History The first version of Zsh was created in 1990 by a Princeton Student named Paul Falstad. The name “Zsh” supposedly comes from the connection ID of the Princeton professor Zhong Shao. The shell in itself was influenced from Bash, Ksh, and Tcsh: Zsh has a very powerful auto-completion functionality, along with recursive searches and a corrector included. And of course, the prompt can be defined according to the user’s wish....

What do the Letters and Numbers Mean? First of all, you need to understand that these terms are not talking about different versions of the same thing. Each one refers to some unique features of the USB, either the speed or the hardware specs. USB connectors have both numbers and letters to describe them. The letters stand for the physical characteristics of the connector. The numbers refer to the technology that moves the data and power from one device to another....

What is apt-fast? apt-fast is a shellscript wrapper for “apt-get” and “aptitude” that can drastically improve APT download times by downloading packages with multiple connections per package. To verify this claim of “increasing package downloading speed” I ran a simple test by installing the web browser Midori using both apt-get and apt-fast. The result for Apt-get is shown below: while apt-fastresulted in: As you can see, it increased the downloading from to 1022....

For instance, you can use Google Calendar to create an alert during a meeting. The alert will automatically inform other participants in the meeting when you are running late for a group conference. Below are the steps to activating this feature on your Google Calendar. Notifying Your Colleagues Open the Google Calendar application and sign in to your Google Account. This will bring up all the information that Google has with regards to your dates and appointments....

Installation The installation is really easy. If you can’t find MyNotex in your distribution’s repositories, head to the official website. You’ll find .deb and .rpm packages as well as those for Arch Linux. You can also download the source tar.gz file, unpack it in a folder and run the “your-folder-name/opt/mynotex/mynotex” file. On Debian, Ubuntu and Ubuntu-based systems, install MyNotex by typing or by double-clicking it in your file manager. Remember that MyNotex requires SQLite and GTK....

The Mouse’s Third Button Ask most people how many buttons a mouse has, and they will tell you there are two. That’s not entirely true, though. The wheel in the middle can do so much more than just scroll. It can be clicked, like the other buttons, by pressing down on it. Several shortcuts use the wheel as a button. That third button can be used as a shortcut for opening browser links in a new tab by pressing down on the wheel while hovering over the link....

In this article we talk about how to get started in real photo editing and how to make your photos as good as they can be. We will be using the free online photo editor Pixlr. Basic Photo Editing Now brace yourself, as what we are about to discuss may sound a bit dry and boring, but the difference you can make to a mediocre photo with a bit of basic balancing is amazing....

The EasyCAP DC60 is a cheap old school video capturing device which is perfect for capturing old school video sources. If you have a ton of old video tapes or have some old video game consoles you want to grab walkthrough videos from, this is one of the very best cost-effective ways to do that. In this article we show you how to get set up and a few tips on how to configure the sound and video for the best performance....

Organize bookmarks in one place Like our favorite browsers, Windows also provides various methods to bookmark our favorite items. If we talk about Windows 8, it has two ways to organize the bookmarks in Windows Explorer. First, when you open Windows Explorer, you will see a Favorites menu in the left hand pane. You can drag and drop files and folders in the Favorites menu to pin them right inside the Favorites menu....

That data remains with the image as long as it is not manually wiped off by you or an app. If you happen to have such geotagged photos on your Mac and wish to know where exactly they were captured, you can do so using the built-in Preview app on your machine. The Preview app lets you access any photo’s geotagged data and let you see the embedded location right on a map like Google Maps....

iOS 9 introduced a Picture-in-Picture (PIP) mode. Yes, it’s not innovative, and it’s been a part of the TV experience for ages. But now, you can finally watch that football match while scrolling through your Twitter timeline or your email. Or can you? While PIP mode works when you’re using the Videos app, it doesn’t work at all in the YouTube app where we spend the most time watching videos....

Our Opinion For Elsie, it has to be a smart plug. She’s “had enough strangely high power bills” and needs to keep them in check. If she saves up enough cash, she’ll probably get a smart refrigerator someday. Simon has been very tempted to get smart lights recently, ones you can set on a schedule and adjust from wherever you are. David is “tempted to finally pull the trigger on a smart plug,” just like Elsie....

Rather than splitting itself into pieces, Windows 10 presents itself in one package. Perhaps the biggest pet peeve of people who explored Windows 8 was the forced “Metro” or “(Post) Modern” interface. The operating system gained lots of negative attention due to the fact that every time you would boot into Windows 8, all of your tiled applications would appear in front of you before you ever saw the desktop. Microsoft’s argument for this is that they want to shift into a more mobile-centric platform, though this has since proven to be a rather ambitious idea that largely went wrong....

Our Opinion Christopher was tempted to say his Nexus 5 but ultimately settled on his old Xperia Play. He enjoyed that “it wasn’t just a smartphone but one with a slide-out game pad“, and it was his first smartphone. He went on to use it long after he no longer had cell service even rooting it after the device stopped getting updates. He feels it opened the gateway to his better understanding of Android and Android development....

1. r/NameThatSong If you remember the lyrics to a song, then most of the entries in this list will help you out, but what if you heard just a tiny segment of a song on some short video, remember the music video, or remember the general “theme” of the song while not being able to pin down the lyrics. It could be time to ask Reddit. The NameThatSong subreddit is a community of 143,000 people who work together to try and identify a song based on the description, clips, even clips of humming uploaded by the poster....

What Are Windows Environment Variables? Environment variables in Windows are commands that launch a folder path using a brief text string within percent sign characters (%). The “environment” here refers to the runtime in which a program is executed. In fact, the purpose of these commands is to impact various running processes on your computer. Popular environment variable examples are “%AppData%,” “DriverData%,” “%temp%,” and “%WinDir%.” You may have used them in Run menu or Command Prompt without actually knowing that they’re called environment variables....

What you get with Winyl is a very lightweight player that lets you easily manage your music collection without bogging down your computer. That means you can still do other things while your music is playing; especially a netbook. What you get with Winyl There are a few cool things you will notice about the layout. First, there is not the usual menu bar. Winyl replaces the menu with an icon....

Yola gives you your space on the web. There are both free and paid packages available. I am going to talk about the free version. Yola is really easy to set up and super easy to change if you don’t like the way your site looks. If you are just starting out, building a site can be a bit intimidating. Yola adds some neat features to help make things go a bit smoother on your first attempt....

Having trouble upgrading to Ventura? Learn how to fix a frozen Mac during an update. 1. Manage Windows With Stage Manager Even though macOS had Mission Control, it lacked a feature to manage opened windows properly. That changed with macOS Ventura – it introduced Stage Manager to completely change the way you multitask on Mac. Stage Manager groups together all recently opened windows and pins them to the left side of the screen to allow you to switch between all open applications seamlessly....

Note: Most of the “vanilla” Windows dock apps haven’t been updated in a long time, and the best modern options require you to use an additional desktop customization tool called Rainmeter. It means you’ll need to do a bit more work to get your dock, but it’s totally worth it! If you don’t want to go through the trouble, then we also have a few non-Rainmeter docks for you....