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PhpMyAdmin is a web-based, open-source administration tool used for managing and installing web technologies on web servers, and is commonly used by popular web hosting services. The PhpMyAdmin application is an excellent addition to any Ubuntu Linux web server, as it makes taking care of tasks like database management, app …

Bluetooth devices have generic names. Generally speaking, the device names will be different from one device manufacturer to another but, Bluetooth devices that are the same make and model will have the exact same name. It’s not practical to give each device its own name. That said, users might need …

The Layan GTK theme is a futuristic, flat take on Linux desktop themes. The color that Layan uses is purple-ish blue and black. However, it also uses white in the color scheme with its “light” variant (similar to Arc or Adapta). Layan is an excellent, funky looking GTK theme for …

You can receive call alerts from your iPhone on your Mac, or your iPad. It’s a pretty good feature but it has a few boxes that need to be checked in order to be enabled. If you’re trying to turn the feature on, and you keep seeing the ‘Cannot Turn …

Dark mode has become necessary considering how much time we spend in front of a screen. We have blue light filters but they’re not the same as a dark mode. System wide dark modes are now a feature on macOS, Windows 10, iOS 13, and Android 10, and quite a …

Chrome 78 has been released. It has a few new features that end users will likely be interested in. One of the new features is the option to change the color and theme of Chrome. This is a stock feature but it isn’t enabled for all users. Here’s how you …

It’s common knowledge that iMessages can sync between Apple devices. This feature isn’t just restricted to Apple’s iOS devices. You can get iMessages and even text messages pushed to your desktop. Much like iMessages, you can also get incoming call alerts from iOS on macOS. In fact, you can answer …

For as long as it has existed on Linux, Gnome Shell has had desktop icons. However, in version 3.28, the developers decided that it would be better to disable this functionality altogether. Understandably, disabling desktop icons in the Gnome Shell desktop environment created some backlash within the community from users. …

Gnome Shell does not have a “screensaver” in the traditional sense. You won’t find anything like what there is on XFCE4, where beautiful animations are going across the screen. The screensaver in Gnome Shell is different. Gnome Shell offers users a “lock screen” to save your monitor from screen burn-in, …

The taskbar can be positioned on any side of the screen; top, bottom, left, or right. This is a long-standing feature on Windows, and you could change where the taskbar was positioned as early as Windows 7, possibly even before that. Windows 10 still has the feature; you can change …

Apple appears to have done a Microsoft. The new macOS Catalina is causing problems for a lot of users. Battery drain appears to be at the forefront of these problems but there’s also the fact that Catalina doesn’t support 32-bit apps and there’s still a lot of them out there. …

All desktop environments on Linux provide a panel to use for switching open applications, managing notifications, and so on. However, these panels are often hit and miss, and some Linux users find themselves unhappy with the default options. A great alternative option to the panels that Linux desktop environments provide …

The Gimp Graphics editor, though not perfect, is one of the best open-source applications available to Linux users. However, the default layout of the app is quite terrible. The toolbars are in three parts and hard to use; the theme it uses by default doesn’t match your system’s one, and …

Format standardization isn’t easy. Even if you only have a handful of formats for a particular file type, you will still find they are not universally supported. Case in point; contacts. Contacts are created and stored on all sorts of devices and by all sorts of apps and services. You …

If you use an Apple product, and only one Apple product, you will quickly run into lots of roadblocks when you try and get it to work with the other non-Apple devices that you use. A very common example of this is users who own iPhones but still prefer Windows …

Catalina has officially been released and that means iTunes is no more. If you own an iPhone, or had one in the past, you know that it’s hard to use it without iTunes. With Catalina, iTunes’ functionality has been broken up and split across different apps. Syncing the iPhone on …

Videos are meant to be watched which means if you’re watching YouTube, the website expects that you haven’t sent it to the background. That’s not how everyone watches YouTube. The website lets you create playlists and if they’re music playlists that you’re listening to, the tab doesn’t really have to …

The Slimbook line of Laptops has an impressive battery life, touting some of the best battery performance for Linux laptops. However, the people behind Slimbook aren’t satisfied with the battery performance and have created a utility that can squeeze even more savings out of it. The utility is known as …

The Internet Archive is a website where you can find snapshots of old and abandoned websites, discontinued software, and outdated/old apps that no longer have a platform to run on. It’s basically Sakaar for the internet but there’s no Grand Master, or fighting. If you want to run Windows Movie …

A message on the lock screen can be an effective way to remind yourself to do something. If it helps, you can also use it as place for a motivational quote though perhaps the desktop is a more suitable place for it. Regardless why you do it, here’s how you …