If an app isn’t working on an Apple TV streaming box, the easiest way to sort the issue is to close the app. However, doing this isn’t immediately obvious – thankfully, the solution is very straightforward and learning how to do so will mean you’ll avoid having to restart the whole box. This method works with all the Apple TV devices with a Siri remote, either the black version with a large touchpad or the newer silver model with the clickpad....

Why You Should Avoid Password-Based Logins The OpenSSH daemon running on servers was battle-hardened, through years of use and abuse and software patches. It’s pretty rare for a server to be hacked because of a bug in the SSH daemon. However, many break-ins are facilitated by administrators who use weak passwords. Even passwords that seem to be complex, with letters and numbers, are often sensitive to brute-force attacks. Enter SSH keys....

How to Install Virtual Machine Manager To install Virtual Machine Manager, simply enter the following command in the terminal. From there, you can open your Applications menu and either look for or search for Virtual Machine Manager. You can also run the following command to open the application. Creating a Virtual Machine The application will open, and you’ll be greeted with a screen that looks like the following image. The next thing you’ll want to do is get a hold of the ....

On some occasions we may have videos and pictures we don’t want just anyone to see that make us think twice when someone asks us to use our phone fearing that they may wander into our phone’s gallery and see what they shouldn’t. If you have photos and videos you don’t want just anyone to see, you might want to consider using KeepSafe Vault to hide videos and pictures....

Smaller, simpler, and cheaper options are available. GitHub Pages, for example, is free for personal use. Combine that with Jekyll, a static site generator, and you have everything you need for a blog. Even better, it’s free. Before you get started You’ll be running Jekyll on your own computer, and only macOS and Linux are officially supported. We’ll be covering both operating systems here, and the Linux instructions may work with the Windows Subsystem for Linux running Ubuntu....

Fortunately, Apple’s OS is always very user-friendly, and indeed that comes to use in such a situation. If you find your device’s default text size to be less than ideal, don’t worry. We’ll show you how to easily adjust the text size on your iOS device below: Open up the Settings app on your iOS device from the Home Screen. Scroll down and click on “Display & Brightness -> Text Size....

Kfilebox (formerly Kdropbox) is an easy-to-use utility that automatically downloads the latest Dropbox daemon and integrates Dropox with your KDE system. Note: If you have previously installed Dropbox in Kubuntu, rename the .dropbox-dist folder to .dropbox-dist-backup in order for Kilfebox to download the latest version of the Dropbox daemon. To install Kfilebox in Kubuntu: Go to the project’s Sourceforge website Click the latest version (currently Kfilebox-0.4.5) Click Ubuntu 10.04 (even if you have 10....

What Is Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)? Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) is an installable feature in Windows that lets you run a Microsoft Store-supported Linux distro on a Windows 10 or Windows 11 device. Microsoft has partnered with Canonical (the publisher of Ubuntu) to bring its bash command line capabilities to a typical Windows desktop so that you can integrate both Linux and Windows into your workflow. WSL supports Linux file systems using commands for Bash but cannot offer a full Linux desktop experience, which is only possible with a virtual machine or dual-boot procedure....

Perhaps the most notable is the Mate project. If you don’t know about it, here’s a quick overview. Mate is the spiritual successor to the extremely popular Gnome 2.x. They’ve taken the source code from that old project and converted it into something a lot more modern. The Mate desktop is pretty great. It’s light, efficient and people don’t have a hard time figuring it out. There is one problem though....

Fortunately, there are alternatives such as Pleroma which is a self-hosted Twitter. This is a lightweight federated microblogging platform. Using federation allows the platform to communicate with other federated instances which means that you do not need to gather a lot of people for your own private Twitter to start sharing information. This article aims to help you get started with Pleroma. The Issue with Twitter Twitter has been known to randomly ban accounts for vague policy infractions....

What Is a Boomerang Video? Boomerang videos are basically short looping clips that don’t last more than a few seconds. The ability to Boomerang videos was designed initially by Instagram and became wildly popular. Even if you’re not a user of the photo-centric app, there are many other apps available to make Boomerangs with. Most of them are not difficult to use, so it comes down to which apps have the best features....

However, both this “brief familiarization with its environment” and the touch screen approach can be almost entirely eliminated, making Deepin’s desktop more familiar and friendly for those who come to it from the world of Windows and closer to how other “more mainstream” Linux desktop environments work. For this, you only need three simple tweaks. Launchers and taskbars Instead of a standard taskbar, Deepin Linux prefers the macOS approach, presenting a floating launcher with icons at the bottom and center of the screen....

Change Windows’ Power Mode Windows has a sophisticated set of power settings and policies. They allow you to fine-tune exactly how your laptop should allocate power to its components, but who has the time for that when there are games waiting? Luckily tweaking them is fairly easy. Note: If your power plan is set to “High Performance” you’ll have to change it to “Balanced” before you can access Power Mode options....

Interface Files in GNOME 3.6 has been stripped down to present you with as few buttons as necessary. Present in the top left are the standard arrows to move around between previously accessed directories. Next to this is the currently accessed file directory, presented as a list of buttons so that users can move quickly around their file system. Further to the right is a search icon, followed by the options to view items as a list or in a grid, a drop-down arrow with more view options, and a cog to access window settings....

Install KDocker For this to work, we will use both the latest version of the Spotify client and KDocker. Although its name starts with a “k,” KDocker is not associated with the KDE desktop. It is a simple tool that allows you to move any application to the tray in most popular desktop environments. While it has not been updated for quite a while, it is still working fine for most desktop environments....

Not all graphics cards are equal, but one would expect them to perform the same or close to the same on one operating system as they do on another. Unfortunately, the lack of cooperation from some graphics chip manufacturers and the slow development of some open source drivers have created an environment where every user’s experience may be different. KDE has several settings that you can tweak to get better performance with desktop effects....

Adding a Local Printer Contrary to popular opinion, Chrome OS does have native printing built in, so adding a printer doesn’t require hacker-level computer knowledge. To add a local printer, follow the steps below. Click on the battery and time indicator at the bottom right of your Chromebook dock. It’s the same position for all Chromebooks. Then click on the gear icon so the “Settings” window can open. When “Settings” opens, keep scrolling down on the left side until you see an option for “Advanced....

1: Get a Privacy Screen Protector Think about it: You take your phone with you every day, occasionally taking it out (in public, no less) to check up on a notification. Each person around you has a pair of eyes, and some of them might be snooping in your direction. Since the keyboard is on the screen, it’s relatively easy to see someone type his account passwords just by looking over his shoulder....

One thing to remember about SendTab is it’s not another bookmark saving/sharing app. It doesn’t save a link to be retrieved later. Instead, it sends and receives a link in real time and immediately opens it in a new tab within the browser. The first thing to do is to set up and install the extension on all devices and add them to SendTab’s network. If you intend to use it between several computers, then you’ll have to install the extension for Chrome or the bookmarklet for Firefox....

In this article we discuss the use of Crontab to schedule and automate tasks in Ubuntu. Do note that while we are using Ubuntu as an example here, the steps below will work for any Linux distribution. Using Crontab to Schedule and Automate Tasks in Ubuntu The Cron daemon performs the same function as Task scheduler on Windows. With this application, you can choose a preferred time for any process you want to start, whether it is a backup or maintenance task....