Click on Ubuntu’s main menu icon or press the menu (“windows”) key on your keyboard. Type “software” in the search field. Choose “Software & Updates” from the available entries. Software & Updates includes the default package (“software”) sources for Ubuntu, by its creators, Canonical. To add a new repository (“source for packages/non-Canonical software”), move to the “Other Software” tab. When there, click on the “Add” button on the bottom left of the window....

Download and install MP3Gain Open MP3Gain. Click on Add Files to add your music files. If all your songs are sorted into its Album folders, click Add Folders instead. The default target volume is 89dB, but you can change it to your preferences. If you want it to be louder, change to a higher value (say 95dB). There are two different modes that you can use to analyze the tracks....

As is the norm with anything that becomes famous these days, copycat titles have already started spawning for Flappy Bird. A particularly funny guy has come up with a game called “Flappy Doge“, which is a web-based browser game which replaces the “bird” in Flappy Bird with a character called “Doge” who is an Internet meme depicted by a Shiba Inu dog. But hey, if you just want your old game back, there’s also an HTML5-based clone edition of Flappy Bird, too!...

Why would you need to print from apps in Windows 8? While it may hard to believe, not everyone has a mobile phone or tablet. If you cannot access data on the fly through a handheld device, being able to print information out can help you in other ways. If you do not have a GPS in your car, printing out a map can give you a path to your destination....

While there may still be a few Nigerian Prince phishing scams floating around, today’s cyber criminals are using more sophisticated methods. Ransomware is one of the more serious threats lurking on the Internet. However, there are other more subtle dangers, like Cryptojacking. Ransomware infects a computer and essentially locks the victim out until he or she pays a ransom, hence the name. It is obtrusive and compromises your entire computer, rendering it useless....

Image properties can provide important information pertaining to any Web image that you may need for research, a blog post, a project, etc. Because of this, it’s nice to have a convenient way to access that information. Whether you want to avoid Google Chrome’s element inspector or just want an easier way to view the properties of a Web image, here’s what you can do. Install the Image Properties Context Menu extension for Google Chrome....

An Explorer crash will typically take out the taskbar, desktop icons, and wallpaper. This leaves you with only a black screen, as well as any windows you had open at the time. You can also see your cursor and can freely move it around. Unfortunately, there’s no Start button to shut down the computer or to access the settings, and you can’t open any new software via the desktop. So what do you do?...

Open a terminal and type: That’s it. The Notification Center (and its icon) will magically disappear from your desktop. To retrieve it back, replace the “unload” with “load” That was easy, isn’t it?

However, what does “repair disk permissions” actually mean? And how do you repair disk permissions on the latest version of macOS? We’ll answer all of those questions, so keep reading. First Things First – What Are File System Permissions in macOS (Mac OS X)? Apple’s macOS is based on Unix, and just like Unix, it’s dependent on permissions. Every file and folder on your computer has a set of permissions....

Adlesse is one of the coolest browser extensions I’ve come across in awhile. It’s available for Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer, Safari, and Opera. Adlesse gets rid of many annoying ads (text, image, animated) and replaces them with identical-sized widgets. There are different types of widgets that you can enable: weather, local news, latest tweets, famous quotations, did you know, interesting links, Facebook, and calendar. On Google.com, Adlesse will show you additional search results from Bing, Wikipedia, and Twitter....

Opening the Explore Panel At one stage in Google Doc’s life, it had a panel called “Research” that allowed you to do just that. These days it has the somewhat confusing name “Explore” but still fills the niche of doing research within Google Docs. To open the Explore panel, click on “Tools” at the top, then “Explore.” An Explore panel will open on the right side. Performing Research Now that the Explore panel is open, you can use it to perform research....

As useful as it is, maybe you’ve previously created a group policy and want to reset it and start afresh? If so, then read on. Note: you need to be running Windows 10 Professional, Enterprise or Education to use this feature. Computer vs. User Configuration A key thing you’ll come across in the Group Policy Editor is a distinction between computer and user configuration. What’s the difference between the two?...

What Are “Universal Apps” The apps that have been updated for Apple’s M1 Silicon chips are currently known as “universal apps.” Developers use a “Universal binary” to update their apps to run natively on Apple silicon chips. This universal binary would allow the app to run on both Intel and M1 Mac. If an app isn’t updated for Universal 2, an M1 MacBook will run it by converting the Intel x86-64 code using Rosetta emulation software....

Note: Genymotion is a proprietary software geared toward serious Android developers. However, the personal edition for gaming is absolutely free, and that should be enough to run all your favorite apps. 1. Download and Install Genymotion Download Genymotion Desktop for Windows with VirtualBox from its official link. The minimum system configurations are shown here. While it says 4 GB RAM, at least 8 GB RAM is preferable so that you don’t experience any performance lags....

Pastebin 101 For those who’ve never used pastebin, it’s a very simple service. You enter in some text, and the website saves it to its own location. That’s it. You, or anyone else who has that URL, can view the text. It’s meant to be used by programmers and such to share things like code snippets and log messages. Fortunately, it lets you choose how long your text will remain on the server....

Targeted ads are where advertising networks track your online movements. These networks can then use this information to target you with very specific, personalized ads. Are the Internet’s targeted ads starting to feel slightly too targeted? There are ways to stop these networks from spying on your every move! Here we show you how to block cross-site tracking across Safari, Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera. What is cross-site tracking? Cross-site tracking is organizations tracking your movements across multiple websites....

Before we head into how to do this, there are a few things you need to take note of. First, because it installs a Chrome extension to activate the offline features, this can’t be done in any browser other than Chrome. Secondly, all your documents in Docs, Sheets, Slides and Drawings will be available offline, but your uploaded files in your Drive won’t be. Thirdly, you need to be online to set these options up, so you need to do this before you want to use Google Docs offline....

That’s now happening, and Wunderlist will soon be no more as it gets transformed into a new cross-platform app with the catchy title, To-Do. Here’s how to get yourself set up on the new app, including how to sync your data over from Wunderlist. Move Your Lists from Wunderlist to To-Do It can be rough moving all your info over from one app to another, but thankfully Microsoft have done a good job of making the process as smooth as possible....

Overview about ExpressVPN For this tutorial, we are using ExpressVPN, since it’s one of the most reputed and trusted VPN service providers. It also comes with an Android app in the Google Play store that you can easily install to your Google TV. ExpressVPN provides a fast VPN server network with over 3,000 VPN servers across 160 locations. The VPN offers best-in-class security encryption with unlimited bandwidth. It supports around 17 languages and has an easy-to-use interface....

If you’ve ever wanted to show your keyboard presses on-screen on your Mac, you can install a third-party add-on known as Keycastr to do so. Having on-screen keyboard presses enabled can help you significantly if you’re learning how to type quickly without glancing at the keyboard before typing every letter or if you want to have your key presses shown while recording a screencast. Using Keycastr, you can customize the color of the overlay and the text keys....