March 2019

You public IP address is the address visible from outside your network. Most people don’t need to know their IP address except for very specific reasons, but fortunately, it’s extremely easy to figure out. You might need your public, or…

In this world of battle royales, there is one that stands out above all the others: the never-ending contest of the Google Home, Amazon Alexa, and Apple HomePod. The three smart assistants dominate the market, each one claiming to the…

In less than a year from now, Microsoft will stop supporting Windows 7. After January 14, 2020, Microsoft will not release any kind of updates for Windows 7. Although Windows 10 has been around for close to four years, Windows…

One of my favourite software apps by far is VLC Media Player. I love how it plays anything you throw at it and I particularly like its playlist features too. If you’re in the flow, work-wise, there’s nothing worse than having to stop…

There is a built-in utility in Windows 10 to create a USB recovery drive. All users, including Lenovo PC users, can use the built-in tool to prepare the Windows 10 USB recovery drive. The problem with the built-in recovery…

Boot Camp Assistant makes it possible to install and run Windows operating system on Mac computers without using any virtualization software. One needs to install required Boot Camp support software or drivers to make sure that…

There are multiple utilities out there to help you create bootable Windows 10 USB on a Windows operating system. Easy ways are also around to create Windows 10 bootable USB on macOS. But how to prepare Windows 10 bootable USB on…

Windows 10 doesn’t let you format external USB drives larger than 32GB to the FAT32 file system. The format utility dialog offers just NTFS, and exFAT file systems for USB drives larger than 32GB. Although NTFS is the preferred…

Google Chrome is the most used web browser worldwide across desktop and mobile operating systems. Clean interface, fast performance, and excellent quality extensions are helping Chrome dominate the web browser market share. The…

Installing an app from the Store in Windows 10 is easy. You just need to open the app’s page in the Store app and then click the Get button to download and install the app on your PC. But what if you have multiple PCs and want to…

Openshot video editor released version 2.4.4 a few days ago. The stable PPA has built the packages for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10. OpenShot 2.4.4 includes fixes and improvements to keyframe scaling, better…

Oracle Java 12 was released a few days ago. Now you can easily install it via PPA in Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10, and higher. An installer script was create to make installing Oracle Java 12 easy in Ubuntu.…

There are dozens of software around to help you download Windows 10 ISO as well as prepare bootable USB. However, only the official Media Creation Tool can both download the Windows 10 ISO and prepare the bootable USB using the…

Ubuntu users can finally upgrade the default LibreOffice office suite to version 6.2 (6.2.2) via PPA, though the LibreOffice 6.2 snap package is available to install for many days. LibreOffice 6.2 was released a months ago. New…

PyCharm IDE 2019.1 was released yesterday with many new features and improvements. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu. PyCharm 2019.1 release highlights: Completely redesigned Jupyter Notebooks support Improved quick…

Vivaldi Browser 2.4 released. Install Vivaldi Web Browser on Linux Ubuntu Systems. For Vivaldi Browser 2.4, Chromium has been upgraded to 73.0.3683.88. Vivaldi Browser 2.4 brings a new level of customization – you can now build your own…

Stellarium released version 0.19.0 today. Here’s how to install it in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10, and higher. Stellarium 0.19.0 features 5 new sky cultures, many new DSO textures, code refactoring, and many other…

Avidemux video editor released a new bug-fix version just 11 days after the last, with decoder fixes and misc small improvements Avidemux 2.7.3 release highlights: Vapoursynth is now dynamically loaded to avoid error popup…

How to install PyCharm 2019.1 Python IDE in Ubuntu. PyCharm is Python IDE for Linux Ubuntu Systems, for Professional developers. PyCharm 2019.1 is out now with all-new Jupyter Notebook support, ‘recent location’ for navigation, custom theme…

The public beta of Ubuntu 19.04 ‘Disco Dingo’, the next major update to the hugely popular Linux-based Ubuntu operating system, is now available to download. The launch of the beta, the only one planned in the current development…