What’s a Driver? Make no mistake, a driver is still a computer program. However, drivers actually allow other programs to communicate with your computer’s hardware. Anything that directly communicates with hardware, without using any other framework or wrapper, is known as a driver. As long as you keep this in mind, it won’t be hard to understand what drivers are and what role they play in Windows. Kernel Mode vs. User Mode Drivers Drivers operate in a simple hierarchy, with two types: Kernel mode and user mode....

Evilwm is a stacking, or floating, window manager for the X desktop. It is known for being almost obscenely minimalistic, boasting only 1-pixel borders for application windows and using no panels, launchers, or menus. Evilwm is primarily keyboard-driven. This is a simple evilwm session with two instances of Terminator running: In this article, I’m going to show you the basics of configuring and using evilwm. Getting Evilwm Evilwm can be downloaded here or cloned from its Git repository: You can most likely install it through your package manager too....

Twitch.tv Twitch started as an offshoot of Justin.tv, which was a general-purpose streaming service back in the day. Twitch was an offshoot focused on gaming, though, and it quickly took off, resulting in a company rebrand to Twitch.tv, the closing of Justin.tv, and a full focus on Twitch and what it offers. In addition to gaming, Twitch has also been used to broadcast live events unrelated to gaming, as well as art and other forms of creativity....

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There are many factors that can influence the loading speed of a website. Analyzing and fixing the problems one by one could be a nightmare for non-geeks who happens to have one or two websites. But luckily, there’s YSlow – a Firefox add-on which will help even the most common users of technology to easily track down the hogs on their websites. Get, Install, And Set Up The Add Ons You can install YSlow by using the search function in Firefox’s Add-ons Manager, or you could also get it straight from YSlow page....

In this article, we will discuss the basics of NetHogs as well as the features it provides. NetHogs According to the utility’s man page, NetHogs is a small “net top” tool. Instead of breaking the network traffic down per protocol or per subnet, like most tools do, it groups bandwidth by process. If there’s suddenly a lot of network traffic, you can fire up NetHogs and immediately see which PID is causing this, making it easy to identify programs that have gone wild and are suddenly taking up your bandwidth....

Mobile Interface After launching the app you will be prompted to sign up for a new Chomp account. After signing in you will be presented with the main apps page. Here you can browse through some of the major app categories that Chomp sorts the apps into. These app categories include the following: Musical Instruments On Sale News Social Networking TV What’s New Fun Games Photo Productivity Texting Chat Wallpapers...

NovaPDF Professional is a software for Windows that allows you to convert your documents to PDF format. It also comes with features like sharing, send email after conversion, password protection, links preservation, font embedding and many more features. Once you have downloaded and installed the application, you can easily convert your documents by selecting the source file and clicking the “Create” button. A window will then pop up to allow you to configure the options before the PDF conversion....

Fruho is a lightweight VPN manager for Linux. The developers boast that it requires no configuration to get going. The aim of this program is to make connecting to various VPN providers easy. It’s built with OpenVPN and makes use of various encryption standards by default (256-bit AES and 2048-bit RSA respectively). One of the selling points is that when connecting, the access keys are generated locally with no communication with remote servers whatsoever....

Introducing the Fujifilm X-A3 The Fujifilm X-A3 is a versatile little everyday camera, with a good quality lens and a large 24-megapixel sensor. It is easy to use right out of the box, but it has hidden depths and has cool, retro styling and a smooth aluminium body and lens with either black, brown or pink leatherette. If you’re used to handling DSLRs, it feels quite small in the hands. It never feels tiny, though, because of the very well-placed grips on the body that fit the fingers and thumb of your right hand....

Apple has made some pretty lofty promises in regard to the functionality of this teeny tiny screen, stating that it will revolutionize how people use their laptops. We’ve covered many of its most useful features, but functionality is still severely limited to Apple software. If you find that your Touch Bar does nothing but drain your battery, have a look at the list below. You might just be able to find a new, more amusing use for it....

Android Authority reports it has been contacted by a leaker who has revealed what’s said to be Google’s Pixel strategy for the next three years. It includes foldables and the gradual phasing out of the ‘a’ series mid-rangers. The roadmap predicts Google will introduce its first foldable phone in 2023, thought to be named the Pixel Fold, as has been heavily rumoured. That would be joined by the Pixel 7a, Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro....

Windows Mobile comes with a number of onscreen input options. Various stylus methods are provided such as Block Recogniser and Letter Recogniser which both involve scrawling the stylus within a specified area of the screen, as well as Symbol Pad and Transcriber. Each of these methods has its own peculiarities for attaining a reasonable success rate of conversion from the input squiggle into a legible sentence Finally there’s the poorly designed micro keyboard designed for Windows CE and the larger display handheld devices from companies such as HP that when resized for a typical Windows Mobile smartphone screen are almost as difficult to use with the stylus as without!...

We are going to give you some useful tips and also list some tab management extensions to manage Chrome tabs like a boss. Tips to Manage Multiple Chrome Tabs Let’s start with a few built-in features of Chrome that will let you manage Chrome tabs one way or another. 1. Pin Tabs You can pin important tabs on the top-left side of Chrome to save space and also prevent closing tabs accidentally....

At the time, we noted that cryptojacking works mostly via websites or hackers taking over servers. A new development within crytojacking, however, shows that this new method of attack is not just a passing fad. How Cryptojacking Invaded Facebook This is the case of Digmine, a new attack vector that uses a combination of Facebook Messenger and Chrome to infect users. The method of attack is pretty simple: An infected Facebook account sends what appears to be a link to a video via Facebook Messenger....

How It Spreads There’s been a worrying amount of legitimate-looking apps on the Google Play store that harbour malicious code, and Anubis is no different. Anubis is usually smuggled in via official-looking apps that offer banking or shopping services. These malicious apps manage to dodge Google Play’s security checks and antivirus scans by not containing any malware to begin with; it does, however, contain code that can later fetch the malware from a command and control server....

Just as a precaution, it is always a good idea to back up Windows Registry and create a restore point. If anything bad happens, you can easily restore your system by restoring the backup or the restore point. Add Check for Updates Option to Desktop Context Menu Like many things, you need to modify the Windows Registry to add the “Check for Updates” option to the Desktop context menu. To start, press “Win + R,” type regedit and press the Enter button....

Usually, a watermark will lay down the constraints of a document or identify a company. Adding a watermark to a Word document is an easy and straightforward process. In this post you’ll learn how to add a watermark to your Word documents. Why Would I Want to Watermark a Word Document? Adding a watermark to your documents can be very useful, especially when you want to communicate the nature of your business....

Note: since the effect is moving text, and it’s difficult to describe the “coolness” using either words or a static picture, I decided to use it in my personal website project, and you can see the result there. Installing and Setting Up the Plugin Installing a plugin in WordPress is very easy, especially for those who have tinkered with the platform for a while. All that you have to do is log in to your admin area and use the “Plugins -> Add New” menu from the left sidebar....

Add OneDrive To Send to Menu To add OneDrive to the Windows send to menu, press “Win + R” to open the run dialog box. Here type shell:sendto and press the Enter button. This action will open the “send to” folder located in your user account. Alternatively, you can also open “send to” folder by entering the below address into the address bar of your Windows explorer: Any shortcuts placed here will be visible in the send to menu when you right click....