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Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, partnered with Valve earlier this year to create a containerized ‘Snap’ package for Steam. The Snap package bundles Steam with all required graphics and API libraries in one easy download for any Linux distribution that supports Snap — including Ubuntu, KDE Neon, Debian, Fedora, Pop!_OS, and others. Canonical has now rolled out updates to the Steam Snap. The main improvement is that Steam games will use bleeding-edge versions of the Mesa graphics library, provided by the popular “Oibaf” repository....

Google Chrome offers a very simple way to keep your bookmarks, settings, theme, and more synced between different computers running Chrome. This can help you keep the same browsing experience on your desktop, laptop, and work computer, or even between your Windows, Linux, or Mac OS machines. All you need is a Google account, such as your Gmail, and the Chrome browser installed on multiple computers. Here’s how to set it up....

In this example we are upgrading from Office 2003 Standard to Office Professional Plus 2010 RTM (Final) on XP Professional. System Requirements To run Office 2010 on your XP machine you have to make sure you have Service Pack 3 and Microsoft Silverlight installed (links below). Or you can just install them through Windows Update. Recommended Hardware 1GHZ CPU or higher 512 MB of RAM or higher 1024×768 Resolution or higher DirectX 9....

Editor Note: This Guest Article was written by Office 2010 Club, a forum managed by Office 2010 experts where anyone can ask questions and participate in discussions. Access however, provides essentials of Relational Database Management System. RDBMS are not abound and only advance users can manipulate the database structure for applying different conditions, meanwhile the rapid influx of RDBMS-based dynamic web apps and other utilities also poses a dire need of comprehending the basics of relational databases....

Weather Underground in Action As soon as you click on the “Toolbar Icon” you will need to enter a location. Keep in mind that you will need to enter the “city and country” if using that option. Going with less information will yield an “error”. Note: The extension did not work for some Asian locations during our tests. In honor of the Olympics we chose Vancouver, Canada. You can hover over the “Toolbar Button” to see the current conditions or click to view the current day’s conditions, the current day’s forecast, and the forecast for the following three days....

JavaScript powers most of the interactive web, and so it’s had to evolve alongside it. New features in JavaScript are being added every year now; we’ll take a look at what’s new, and how you use ES6 JavaScript on your website. JavaScript Has Many Flavors Oracle has a trademark on the term JavaScript, so the actual standard that modern JavaScript implements is called the ECMAScript standard, or ES. The primary JavaScript standard is ECMAScript 5, or ES5, released in 2009....

The Problem If you have ever encountered a website that has become overloaded and unavailable due to sudden popularity (i.e. Slashdot, Digg, etc.) then this is the result. No satisfaction to be had here… Resurrect Pages in Action Once you have installed the extension you can add the Toolbar Button if desired…it will give you the easiest access to Resurrect Pages. Or you can wait for a problem to occur when trying to access a particular website and have it appear as shown here....

Getting Started To start using Dropbox from Chrome, head over to the DropBox extension page and click Install. Once the extension is installed, click the new Dropbox logo in your toolbar, and sign in with your standard Dropbox account. Make sure to check Remember me so you don’t have to enter your information each time. Now you’ll see all of your Dropbox files and folders right there in the overlay menu in Chrome....

Microsoft offers a popular suite of online communications products including Hotmail and Messenger. Although Hotmail hasn’t been as popular in recent years as Gmail, it is getting a refresh this summer that might make it an even better email solution. Additionally, the new Office Web Apps offer great compatibility with Office documents. While Skydrive offers 25Gb of free online file storage for all users, so Windows Live can make a great communications solution for your domain....

Windows Vista and 7 come preinstalled with support for viewing a wide variety of languages, so adding an input language is fairly simply. Adding an input language is slightly more difficult in XP, and requires installing additional files if you need an Asian or Complex script language. First we show how to add an input language in Windows Vista and 7; it’s basically the same in both versions. Then, we show how to add a language to XP, and also how to add Complex Script support....

Codecov was hacked in a way that impacts all of its customers. Thousands of commercial enterprises and open-source projects are affected. Here’s what you need to do if you’re one of them. What is Codecov? If you’re not involved with continuous integration and continuous deployment/delivery (CI/CD) or other software development automation, you might not be familiar with the name Codecov. Codecov provides a hosted service that tells developers how much of their source code has been checked by the automated tests that are part of their software build process....

We’re going to assume that you’ve already downloaded and installed AutoHotkey, and you’ve got some type of idea how it all works. If you don’t, you might want to read through their tutorial. The Scenario Here’s a sample video that shows the script in action, so you can understand what we’re going to be creating today. The basic idea is that we’ll be resizing windows to specific dimensions, or only resizing by either width or height while leaving the other the same....

Safari Handles Tabs Efficiently, So Leave Them Alone Listen, we understand. It’s completely natural to assume that having a bunch of tabs open in Safari on your iPhone must have some sort of impact. It just feels like it should, right? How could keeping hundreds, if not thousands, of tabs open on your iPhone not hurt performance, battery life, or both? And surely there must be a massive storage penalty for caching all of those pages?...

So to get the best of both worlds, we have created a script which will convert your zip files into 7z files with a single command, a process we are calling “deep archiving”. Practical Uses So why would you need this script when you could just create 7z archives to begin with? Here are a couple reasons: Certain applications may only produce zip format archives. Since zip compression is faster than 7z compression, you may want to quickly produce a zip file and then “deep compress” it later....

Wubi is an officially supported Ubuntu installer that allows Windows users to easily get started in the Linux realm. Using Wubi to install Ubuntu is a similar process you’d use to install any other software program in Windows. It saves you the hassle of creating another partition or creating a VM. Wubi has been around for a few years now, and official version have been included on the Ubuntu Live CD since 8....

Eero announced that it would be taking away the Eero Secure plan not too long ago, and today, users began getting notifications that they would be moved to the more expensive Eero Plus plan (formerly Eero Secure Plus). That’s the only option you have now as far as subscriptions go, and it’s roughly three times as expensive — this one costs $10 a month, or $100 a year if you choose yearly billing instead....

Unfortunately, I found that FastVPN is not very fast at all. Its speeds fluctuate so much that it’s close to unusable at times. However, that doesn’t mean it’s a total loss; there is a very specific type of customer who may still get a lot of use out of FastVPN. Before I explain that, though, let’s go over my speed tests. Is FastVPN, You Know, Fast? I ran speed tests for hours, and it’s not since I did the PrivadoVPN review that I have seen speeds that oscillate this wildly....

Before The standard behavior in Chrome has any new tab that you open from from the “Right Click Menu” always appear in the background. Once in a while might not be much of a problem but if you open lots of tabs this way every day it can get very tiring using your mouse to bring all those tabs to the front. Tabs To The Front! in Action Here we are ready to open the link pictured above in a new tab once again…...

Our sister site, Review Geek, took a very close look at the JBL Live Pro 2 earbuds over the summer. In their official review, they loved this pair for their premium sound, 10 hours of continuous playback on a single charge, and automatic noise cancelation technology that gets rid of background noise for you without any extra intervention. In addition to these premium features, the JBL Live Pro 2 earbuds are really light and compact, making them easy to put in a pocket or throw in a bag....