The Galaxy Buds Pro is equipped with powerful active noise cancellation and ambient sound mode, as well as an 11mm woofer and a 6.5mm tweeter in each earbud. The buds are also IPX7 water resistant, and they provide up to 5 hours of listening time with ANC on (and 8 hours with ANC off), with the case giving you an extra 13 hours. The Buds Pro was Samsung’s most premium earbuds from 2020 until the launch of the Galaxy Buds 2 Pro a few months ago, and it’s still one of the best pairs of earbuds you can get, especially for this price....

The Two-Edged Sword You need someone with the authority to own and administer those parts of your operating system that are too important or too sensitive for regular users to deal with. That’s where root comes in. root is the all-powerful superuser of Unix and Linux operating systems. The root user account, like all accounts, is protected by a password. Without the root user’s password, no one else can access that account....

What Do All These Records Mean? There are quite a few types of DNS records, and it can get a little confusing. However, you’ll really only be using a handful of them, so we can break them down quite easily. Each DNS record, no matter the type, will have a few basic values. The first, and most important, is the Host, or Hostname. This is usually used to add subdomains; for example, if you wanted to point blog....

QR Codes Quick response (QR) codes are enjoying something of a resurgence, thanks to their use in the COVID-19 track and trace apps in many countries. They are a convenient way to share information and to elicit a response from people. Everyone carries a cellphone, so we all carry a suitable scanner with us. There are many free QR and barcode scanning software apps, so there is no extra hardware required and no outlay for the software....

Just in case you’re new to the party, we’re talking about the power plans that you see when you click on the battery/plug icon in the system tray. The problem is that one of the built-in plans always shows up there, even if you only use custom plans. When you go to “More power options” on the menu there, you’ll be taken to a list of them, but you’ll be unable to get rid of any of the built-in ones, even if you have your own....

Advanced Virus Remover is one of many fake antivirus applications like Antivirus Live or Internet Security 2010, which are really just rogue viruses that hold your computer hostage until you pay the ransom money. They tell you that your PC is infected with loads of viruses, even though it’s the only virus on your computer. The biggest problem with these things is that they block you from doing almost everything—you can’t use task manager, Safe Mode, or even install a real malware removal tool....

Log aggregation and analysis is a huge field, with entire product stacks being built around it to make it easier. AWS’s CloudWatch service collects usage metrics automatically, but it can also be configured to aggregate logs from your EC2 instances. Why Aggregate Logs in The First Place? Say you’re running a web server like nginx. Every time someone connects to your website, a new line in a log file is created containing details about the visit....

Most services on Linux will generate log files, usually stored in /var/log/. These are just simple text files, but they can get really, really large—to the point where you could run your server out of space. What Does Logrotate Do? Logrotate helps manage log files, and prevents them from piling up. It will automatically archive the current log file, make a new empty one, and delete the really old archives after it has rotated a few times....

Maintaining file share permissions across servers can be a major challenge but by using PowerShell, we can automate this process allowing you to go home early. When doing any file migration, you not only have to consider the files and folder themselves but also the permissions set on those objects. On each file and folder could potentially be a different set of Access Control Entries (ACEs) that make up an Access Control List (ACL)....

Windows plays a startup sound and other sound effects regularly, and they can get obnoxious. They’re especially annoying on Windows 7, where Windows plays a click sound every time you switch folders in Windows Explorer. You can disable them entirely—or even set custom sound effects, if you prefer. RELATED: How to Disable the Startup Sound on Windows 11 How to Disable All Sound Effects To open the Sound control panel, right-click the speaker icon in your system tray and select “Sounds”....

In this AWS SES tutorial, we’ll be using the SES console to send emails. Verifying an Email Address The first thing we need to do is set up an email address that we will be sending from to do this. We need to first verify that we, in fact, own the email address that we’re using. Let’s go ahead and click on Email Addresses on the left. We currently don’t have any verified email addresses, so click on Verify a New Email Address....

To take a closer look at your photos or for precision editing, you may want to zoom in on your images. Luckily, Adobe Photoshop offers various ways to enlarge your photos, including on-screen options and keyboard shortcuts. We’ll show you how to zoom in on Photoshop here. RELATED: How to Make More Precise Selections with Photoshop’s Select and Mask How to Zoom In on Photoshop Use the Zoom Tool Using Photoshop’s Zoom tool is the easiest way to zoom in (and out) on your images....

Here we are using an iPod Touch 32GB device, but it works the same with an iPhone as well. Note: There is always a risk of “bricking” your device when you jailbreak it. Make sure this is something you want to do and know there are potential risks involved. Also, this may void the warranty with Apple. Update to iOS4 If you haven’t done so already…to update your device, plug it into your computer and open iTunes....

Before Here is the default “New Tab Page” in our Chrome Browser…it looks rather plain and boring. How about something better? Incredible StartPage in Action This is what our “New Tab Page” looked like after installing the extension. As you can see there is a “Note Section”, “Closed Tabs Section”, “All Bookmarks Section”, and a “Bookmarks Toolbar (links only) Section”. Note: Clicking on links in Incredible StartPage will open them in the current tab....

If you’re a certain type of person, it might feel like Twitter is where everything’s happening on the internet. That is very much not the case. Outside of the bubble, most people simply do not care about the bird site. A lot of attention has been put on Twitter since Elon Musk completed his $44 Billion takeover. However—as he’s finding out—Twitter is really not very popular. The platform has an inflated sense of importance for a variety of reasons....

Microsoft Office 2010 The latest offering from Microsoft Office has more features and enhancements over its predecessor and the beta version is available for testing now. It is designed to deliver unified access across your computer, phone, and anywhere you have web access. The other interesting thing is that it comes in 32 and 64-bit version. Here we will take an overview look at what the new apps will look like and some of the new features you can expect....

Example: If your file has a name like Entourage_S1_E1[DVDRip]-NTSC.xvid.avi, your media center may play it, but likely won’t recognize what it is. TVRenamer can batch convert your collection to a cleaner format, like Entourage.S01.E01.avi, that your media center will recognize. TVRenamer Download and install TVRenamer. You can find the download link below. It’s a basic install and you can just take the defaults. The first step is to select your preferred naming style or convention....

Usage Type the following command from the terminal prompt. If you are using a distro other than Ubuntu, make sure that your user account has sudo permissions, otherwise you might have to use su to switch to root before entering the command. Output: You can restart networking if you are having problems by using the following command:

Drop.io offers a unique file-sharing and collaboration platform. With their Outlook plug-in, you can use this system to send larger files directly from Outlook. Drop.io is free for up to 100MB of storage; if you need to send larger files than that, you can upgrade to a professional account. This plugin is still in beta and for this article, we ran the plug-in in Outlook 2010 64-bit version. We have tested it on Outlook 2007 as well and it works fine in both versions....

What Is a UPS? An Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) is a device that provides battery backup to any connected equipment in the event of sudden power drops or a complete power failure. It does this thanks to an internal battery that can power your devices anywhere from a few minutes to several hours, depending on their individual and combined power ratings. Most UPSes also have Automatic Voltage Regulation to protect your devices from spotty electricity, while some take this to a higher level by incorporating some form of surge protection....