Modern style UI The majority of Windows 8 Facebook apps, including the official one, do little justice to the modern Windows 8 feel. Metro Social gives you a fully-immersive, full-screen experience for Facebook that other apps do not come close to offering. Metro Social took the idea of what an app should be like in Windows 8 and applied it to the overall design of its Facebook app. When you browse your News Feed in Metro Social, you can utilize its side-by-side feature to begin responding to posts by liking or commenting on them....

The Monitor’s “2D/3D Button” Very few passive monitors can really detect when you have a side-by-side (SBS) image that needs to be converted to an interleaved one. In fact, whenever I play a 3D movie, I end up with the raw SBS output, rather than an actual 3D image. This is because the software is supposed to transform this for you. To get a better idea of what I’m talking about, see the image below....

If you’re a long-time GNOME user though, the default configuration probably isn’t what you’re looking for. If you’re looking for a more traditional GNOME 3 experience, look no further. It is easily achievable on Ubuntu 17.10. Install GNOME Yes, GNOME is already installed, but vanilla GNOME is actually a separate package. It seems that Canonical planned for just this type of thing and decided to package vanilla GNOME to cover all the bases....

What do extensions do? Extensions are small pieces of software that fulfill one single purpose to customize your browsing experience. They are built on web technologies such as HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. These extensions can enhance your browser by allowing you to do things such as print a PDF of a webpage, pin images to Pinterest, use dark mode, or edit your grammar while typing in the browser. What are flags?...

How Locked Folder Works in Google Photos First, you’ll need to update the Photos app to the latest version. Locked Folder is available on Android only, at the time of writing this article, and supports Android 6 or later. iOS users will have to wait until early next year. There are a couple of ways to use it but first, you can find it in the “Utilities” section under the “Library” tab in the Photos app....

Installing Openbox On Debian/Ubuntu based distros, use the following command: For Fedora: For OpenSUSE: For Arch Linux, use the following: Note: we will be using Ubuntu for this tutorial. However, the commands and steps can be adapted to suit other distros. Applications Menu and Openbox Configuration Manager This was mentioned before, but you will see a blank screen when you first log in. Have no fear, though – all of your applications are still there....

Installing Samba Samba is not installed by default. Open a terminal and type the following command: Alternatively, you can install Samba via the Ubuntu Software Center. Configuring Samba To get Samba to work the way we want it to work, we have to make some changes to its configuration file. In the terminal, This will open the config file in Gedit. Scroll down the page until you see the line: This is the identifier of your PC....

Note: Install DOS Emulator To play the old DOS games, you need a virtual environment where DOS games can run seamlessly. DOSBox is one of the most popular and easiest to use DOS emulators. With it, you can play almost all the DOS games without any hiccups. The good thing is, DOSBox also supports other operating systems like Mac, Debian, Fedora, etc. First, head to the official DOSBox site and download the Windows version....

Many non-Debian-based Linux distributions have their own ways of getting around this issue. However, out of all Linux distributions, Arch Linux has the most interesting ways of getting a Debian package working. In this article we outline three ways to accomplish this and discuss which one is best. Note: the steps below will work for any Arch-based distro. Installing via the AUR The AUR is the first place to check when looking for software that isn’t officially supported in Arch Linux....

NetHunter is the mobile version of Kali Linux and designed for Android devices. It’s a powerful tool for penetration testing. This tutorial shows how to install NetHunter on any unrooted Android phone. If you are interested in penetration testing, you should also check out these additional penetration tools for Android, and desktop. What Is Kali Linux NetHunter? Kali Linux NetHunter is the mobile version of the popular Kali Linux security operating system....

That is only one part. The next issue is the installing of new plasmoids. I downloaded some plasmoids from kde-apps.org and I have completely no ideas how to install it (I am still a newbie in KDE). I double click on it. It doesn’t work. I drag it to the widget section. It doesn’t work either. Once again, I have to google for help. If you are, just like me, having difficulty in installing your plasmoids, here is how you can do it: 1....

While that is a really good thing for many of the apps on your Mac, there may be some apps on your machine that you would like to launch in low resolution rather than what the retina display offers. There may be several reasons why you want to do this, such as you have an external screen setup and would like an app to launch in low-resolution on that screen, as it is not necessary for it to launch in retina mode....

To activate private browsing mode, you’ll typically need to start the browser in normal mode first, then activate this feature. Here we show you how to configure all the major browsers to launch in private browsing mode by default. By the end of this article, you’ll have made incognito, InPrivate, and private browsing the default for Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and Safari. Make private browsing mode the default in Firefox You can set Firefox to launch in private browsing mode by default:...

Using Activity Monitor If you want an extremely rough overview of the apps using your network connection, you can find that under the Network tab in Activity Monitor. Open Activity Monitor from “/Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor.app” or type “Activity Monitor” into Spotlight. Click the “Network” tab at the top of the Activity Monitor window. To see the most active processes, click the column titled “Sent Bytes” to see the processes sorted in order of amount of data sent....

To install Stella, you can either install it from the Software Center or use this command: The official Ubuntu repositories lag somewhat behind the Stella project’s version, so if you absolutely must have the latest and greatest version, you can download the .deb package and install it manually. To do that, just navigate to the directory you downloaded the .deb file and issue this command: This example shows the i386 version....

System Requirements Before we start, you’ll need to make sure your PC is up to the task. For the best experience, users should run RPCS3 within the recommended requirements mentioned below, as the RPCS3 development team has gone on record stating that they cannot guarantee the performance of system specifications below the recommended requirements. Windows: Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows 11Linux: Linux 5.4 (Older LTS), Ubuntu 18.04 or newermacOS: macOS Big Sur 11....

Although your keyboard has many keys, many of these special characters will be missing. So how do you type them into your documents? You can use the built-in Character Map application which is bundled with your Operating System or install an application such as GNOME Characters to find the character you want and then copy and paste from there, but this is bound to be slow and tedious, especially if you need to do this on a regular basis....

Word 2013 and 2016 The 2013 and 2016 versions of Microsoft Word have a built-in feature designed to recover unsaved documents. Fire up Word, click on the “File” tab and select “Manage Document.” This will bring you to the Info panel. Here, you’ll want to click on the button labeled “Manage Document” to produce a dropdown list with a couple of options. Select “Recover Unsaved Documents” to open a new window showing you a list of unsaved Word documents....

Remote access a PC from Android This style of remote access is a 2 person gig. It isn’t an option to access your PC from everywhere but home. The access you will have is to control a computer in the situation of IT type help. What you will need is the Team Viewer application installed in both places. Download Team Viewer for Android Download Team Viewer for PC, Mac or Linux Team Viewer will need to be running on both sides and both devices will need an internet connection....

Choosing a Linux Distro There are a few criteria to look at when deciding exactly which to go with. We’ll want something fairly small, runs well from USB, auto-detects local hard drives, and able to work with a persistence file so we can save our new programs and updates directly to the USB stick. I’d recommend Crunchbang Linux. It meets all of the above criteria, it’s Ubuntu-based, and it’s just a very slick distro that would work well for this purpose....