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If you’ve followed our theme guide for Ambiance Crunchy, you might be interested to know that the creator of that theme also has a Grub2 bootloader theme. It follows the same design style, and it’s a great addition if you’re trying to complete the Ambiance Crunchy look. Installing the Ambiance …

In 1985, Commodore released the Amiga family of personal computers to the market. They were pretty successful in their time and sold quite a few units before ultimately being retired by Commodore in 1996. These days, old computer emulation is as popular as old console emulation, especially on Linux. However, …

Windows users like to customize their desktop. The OS has generally had room for a lot of changes even if most of them are made via third-party apps. Rainmeter is one popular app that most people use to transform how their system works. Out of the box, Windows 10 lets …

There’s a consensus that too much screen time is bad for you but it’s hard to get away from screens. If you aren’t looking at your phone, you’re probably on your desktop and not everyone has the option to simply turn it off and take a break. One recent method …

Ulauncher is an excellent application launcher that when installed, makes it very easy to find and launch your files, quickly open websites, find programs to open, calculate math problems, and more. This app isn’t the first app launcher for Linux we’ve covered on Addictivetips. In fact, in the past, we …

Lots of people are using Gnome Shell these days, as many mainstream Linux projects are adopting the desktop environment as their default user interface. Overall, this is a good move, as Gnome is reliable, easy to use, and getting faster with every release. However, even great desktops like Gnome have …

Video editing apps aren’t uncommon but even paid apps don’t have a full set of video editing features. The feature many might miss is a crop feature. If you need to crop a video and you’re on Windows 10 system, Handbrake is the tool for the job. It’s powerful so …

We spend too much time in front of screens. Some would argue that it’s a necessity given the nature of work for many people but that doesn’t mean all time spent in front of a screen is productive, or healthy. iOS 12 introduced a new feature called Screen Time which …

External drives sometimes need to be formatted and this is something fairly basic. Desktop operating systems can do this out of the box and macOS is no exception. If you want to format a drive on macOS, you can do so with the built-in Disk Utility. When you format a …

Windows Snap splits a monitor down the middle allowing an app to take up one half of the screen, and a second app to take up the other half. This is how Snap has worked for ages and no real change has been made to it. In a way, it’s …

The Steam client has problems playing some games on Linux with Nvidia graphics cards if the operating system it is installed on does not have 32-bit graphical libraries installed. The reason? Even though the Steam app is 64-bit, many of the video games in the Steam store do not run …

The Settings app on Windows 10 gives you an excellent, visual look at how storage is being consumed on your system. In fact, if you connect an external hard drive to your system, the storage feature extends to it as well. It’s a good feature but it has its occasional …

Windows 10 1903 has a few new UI changes but one of the more obvious one is the blur that’s now applied to the login screen background. Once you dismiss your lock screen, you see the login screen where you have to enter your password, or PIN. It has the …

Macs, and macOS in general, is far less restrictive in nature than iOS. That’s not to say macOS is exceptionally easy to customize or that Apple doesn’t lock parts of it down that, given it were a different OS, users and developers alike, would have easy access to. One such …

If you’re planning on getting a second monitor for your work station, it is always a good idea to get one that supports the same resolution as the monitor you plan to use it with. When you have multiple monitors set up on Windows 10, you have to align them …

All browsers have a private browsing mode. You can find it on both desktop and mobile browsers. The private mode doesn’t mask your browsing activity from your ISP but it does ensure that, as far as your device is concerned, there’s no trace of it left there. For browsers that …

ProtonMail is the go-to mail service for journalists, activists, and people seeking privacy during their email conversations. All communications are encrypted end-to-end, and is open source, ensuring the free software community can audit the code for any vulnerabilities. ProtonMail has mobile applications for Android and iOS, but desktop users don’t …

Chrome 69 has a new UI that not a lot of users are excited about. The UI is obvious the second you upgrade to the latest version of Chrome however, there’s another major change that comes with this update. Chrome has a sync feature that works via your Google account. …

The Stupid Simple Server Monitor application is an open source tool for the Linux platform that aims to deliver a useful, simple server monitoring platform. It provides real-time data on servers about bandwidth, performance, memory usage, etc. It’s clear that there are dozens of server monitoring dashboards on Linux, like …

There are a lot of excellent note taking applications on Linux, but one that’s worth your attention is QOwnNotes. Why? It’s an excellent note app that lets users format their data with markdown. Better yet, you can sync QOwnNotes with NextCloud! Here’s how to set it up on Linux. Install …