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Microsoft released KB4515384 on September 10, 2019 and this update is problematic. It appears to be breaking audio for many users and Reddit already has several threads asking for help. If this update is queued to download or install on your system, it might be a good idea to hold …

Opera GX is a version of the Opera browser that targets gamers. It’s not going to run games but it has certain features that gaming enthusiasts might be interested in. In fact, it has features ordinary users might find useful e.g., CPU and GPU limits. The browser has just added …

Add-ons for Firefox are generally available in the Firefox Marketplace along with themes. These add-ons are safe and you can install them with a few clicks. It’s about as easy as it gets. Add-on developers generally do not have to face any problems when they submit an add-on so distribution …

Firefox has a picture-in-picture mode, much like Chrome and Safari do. This feature was added in Firefox 67 (current stable version is 68) and works on websites that use an HTML5 media player. One popular website is of course YouTube. For some reason, the feature isn’t enabled for everyone by …

Audio devices generally work solo. A MacBook, for example, only has one audio jack which means you can only connect one set of headphones or external speakers to it however, there are simple ways to get around it. Devices that connect via the audio jack can be forced to work …

The primary way Linux users download files is through a web browser on the desktop. Mostly, these browsers work fine and get the job done, but they’re not very fast and sometimes leave you wishing files would download quicker. Introducing Motrix, a fast download manager for Mac, Linux, and Windows …

One of the hardest things to do with forums or any platform that allows users to post comment/reviews is to moderate it. If a forum starts to fill up with spam, it will lose its credibility. The same goes for most online platforms that allow people to interact and build …

Censorship is an amazing thing in that you’ll never know it’s there until it suddenly isn’t. Censorship is often used by governments to keep regulate what information is available to its citizens though other forms of censorship may be used by organizations to restrict content e.g., in schools, or in …

Flash is going away in December 2020. Chrome’s already warning users that Flash is nearing its end of life, and advising them to disable it. The thing is, Flash has been around for a long, long time. Some would say it’s been around longer than it should have been. Removing …

Mozilla Thunderbird is one of the most well-loved programs on all of Linux. It is so popular, that when Mozilla dropped the project, the community stepped up to continue work on it. Since Thunderbird is so well-loved as a Linux email client, many Linux distributions include the software in their software …

Enlightenment is a window manager/desktop environment for the Linux platform. The primary focus is speed and low resource usage, and the developers claim it can run on nearly any Linux computer with no issues. This environment is relatively unknown compared to other lightweight ones like XFCE4, Mate, or LXQt. Still, …

YouTube added a live streaming feature a while ago. It was added to compete with Twitch though that didn’t quite work. Still, the live streaming feature is there and this year, Apple is going to be using it to stream its iPhone event. If you already follow Apple, or any …

Speakers come in pairs unless you have a Bluetooth speaker that’s a ‘pill’ design. Headphones too generally come in pairs. With most audio devices that have a left and right speaker, you can independently change the volume for the left and the right one. On Windows 10, you’ll find that …

BricsCAD is a professional-grade architectural design program, aimed at making mechanical and structural designs quick and straightforward. The program supports many useful features, such as “Blockify” (search and clone existing entities in a drawing), a PDF importing tool, adaptive entity snapping, and more! Here’s how to install BricsCAD Shape on …

Color blindness is a vision impairment that isn’t as easy to correct as myopia or hyperopia. There are special glasses available that offer people with color blindness a way to see corrected colors but they’re limited in their availability and they’re not cheap. Fortunately, color blindness is something that’s somewhat …

Bubble is a variant of the famous Arc GTK theme. It looks very similar to Arc in a lot of ways in the overall design. However, the Bubble GTK theme is not Arc’s identical twin. For starters, the Bubble GTK theme offers users a Mac OS style window control buttons. …

Linux is a part of Windows 10 and it is easily one of the biggest features to have come to Windows since its inception. It’s big for Windows 10, but no previous version of Windows had Linux so it’s a milestone like no other. There are still some limitations that …

Playing videos with subtitles is easy but because you won’t find the tool/button for it on the main UI of most media players, it can take a little figuring out. If you want to play a video with subtitles you need two things; a video player that supports subtitles, and …

Recording audio input is easy; all you need is a mic. Laptops have mics built-in and you can connect external mics to them as well if you’re looking to record better audio. What’s slightly complicated is when you need to record audio from an app. If you try to record …

PowerToys was a set of utilities that Microsoft released many, many years ago. These utilities were aimed at power users but lots of end users found use in them as well. As is with many useful and well-loved things that Microsoft develops, they were eventually discontinued. Microsoft has decided to …