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If your organization is moving from AWS to Google Cloud Platform, or you simply want to learn how to use an alternate cloud provider, GCP is pretty similar to AWS, and easy to pick up. We’ll discuss the differences and similarities. Permissions Work Differently The most major change is how the permissions work, and how you manage access for other users in your organization. Both GCP and AWS call this feature Identity and Access Management, or IAM, but GCP takes a different approach....

Determining your budget is a good starting point. Cases from reputable brands start from as low as $15 and go up to $50-$60. However, it’s important to remember that you don’t necessarily need to spend the big bucks to get a nice case. Once you’ve settled on a price range, you should consider the amount of protection you’re hoping to get from your case. Rugged cases are your best bet for top-notch protection, but they’re also bulkier than other types of cases....

The iPhone 14 and the iPhone 14 Plus are serving this year as lighter upgrades to last year’s base iPhone 13 phones. The Mini is gone, with the standard iPhone 14 (with a 6.1-inch display) serving as the base model. And if you want to go bigger than that, Apple has brought back the Plus range. The iPhone 14 Plus comes with a 6.7-inch panel, just like the Max range....

There was an incident in the Angeles National Forest in California where a car went off the side of the mountain, falling 300 feet into a remote canyon. Luckily, one of the people in the car had an iPhone 14, which is what ultimately saved their lives. There was no cell signal at all, but the person was able to connect to one of Apple’s relay centers and request assistance....

The second-gen ID.3 will be fully revealed “this coming spring,” but Volkswagen has already shared some information and renders. The exterior image shows a car that isn’t that far off from the current model, with the same unified headlight and mini-SUV design. However, the interior is a different story. Volkswagen designed the current ID.3 with two large displays, one behind the steering wheel and another in the center panel, surrounded by an array of physical buttons and controls....

Paint.net started out as a Microsoft Paint replacement written on the .NET framework, and it has since become a comprehensive, powerful graphics editor. Now, it’s reaching its next chapter with version 5.0. The first alpha testing release of Paint.NET 5.0 is now available, and it comes with several improvements and additions that make the program more powerful than before. Some additions include pressure sensitivity, helping you draw natural-looking strokes if you have a compatible drawing tablet or device, and most adjustments and effects inside the program are now GPU-accelerated, resulting in improved performance....

All that you need to is install the extension and enjoy using that wonderful new Context Menu entry to view images in the same tab. No more of those separate tabs just to view an image! View Image [Google Chrome Extensions]

Shared 3D environments in virtual reality have been an obvious staple in gaming for years, like World of Warcraft or whichever game your friend is spending too much time in. But those virtual worlds have monsters and dragons and spaceships shaped like dragon monsters. They’re meant to create a reality impossible to duplicate in life. Is the office really an environment that needs a virtual upgrade? It depends. Your Boss’ Avatar Would Like to Have a Word with You You may have seen ads for new virtual workspaces while at your actual office with walls and tables....

XDR Hits Critical Mass It seems like some things just take a while to gain traction. There has to be a period of time for the idea to lodge in the collective consciousness and start to have some sway on the decisions that involve security, budgets, or both. If the concept is more of a strategy or an initiative than a product, it can take longer for that idea to gain critical mass....

Task Manager has scantly changed since it was introduced in the 1990s, besides the occasional addition of a new tab. The 2022 Update for Windows 11 finally gives Task Manager a much-deserved facelift, a few quality-of-life changes, and some new features. What’s Brand New in the New Task Manager? This time around, there are a few brand new things in the new Task Manager that aren’t just changes to existing features....

How Do Smartphone Screens Work? To understand why your smartphone isn’t correctly detecting your fingers, it helps to first understand how phone screens work. Modern smartphones (as well as tablets, smart displays, and the majority of touch-screen devices you interact with) have a capacitive screen. Beneath the protective top layer of the screen is a transparent electrode layer. Your finger is electrically conductive, and when you touch the screen it changes the electrical pattern in the electrode layer....

In a previous Article, Mysticgeek wrote about how to jailbreak your iOS device the easy way. If you are not yet on iOS 4.0.2 this method should still work. However if you have updated, you will need to wait for the new Jailbreakme.com to be completed. There are other ways to jailbreak your iOS device however, which we will discuss later. The apps, widgets and themes discussed maybe found using the Cydia shortcut that was added to your apps....

What is Focus Mode on iPhone? Focus Mode—actually called just “Focus” on the iPhone—is essentially Do Not Disturb for specific situations. Rather than having a one-size-fits-all Do Not Disturb mode, Apple made it possible to create a bunch of specialized modes. The long-standing Do Not Disturb mode is still present, by the way, but Focus makes it more useful. While you may have only used Do Not Disturb while you slept, now it can be customized for a bunch of different situations....

PHP 8 was released at the end of November 2020. It’s a major new version that upgrades the language with additional features and performance improvements. In this article, we’ll look at eight of the biggest enhancements offered by PHP 8. The full list of additions and changes can be found within the official documentation. The docs also include a comprehensive migration guide for use when updating projects from PHP 7....

We’ll first need to find the folder location of the program executable. We’re using Notepad in our example, which is located in “C:WindowsSystem32notepad.exe” Next we’ll open PowerShell and enter: This states that we are assigning the Alias Name “np” to the program Notepad.exe. Once the command is run, it outputs the verification of our assigning the alias to the program. Now we can type our new shortcut “np” in the PowerShell prompt, hit enter,...

MetalFX Is a Literal Game Changer MetalFX is a new part of Apple’s Metal API, which makes it easy for Mac and iOS game developers to tap into the full potential of Apple’s hardware. Just like NVIDIA’s DLSS and Intel’s XeSS systems, MetalFX uses AI algorithms to upscale the resolution of video game output frames. So, for example, the GPU in your Mac might render the game at 1080p, but MetalFX works to make it look like a 4K image, while still getting the smoother frame rates of the base resolution....

When developing multi-threaded Bash code, managing server processes, or creating process watchdogs, one of the main challenge is usually to correctly, efficiently and accurately terminate existing Bash processes. This article will show you how. What Is a Bash Process? A Bash process is simply an executable which is running. For example, when you start the calculator in your desktop environment, a Bash process is created. Such a bash has two main process identifiers, namely the PID and the PPID, the Process Identifier, and the Parent Process Identifier....

Before For our first example we chose to view an image by itself without permanently saving it to our hard-drive. As you can see the Open Image command opened the picture in Opera. For most people this is absolutely fine, but what if you want to use a specific photo app on your system to view the image? All that you need to do is tweak the action setting for that file type and all will be well....

Before Unless you use “Private Browsing Mode” 100% of the time, you are naturally going to have browser history build up. Most of the time this is nothing to worry about but what if you: Forgot to use “Private Browsing Mode” and need an extremely quick way to delete the history. Just want a simple way to instantly clear out the history “clutter and build up” while your browser is still open....

Before Sometimes reading through the comments at YouTube can be interesting or even fun but at other times they can be a bother to you. It all depends on the contents of the comments (i.e. lots of profanity) and what you would like to have visible while watching videos. After Once you have installed the extension all that you will need to do is refresh the page (if you were already watching a video)....