Textpattern has been around for a very long time. It’s an elegant and lightweight content management system that is an alternative to WordPress and other popular CMS in use today. If you’re a current WordPress user and wish to try another CMS, give Textpattern a try and see if it fits your needs. It’s based on the same LAMP or LEMP stack as WordPress so the technology shouldn’t be much different than what you already know....

It is based on Drupal, enabling its users to benefit from the Drupal community’s continuous development efforts and establishing a culture of collaboration and sharing within the publishing industry. With Thunder, you get a clean and simple administrative area without the clutter… Webmasters and users who still appreciate Drupal’s classic interface will feel comfortable building online databases, e-commerce, and multilingual sites. For more about Thunder, please check their Homepage To get started with installing Thunder, follow the steps below:...

When Oracle Corporation purchased the previous parent company of MySQL Server and made some controversial licensing changes, the open-source community slowly drifted away from MySQL and towards MariaDB. Today, the MySQL database server is running far behind and has been dethroned by MariaDB as the default database server in the open-source community. This post shows students and new users how to switch from MySQL to MariaDB database server in Ubuntu 17....

Windows is a multi-user operating system. You can have multiple users with separate and unique profiles on the same machine. Windows also has two account types: Administrator and Standard user. The administrator account has full access and can control almost all aspects of the computer. The standard user account has limited access and can perform all functions within his/her profile without making administrative changes. Windows allows two types of accounts that a user to log into the system....

Windows text suggestions feature gives you immediate feedback as you type. As you type, suggestions will appear above your cursor and allows you to select the words you want. It also predicts words and sentences as you type based on your spelling and sentence structure. This is a very useful feature and should come in handy, especially for folks who are fast at typing. Not only can this feature predict words and text, but it can also predict text names based on your previous typing history....

Not very long ago users using Linux including, Ubuntu weren’t able to watch Netflix shows. That is not an issue right today. Now Netflix is fully supported on Linux systems, including Ubuntu directly from the web browsers. Supported browsers include Google Chrome, Firefox, browsers based on Chromium, and a few others. Simply install Google Chrome and start watching Netflix without any additional tools and requirements. If you want to watch Netflix on other non-supported browsers, then you might have to install additional tools and packages....

Google AdSense is a program that allows webmasters and anyone who runs a website or blog to earn income by adding AdSense ads to their pages. When your users visit your pages and interact with ads on your pages, you get a chance to earn some money from these ads. The more users you have, the more you may be able to earn. It is easy to put AdSense ad units on regular WordPress pages....

Deja Dup is a simple backup tool that hides the complexity of backing up your content locally or to a remote location and uses duplicity as the backend. If you’re using Ubuntu and have a Google Drive account, you will probably want to back up your important files and folder there for safekeeping. There is another online storage service that works with Ubuntu, but I prefer Google Drive since you get about 15GB free....

However, the Wi-Fi connection will not automatically turn off. You’ll have to manually turn it off or disable it to save battery or energy. Most Wi-Fi adapters have a feature that can automatically turn off the Wi-Fi connection when an ethernet connection is activated. When the ethernet or wired connection is disconnected or disabled, the adapter automatically re-enables and connects to the available Wi-Fi network. This post shows you how to turn on or enable that feature in Windows 11....

One common way to boot from a USB drive is to use your computer boot menu. Your PC boot menu is accessible during the computer starts up process. It provides a way to load and install a new operating system or access other external devices like a USB drive. There are specific keys on the keyboard to access a computer boot menu. The keys that are generally used to access a computer boot menu are Esc, F2, F10, or F12....

The OneDrive app lets you sync files and folders on your computer with Microsoft cloud, allowing you to access them anywhere on your mobile devices and other computers using the service. By default, your important folders (your Desktop, Documents, and Pictures folders) on your device will be backed up automatically to Microsoft cloud online. When you set up OneDrive, it will create a OneDrive folder in your home directory by default....

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. Edge browser is a cross-platform which supports all Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. If you’re currently using Edge and want to learn how to send Do Not Track requests to websites that ask for your tracking info, the steps below should show you how to do it....

Windows 11 comes with a boatload of cool features and a refreshing new graphical interface with a centered Start menu and taskbar, rounded corners windows, and themes and colors that make any Windows device look great. With all these great things, there’s also Windows 11 built-in camera app that allows you to video call, anyone, using your favorite apps like Zoom, Teams, Skype, and more. Some people are not comfortable with having a web camera or built-in camera app that can easily be gamed and misused for no good reason at all....

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. Edge browser is a cross-platform which supports all Windows, macOS, and Linux systems. If you’re currently using Edge and want to learn how to disable the new feature that allows continuing running apps in the background, the steps below should show you how to do it....

Fonts come as files that can be installed on Windows, and there are many sites on the internet where you can download free fonts, including Google fonts. Typically, these fonts are packaged in a zipped file. If you download a .zip file, you need to unzip the file before installing it. All fonts are stored in the C:\Windows\Fonts folder. You can also add fonts by simply dragging font files from the extracted files folder into this folder....

Screen Reader (Narrator) is a screen-reading feature that’s built into Ubuntu Linux, so there’s nothing you need to download or install. The Narrator (Orca) app feature in Ubuntu Linux helps those with limited vision or those who are unable to see the text clearly on their screen. The narrator has also been improved and integrated tightly into Ubuntu Linux. The Orca screen reader can speak the user interface. Depending on how you installed your system, you might not have Orca installed....

However, when you share your cellular connection as a hotspot with other devices, your mobile data plan will be used and the cost associated with it might increase since all devices are using your internet data plan. If you are an IT manager or an administrator and you want to prevent users from using the mobile hotspot feature in Windows 11, you can disable it so that users are not incurring crazy changes on your mobile account....

WordPad offers more features than Windows Notepad but is less advanced than Microsoft Word. You can use WordPad to open and save text files (.txt), rich text files (.rtf), Word documents (.docx), and OpenDocument text files (.odt). Files in other formats will open as plain text files and might not appear as expected. If you don’t have Microsoft Word installed, you might get by with WordPad in the meantime. Some features—like headers, footers, and annotations—aren’t supported in WordPad....

The Windows Security app is a built-in application that comes with Windows 11. It provides a centralized dashboard to see what’s happening with the security and health of your device and take any actions needed. The app has many sections that allow you to quickly see the status of your virus and threat protection, firewall and network security, device security controls, and more. The Account protection section provides settings to control security for your account and sign-in, including Windows Hello and Dynamic lock....

Computers that have enrolled in Microsoft Insider Program will see new features that are not yet available to all. File Explorer includes a new tab browsing feature that helps users work with multiple locations at the same time. Another feature recently introduced is the menu bar previously found in previous versions of Windows. You can have the menu bar always show up in File Explorer if you want. The menu bar includes File, Edit, View, and Tools....