It will suck when you select the wrong audio device to play a video that’s offensive to others or play embarrassing music to the wrong sound device. You can save yourself some embarrassment and rename your audio devices, so you know each device attached to your computer. Although Windows tries to display the name of the devices according to the manufacturer naming convention, sometimes it’s hard to tell which device is which based on its name....

Students who are thinking of using OpenOffice productivity on Ubuntu systems, this brief tutorial shows you how to do just that. As you all know, all Ubuntu desktops come with LibreOffice installed. This is the default productivity tool on most Linux systems including Ubuntu. But this wasn’t the case a few years back. LibreOffice only became the default productivity suite after OpenOffice’s parent company (Oracle) made some changes to its licensing terms that had folks angry and started the LibreOffice project....

It might also be the case where malware or viruses have set up firewall rules to give themselves unlimited access to your systems. Or Microsoft Defender firewall is not filtering access properly. In these situations, resetting or restoring the firewall to default settings might be something you might want to consider. When you reset the firewall settings, it will remove all additional Microsoft Defender firewall settings that have been added for all network locations since Windows was installed....

MenaPro is an open-source, advanced content management system (CMS) that gives you powerful sets of tools to build and manage a content website. This CMS is also a hundred times faster than most content management platforms available. With its intuitive and powerful backend, you’ll be able to put together a website with ease. You also get a powerful search tool, backend analytics, drag n drop media panel, and more. This CMS platform is designed for ease of use to allow webmasters to collaborate and automate engaging experiences with users across multiple devices, including mobile....

You can right-click the Skype app on the taskbar and close it. However, the next time you log back on, Skype will automatically start again. If you don’t want the Skype app to automatically start up every time, use the steps below to prevent Skype app from starting up every time you log on. Two types of Skype apps can be installed on Windows and multiple ways to disable it from starting up when you log on....

With advertising ID enabled, location-based apps will be able to track and access your location much the same way that websites do online with a unique identifier stored in a cookie. This unique identifier can then be used to provide more targeted ads and services to you, the user on that device. This might also be a privacy issue as advertising networks can associate personal data they collect and link it with your device advertising ID to track you and your activities....

For computers and devices that support it, Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling enables more efficient GPU scheduling between applications, thus improving performance. This feature is available in Windows 11, however, only for computers that have GPU that supports Hardware Accelerated Scheduling. When your device supports it, Windows 11 will offload most of the GPU scheduling to a dedicated GPU-based scheduling processor. This a feature that isn’t new to Windows 11. It was introduced in Windows 10....

A new feature added to Edge is its Efficiency mode, which is designed to help extend battery life by minimizing power usage and reducing resource usage (CPU usage) by modifying certain tab activity on tabs you’re not interacting with and putting inactive background tabs to sleep after 5 minutes or less. The sleeping tabs feature in Microsoft Edge makes background tabs sleep after two hours of inactivity to free up resources for active tabs, new tabs, and other applications on your device....

Fullscreen Exclusive (FSE) mode – games take ownership of the display and allocation of resources of your graphics card.Windowed mode – games are deployed in a bordered window which allows other applications and windows to continue running in the background.Borderless windowed mode – games will still be running in a window but has no border around it. These different types of display modes provide unique benefits for gamers. Fullscreen optimizations – a feature released with Windows 10 takes full screen exclusive games and runs them instead in a highly optimized borderless windowed format that takes up the entire screen....

You cannot upgrade Drupal from its portal. So, you’ll have to manually update or upgrade to the latest version either from the command line console or via some hosting platform. All previous versions of Drupal CMS are vulnerable. You can find out more about this vulnerability by going to this page To resolve this remote code security vulnerability, you can either apply a patch or upgrade to the latest version of Drupal....

The chattr command is used to change a file attribute in Ubuntu Linux. File attributes are meta-data properties that describe how a file behaves in Linux. It also describes if a file is compressed, deletable or if a file can be changed or modified. The chattr command is included in Ubuntu by default and available based on the file systems being used. One common use of the chattr command is to set the immutable flag on a file which prevents a file from being deleted or renamed....

The only big differences between the system requirements for Windows 10 and Windows 11 come down to a few specialized features included in the system CPU and motherboard. If you have a fairly recent Windows 10 computer, it may more likely support upgrading to Windows 11. For older PCs and systems that are not fairly new, users can read below to see the basic requirements to run Windows 11. For help determining whether your PC will support Windows 11, Microsoft has released an app called PC Health Check that you can install and run on your Windows 10 PC....

Changing one’s computer name has been made very simple in Windows 11. The option to rename Windows 11 has been added to the main settings in the System tab. If you bought a Windows computer and you want to rename it and make it personal, the steps below should help you do that. There are multiple ways to do this in Windows and we’re going show you as many possible ways to do it....

Windows 11 comes with predefined desktop themes that one can use to change the look of Windows’ background, color, sound, and mouse cursor. There are themes for different seasons and styles. If you want to make your PC look a bit different, you use Windows predefined themes or download some from the Windows store to fit your style. The new Windows 11, which will probably be generally available to everyone later this year, will come with many new features and enhancements that may make some students and new users uncomfortable....

There are other ways one can change their account password in Windows. If you have a local account, you can use PowerShell or Windows commands to reset your account password from Command Prompt or Windows Terminal as well. A good reason to reset or change a local account password in Windows 11 is if the account has been compromised or the password is no longer a secret. You’ll need to change it so that it’s secured again....

We recently wrote a post that showed you how to create a system image in Windows 11. A system image is no good unless you can use it to restore your system. You can read that post here. In that post, we said that when you create a system image, it takes a complete backup of everything on your PC’s hard drive – similar to taking a snapshot of your entire drive, system files, and everything....

Atom is a cross-platform, sophisticated IDE text/code editor for folks who need a decent editor with cool features like context-aware auto-completion, code navigation features such as an outline view, document formatting, file system browser, works with Git and GitHub directly, and much more. Whether you are new to programming or a seasoned programmer, you will need a great code editor to do your job. and Atom IDE is a code editor that combines simplicity and speed for any developer....

Git is probably the most popular open-source, distributed version control system in use today. Git allows developers to keep track of projects, code changes, create and revert changes, as well as collaborate with other developers. Created by Linux Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system, Git is now owned by Microsoft. If you’re a student or new user looking for an easy tutorial on installing Git on Ubuntu, the steps below should come in handy....

Koel 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 the Koel streaming server on Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 LTS servers and desktops. For more about Koel, please check out its homepage....

Lavalite comes with everything you need to make a super beautiful website and application. Lavalife is built on an open-source core with support for open standards, which might be very useful in helping you run your digital content. This CMS platform is designed for ease of use to allow enterprises and business owners to collaborate and automate engaging experiences with users across multiple devices, including mobile. For more about Lavalite, please check their Homepage To get started with installing Lavalite, follow the steps below:...