It’s the thing you look at most often on the screen, whether it’s your phone or your computer. Aesthetics matter in the feel of a gadget, and the wallpaper plays an integral part in that. So let’s find some brilliant backgrounds for your screens. A surprising number of sites ask you to pay to download […]
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A dark Windows theme is a good start to reduce eyestrain and increase the coolness factor for your desktop, but you can make your desktop even darker. Almost all of us grew up with light Windows themes. On old versions of Windows, dark colors were almost unheard of. With Windows 8, dark was suddenly cool. And it […]
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I recently acquired a Chromebook and I couldn’t be happier. The device itself is incredibly lightweight and portable yet robust with superb performance (Acer Chromebook 14 for Work in case you were wondering). It makes me want to work, which explains the huge boost to my overall productivity. Acer Chromebook for Work, 14″ Full HD, […]
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Windows is great about letting you tweak and remove user interface elements sometimes, and stingy in other places. The Taskbar is a Windows element that carries plenty of keyboard shortcuts and changeable settings, but has one part that might annoy you. There’s a tiny sliver at the right side of your Taskbar that activates the […]
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Docker is a “container” platform, which allows applications to be run in their own sandboxed world. These applications share resources, e.g. things like hard drive space or RAM, but otherwise can’t interfere with programs running on the host system. For corporate servers this means an attacker may not be able to use a compromised web […]
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When Apple introduced System Integrity Protection (SIP) to make your Mac more secure, it put an end to deep system tweaks. As a fallout of that, starting with El Capitan, your options for personalizing your Mac are somewhat limited. But you do have more options than you think you do. Let’s explore some of them. Of course, […]
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