data in....

Retail Under Attack A 2020 report by Akamai, the content delivery network and cybersecurity provider, claims Account Take Over (ATO) attacks have increased in the retail sector by over 40 percent. They say that 60 percent of credential stuffing attacks in the last 24 months were aimed at retail, hospitality, and travel businesses. By a huge margin—an astonishing 90 percent of these attacks—retailing is bearing the brunt of this cyber offensive....

If you check out the AppleCare+ website today, you’ll be able to see a notice on top that says the service now covers unlimited repairs for accidental damage protection. Previously, the service only covered up to two incidents of accidental damage every 12 months, so if you’re the type of person that’s always dropping their phone, you might be interested in checking it out. Do note that repairs will still cost you money, though....

According to Proton, the company opened up 15,000 early access slots for its Android and iOS apps in August 2022, all of which have been already filled. But if you want to download it on your phone, you should be able to do so by December. We don’t have a concrete day on when this might happen, but we’ll surely know more as we get near that final release....

What Is Brushing? If you’ve received a shipment through the post office or private couriers like UPS, FedEx, or the equivalent services in your country, that you didn’t order, you might be puzzled. Maybe you were even further confused by the sheer randomness of what the shipment contained. Over the last few years, for example, I’ve received dozens of unsolicited packages, and if you have had a similar experience, you won’t be surprised by the package contents I’m about to list....

Setup & Options Once you have the extension installed you will notice a new “Status Bar Icon” in your browser. The icon acts as a quick on/off switch to enable or disable combining search results. These are the options for the extension…all focused on display properties. Note: You will most likely want to activate the “Always show scrollbars on Wolfram Alpha frame.” option (see below for an alternative way to access the scrollbar)....

Condensing the Folders Reducing bookmark folders to icons is a little more tricky than regular bookmarks but not hard to do. Right click on the folder and select “Rename…”. The folder’s name should already be highlighted/selected as shown here. Delete the text…notice that the “OK Button” has become unusable for the moment. Now what you will need to do is: Hold down the “Alt Key” Type in “0160” (without the quotes) using the numbers keypad on the right side of your keyboard Release the “Alt Key” after you have finished typing in the number above...