For some laptops or computers, Ubuntu Linux automatically adjusts screen brightness based on the current lighting conditions. This automatic setting helps make sure your screen is readable wherever you go. If you’re using an external monitor, these automatic brightness settings might not be useful at all. For an external monitor, you may have to use the buttons on the monitor itself to adjust the brightness. In some cases, you may have to disable these automatic brightness settings and manually adjust the screen brightness to your liking in different environments....

Some modern Windows 11 PCs come with advanced graphics cards or graphics processing units (GPUs) that play an important role in what you see and interact with on your screen. While most newer computers have dedicated and advanced graphics cards, others come with low-power onboard or integrated graphics that allow for basic functions only. Some high-intensity games and advanced applications required advanced graphics cards to function. An integrated or onboard graphics card is usually not able to render these games or run critical applications....

If you’re using a shared computer where everyone is logging in using the same username and password, then clearing your browser data and history every time you close it should be done. Most browsers will allow you to automatically clear browsing data on close, including Microsoft Edge. Edge also allows you to use your keyboard to clear your browsing data. Simply press the key below to clear your browser data when using Microsoft Edge....

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

By default, Ubuntu Linux keeps track of recent files and folders you open so you can quickly access them when you need to in the future. All the files that you open frequently will be displayed at the top of the list. This feature was added to help improve your productivity. It also makes it easier to find items that you have been working on in the file manager. However, this can also be a privacy nightmare....

When you turn on Sandbox in Windows 11, you enable a lightweight, isolated desktop environment to safely run applications. The sandbox environment is completely isolated and remains “sandboxed” and runs separately from the host machine. There’s no communication between the host (Windows 11) and the Sandbox environment. Every time Windows Sandbox runs, it’s as clean as a brand-new installation of Windows. When you are done, the desktop environment is discarded....

Ubuntu Linux devices with built-in mobile hotspots can share their internet connection with other devices over Wi-Fi. This is useful in situations where you are in a remote area with a mobile (cellular) network only, and you wish to share your internet connection with other devices so they all can connect to the internet. With your cellular-equipped device, you can turn your Wi-Fi adapter into a wireless hotspot so others can connect to it, sharing the same mobile internet connection....

By default, when you use Windows, it keeps track of some of your recent activities, including files and folders accessed, recently used apps, and others are added to the “Recommended” section on the Start menu. This feature is there to help you get to the stuff you recently opened or used to improve your productivity. It also makes it easier to find items that you have been working on in file explorer....

The new Windows 11 comes with many cool features and a refreshing new graphical interface, including a centered Start menu and taskbar, rounded windows corners, themes, and colors that make the OS look more modern and cohesive. One setting that Windows has always had is to configure the taskbar to automatically hide or disappear when out of focus to make the screen look bigger. This setting can come in handy, especially on smaller screens....

For students and new users, the steps below will show them how to set up WordPress with Nginx and FastCGI to perform faster even with a single server. If you want to improve your WordPress site performance, you should install the Nginx HTTP server and enable FastCGI caching. Doing this will greatly improve WordPress performance. This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install the Nginx HTTP server and enable FastCGI on Ubuntu 16....

This brief tutorial is going to show you how to install Apache2 on Ubuntu 17.04 and how to disable directory listing or indexing to prevent exposing sensitive directories. When you install Apache2 by default, all directories are exposed by default. All directories are indexed and listed by default. One reason directory listing is bad is Apache2 automatically lists all the content of a directory if a file from the directory cannot be located when requested by a web browser....

Apache CouchDB is a general-purpose NoSQL database server that works just like any other database behind an application server of your choice. It allows you can add custom functions using different programming languages such as Erlang, C/C++, Java, etc. It uses JSON natively and supports binary for all your data storage needs. It is used by major corporations and businesses looking for high-performance NoSQL database systems. Most people will tell you a thing or two about MySQL and MariaDB, however, for professionals, Apache CouchDB is a stable choice....

eduTrac is an open-source, student information system that helps you build and manage online courses for students, teachers, and anyone who wants to build their online courses. This LMS is robust and mobile-friendly and responsive out-of-the-box so your students and teachers can enjoy reading and interact with your portal from any device. eduTrac comes with an intuitive and powerful backend that will get you started right away with solutions for large businesses, universities, and schools to create tailored, individual learning scenarios very easily....

Friendica is a free and flexible, decentralized social networking platform that makes it easy for you to build and maintain your social networking projects and communities. This software comes with built-in support for ActivityPub, including platforms like Funkwhale, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, OStatus, and diaspora* protocols. For more on Friendica social platform, please visit its home page To get started with installing Friendica, follow the steps below: Install Apache2 HTTP Apache2 HTTP Server is the most popular web server in use....

Fuel CMS is an open-source content management system for premium-grade websites and blogs. It is built on CodeIgniter, a popular PHP web framework for advanced web development. Whether you’re creating a personal or business website, Fuel CMS can help you create and manage your content on every device with its intuitive and powerful admin dashboard. If you currently run your website and content on other CMS like WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla you may want to give Fuel CMS a try....

If you are looking for a flat-file CMS platform that is easy to install, simple to maintain, and flexible, then you should be looking at Mono CMS. With Mono CMS, you get a simple and fast editor for creating posts, a clean design, and a lightweight. For more about Mono CMS, please check their Homepage This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install Mono CMS on Ubuntu 16....

ProcessWire is a flexible, lightweight, and simple content management system based on PHP. It is designed for ease of use to allow webmasters and owners to create powerful and dynamic content websites. If you’re looking for a simple content management platform to manage your websites or blogs and 100% free, you’ll find ProcessWire to be useful. This post covers installing the latest version of ProcessWire, which at the time of writing was at 3....

Your notes stay updated across all your devices. and stay organized so you can find notes quickly with instant searching and simple tags. This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install it on Ubuntu 16.04 | 17.10 | 18.04 desktops. For more about Simplenote, please visit its homepage. Whether you’re on a Windows, or Mac Linux PC, Simplenote should work and allow you to move between different PC platforms....

For the uninitiated, Symfony is a free, open-source, reusable PHP components and framework that help speed up the creation and maintenance of your PHP web and API applications. If you are looking for a solution to develop and maintain your PHP application with ease and don’t want to fiddle with repetitive coding tasks, then Symfony is a great place to start. It comes with support for more than 50 stand-alone components available for your applications....

Vagrant is great for developers as it isolates machine dependencies and their configurations within a single disposable, consistent environment, so whether you are working on Linux, Mac OS X, or Windows, everyone will be running the same code in the same environment, against the same dependencies and configured the same way. For this post, we’ll be using VirtualBox as our virtualization platform which is also the default provider for Vagrant....