Norton, the same company we count on to protect us against viruses and malware, published its yearly report examining cybercrime. It’s definitely an eye opener to be sure, as it shows how many are affected by cybercrime as well as how many don’t even know they are leaving themselves open to being hit. Just take a few moments to run the stats from the image above through your mind. 556 million cybercrime victims a year....

It’s available to nab for £439, which marks out a £40 saving on the convertible’s usual £499 price, and for that, you’re getting a convenient laptop/tablet combo with decent specs for casual computing and some intense workloads. If the Surface Go 3 deal isn’t for you though, then we’ve still got plenty more of the best Black Friday deals for you to have a gander at, even as we’re approaching the downward slope towards the end of the sale....

1. Display Settings Have you recently installed a major feature update only to discover the brightness is different or your desktop icons are a different size? The good thing about display settings is you’ll likely notice something’s wrong immediately. You can usually fix them within two settings groups. First, go to “Start -> Settings -> System -> Display.” These settings relate mostly to brightness, resolution, and other displays. If you have a second display and it’s not being recognized or not working correctly, the update likely changed your driver....

In this article we’ll talk you through the first things you need to do when setting up your shiny new smart TV – from firmware updates to ensuring that the picture looks just right. The Basics Every smart TV has a basic setup process that should guide you through the fundamentals of getting your TV online, creating an account and so on. This guide will assume that you’ve gone through this basic setup process and that your TV is online....

Here are thirteen powerful text manipulation tools every command-line user should know. 1. cat Cat was designed to concatenate files but is most often used to display a single file. Without any arguments, cat reads standard input until Ctrl + D is pressed (from the terminal or from another program output if using a pipe). Standard input can also be explicitly specified with a -. Cat has a number of useful options, notably:...

In many ways, this is a flagship phone worthy of a higher price. It packs an excellent 120Hz OLED display, 256GB storage, a huge 4800mAh battery and seriously snappy 80w charging. There’s also a very fast Snapdragon 888 chipset providing the grunt. It also has a tempting camera array, featuring a 50MP main camera, 50MP ultra wide, 13MP tele and 32MP selfie. That’s a seriously large amount of megapixels. We know this is a good phone, as we’ve reviewed it....

1. Opera Opera Software’s browsers are used by some 350 million users to access the Internet from a wide range of platforms including PCs, smartphones and tablets. The native Linux version is primarily available as a Snap, which is probably the simplest way to install it. Otherwise, you can go to the Downloads page and download a .deb or a .rpm file and let it open in your software center of choice, which will install the package for you....

One of the more lamentable problems comes from shooting in low-light environments. Photography enthusiasts will be able to manipulate settings like ISO and shutter speed. But if you don’t have the know-how, follow these simple smartphone photography tips to help you capture the best photos, even in low light. Stability Shooting in low light often means that the shutter of your camera has to stay open for a longer period of time....

Tip: Use these Google Drive keyboard shortcuts to supercharge your routine. 1. StackEdit If you want a capable Markdown editor that interfaces cleanly with Google Drive, StackEdit is an awesome choice. It’s a fully-functional WYSIWYG editor that lives in your browser. It supports Markdown Extra, also known as GitHub Markdown, allowing for a wider range of formatting options that vanilla Markdown. It also includes syntax highlighting through Highlight.js, with support for 172 programming languages....

Given this, we have two choices: either keep on buying new hardware in order to keep our computers running smoothly or risking ending up with a computer going slower than a snail. Recently I noticed that I was going for the second option with my laptop, so I decided to ditch the “heavy” Windows 8.1 and change to a lighter Linux distribution. With the recent Windows XP hassle, I believe that my personal experience can help others who are now deciding which OS to use afterwards, so here it goes....

Unity Tweak Tool is a configuration tool for the Unity Desktop, providing users access to features and configuration options. While most of the configuration options are available in the System Settings as well, Unity Tweak Tool brings them all together in a single place so you don’t have to search high and low for each setting. Installation The Unity Tweak Tool is included in the Ubuntu Raring repository, so you can easily install from the Ubuntu Software Center or click this link or via the command: For Ubuntu Quantal and below, you have to add the PPA:...

No matter what the reason is, here are two different ways to hide your Windows drives or partitions. Technically we are not hiding a drive but unmounting it. As soon as you unmount a drive or partition it becomes invisible in the file explorer. Hide Drive Partitions Using Command Prompt Hiding drive partition using Command Prompt is easy. First, press Win + R, type cmd and press the Enter button....

Why You Need Alerts Apps initially have to ask permission to gain access to your camera and/or microphone. There’s just one problem with that, though. Once permission is granted, apps can use your microphone or camera at any time in the background. While it’s nice to believe all apps are nice and care about your privacy, the truth is many don’t. They could be listening or watching you at any time....

One of the best open source apps for turning any computer into a fully functional media center PC is the XBMC. While you can install XBMC on top of the Raspbian distro for the Raspberry Pi, there are in fact several projects that are working to produce a dedicated media center distro for the 700MHz ARM-based device. The OpenELEC project produces streamlined builds based on XBMC for various platforms including the Raspberry Pi....

Having a cloud storage service that caters to Linux users is great (especially with the upcoming closure of Ubuntu One), but having one that works also on the Raspberry Pi is fantastic! The first step is to download the Copy.com client for Raspberry Pi using wget: The “wget” command should already be installed on your Pi, but if it isn’t you can install it using: You will now have a file called “Copy....

What is Google Now? Google Now is like a concierge built into Google Search for Android. You can ask Google Now to do various tasks for you. Tasks can range from setting an alarm, sending a SMS to someone or many other useful things. I am sure you can think of some reasons why you may want to complete tasks with your voice. Using Google Now Google Now has several different parts to it....

Google Docs could become a good alternative since it is web based and does not require any installation at all. The problems: you have to login everytime and you can’t set it as the default word processing application. The solution? Zoho Webservice. Zoho web service is a project developed by Canonical (the team behind Ubuntu) that integrate the Zoho Web office suites to Ubuntu. Once installed, you can easily run Zoho applications in your browser....

The .NET Framework is, in truth, a vital part of many applications from around the Web, no matter their purpose. Let’s get started figuring out what that means. What’s a Framework? Essentially, a framework is something made to support other applications. In the case of the .NET Framework, it contains files and functions that aren’t actually within the programs that call upon them, so having these Frameworks save developers the trouble of having to code many of these things all by themselves....

Mirrorless cameras have taken the photography world by storm these past few years, quickly catching up to DSLRs and even overtaking them in many instances. But,what exactly is a mirrorless camera and what are the benefits of picking one up? What is a mirrorless camera? The clue is in the name. A mirrorless camera is a camera that doesn’t use a reflex mirror to capture images. Instead of using mirrors for reflecting its image onto an optical viewfinder the way that a DSLR does, mirrorless cameras use electronic viewfinders – or EVFs – to display images digitally....

What is bashrc? If you run a Unix-based or Unix-like operating system, you likely have bash installed as your default terminal. While many different shells exist, bash is both the most common and, likely, the most popular. If you don’t know what that means, bash interprets your typed input in the Terminal program and runs commands based on your input. It allows for some degree of customization using scripting, which is where bashrc comes in....