Airsonic is designed to handle large music collections and is optimized for MP3 streaming. It works with any media format that can be streamed over HTTP / HTTPS, including AAC, OGG, WMA, FLAC, APE, and more. This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to easily install Airsonic on Ubuntu 16.04 / 17.10 and 18.04 LTS servers and desktops. For more about Airsonic, please check out its homepage....

In our previous post, we showed you how to view active power plans as well as how to change power plans for your Windows 11 devices. Windows 11 has multiple power plans. In some laptops, you’ll find Balance, Power saving, High performance, and Ultimate performance. Each plan provides different performance benefits and other savings including, improved battery life for laptops, reduced power consumption, and more. Windows also give you the power to create custom power plans if the above can not meet your needs....

By default, Microsoft Edge offers to save credit card details and automatically fill out payment details the next time you want to checkout online. The AutoFill feature lets users auto-complete credit card information in web forms using previously stored information. This can be convenient but can also lead to payment information being compromised. When using Windows 10, you can turn off or disable this feature for all users on the system so that credit card details are never automatically saved and are not used to auto-complete web forms....

Users will see a lock screen when they turn on their computers or lock it when they are away. This feature helps save battery life and also protects you from others accessing your files and programs. Windows allows users to enable or disable local screen notifications, change the background, and many more. When you personalize your lock screen background by choosing to show pictures or slideshows, you can also choose to “Get fun facts, tips, tricks, and more on your lock screen“....

Most people have multiple devices, and often begin an activity on one device but end up finishing it on another. To accommodate this, apps need to span devices and platforms, and this is where Share across devices comes in. When you enable share experiences, all your devices that are connected with your Microsoft accounts will be able to share apps and settings across each device. This can be a good or bad thing....

When you install the Dropbox app in Windows 11, you will be able to take advantage of the convenience of Dropbox with Windows 11 features such as Windows Hello, which adds an extra layer of protection and uses either your face or fingerprint instead of your password to unlock your Dropbox content. The Windows app also allows you to drag and drop from Dropbox to Windows File Explorer, provides quick search, accepts and shares folders with others, and more....

Some of the core Windows operating systems run services. File Explorer, printing, Windows Updates, Windows Search, and others are all powered and controlled by services. By design, some services start automatically when Windows starts. Others are also designed to only start on demand. Few services will start when triggered or delayed until after all other services are started. Some services also have dependent or child services. When you stop a parent service, the child or dependent service will also be stopped....

The lock screen is the screen or curtain you see when you turn on your computer before the sign-in screen. It is also displayed once your computer is locked after you stepped away or press the Windows key + L. To sign into your account, you must dismiss the lock screen by either pressing a key on your keyboard or swiping up on the lock screen (curtain) to show the sign-in screen....

If you run into that issue, the steps below should be a great place to start to help you resolve that problem. This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to resolve VirtualBox guest machine errors where the guest machine is unable to integrate properly with the host machine. When you’re ready, continue below Prepare Ubuntu Guest Machine Normally after installing Ubuntu guest machines on the VirtualBox host, your first task will be to install VirtualBox Guest Additions Tools....

For one, it doesn’t need a database server, call it database-less CMS. Its browser-based dashboard offers an intuitive way of managing your sites. Configure system settings, upload images or write a blog post by using a clean and responsive user interface. For more about Automad, please check its homepage. This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to install Automad on Ubuntu 16.04 / 18.10 / 18.04 LTS with Apache2 and PHP 7....

AWStats uses log file analysis to analyze log files from Apache2, IIS, and other popular web servers in use today. It’s a very handy tool to have when you have to analyze your traffic and other data. A complete enterprise-grade server and log monitoring software. This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to install and configure the AWStats monitoring server on Ubuntu 16.04 | 17.10 | 18.04 LTS servers....

It’s also easy to install. Just upload the web content files to your server and you’re done! With Cockpit, you can browse your website, make changes and see the result immediately. It’s a great way to build and update your content. It offers features that may not be available to other PHP-based CMS, like WordPress Joomla, or Drupal. For one, it doesn’t need a database server, call it database-less. You can build any content with Cockpit....

Gatsby lets you build fast, secure, and powerful apps and websites using its React-based, open-source framework. You can integrate different content, APIs, and services seamlessly into one web experience in real time. Not only can Gatsby help you create power apps, but it also provides a starter pack and templates for building headless CMS with support for WordPress, Contentful, Drupal, Shopify, Strapi, Ghost, and more. Below is how to install Gatsby....

Gradle is an open-source build automation system that helps developers automate, build and deliver software efficiently. Gradle improves on Apache Ant and Apache Maven concepts and uses Groovy-style language instead of XML, unlike its predecessors. Gradle also works with many of the popular IDE platforms available today, including, Android Studio, Eclipse, IDEA, and NetBeans. For more about Gradle, please visit its homepage. To get started installing Gradle on Ubuntu systems, follow the steps below:...

Joomla may not be the most popular content management system in use today, but it’s not very far behind Drupal and WordPress content management systems (CMS). It’s an open-source platform and works great in Linux systems, including Ubuntu. If you’re running Windows and want to use Joomla, using Windows with WSL 2 might be your best option and the steps below will show you how to do that. With WSL, you can install a full Linux operating system inside Windows....

Magnolia is an open-source content management framework based on Java. It allows anyone to build and maintain websites for any purpose. Developed by Magnolia International Ltd, it supports multi-language, multi-site on an enterprise scale. Whether you’re creating a personal or business website, Magnolia CMS can help you create and manage your content on every device with its intuitive and powerful admin dashboard. Magnolia is a Java-based CMS, so you must have Java installed to use it....

Nessus is an open-source vulnerability assessment and penetration testing tool one can install and use on a variety of platforms including, Raspberry Pi. It uses the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) architecture to make vulnerability assessment simple, easy, and intuitive. For companies and individuals looking for a security and vulnerability scanner to secure their environments, Nessus should come in handy. More information on Nessus can be found on their official website....

It provides full website analytics for small and medium size businesses and webmasters who want to know how their web pages are performing and how to improve them. When you want to take full control of your website analytics and data without using third-party solutions, like Google Analytics, then OWA is a great place to start. OWA also comes with built-in support for tracking websites made with popular content management frameworks such as WordPress and MediaWiki and comes with other features that may not be available with other analytics platforms....

PowerDNS is a free, open-source, and cross-platform authoritative nameserver written in C++. It comes with features to create authoritative DNS, Recursive DNS, DNS loading balancer, and many more. If you are looking for a fast, scalable, and efficient DNS platform to manage your DNS zones, then PowerDNS should be considered. It supports several databases such as MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and Oracle to store zone files and records. Below we will show you how to install and use PowerDNS in Ubuntu Linux....

Robo 3T is a free, open-source, cross-platform MongoDB GUI management tool with an embedded mongo shell, real auto-completion support, and boat load of features that anyone can use to manage MongoDB databases. Whether you’re using Windows, macOS, or Linux, Robo 3T should be right for you. Robo 3T comes with an embedded MongoDB shell – the same shell in MongoDB, full synchronous UI with modern and robust open-source community backing....