However, sometimes Safe Mode ends up being more stressful than the original problem, especially if you start your browser in Safe Mode and can’t get out, or every time you start Firefox it’s in Safe Mode. Worry not; you have a couple of options you can try. 1. Get Completely O ut of Safe Mode Before you resort to the obvious, let me tell you that when you’re trying to get out of Safe Mode, just exiting doesn’t mean that you completely closed it out....

1. NeoOffice NeoOffice is very impressive. It is a user friendly office tool that will help you develop all the documentation, spreadsheets, and presentations for your business. If you have used other office application softwares, it has the same basic functionalities, as well as additional ones. NeoOffice Writer has everything you would need a word processing software to have. One great feature that I haven’t seen anywhere else is the Bibliography Database....

When computers give errors in this fashion, it can be particularly distressing for users. So what just happened, and how do you fix it? What Just Happened? So what’s going on here exactly? First, we need to take a look at how a graphics card works. Graphics cards, like quite a lot of hardware, use drivers for peak performance. They don’t need drivers, but if they don’t have them, it restricts a lot of options for what the card can do....

Once it is running, you can click the middle mouse button (or the scroll wheel) and a popup menu will appear showing all your favorite folder. In places where the middle mouse button is not supported (for example, in the browser), you can press Win + W keyboard button to bring up the menu. To navigate to a sub-folder, hold the “Ctrl” button while clicking. Turn on the CapsLock to toggle between the normal click and “Ctrl + click”....

Introduction If your first instinct when turning on the telly is to find live sports, fuboTV might be the live TV streaming service for you. The cord-cutting platform targets the sports nut with an abundance of focused channels, access to the top leagues and tournaments, and plenty of action available to stream in glorious 4K Ultra HD – including the World Cup. There’s even a Multiview feature that enables you to watch four games at once....

My backup solution has evolved from the perennial “copy and paste” method to incremental backups using command line tools such as rsync and more recently into the cloud with Dropbox. Since switching to Windows 7, I have started using the free version of Genie Timeline 2.0. When looking for a backup application, I required something that backed up securely, quickly, with minimal interference and which kept older versions of a file so I could revert to the older version whenever I wanted....

What if you could get all your WhatsApp messages on your desktop screen in the form of notifications? Useful, right? This is one of several useful benefits that KDEConnect brings. In this article, we will learn how to download, install, and set up the package as well as discuss the features it provides. KDE Connect KDE Connect is a project that allows your Linux PC and phone (Android or BlackBerry) to communicate with each other over Wi-Fi....

This stylish over-the-ear headset allows you to blissfully watch TV at any volume level without disturbing anyone else. With crisp, theater-quality sound, you’ll probably wonder why you hadn’t been using a TV headset sooner! The headphones connect to your TV via a wireless docking station which “uses low-latency wireless transmission technology to ensure the perfect synchronization of the TV picture and the sound of the headphones.” The well-padded earmuffs and headband are so comfortable that you can wear them for hours without issue....

You’re correct. Any web app or service that uses a username/password login system should be storing their users’ passwords using a salted hash, possibly even a salted slow hash, perhaps with a pepper. If this is starting to sound more like breakfast than cryptography, don’t worry: unlike your password (hopefully), secure password storage isn’t too difficult of a topic to crack. Plaintext and basic encryption Storing plaintext passwords in an Internet-connected database is a pretty bad idea: if the database gets hacked, anyone who has reused one of those passwords is now at risk....

1. What Is Linux? Linux is a household name for sure, but still you can bet there are millions of users outside the tech community who don’t know about it. In a nutshell Linux (or more accurately, GNU/Linux) is an operating system, like Windows or Mac OS. Unlike them, Linux isn’t produced by a particular company but by a huge community of developers. Linux is open source and is free – that’s right, you don’t need to purchase a license to install and use it....

Kinds of Bluetooth Attacks It may sound strange that people can attack devices over Bluetooth, but it makes sense when you consider it. Given how all kinds of accessories can connect over Bluetooth, you can access all kinds of features over a Bluetooth connection. While it’s meant to be utilised for productive means, hackers can use it for the following: Bluejacking, where people can send unwanted messages to others, Bluesnarfing, which can access people’s private information, Bluebugging, which is usually done on a phone with an outdated Bluetooth interface that allows the pairing of devices without the user’s consent....

Android Oreo’s hidden file manager may not be what you need, but at least it has the basic features to help you get some basic things done. Maybe in Oreo’s next update the file manager will have more features and be located in an easier-to-find area. How to Find Android Oreo’s Hidden File Manager To find Oreo’s file manager, open the Settings app and tap on Storage or just search for it....

That said, only Microsoft knows why Windows has a lot of useful, yet hidden features. In this case, you can easily add a “open Powershell here” option to your right-click context menu and ditch the regular old command prompt so that you can enjoy a powerful tool when you need it. Windows doesn’t offer any point and click way to add Powershell to the right-click context menu; you can only do it by adding a couple of registry entries....

How to Sign in on iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch With your iOS devices, once you sign in with your TV provider (AT&T, Spectrum, Cox, etc.), you shouldn’t have to enter your info again. To add your info to your device: Make sure you have the latest version of iOS or iPadOS. This is going to ensure everything works as well as it should, knowing that any of the latest potential sign-in bugs are worked out....

To address this problem, Roman has come up with the UbuntuOne indicator package that show the sync status of Ubuntu One in the system tray. Note: The package is only meant for Ubuntu Lucid and Maverick. Installation Open a terminal and add the following repository: Install Ubuntu One Indicator: Once done, type the following command in the terminal to activate You will now see the Indicator applet on your system tray....

1. Convert PDF to plain text PDFs are essentially images of text, but what if you need to separate text from image? Don’t waste time and effort manually copy/pasting each and every paragraph into a separate text document! You can create an application that automatically extracts every line of text from a PDF, and then saves this text as a separate file. Launch Automator, by opening your Mac’s Finder, navigating to “Applications” and then selecting the Automator app....

Here’s a quick and simple way to configure your WordPress to automatically clear the trash on a regular basis: 1. Using a FTP application (such as Filezilla), download the wp-config.php file from your server. 2. Open the wp-config.php file with a text editor and insert the following code to the end of the file: where ‘X’ is the interval (in days) the trash will auto-empty itself. For example, if you want the trash to auto-empty itself every 7 days, the code will be...

You can turn off keyboard backlighting automatically by pressing F5 or Fn + F5 on your Mac keyboard repeatedly till it turns off. If you’re using one of Apple’s more recent Macbook Pros with the touch bar, simply find the keyboard backlight button on Touch Bar and press it repeatedly. If you want your Mac to automatically turn off the keyboard’s backlight after a specific time of inactivity, you can do so by following the below steps....

This is why virtually every semi-serious photographer gets into the habit of backing up his or her images. However this often requires a lot of extra equipment, namely a computer and storage media. But what if you are about to embark on your dream holiday and don’t want to be bogged down with unnecessary items? No matter how thin and light laptops get, they’re still bulky and a pain to lug around....

Today I’m going to show you how to block a website in Google Chrome via the Personal Blocklist Chrome extension. Install the Personal Blocklist (by Google) Chrome extension. The extension’s icon will appear on your browser toolbar. There are no options for Personal Blocklist, so you can just start searching Google to see it in action. You’ll notice that there is an option to block any result’s source domain in your search results....