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Unsplash is a great place to go to for wallpapers. The site used to let you sort the photos by date allowing you to easily browse through all the new ones. Now, you get a selection of new photos and most new ones will not be discovered. This makes it …

It’s common knowledge that you can change the cursor on Windows 10. Not only can you set a different size and color for the cursor, but you can also change how it looks with a theme. Themes normally change all states of the cursor i.e., the loading state, the pointer …

Mission Control is a way to quickly look at the windows open on your desktop. You can move them to a different desktop if you want and that’s about all you can do. It’s surprising that a feature that’s been around for so long falls short of the Windows 10 …

Apple Music is Apple’s answer to Spotify and Google Music. The service works pretty well on iPhone, iPad, macOS, and even Windows. It does not, however, work well on the Linux platform, and Apple has no plans to change this. Even though Apple Music will never get official Linux support, …

Love the Apple look but want something fresh? Check out Korla, a beautiful, modern icon theme for Linux. Its design is very similar to that of macOS and borrows a lot of design choices from Mac-like Linux themes, yet it differentiates itself by adding in flat app icons (something Mac-like …

Printers are some of the most problematic hardware you’ll find. We may be living in a world where 3D printing is possible, but it doesn’t mean printing on paper at home has improved all that much. Printers are pretty much still from hell and ink and toner cost an arm …

If you’re sick of manually tagging music files on Linux, you’ll be interested to know that it’s possible to automate it, using MusicBrainz Picard. It can scan your existing music files on Linux, look through them, and assign the correct ID3 tags. Install MusicBrainz Picard on Linux Before going over …

A File System on a drive decides how data is stored and read from a drive. Think of it as a method for ordering information. If you were to go to a library, the books there will likely be sorted using the Dewey Decimal System. A file system is somewhat …

Focus Assist is a useful feature on Windows 10 that allows you to turn off notifications for a while. It has different modes whereby the notifications are kept silent if you’re watching something in full screen mode, or if you’re playing a game. It allows notifications from certain apps, or …

On Linux, it is possible to quickly mount any file system as read-only directly through the terminal. Mounting file systems as read-only on the fly is a great way to prevent modifications, tampering and to overall increase security temporarily. Mount file systems as read-only To start the mounting process, open …

Need a tool to quickly cut and trim lossless video or audio files on Linux? Check out LosslessCut. It’s an electron-based video/audio trimming tool that can handle as much lossless video footage or audio files as you can throw at it. Here’s how to install LosslessCut on Linux. Note: LosslessCut …

Controlling media that’s playing in a browser isn’t as easy as it is when you use a dedicated media player but Chrome has been working to bridge that gap. A few releases ago, it added support for the Windows 10 volume/media OSD keys and controls though many users seem more …

Sandboxing is a method for running apps or even entire operating systems in an isolated environment. They run inside a container that separates them from the OS the container itself is running in. Windows 10 Pro users running feature update 1903 (or later) can use the stock Sandbox mode that …

When you download a file, your browser saves the activity in its downloads manager. If you were to visit the download manager in a browser, you could probably find the download link of the file. If the file is no longer listed there, there’s one other trick you can use …

The fastest way to browse the hard drive from terminal in Linux is with the ls and cd command. The primary reason why it’s a good idea to use this method to browse your Linux hard drive quickly is that both of these commands come standard with the Linux desktop. There …

Archive files, or zipped, or RAR files are compressed files which have to be extracted before they can be viewed or used. An archive will generally be much smaller than its extracted version which is often the point of compressing it in the first place. By default, when you extract …

Chrome sync is a great feature that Google improves constantly. A recent update to Chrome now allows you to send links between connected devices. It’s a great way to keep everything in sync across multiple devices except when it syncs data you don’t want it to. Case in point; extensions. …

VNote is a VIM-like markdown editor for Linux. The developer designed the app around a similar design philosophy to that of the VIM text editor and its feature set is friendly to programmers and advanced users looking to write the markdown markup language. Here’s how to install it on your …

Sharing links between devices isn’t always easy. The only exception is if you’re using an iPhone and a Mac that have a shared clipboard. If you’re on a different desktop OS such as Linux or Windows 10, your ability to share links to another device runs into platform restrictions. Chrome …

Hardware needs to be kept clean. You can let your laptop or a MacBook get fairly grimy before it starts to actually have an effect on how it runs e.g., letting dust and such build up inside it, but you should keep it as clean as you can. This obviously …