This is a sponsored article and was made possible by JotForm. The actual contents and opinions are the sole views of the author who maintains editorial independence, even when a post is sponsored. Picture This You’ve created an online form and want the information collected turned into a presentable document format. Assuming you received only one form submission, it’s easy to convert the data into PDF. Just copy the information, open a new Word document, paste the content and finally save the document as PDF....

Download and installation Download Disk Drill here. The current version is still in beta testing and is available for free download. Once installed, it will prompt you to install driver for Disk Drill. Once it is done, you will have a choice to view the tutorial slides or go direct to the main screen. Usage The main screen is easy to navigate. There are only two options: Protect and Recover....

To make matters worse, the cheap membrane keyboards are virtually indestructible due to their uncomplicated design and the lack of moving parts. Mechanical keyboards, however, contain switches bearing many tiny components and metal contacts that are prone to mechanical failure. In fact, it isn’t uncommon for some mechanical switches to fail prematurely, even though their MTBF (Mean Time Between Failure) rating ranges from 10 million to 50 million actuations. The chances of encountering premature switch failure isn’t uncommon considering how the average mechanical keyboard has 101 switches....

Not only games. Films, music, and books are being blamed for causing violence too That is exactly what happened in the past. Back in the ‘50s, Americans were convinced that comics were making their children violent. The matter was treated with enough seriousness by the US Senate to hold hearings on the link between reading comics and the rise of juvenile delinquency. The music and film industry were also met with similar hostility....

What Is DHCP, And What’s a Static IP Address? If you’re a bit confused right now, don’t feel bad. It’s not like the average Internet user has to know what the dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) is. But that’s why we’re here! DHCP, in short, is the protocol your router uses to automatically give each of your connected devices an IP. If your router’s IP is 192.168.0.1, the first computer you connect to it may be assigned the IP of 192....

As useful as it is, some Windows users may get annoyed by these UAC prompts whenever they are installing software or making changes to system settings or files. Thus, even going as far as disabling it completely. So if you are one those who are considering disabling UAC or have already disabled it, here is why you shouldn’t do it. Why You Shouldn’t Disable User Access Control When you first install Windows, the first user account you create will have administrator rights, and most likely you use that account for all your daily activities like configuring your system, installing software, browsing, etc....

What Is ePUB? The “Electronic Publication” (ePUB) file format is an open method of creating an ebook. It’s been at the forefront of open standards for digital reading for more than a decade and is a vendor-independent standard for publishing digital books. The format uses XHTML and CSS within the file to render pages, which means it’s a straightforward format for producing content. It combines with the Open Packing Format (OPF) to provide aspects such as a table of contents, metadata, and other ebook features....

Over the course of two to three years, we’ve gotten everything from end-to-end encryption to AI chatbots and augmented reality. While it doesn’t come without privacy concerns and some occasional resource-hogging, Facebook Messenger’s ever-growing suite of features is hard to ignore. You can sign up without a Facebook account For many people the social media part of Facebook is less important than its ability to help them maintain connections. If you want an easy way to stay up to date with people but don’t want all the extra baggage, you can open a mobile Messenger account with just your phone number, then create a password to get you into the web interface....

Both Snap and Flatpak files are often available on a given app’s website, but both of these formats have their own centralized marketplaces. Which one is right for you? It’s not an easy question to answer. Snaps and Flatpaks Explained Both Snaps and Flatpaks contain not just an application but the libraries and support files it needs to run. This means you don’t have to worry about manually installing dependencies or even if they’re easily available on your system....

Once installed and run, it will show a popup, also known as the One Touch Screen, that allows you to choose between Backup and Restore. There is also a bunch of shortcut that links you to tutorial to use the app. Once you are in the main screen, you will be able to either create/run Backup or Restore from previous backup. To get started, click “New” to create a new backup project....

The word terminal comes from a previous era in computing when the connection from a computer ended (terminated) at a character-based workstation. This concept itself comes from the field of electronics where a terminal is the the end of a line where signals are either transmitted or received. Today, the terminal program is a software equivalent of those character-based workstations. For quick one-line commands, or a quick bit of system configuration, the default terminal settings are more than adequate; however, if you spend any length of time using the terminal, you may find that you want to customize it to better fit your needs....

Towards the bottom of the Support page, there’s a section with three smiling faces that says “Contact Us.” This is where to head to get help from Apple’s team of “Geniuses”. Click on the link that says “Start Here“. The next page tries to find out what help you need. If you are unsure if your hardware is still under warranty or not, you can input your serial number, and it will tell you whether you still quality for tech support or whether you’re still covered under the warranty....

You would think that after all these years, we’d have agreed on a universal file system format. Unfortunately, that isn’t the case, and different operating systems still prefer to work with certain file systems and simply won’t work with others. No matter what your operating system prefers, sometimes you just need to work with a certain type of drive. If your operating system doesn’t support that drive, that’s where an app like iBoySoft Drive Manager comes in very handy....

It can affect everyone from teenagers to adults to people on social media to gamers. In fact, a recent survey reported that 65% of online gamers experience “severe harassment.” How do you deal with online harassment? Our Opinion Sayak has a “sticks and stones” policy for interacting online. “If I find something I don’t like, it’s so much easier to tune out.” He believes it’s the way the Internet was designed....

Was this what Facebook had in mind when they introduced the feature? Or were they picturing people using live streaming to show what they’re making for dinner and to discuss politics with their friends? Recently a man was live streaming to Facebook video of himself and two friends in a car when someone opened up a drive-by shooting on the car wounding all three. The camera fell to the ground after thirty rounds were fired....

Verizon (via press release) and Comcast (via Business Wire) have both announced the launch of prepaid broadband packages in February and March 2017 respectively. Believe it or not, this might actually help invigorate innovation in the United States’ Internet market. What Makes Prepaid Internet Attractive To most people around the world (and especially in the U.S.), home broadband services have always been offered as a compromise: you pay X amount of money for this amount of years, and by the time that period is over you can rip the contract up and leave....

Why IoT Can Be Problematic One of the first companies to really assess the problems of that IoT can bring was PerfectCloud. In its lengthy blog post, it detailed how it can be dangerous for businesses that are unwary of the consequences of introducing more possibilities for leakage. IoT is potentially dangerous not because our machines will “turn on us”, but rather because they are able to communicate with the internet at large....

In Windows 8, go to the Desktop. Right click the mouse and select “New -> Shortcut”. Enter in the location field “shutdown /p“. Click “Next”, follow by “Finish”. Right click the newly created icon and select “Pin to Start”. That’s it. You can now shut down directly from the Start screen now.

The Process For this procedure, you’ll have to use the command line to try and figure out some environmental variables as well as use them within a command that can add the safe mode to your boot menu. All chit chat aside, let’s get to work: Start by going into Metro and type “cmd“. The command line’s icon should show up on the left side. Right-click the command line icon. An “options” bar should show up at the bottom of your screen....

Lynis is an auditing tool which tests and gathers (security) information from Unix-based systems. The good thing is that it is easy to use, and you can get a security report on your Linux Security in as fast as five minutes. If you are a security and system auditor, network specialist or system maintainer, this is a tool you will want to have in your arsenal. In Ubuntu, you can easily install Lynis via the Ubuntu Software Center or from the following link....