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New Look The most obvious change to many is the completely redesigned color scheme. The standard brown has been replaced with a purple, grey, and orange theme called Ambiance. This also applies to things like the standard desktop icons. Yahoo Becomes New Default Firefox Search Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, reached an agreement with Yahoo! to set the default search provider in Ubuntu’s version of Firefox to their search engine. This doesn’t prevent you from making the two clicks necessary to set it to whatever you like, so those who don’t like Yahoo!...

Copying Books to your Android Device After installing Aldiko Book Reader, copy a few eBooks onto your SD Card (files must be ePub or PDF). Next, launch Aldiko. Once the app launches you will see a wooden bookshelf with all your eBooks. To add eBooks from your SD card into your Library, first select the home icon and then select SD card. Scroll through your SD card and select the checkbox next to the eBook you would like to add....

It’s being used on a large scale to automate all kinds of business processes, but some tools are starting to bring it down to the personal level, letting individual users do their own automation. While it’s a few levels below an AI, as RPA can pretty much only follow scripts, the line between the two is growing increasingly blurred. Personal robotic assistants taking over your most routine tasks? Not as far away as you might think....

We’re now deep into Black Friday season and we’ve been coming across some amazing gaming deals. One of the most recent deals we’ve found is this 33% discount on the PS5 DualSense controller, which has had its price slashed from £59.99 to just £39.99 – a £20 reduction. And if this offer isn’t piquing your interest then we recommend taking a look at our best Black Friday deals. This page will be continually updated throughout the entire Black Friday sale and covers all the best discounts we’ve found so far, from smart home devices to gaming gear, there should be something for everyone....

Essentially, these scripts were written for use with a variety of functions within OS X, and some of them add a considerable amount of power to iTunes. Windows users never could use them, but there does exist alternative scripts that harness Visual Basic code. Naturally, do be careful when toying with scripts that can modify song data. If necessary, test it on a track or two in order to ensure it has the desired effect....

The 4K model of the Dell XPS 13 laptop usually costs £1549, but has now been discounted to a far more affordable £1349.99. With the Black Friday deal, you’ll be saving 13% on the Dell laptop. This isn’t the only Black Friday deal you should be excited for. We’ve assembled a list of the best Black Friday deals we’ve seen across the web, with savings for laptops, smartphones, TVs, headphones and more....

The Black Friday official sale may be over, but that doesn’t mean there are not even more deals and bargains to be keeping an eye on over the weekend. One of the best new deals we’ve come across is this £20 reduction on the Apple Watch SE 1st generation, which has gone down from £239 to £219. If this deal isn’t as intriguing as you would have liked, then make sure you check out our best Black Friday deals roundup, which we will be sure to keep updating over the weekend so you can stay in the loop on all the best bargains....

APT Repositories The ease with which you can update your system first depends on repositories of files in an APT-readable format. These repositories are nothing more than directories that contain the following two files: Packages.gz: This is a list of all the installable binary packages in the repository. If you have some packages (maybe even some you packaged yourself with Debreate) in a directory, you can generate this file automatically with the “dpkg-scanpackages” command....

1. Speak Speak is updated to look and feel like iOS 10 apps should; however, the voice options aren’t up to par with the more genuine-sounding current generation versions of Siri. The voice options sound more like that of the iPhone 4S Siri out of the box running iOS 5. Nonetheless, if you can get over the robotic voice, it is a great app for playing back transcripts. Though I must say, a major con is that when the display locks, the app stops playing back voice....

While you will have all that you need to be reading blind you have finished reading this article, you definitely shouldn’t be grabbing just any old screen reader off the Internet either. Best Microsoft Windows Screen Reader: JAWS What would this list be without Freedom Scientific’s JAWS? It advertises itself as (and is) the most popular screen reader on the market and for good reason. The company that makes it is also prominent for making other products oriented toward the disabled, including magnifiers, large-print keyboards and even digital braille-centered devices....

1. TimeAndDate (Web, iOS, Android) The TimeAndDate time zone converter allows you to add present, past and future dates for up to 11 cities for conversion. There is a “sort by” option where you can organize the time by city, country or time. You can also get it to display the “UTC time” in the display result too. A big pro for this site is the option to jump into the “World Clock” drop-down in the menu bar and find the current time in more than 1000 cities around the globe....

Unless you give them a reason to come back by informing them about new content. And a great way to do that is by using push notifications. Adding and Keeping Visitors A push notification is a message sent to your subscribers to inform them of any new update on your website. If you enable push notifications on your site, a pop-up will appear asking every new visitor if he/she would like to receive notifications from your site in the future....

We can easily rename a file by right-clicking on it in the Finder and choosing “Rename” from the pop-up menu or by selecting the file and pressing Enter. But it’s impossible to rename hundreds of files one by one. To do that you need help, and there are tools to help you do that. For Mac users, one of the recommended free file renaming tools is NameChanger. Batch Rename Made Easy NameChanger does one thing: to do batch rename, and it does it well....

The Black Friday sale is fully underway and we’ve been catching some incredible deals already. Now, we’ve come across this fantastic offer on the Honor MagicBook 15, which is £160 cheaper thanks to Black Friday, having its price slashed from £649.99 to just £489.99. And don’t worry if this laptop deal isn’t for you, just make sure to check out our dedicated best Black Friday deals page, as we will be updating it every time we discover a fantastic new deal on all things tech, from home appliances to speakers....

PySolFC Despite the odd-looking name, PySolFC is among the Windows 10 solitaire apps. Unlike other options on this list, it’s open source. While it’s not available in the Microsoft Store, it is free to download. It’s also available for Linux and Mac. Personally, it’s my favorite and has been for years. If you don’t mind the older look to the interface, you can’t really ask for more. It’s ad-free and includes hundreds of games....

Note: We will be using Xubuntu for this tutorial. Managing Panels XFCE is very similar to Gnome 2.x. It comes with panels where you can customize and place your applications/applets on it. To customize the panel(s), you just have to right click on the panel and select “Panel -> Panel Preferences”. This is what you will see: At the top dropdown bar, you can switch between the various panels. In Xubuntu, Panel 0 refers to the top panel while Panel 1 refers to the bottom panel (the one that look like a dock)....

Initially, this may sound strange since Linux is famous for supporting older hardware. And yet, it’s justified by the last 32-bit CPU being produced more than a decade ago. If your PC is so old that it doesn’t support 64-bit software, you have only three possible paths forward. Let’s see your options. 1. You don’t have to move to 64-bit If you think about it, nobody is forcing you to upgrade to the latest version of Ubuntu....

If this isn’t what you’re looking for, make sure to check out our Black Friday guide for all the best Black Friday deals across every category available right now. The Instant Pot Duo Crisp and Air Fryer is a one-touch cooking device with 11 settings, including Pressure Cooker, Sauté Pan, Steamer, Slow Cooker, Sous Vide, Food Warmer, Air Fryer, Roast, Bake, Grill and Dehydrate. The Instant Pot Duo Crisp and Air Fryer is an 11-in-1 kitchen appliance with a 5....

We previously covered why Windows comes with so many fonts as standard – a practice that, we’re sure, is repeated on Apple’s Macs and across various Linux variants. Now, it is time to explain how these already lengthy lists can be expanded upon. Suffice it to say the fonts covered here should function on any and all major operating systems, so you need not worry about platform exclusivity or compatibility issues....

Modify the .htaccess File The best way to do this is by modifying your .htaccess file. It should be in the main directory of web site. Open it using your Text Editor to add the following code: RewriteCond will allow the sites (your own site URL should be here) that are able to use the images on your site. If you want to allow search engines the ability to have your images show up in the Image Search function, then add the following code: You should probably think of adding your RSS feed as well, so your images are displayed on your RSS....