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Re-installing programs on Fedora Linux can take a long time. Mainly because, to do it, you need to look at DNF for your installed applications, figure out the names, and manually write out every app you’d like to set up. Rather than sitting down and manually installing everything, you can …

The new Light theme on Windows 10 isn’t the best that Microsoft has put out. The default theme on Windows 10 before 1903 was released was much, much better. The current light theme has odd UI problems such as no color on the taskbar. If you prefer to use the …

Discord is the king of communication with gaming. Even on Linux, most people use it. It’s no secret why! The app provides users with unlimited free personal servers, unlimited chat channels, voice channels, multimedia support, and more! While Discord is getting all the love as everyone’s favorite gaming chat app, …

Chrome recently added a new picture-in-picture mode feature that, in theory, allows you to watch any media player in a floating frame on your desktop. The frame can detach itself from a Chrome window and be positioned anywhere on your screen. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work on all websites as Google …

Chrome 69 came with quite a few changes. It’s rare for a single new version of the browser to have this many changes. Normally, Google spaces them out. In Chrome 69, the UI is different and you will notice that the Omnibar now offers you a ‘Switch to tab’ option when …

Fedora is a powerful Linux distribution that many prefer to use due to many factors, including its new packages, development focus, advanced system, commitment to open source, etc. Still, for as good as Fedora Linux is, it has a severe downside: the DNF package manager, and how slow it is …

Corsair keyboards are great for gaming on a PC, especially at night time, due to the excellent RGB backlight capabilities that they have. Users can easily change the Corsair keyboard backlight to display different colors and styles. Through the Linux kernel, the Corsair line of gaming keyboards works pretty well. …

File extensions are normally hidden on macOS. Ordinarily, you don’t need to know the extension of a file however, it’s pretty easy to show file extensions on macOS. In fact, you can choose to show extensions for all files, or you can show them for just select files. Show file …

Chrome remembers what terms you’ve recently searched for. It’s been able to do this for quite a while. The URL bar, or the omnibar, in Chrome can look up your recent searches, frequently visited URLs, and bookmarks. Lately, Chrome has begun to prioritize searches over URLs. This means that if …

Screenshots on macOS are great; they’re a built-in feature that covers most basic screenshot needs, and the screenshots themselves are excellent in quality. If you have a retina display, the screenshots you take will not downgrade it. macOS also has the Preview app which can open most common file types. …

PowerShell is Microsoft’s answer to the Unix command-line. It’s powerful and primarily targeted at developers looking for a rock solid command-line and scripting framework. The PowerShell tool and framework isn’t exclusive to Windows users. To the surprise of many, Microsoft has made it possible to use their PowerShell platform on …

Ubuntu and CentOS get all of the love from Linux users when it comes to servers, but Debian Linux can hold its own in the server space as well. Debian’s ultra-focus on stability makes it the perfect candidate for a home server. Debian 9 Linux on a home server The …

Keyboards come in all sorts of physical layouts. Some have more keys than others and you may or may not find them all useful. The thing is, even if you don’t use a key on your keyboard, it’s still there. It can be remapped but if you prefer it to …

Linux configuration files are a pain to set up, especially if you have multiple computers. Over the years, Linux users have solved this problem (for the most part) by compressing and uploading configurations to various cloud storage providers. For as useful as it is to have an archive of various Linux …

Microsoft Edge has a neat feature called ‘set aside tabs’. It lets you close a group of tabs that you have open and recall them whenever you need to. The feature is unlike anything other modern browsers have to offer. At the most, you can open recently closed tabs, or …

Gmail has always been good at detecting spam and making sure it never appears in your inbox. There are always exceptions. Gmail has an intelligent algorithm that identifies spam but spammers tend to wise up quickly and manage to fool it. It is an ever evolving process but Gmail manages …

It’s hard to work without a mouse on a desktop. You can stick to using just the keyboard if you’re inside one app but a mouse or trackpad makes it easier to navigate between apps, select files, and customize the desktop. In some cases, e.g., when you’re watching a video, …

Screencasting tools have become quite common. A good tool with advanced recording features is likely to be paid with the exception of OBS which has every feature you can imagine and is still free. If you need a more general solution for recording your screen, you can use Chrome. Out …

Laptops, and some desktops, have useful light indicators that signal when the battery needs to be charged or is charging, the read/write instances of the hard disk, the state of the Caps key, the camera on/off light, and more. These indicators, and what they do, are programmed so that an …

Sandboxing is one of the biggest features added in Windows 10 1903. Since the roll out is now well under way and most users will be able to get the update via Windows update, you may want to know just how you can enable Sandboxing on Windows 10. You should …