Changes As this is a minor (5.x) release, changes to Elementary are mostly evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Nevertheless, Hera comes with two big changes. Firstly, users can now install updates without administrator permission. This has certainly made it more convenient for the user, though many will think it is a bad move. The second big change, and the one that resulted in the above change, is the use of Flatpak apps as the default....

Getting Started Deeper can be downloaded from Titanium’s Software website. It’s available for Mac OS X Lion and Mountain Lion. If you’re into the beta thing, you can try out the beta for Mountain Lion – although there is a warning label (since all betas have bugs and glitches). Once you drag the dmg file to your Applications folder, you’re ready to get started. When you first run Deeper, you’ll need accept the terms and authorize it by enter your Mac keyword....

Adaptive brightness is a simple feature that adjusts your screen brightness according to the light around you. Remember the smartphone feature that we always take for granted? Yes, it’s exactly that. Adaptive brightness will dim or brighten the display depending on your surroundings so that no matter where you are, your display won’t be too dark or too bright. That being said, in Windows 10 the Adaptive Brightness feature is only available to Pro and Enterprise users....

Slow Performance and Crashing Some Safari users have reported sluggish performance or crashes. If you run into this problem, try the following fixes. Private Browsing For pages that give you trouble, try viewing them in Private mode. In Safari, tap the “Tab” symbol, then tap “Private” to open a private-mode browsing window. Note that Private mode ignores cookies and does not save the sites you visit to browsing history. Disable Search Suggestions “Safari Suggestions” and “Search Engine Suggestions” are handy features, though they also place demands on computing power....

Switching Between Languages To get startedk typing in another language, you need to first go to “Settings -> General -> Keyboard -> Keyboards -> Add New Keyboard” to add a new keyboard. Once that is done, identify the “globe” icon (looks just like a globe) on the keyboard and tap and hold. Slide your finger to one of the other languages you have activated to switch to it. Search for Different Emojis In today’s world, using an emoji is second nature and widely accepted even in the professional world....

To use Feedly, you need to sign up for an account, or use your Google account to sync with Google Reader. Once you’re signed in, your Google news feeds (if you have any) will automatically be added to main page. Upon logging in, you’ll get the main page with the Featured section – a collection of the most popular articles from all the sites you added (or are subscribed to in Google Reader)....

Greeting me as I opened up the free Hipmunk app is a flying chipmunk, depicted in a cartoon. While it may seem because of the cartoon that it’s not a serious app, it definitely is. You don’t have to know the airport code, just the cities you’re flying from and to. Flying out of Chicago, it offered me a choice of two airports, as well as leaving it as a more general “Chicago area”, in order to get the best flights available from either airport....

As compared to Google Calendar, OwnCloud’s Calendar feature is not as comprehensive, but it is completely functional and usable. If you are using an older version of OwnCloud, simply upgrade to the latest version and you find the Calendar feature. If you have not started to use OwnCloud, here is the installation instructions (Windows users, click here) Once you are logged into your OwnCloud account, you will see the Calendar button on the left menu....

How Does Your Computer Know What Time It Is? It’s likely that when you first booted up your computer, it already had the time showing correctly. This is because most modern-day operating systems use the Internet to sync with a time server. This lets the computer know what time it is, and your PC sets the clock accordingly. For example, this Windows 10 clock uses the National Institute of Standards and Technology to get the correct time....

Considering that they provide a free service, how do these browsers even make money? Typically, we assume “ad money,” but that is just one part of the overall revenue mix. Here we examine a few popular browsers and their unique approaches to revenue. 1. Mozilla Firefox It will not surprise anyone that Mozilla Foundation does not operate as a non-profit anymore. According to its latest financial statement, the company earned $562 million in 2017....

What is Inodes? In a library, all the books are organized by genre, author name or audience age-group. If you want to locate a thriller by “Bobby Daniels” you would directly walk to the thriller section and begin finding author names that start with “B”. Just like a library, all the files in a Linux system are organized for efficient retrieval and usage. Inode is an entity assisting in arrangement of files within a Linux system....

Ransomware and Other Threats Exist on Android, Too I recently covered ransomware, but what I didn’t mention in that article is that ransomware threats exist on Android, too. Using a malicious mobile advertisement, the exploit installs ransomware on the device, though this version is notably less powerful than the typical Windows-based solutions. Security breaches on Android can be massive. Along with Windows and iOS, Android is one of the most widely-used operating systems on PCs and smart devices throughout the world, and because of that it’s regularly the target of major security exploits....

1. Add Text Box in Google Docs Using Google Drawings To put a box around text in Google Docs, use Google Drawings, which can easily be accessed from any Google Docs document. Follows these steps to insert a text box in Google Docs: Tip: to add text over a picture, click on the “Image” icon in the toolbar and add the desired image, then click on the “T” icon to add text to the picture....

Luckily, it is very easy to add custom ringtones to your alarm clock, so you don’t have to wake up with the irritating buzzer alarm. 1. First connect your Android phone to the computer, via USB cable. 2. Mount your phone’s SD card to the computer. Create a new folder call “alarms” (without the quotes) in the main directory of the SD card. Copy all your favorite alarm clock ringtones to the folder....

After originally being available for iOS, the company rolled it out for Android as well. With it only working on these mobile operating systems, people who use their desktops more than their smartphones will be a little disappointed not being able to use it on their machines. Fortunately, there’s now a way for you to apply Prisma filters to your photos right from your desktop. It uses the Telegram messaging service and a bot to apply the amazing Prisma effects to your photos without leaving your desktop....

Naturally, this has left people frustrated, and it has me thinking about all the other sneaky little ways Microsoft bombs us with advertising and how to stop the onslaught. Disable Lock Screen Ads Much like the recently snuck-in “Personal Shopping Assistant” ad, Microsoft added in lock screen ads in an update in February 2016. To be fair to them, it was hardly being “sneaky,” as there’s no way you’re not going to notice a giant ad for MineCraft or Tomb Raider taking up your entire lock screen, but Microsoft had the audacity not to even label these things as ads....

The following instructions will show you how to change the default font and font size in LibreOffice so that the new custom font will be used every time you open a new document. LibreOffice Writer It is very easy to change the default font and font size in LibreOffice Writer. Open LibreOffice Writer. Go to Tools -> Options. On the left pane, scroll down to “LibreOffice Writer -> Basic fonts....

1. MSN Weather MSN Weather, the default weather app on Windows 10 and 11 comes bundled with the operating system and is updated with each version. You can access it directly from the Start menu. Enter any location on the search menu to get tons of weather-related information. This includes accurate, insightful details such as temperature, wind speed, visibility, barometric pressure, humidity, and “feels like” trends. The detailed summaries stretch into hour-by-hour updates, historical precipitation trends, thunderstorm predictions, ultraviolet index, moonrise and moonset times, and moon phases....

And that’s true, for the most part. But this won’t be an article about AMD vs Intel. Instead, it will be a guide about how to buy the best AMD CPU for your usage. And just like it doesn’t make sense to buy a super car just to go grocery shopping, it doesn’t make sense to buy a 16 core AMD Ryzen Threadripper for casual web browsing or office work....

Go-mtpfs is a simple FUSE filesystem that is built upon the MTP library used for previous tutorials. Once you have compiled and installed it, you will be able to mount and unmount your Android device easily and reliably. I have tested it on my phone and it works all the time. Installation The developer of Go-mtpfs does not provide a PPA or deb file, so you have to grab the source and compile it manually....