Typical Sleep Tracking Sleep tracking with a smart device is pretty similar across the board. You get a basic read-out of time spent in bed, how long you took to fall asleep, time awake, and how much time you spent in REM, deep, and light sleep cycles. The accuracy of these numbers can vary between devices, but using the same device for an extended period of time will at least give you consistent inaccurate data....
The Predator Orion 7000 is currently available with Intel’s 12th gen CPUs and NVIDIA’s RTX 3000-series graphics cards, but it’s getting an upgrade coinciding with Intel’s latest release. It will now come equipped with up to an Intel Core i9-13900K as well as up to 64GB of DDR5-4000 memory. It will also feature up to an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 GPU — we don’t know if it will also get the new RTX 4080/4090 down the road, since many other 13th gen-based pre-builts are using 4000-series cards, but the 3090 is still a mighty fine GPU....
Add a Keyboard Language To add a keyboard language, open the System menu, select Preferences, and then select Keyboard. In the Keyboard Preferences dialog, select the Layouts tab, and click Add. You can select a country and then choose an language and keyboard variant. Note that some countries, such as the United States, may show several languages. Once you’ve made your selection, you can preview it on the sample keyboard displayed below the menu....
Always Show the Menu Bar You’ll notice now that when you hit Alt or Alt+T the menu bar will be displayed but won’t stay on. If you like to always have the Menu bar displayed, we can do it with a hack to the Registry. Remember before making any changes to the Registry create a Restore Point and / or back it up. Make sure you’re closed out of IE 9, then open the Start menu and type regedit and hit Enter....
Home insurance, at least, seems slightly less dystopian than your Echo smart speaker diagnosing your cough and automatically writing a prescription. As a bonus, your home could come with access to Prime Video.
One of Anker’s (many) sub-brands, Eufy, has released the “Security SmartTrack Link.” Just like the Apple AirTag, it’s a small battery-powered device that you can attach to objects. You can then check where the tag is on a phone or tablet, and if it’s within range, it can start emitting a noise for easy location. The tag is compatible with Apple’s “Find My” network, so any passing Apple devices will update its location, just like Apple’s own AirTag....
Before There it is…the same old “Status Bar” that just seems to hang around taking up space. Time to grab that extension and install it… After Once you have installed the extension and restarted Firefox you will quickly see that the “Status Bar” is totally hidden (nice!). Options Ok, so what about the options for autoHideStatusbar? In the “Preferences Area” you can enable/disable autoHideStatusbar, determine when (and how) the “Status Bar” appears, and select/deselect direct settings for the “Status Bar” itself....
Windows DreamScene is a utility only available in Vista Ultimate that allows users to set a video as desktop wallpaper. Recently we’ve looked at ways to set a video as your desktop Wallpaper using VLC Media Player and how to enable Windows DreamScene in any version of Windows 7 or Vista. Now we’ll give DreamScene a personal touch with Windows Live Movie Maker. Installation Download and install Windows Live Movies Maker....
GeekTool for OS X is capable of many things from showing the weather outside to what’s playing on iTunes and more. It can display both static and dynamic information. Getting Started We will look at adding a clock and a basic calendar to your desktop. Once you have GeekTool installed, you will find it in System Preferences. We have three options for the type of tool to place on your desktop....
Note: The BetterSearch extension also works with Flock. Before For our example we decided to do a search for “Windows 7” at Google. As you can see there are plenty of results but what if you could enhance those results with extra functionality? Notice the outlined search result… After Once you have installed the extension you can immediately start enjoying the benefits. You can see the difference in the outlined search result shown here versus the one shown above....
A Router Designed for ExpressVPN The Aircove has a number of selling points that negate many of the reasons why you shouldn’t use a VPN router. One of the most interesting for technophobes is the fact that it’s ready to go right out of the box. ExpressVPN promises that there will be little to no setup involved. Anybody who has ever wrestled with flashing VPN firmware to a router is probably now sighing a breath of relief....
Keyboard shortcut By default in Ubuntu and Linux Mint the terminal shortcut key is mapped to Ctrl+Alt+T. If you would like to change this to something else that makes sense to you open your menu to System -> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts. Scroll down in the window and find the shortcut for “Run a Terminal”. If you would like to change this setting click on the shortcut column and push the new keyboard shortcut you would like....
Before Here is the regular “Start Menu” on one of our example systems. Organized and nice but it would be nicer to be able to switch back and forth between the regular and classic styles whenever we wanted. Setup When you download the app it will be in a zip file and once you have unzipped the contents here is what is included. At this point you will need to create a “Program Files” folder, place the contents inside, and create a convenient shortcut....
Tired of Windows Live Writer switching all your double and single quotes to the curly versions? Sure, you can turn it off in the options panel, but there’s actually a cool trick to use them that you might not have noticed. Of course, this is only really useful when you’re writing articles with command line tips since the curly quotes break copy and paste, so for the 5 people out there that might read this article, be glad that I was bored and felt like writing this up....
This guide will be for MySQL in particular, as it’s the most common database, but most of these concepts will apply to any type of database—you’ll just require different configuration to achieve the same effects. Make Sure to Run mysql_secure_installation MySQL has a built-in tool that can handle a few basic security tasks. After you install MySQL, run the following command in your terminal: This will walk you through a few tasks—setting a new password, removing anonymous users and test databases, and disabling remote root login....
Ubuntu 10.04 finally automatically recognizes and installs drivers for most hardware today, it even recognized and configured Wi-Fi drivers correctly every time in our tests. This is in contrast to the past, when it was often difficult to get hardware to work in Linux. However, most video cards still need proprietary drivers from their manufacturer to get full hardware video acceleration. Even though Ubuntu doesn’t include any non-open source components, it still makes it easy to install proprietary drivers if you wish....
Afraid of the dreaded “p” word? You’re not alone. Partitions can get complicated, so here’s an explanation of what they are, how they’re used, and a simple template to use for your own Linux installation. Image by dmyhung What Are Partitions? Partitions are divisions in the formatting of the hard disk. It’s a logical — as opposed to a physical — division, so you can edit and manipulate them for various purposes....
DigitalOcean is one of the easiest to use cloud virtual machine providers out there. If you need a quickly provisioned computing environment, DigitalOcean virtual machines typically become available in under 60 seconds. Instead of using the user interface (UI), it’s often best to automate. Terraform is an infrastructure as code language that allows you to use providers, such as DigitalOcean, to provision resources without using the DigitalOcen UI. In this article, we explore how to use Terraform to provision a DigitalOcean Droplet (virtual machine)....
The tool that we’re going to use is called Reconstructor, which is a free webapp that lets you roll your own Ubuntu and Debian CDs. Getting Started The first step, as noted above, is to sign up for an account. Click the Sign Up link and fill out the form that appears. Confirm your account by clicking on a link that will be emailed to you, and then log in....
You’ve got a bunch of DVDs sitting around your house, but you can’t even remember when you last saw your DVD player, and your laptop doesn’t even have a disc drive anymore. It’s time to modernize your collection. Here, we’ll show you how to rip your DVDs to your computer using the swiss army knife of video conversion tools: Handbrake. Easily Rip a DVD with VideoProc While navigating Handbrake can be tedious and complex, there is a simpler alternative....
