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Snip & Sketch is replacing the Snipping tool on Windows 10. If you were to launch the Snipping tool now, you’d see a message at the bottom telling you to give this new tool a try. It’s a good tool but it doesn’t work quite the same way that the …

Screenshot tools, whether they’re native on an OS, or they’re third-party apps, will always favor high resolution, good quality images. In fact, many screenshot tools are popular for just how good a screenshot they can take. The only trade-off with a good quality screenshot is the file size. The better …

When you need to set a profile picture, a contact photo, or a wallpaper on Windows 10, a simple PNG or JPEG file will do the trick. Windows 10 doesn’t force you to use a specific file format for images and works with most common ones. That said, when you …

VLC player is known for its features and its ability to play a myriad of file types. Its interface is nothing to write home about. It’s a plain, no non-sense UI that doesn’t care much for design, usability, or even accessibility. If you do not like the default UI, you …

Censorship isn’t limited to just the news that you see, or don’t see. It also limits how average people communicate and governments will clamp down mass communication channels when it needs to deal with dissent. Messaging apps are one of the first casualties of these clamp downs but given the …

The Windows registry is not something you should edit if you don’t know what you’re doing, or if you don’t know how to back up the various entries you want to edit. In fact, even if you know your way around the registry, a backup is still necessary because if …

Microsoft is breaking things in Windows 10 again. A recent update, KB4511555, has resulted in high CPU usage on many systems. High CPU usage is a common enough bug on Windows 10 but this particular bug is because the update has broken something in Cortana/Windows Search. The good news is …

FL Studio is a robust digital audio workstation and musical creation tool for the Windows and Mac platforms. It’s commercial software and considered one of the best musical production programs available today. However, FL Studio does not work on Linux, and no support is planned in the future. So, if …

Zorin OS 15 is the latest offering from the Zorin OS project. 15 provides an elegant, modern, and fast user interface that can quickly be changed to suit many different workflows, including layouts similar to Apple Mac OS, a standard Linux layout, Windows 10, and even a touch-based UI! If …

Your Skype ID is associated with an email address like most online services are. The email is key to recovering a lost password, among other things. Your Skype ID can be changed but so can the email that’s associated with it. It’s a simple enough change to make and since …

The GIF format is widely supported by desktop image viewers and online image editors, as well as various social media sites. It’s grown in popularity quite a bit but you still can’t use it anywhere and everywhere you want. That said, the right GIF can still be used anywhere, as …

An Apple Developer account gives you access to two things; development tools from Apple, and the ability to upload apps to the App Store or the Mac App store. It’s common knowledge that in order to get an Apple Developer account, you need to pay an annual $100 fee but …

Enso OS is a “green” Linux operating system, that is relatively new on the scene. Their mission is to provide a useful, modern, and lightweight operating system that is easy to use, and can run on even the oldest hardware. In this guide, we’ll go over how to set up …

FPS (or frames per second) has long been used to gauge the visual quality of content on your screen in general. It’s most notably applied to games where a higher FPS means your games looks much, much better. FPS depends on the hardware you have on your system so less …

Are you using Linux and in need of good video conferencing tool that can handle high-quality video and audio? Install Zoom! It’s a cloud-based conference tool that works perfectly on Linux and supports Ubuntu, Debian, Arch Linux (unofficially,) as well as Fedora, OpenSUSE, and many other Linux distributions via Flatpak. …

Computers tend to freeze up if they’re overburdened. You might think that if you throw enough money at a computer, it should at the very least keep it from freezing but that isn’t how it works. If you run enough resource heavy processes on a system, it will eventually freeze. …

Evernote is one of the most popular note-taking applications ever. The service has millions of users, and it grows every day and is constantly adding in new features to get excited about. Sadly, for as good as the service is, there is no support for Linux users. So, if you …

Aside from Snap packages, and the Ubuntu Software Center, Ubuntu Linux relies on downloadable DEB packages to provide users with software. Unfortunately, it can be quite challenging to install DEB packages on Ubuntu through the terminal interface for beginner users. Even though DEB packages are quite a pain to deal …

On Linux, $PATH defines the standard directories in which executable programs can run from on the system through the terminal. These directories are “/usr/bin”, “/usr/local”, “/usr/sbin”, and a few other ones (depending on what Linux distribution you use). If you want to run programs outside of these directories, the directory …

The Areeze icon theme is a slick re-colored spin on the default Breeze icon theme for KDE Plasma 5. Areeze intends to take the best aspects of the Breeze theme while matching other KDE themes such as Apollo and Ares. Areeze is first and foremost a KDE Plasma 5 icon …