BSOD crashes can occur due to many reasons: corrupted registry, damaged installation files, or out-of-sync drivers and hardware. During each crash, Windows saves a “minidump” file that explains the precise reason behind the crash. The following tutorial covers some of the best ways to mitigate the BSOD problem. The troubleshooting techniques we discuss are recommended by Microsoft on their official website. How to Fix the Blue Screen of Death Error In a typical blue screen of death error, your full-screen monitor will turn into a blue terminal screen to display the text: “your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart....

I recently had the opportunity to test out Boom 3D. As a music lover, I was excited to see exactly what it could do. Note: This is a sponsored article and was made possible by Global Delight Technologies. The actual contents and opinions are the sole views of the author who maintains editorial independence, even when a post is sponsored. Boom 3D Desktop Features Speakers, headphones, and sound cards aren’t always cheap....

Here are the main reasons: Different cases manage airflow differently (which is important to prevent the overheating of your components). Different cases are made to suit different form factors and storage capacities. Different cases look quite a bit different, and you want to choose one that’s at least slightly aesthetically pleasing to you. Finally, your case is one of the biggest factors of your building experience. Case too big? Might have issues with cabling being too short....

You won’t want to use this Android app to remember to get bread and milk on the way home (although you could). Call Reminder is more about having a reminder that you need to call the doctor’s office to make an appointment, or call Holly back to start planning the rock climbing vacation details. Setting a reminder Setting a reminder is pretty straight forward. Start by opening the app and enter your reminder note....

Defining “Hacker” The oldest definition we have of the word “hacker” comes from the 1960s in the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It describes a person who is an enthusiast at programming or systems engineering. The negative connotation came with the dawn of the Internet era, when circumventing computer security became something profitable and somewhat easy. Today, this connotation still exists, but we now split hackers into three categories: White hat (doesn’t destroy anything, but rather fixes it), grey hat (does things outside the confines of the law), and black hat (disrupts things for profit or fun)....

If you dislike having to turn dark mode on and off in every program you use, Chrome may soon make that a thing of the past. While it’s not on the main browser update branch as of yet, an exciting update has hit Chrome’s beta branch. This update allows Chrome to look at what the dark mode settings of Windows 10 are and replicates them as closely as possible within the browser itself....

This is a sponsored article and was made possible by Clario. The actual contents and opinions are the sole views of the author who maintains editorial independence, even when a post is sponsored. Do You Really Need an Antivirus on Your Phone According to a recent report from FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, phishing scams created the most victims in 2020 in the US, with the trend expected to continue well into 2021....

You can set up Apple News Publisher with your WordPress site and even monetize your traffic. The service has three options for adding your content. Apple News Publisher’s content creation screen A plugin to connect an existing site to the service Your site’s RSS feed URL However, you’ll need to set up an account and get Apple’s approval to publish content. The following will show you how. Connecting Your WordPress Site to Apple News Publisher If you have a WordPress website and are interested in publishing on Apple News Publisher, you should follow the steps below....

To emulate a CPU intensive task, we can use a tool called matho-prime which generates a list of prime numbers. If you ask it to generate a big enough list it will max out the CPU while it is working. To install matho-prime on Ubuntu or on a Raspberry Pi use: Let’s just start the task and see the CPU usage: This tells matho-primes to generate a list of primes from zero to nine billion nine hundred ninety-nine million nine hundred ninety-nine thousand nine hundred ninety-nine!...

Two of the most popular virtual machine software are VMware and VirtualBox. Both have their own pros and cons, and most of us spend a good amount of time and effort to create and maintain a virtual machine in either software. The good thing is that you can even migrate your VM from VirtualBox to VMWare, and vice versa, without having to recreate from the ground up. Here is how to do it....

In Ubuntu Ibex, the eCryptfs package was included in the Ubuntu main to support the use of a secret encrypted folder in the Home folder. To get it working in Ubuntu Hardy, you will have to follow the steps below: First, install the eCryptfs package: Create your own secret folder. Mount the ecryptfs to the secret folder It will then prompt you to answer a few questions. Selecting your key type for newly created files Press “1” to select passphrase You will be asked to enter and verify your passphrase....

It’s also true for our gadgets. We buy phone cases, change the computer wallpaper, make a playlist, add stickers, etc. One area that we can personalize in our computer is the desktop. Being that you are a Mac user, the wallpaper is not the only thing that you can adjust. With the help of Übersicht, you can add useful widgets to display virtually anything that you’d like, including the weather, to-dos, appointments, and more....

Until now only Cyanogen OS users had access to a variety of stock applications, but now even CyanogenMod users will be able to enjoy all those apps. The company recently announced the Cyanogen Apps Package (C-Apps) which brings six essential stock apps to CyanogenMod-powered devices. The Cyanogen Apps Package (C-Apps) package is now available for download. However, it will not come preinstalled on the forthcoming CyanogenMod releases. Users will still be required to download the C-Apps Package manually....

In the fight between the two sides, the most recent weapon of choice has been the use of AI. White hats, for example, can use AI as a means of intelligently detecting attacks. While regular antivirus simply check all incoming connections as per a preset list of rules, an AI antivirus could, theoretically, stop an attack without prior knowledge of it. That’s not to say the black hats have been totally eclipsed by this development – in fact, they’re using AI in their own sieges on the computer world!...

The Similarities Between RHEL, CentOS, and Fedora I want to cover what’s similar between these three distributions first. They are all based on Red Hat Linux which was discontinued in 2004. The company Red Hat created and owned Red Hat Linux, just like it still owns Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Right around the time Red Hat Linux morphed into Red Hat Enterprise Linux, it merged with the Fedora Project, and CentOS came out as the Community ENTerprise Operating System....

So what’s the solution? There’s a tool that’s built especially for these situations. Meet Screenkey, a command line application you can use along with your screencasting application to make sure your keystrokes are better displayed. Screenkey Inspired by Screenflick, Screenkey is a tool that captures whatever key you press and displays it in a way that makes it easy to read and understand whatever is being written. Screenkey offers features like configurable font/size/position, highlighting of recent keystrokes, improved backspace processing, and multi-monitor support....

Are ISPs Selling Data? When assessing the effectiveness of the measure passed by the FCC, we should first ask ourselves whether the phenomenon it is addressing is actually happening. And it turns out that this is true! One of the biggest culprits in the United States happens to be AT&T which has been known (funnily enough) to sell data to the U.S. Government. Although the majority of scandals surrounding the company’s data collection are centered on government, parts of AT&T’s privacy policy does have provisions that allow them to use data such as your account and network usage information for more targeted advertisements....

In Ubuntu, regardless which browsers or applications you are using, as long as it supports the “Print” function, you can quickly create a PDF, postscript or SVG file of the work you are doing (or the webpage that you have come across). In the application (say Google Chrome), go to the “Print” option in your menu. Select “Print to File” in the popup window. You will see an option for you to save the file as PDF, Postscript or SVG....

Note: Linux users looking for the same PDF split and merge features can check out PDF Shuffler What is Icecream PDF Split and Merge Icecream PDF Split and Merge is a simple and versatile app which can help you split large PDF documents into small usable PDF files and merge several small PDF documents into a single PDF file. The good thing about this software is that it gives you fine control over how you split and merge the PDF documents....

Musk, who pledged to make Twitter more democratic and that free speech would reign supreme on the platform under his guidance, has had quite the 24 hours. Firstly he suspended the accounts of a number of high profile journalists who regularly cover the social media beat. Names like CNN’s Donie O’Sullivan, Ryan Mac of The New York Times, Matt Binder of Mashable, the independent reporter Aaron Rupar, and a host of others....