Note: This article assumes that you’re a recent switcher from Windows to OS X and aren’t quite familiar with the territory yet. Getting Started After downloading Adium and mounting the .dmg you install by dragging the icon to you applications folder. Open Adium for the first time you will be presented with the introduction and information about importing from other chat programs. For now lets start from scratch. Click Continue....
The Standard version of MediaMonkey is free for Windows users, is light on system resources, but packs a lot of power for managing your music and iPod. After we installed MediaMonkey and plugged in our iPod Touch 3rd Gen running iOS 4.0.2, it recognized it right away and were able to easily transfer our music collection to it. Install & Setup MediaMonkey Installation is straight-forward following the install wizard. When selecting the file type associations, make sure to check iTunes file types....
Before Most people usually have a favorite set of webpages that they open when they start their day, but different preferences in how they like for new tabs opened from the original(s) to behave. The default behavior in Chrome is for new tabs to open “relative” to the original and therefore be “grouped together” as shown here with these two How-To Geek webpages. But not all people care for that and prefer for new tabs to be opened at the far right end of the “Tab Bar”....
Editor Note: At the time this article was published, Shoutcast worked with VLC. However, as of now it doesn’t seem to work. We are looking into the issue and will update you when we have confirmation on this. Update: According to the VLC forums… it looks as if Shoutcast support has been discontinued. Getting Started Select Media from the menu, go to Services Discovery, and click Shoutcast radio listings....
This is actually a recurring issue with PureVPN: the company promises a lot, some of which a VPN simply cannot do. Examples include claims of being able to protect you from identity theft, which are exaggerated, at best. It leaves a bad taste in my mouth, as it sells a false sense of security, a bad look for a company selling protection software. Form and Function of PureVPN A virtual private network (VPN) serves two purposes: to make you appear like you’re somewhere you’re not and to secure your connection while doing so....
Lazarus: Form Recovery in Action For our first example we chose the comment text box area for one of the articles here at the website. As you can see we were not finished typing in the whole comment yet… Notice the “Lazarus Icon” in the lower right corner. Note: We simulated accidental tab closures for our two examples. After getting our webpage opened up again all of our text was gone....
Uninstall IE 9 Beta First type appwiz.cpl into the Search box in the Start Menu and hit Enter which will open Programs and Features. Alternately you can open the Start Menu \ Control Panel \ Programs and Features. Now in Programs and Features click View installed updates located on the left pane. Then find Windows Internet Explorer 9, right-click, and uninstall. Yes we’re sure… Then a restart is require to complete the uninstall process....
Samsung might be best known for selling fully-assembled products like smartphones and refrigerators, but the company also owns some of the best semiconductor foundries in the world — where the advanced chips that power computers, phones, tablets, and many other devices are assembled. For example, Samsung manufactures all Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 chipsets (which are used in most of this year’s flagship Android phones), as well as memory chips used in iPhones....
Options Once you have installed the extension and restarted Firefox, the best place to start is with a good look through the options. In the “General Area” you can choose the preferences that you desire for auto-focusing, synchronous scrolling, and split tab behavior. Select the options that you would like to have active for your split panes and the appearance options that you prefer to have for split buttons in the “Appearance Area”....
About Shutter Shutter is a feature-rich screenshot program. You can take a screenshot of a specific area, window, your whole screen, or even of a website – apply different effects to it, draw on it to highlight points, and then upload to an image hosting site, all within one window. Installation Open Software Sources by going to System \ Administration \ Software Sources Go to the PPA page (Mentioned at the end of the post) and click the link that reads “Technical details about this PPA” followed by choosing your Ubuntu version (In my case it’s Karmic (9....
Instead of adding a few touches here and there, as it has with the past few iterations of its flagship noise-canceling headphones, Sony went with a radical redesign. The WH-1000XM5 not only have a new look and feel, but they even replaced the drivers with newer, smaller drivers. That’s not all, as Sony also raised the price by $50. Was this a mistake? Or, was Sony so confident in its new design that the company knew it could get away with it?...
One cool feature in Outlook is the ability to sort and link your emails by conversation. This makes it easier to know what has been discussed in emails, and helps you keep your inbox more tidy. Some users don’t like their emails linked into conversations, and in the final release of Outlook it is turned off by default. Since this is a new feature, new users may overlook it and never know it’s available....
For example, here’s the Windows XP style Alt-Tab being used in Windows 7, which doesn’t use thumbnails like the Windows 7 version does. What we’ll do is use a registry hack courtesy of reader Benjamin. Thanks! Note: we’re not actually recommending this or saying that it’s better than Windows 7, but it’s an extra option in case you like the old way better. What we do recommend, however, is taking a look at the awesome VistaSwitcher Alt-Tab replacement application....
While the Steam Mobile app used to be pretty barebones, this new update has a few new features. One of them is a redesign of the Library view, where you can see your games and even initiate a remote download — that way, if you’re on the go, you can remotely download games and have them ready by the time you’re home. Play Video You can also search and buy games right from your phone, and the app will also send you notifications whenever a game in your wishlist gets discounted....
When it comes to smartwatches for Android users, Samsung is the clear frontrunner. Not only did the tech giant successfully launch and maintain its own wearables operating system (Tizen) for years, it more recently partnered with Google to build the next generation of Wear OS. The Galaxy Watch 4 is the first Samsung wearable to run a Google-powered operating system in nearly a decade, as well as the first device ever to launch with Wear OS 3....
Getting Started By default, when you come across a PDF or other common document file online in Google Chrome, you’ll have to download the file and open it in a separate application. It’d be much easier to simply view online documents directly in Chrome. To do this, head over to the Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer page on the Chrome Extensions site (link below), and click Install to add it to your browser....
Database performance is heavily affected by the performance of the underlying memory. For reads, having a lot of RAM can speed things up, but for write-heavy operations, the bottleneck is the SSD of hard disk it runs out. AWS has plenty of options for storage, so which one is best for you? Database-Focused EC2 Instances Beyond just underlying storage, there are plenty of other factors to database performance. AWS has many different classes of instances with individual tiers within them....
Ever noticed how opening Internet Explorer can take forever on some PCs? That’s generally because your add-ons are slowing it down to a crawl—and even worse than that, they affect creating new tabs as well. Over at the official Internet Explorer blog, they’ve put together a chart that shows the most popular add-ons sorted by the amount of slowness they add to IE’s load times, but you can check for yourself and disable the add-ons if you want to....
Torrents Are Subject to Tracking Torrenting using the BitTorrent protocol is generally frowned upon by the powers that be since it’s a very popular way of distributing copyrighted material without the copyright holders’ permission, a practice better known as piracy. As a result, if you torrent files, there’s a good chance somebody is watching, especially in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe. If you’re tracked by a copyright watchdog, you can expect a warning or two, followed by a fine if you persist....
System76 sells three desktop computers: the cheapest Thelio workstation (starts at $949), the more powerful Thelio Mira (starts at $999), and the high-end Thelio Major (starts at $3,499). Starting today, you can now configure the Thelio and Thelio Mira with 13th Gen Intel Core or AMD Ryzen 7000 processors. Specifically, you can choose the Core i5-13600K at 5.1 GHz or the Core i7-13700K at 5.4 GHz on both computers, while the Mira is available with Ryzen 7 7600X, Ryzen 7 7900X, or Ryzen 7 7950X....
