Widgets are feeds of content such as news, weather, stocks, and traffic that are automatically updated with live information on your widgets board. The widgets board in Windows helps you personalize content from your favorite apps and services across the web and on your device, which you can add, remove, arrange, resize and customize. Widgets are activated when you click on the widget’s icon on the taskbar, swipe from the left using touch, or press the Windows + W keys on your keyboard....

With Windows Hello, one can use a PIN, facial recognition, picture, or fingerprint to sign into their Windows devices. Windows Hello feature offers several ways one can ditch their passwords in favor of a more secure and personal method of authentication. When you set up Windows Hello facial recognition sign-in option, you can also choose to enable or disable the “Automatically dismiss lock screen if Windows recognizes your face” option....

Windows 11 comes with a built-in app called Alarms and Clock. You can use this app to set an alarm, use timers, and more. With Windows alarms, you configure, set, and forget them and it should help you sleep better and wake up rested similar to your devices. Windows alarms are good on some occasions. Alarms and timers work even if the app is closed or your device is locked....

Recently we showed you how to use a night light in Windows to help with sleeplessness and eye strain after dark. You can read that post here. If you’re still having problems seeing what’s on your screen, you can use Windows 11 built-in color filters to help distinguish between things that differ only by color. This changes the color palette of objects on the screen which brings out the contrast and could help you see clearly....

NFS or Network File System is a distributed file system that can be enabled in a client/server environment. NFS is very easy to configure for those wishing to allow NFS client machines to access NFS mount points on a server using NFS protocol. This brief tutorial shows users how to set up NFS mount points on a server for client access. It should be quick and easy to understand, even for new users....

First introduced in Windows 7, Title bar window shake allows users to grab a window’s title bar and shake it to minimize all other windows in the background. If you haven’t used Title bar window shake before, it is easy to use. All you do is grab the app’s window you want to keep open by selecting its title bar by holding down the left mouse button. While holding the app’s windows, shake the mouse, and all other windows will minimize in the background....

Windows 11 comes with many new features and visual effects, including animation and fading effects that make the Windows 11 desktop look great but can add some performance hits by adding a slight delay to some activities and actions. For older computers or ones that are built with less performance, turning off animations might help with performance and speed, and the steps below show you how to do that. A not-so-new feature that also comes with Windows 11 is Windows animation effects....

Microsoft has decided to discontinue both Internet Explorer and the legacy Edge browsers in Windows. Some sites that were built to work with Internet Explorer may not work properly in the new Microsoft Edge. For this reason, Microsoft has released a feature in the new Edge to allow users to reload legacy sites incompatible Internet Explorer mode. The new Microsoft Edge browser has adopted the Chromium open-source project code base and offers better web compatibility and performance over the legacy edge....

To secure your account, Windows will prompt you to sign in again when your computer wakes up from sleep, hibernation, or resumes from modern standby. These security measures are added to Windows to make sure no one can access your account and sensitive data simply by waking up your computer from sleep, hibernation, or other power states and logging in without a password. If you don’t have any security concerns, you can disable it entirely so that your computer can’t prompt you to enter your password again to sign in when it wakes up from standby....

There are many reasons why you’d want to know your computer IP address. For example, if you want to connect remotely to your computer or try to allow access through the firewall to your device, you’ll need to get the IP address of the computer to connect or allow a connection to it. In Windows 11, there are many ways to get that information. Advanced users can simply run a quick command to get it, however, not all users are power users or advanced....

This error, 413 request entity too large occurs when you try to upload or make a client request that is too large to be processed by the web server, in the case of an Nginx HTTP server. If the server setting has a request size limit that is too small, your users/clients may come across this error a lot. So you will probably want to adjust the web server settings to allow larger requests....

AnyDesk is cross-platform, fast, secure, and intuitive remote desktop support software. AnyDesk is not open source, however, if you’re looking for a strong alternative to support tools like TeamViewer, LogMeIn, and others, these tools should be considered. It’s a great tool for tech support specialists and users who want to provide remote assistance while enjoying a secure and high-quality experience. It can also be used for meetings and collaboration similar to WebEx and other desktop-sharing tools....

This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to install Cachet on Ubuntu with Apache2, MariaDB, and PHP 7.2 support. Cachet is a good place to start when you’re looking for a status page system to provide application services status for your customers. This open-source status system uses bootstrap 3, is responsive, works beautifully on your desktop, tablet, and phone, and offers features that will help you run your business and collaborate with your customers and employees....

Contenido is open-source content management (CMS) that makes it easy for anyone to build and maintain websites for any purpose. This German open-source cm enables you to have functioning websites by just installing it and within a few minutes have templates available to start building your content. Whether you’re creating a personal or business website, Contenido CMS can help you create and manage your content on every device with its intuitive and powerful admin dashboard....

For businesses looking for solutions to search their complex and big data, including eCommerce databases easily, Elasticsearch might be a good place to start. This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to install the Elasticsearch platform on Ubuntu 16.04 | 18.04 LTS servers. For more about Elasticsearch, please check its homepage. When you’re ready to install Elasticsearch on Ubuntu, please follow the steps below: Install OpenJDK 8 Elasticsearch is based on Java and requires Java to be installed....

Whether you’re a small or medium-sized business, you may find this app useful. It’s designed from the ground up for ease of use to allow business owners to create and manage their business invoices and expenses. If you’re looking for a robust, secure, and easy-to-use invoicing and time-tracking system that’s 100% free, you may want to give Invoice a try. This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install InvoiceNinja on Ubuntu 16....

We’re now ready to install Moodle to help us build our first dynamic, professional online courses and begin teaching our users and students the materials we create. Moodle is an open-source learning management platform written in PHP, designed to help educators create effective online courses and paired with a MySQL or MariaDB database. With Moodle, one can create online courses using free templates, plugins, and a support base to help you throughout the process....

OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) is a library of open-source programming functions that helps programmers develop software for real-time computer vision to analyze medical images, detect and recognize faces, stitch street view images, surveillance video, and more. This post shows you two ways to install OpenCV on Ubuntu. You can either install from the Ubuntu repository or install from the source. Either way should work for you. Ubuntu is an open-source Linux operating system that runs on desktops, laptops, servers, and other devices....

With Subsonic, you can enjoy your music and movies everywhere and share with family and friends with apps available for Android, iPhone, Windows Phone, Chrome, and many more. Subsonic 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. For more about Subsonic, please check out its homepage....

the web edition is free to download and use and comes with an intuitive user interface, granularly administer users and groups, and a responsive design that supports all modern devices. This platform is fast and lightweight, gives webmasters modular and extensible features, extensible via plugins to collaborate and automate engaging experiences with users across multiple devices, including mobile. For more about the web edition, please check their Homepage This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install web editions on Ubuntu 16....