1. Your Mining Hardware Limits Your Choice There might be thousands of cryptocurrencies out there, but you can’t mine all of them. One of the big limitations is your hardware. Obviously, you can’t mine currency your hardware is not suited for. For instance, if you have an ASIC miner, then you don’t have much choice because these can mine one or few currencies only. If you have GPUs, even if they are high level, for many currencies such as Bitcoin, you can’t compete with ASICs....

related_post slug=”fix-the-person-who-bought-this-needs-to-sign-in-xbox-error”] Do You Have the Right Xbox One Controller? Before we begin, you need to confirm whether your Xbox One controller is the newer model. Older Xbox One controllers use RF wireless technology to communicate with devices, while newer Xbox One controllers use Bluetooth, which means they’ll be able to connect via Bluetooth to your Android phone. So how do you check this? Simple. The newer-style controllers look a little different, with a unibody face that doesn’t have a separate area of plastic around the Xbox button (see image below)....

Note: This article assumes that the VPN you are connecting to is using a PPTP protocol. If you need a L2TP connection, the instruction below won’t work. 1. In your Ubuntu desktop, go to “System Settings -> Network” At the Network window, click the “+” button at the left bottom corner. When prompted, select VPN for the interface dropdown. Click “Create”. Select “PPTP” for the VPN connection type (in most cases, you should only have one option)....

Most applications, when installed, will create the .desktop files automatically and place themselves in the “Application” menu for quick access. However, if you compile a program from source or download an app in archive format, this may not be the case, and you may have to open the terminal to execute the binary every time you want to use it. Obviously, this can become a very tedious and troublesome step....

Disk Images are indeed most useful for file distribution, but they can also be used to store files on your system, any external media or on a local network server. The server option is most useful if you want to encrypt your files so that no one else can access them. To create a Disk Image on your OS X system, simply follow the steps below: Open Disk Utility on your Mac, either by accessing it by Spotlight or by navigating to “Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility”....

We will first create a wallpaper with cloudy colored effects follow by adding a shine effect to it. Lastly, we will wrap it up with a lighting effect. Add Sun-Shine effect to the wallpaper Add Lighting Effects to the wallpaper That’s all to create high definition wallpapers with Adobe Photoshop. Have you created your own wallpapers?

Here’s how you can create a share folder and share it with your friends. First of all, if you have not used Dropbox, download and install the desktop client, register a Dropbox account and get yourself started. Open your file manager and navigate to the Dropbox folder. Create a new folder that you want to share (let’s call it the Share folder). Right click on the Share folder. Navigate to Dropbox -> Share This Folder....

KMail, KDE’s email client, is a robust and still very popular choice for those who still prefer to have their emails on their desktop, even when they are offline. It is part of the Kontact PIM (Personal Information Management) suite and offers many useful and unique features. Among those features is the ability to create advanced email templates. Business and organizations in particular will find this feature beneficial. For example, suppose your business receives online orders, and you need to send custom replies to each customer....

In order to create a reminder, all you need to do is type in a simple query with a specific syntax in the search box on Google. And this will result in you having your reminder created in your Google account. Note: For this to work, you must be already logged in to your Google account, and you should have Google Now turned ON on your Android/iOS/Chrome browser. One more thing, this only works in the Chrome web browser....

Where Can You Find the Discover Tab? You can access Discover through several avenues on your phone or tablet. For starters, you can open the Google app which comes pre-installed on most Android devices. Alternatively, on some phones, all it takes to find Discover is to swipe left from your device’s home screen. For those of you using Chrome on your handset, the Discover feed can also be brought up by opening a new tab....

If you use Google Voice Search on your phone to search the web or control your phone, then it is not a surprise that your voice recordings are saved in Google server as well. If you are not comfortable with Google saving your voice (or voice searches), here is how you can delete and disable Google Voice Search. Delete Google Voice Search History Google offers a web portal where your activity on all of the Google services can be seen....

If you’re using a PDF document with some sensitive information, it’s best to at least add the step of protecting the document with a password. To do this, you can either compress the document into a ZIP file, or can use an encrypted disk image in OS X. But the easiest method to password protect is to simply encrypt the PDF file, which is what we’ll be showing you how to do today!...

Some folks will note at this point that the excellent Virtual Desktop app has been offering this functionality for a while now, but it takes a little bit of tinkering for it to work perfectly, and it makes sense to have a first-party solution integrated into the headset. More options is always a good thing! Here’s how to enable Oculus Air Link on your Quest 2. Note: this feature is still in beta at the time of writing so might not work as well (or at all) for everyone across the board....

This can be useful if you want to watch a talk on YouTube or live stream a sporting event while getting other stuff done simultaneously. The PiP mode on other operating systems in quite limited in its functionality. Windows 10 (Creators Update) only supports PiP for Universal Windows Platform apps (UWP), while the macOS Sierra implementation seems to work only with Safari and web video at the moment. For Linux users you can easily enable Picture-in-Picture mode in Gnome Shell, and it is not only useful for videos but just about any type of content you might be interested in....

To make sure that only the intended recipient can access your email, you can further encrypt the email using GPG (GNU Privacy Gaurd) to use public and private keys to encrypt emails. Here’s how to encrypt emails in Outlook using GPG. Encrypt Emails in Outlook Email Client To encrypt emails in Outlook we are going to use a free software called Gpg4win which supports OpenPGP. Download and install Gpg4win like any other software....

Google loves data. It’s more valuable than anything, especially during the age of the internet. With their health and fitness tool the company is now tracking how much you exercise, your weight, everything. For some this isn’t a big deal, and for others it is. If you’re a fan of Google Fit but have recently decided that you’d rather not allow Google to know this type of information, you may want to read ahead....

If you’re using an external keyboard with your iOS device, you can easily search for a specific word using “Command + F”, but if you’re using your iPhone/iPad with your finger (as most of us usually do), you can use the following method to access the search options in Safari using iOS 9: Open Safari on your iOS device. Navigate to a website that you’d like to do a search on....

In order to ensure devices have as little conflict with each other as possible, channels are used to separate devices from one another and to achieve a better signal connection. Of course, the more devices you have, the more these channels get crowded, and your Wi-Fi quality suffers as a result. As such, it’s a good idea to check your Wi-Fi channels to see what’s going on. How Do Channels Work?...

Causes of “User Profile Service Failed the Sign-in” Error There are many reasons you may encounter the “User profile failed the sign-in” error. Variations of this error include: “User profile cannot be loaded” and “User profile service failed the logon.” If you get any of these error messages, it means the default Windows user profile has been corrupted, which can be traced to one or more of the following factors:...

If you notice that this also happens on other browsers and programs, there is a good chance there is something wrong with your mouse. But, if this only happens on Chrome, the following tips should help you fix the issue. Delete Extensions One by One Chrome extensions are great and the backbone of many Chrome users’ browsing experiences. But the more extensions you get, the higher the chance that you’ll get one that causes bugs in Chrome – precisely like scrolling problems....