If you have an iPhone, iPad, or Apple Watch, you don't always want to be alerted to or bothered by phone calls, texts, and any other types of notifications. Maybe you're in a public place where you can't take calls or messages, or perhaps you simply …
You want to share your Windows documents, photos, videos, and printers with other people or with other computers. In Windows 7 and 8.1, you could create and manage a homegroup to share these items with other computers on your home network. Unfortunately, Microsoft retired the homegroup …
If you’re less than 100% familiar with how to use Tor with a VPN, you’re in good company. Both technologies offer sophisticated methods to lock down your privacy online, but using them in tandem is surprisingly easy. Today, we’ll lay out how to get started using …
Even plain-language discussions of VPN protocols can seem confusing to the average user. After all, there are a lot of acronyms, statistics, and underlying networking concepts to parse. Luckily for you, we’ve written this brief (but comprehensive) rundown of everything you need to know to choose …
Need to encrypt and secure your files on Linux? Want an easier to understand encryption tool? Try FinalCrypt! It uses symmetric one-time-pad file encryption to increase security. Install FinalCrypt FinalCrypt is an excellent piece of encryption software, but sadly mainstream Linux distributions are not carrying it …
Screenshots, once captured, end up being used for lots of different things. One primary purpose of taking a screenshot is to share it with someone in order to show something on your desktop. By default, when you capture a screenshot on macOS, it is saved to …
Google doesn’t plan to support its Drive Service on the Linux desktop. Thankfully, over the years, many third-party sync clients have come on to the scene to bridge the gap. Open Drive is yet another great way to access Google Drive on Linux. Open Drive isn’t …
Pick is a simple open-source color picker application for Ubuntu Linux. It supports history by remembering last colors where you got them from. Pick lets you pick colours from anywhere on your screen. Choose the colour you want and Pick remembers it, names it, and shows …
Controlling media, especially on Windows 10, is still a bit of a clumsy process. If you have the right drivers installed, and you’re using a compatible app, you can play/pause media from the dedicated keys or the Function keys on your keyboard. Unfortunately, not all apps …
Laptops, whether they’re branded MacBooks or generic ones running either Linux or Windows, are powerful. In many cases, they are as powerful as desktop computers and can be used in their place. A laptop has the added benefit of running on a battery and being portable …
The Start Menu was changed on Windows 8/8.1, and refined on Windows 10. For the most part, the Start Menu on Windows 10 is functional and not the disaster it originally was when Microsoft first attempted to change it. You still have tiles that are a …
Google has an excellent online photo service. It is unrivaled, and nobody in the tech world offers up something quite as easy to use, or as packed with features. Unfortunately, the Photos tool doesn’t have a native desktop application for Linux users, which means if you …
