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Get more out of OS X Mountain Lion by taking advantage of these 5 tips and tricks you may have missed. 1. 40 Stunning Wallpapers Deep inside your Mac are 40 high-resolution wallpapers hidden within OS X Mountain Lion. I’m unsure why Apple has decided to leave most of these images out of the screensaver options but here is how you can get them to show up. From the Finder Menu, select Go -> Go to Folder (or press Command+Shift+G) and type in the following: The “Default Collections” window will appear showing you four folders filled with landscapes, animals and patterns....

1. Using Dark Mode One of the simplest ways to change the color of the Samsung keyboard is to change your phone’s theme to dark mode. When you enable dark mode on your Samsung Galaxy phone, the keyboard will automatically turn black. To enable dark mode on a Samsung Galaxy phone, go to “Settings -> Display.” Tap on the selection circle under Dark. Alternatively, you can enable Dark mode from Quick settings....

From standard identity theft to using your information to provide their own free healthcare programs, hackers can do a whole lot more with stolen healthcare records than they can with stolen banking information these days. One of the major reasons why hackers are so successful with healthcare records is that it is much harder to detect and shut down suspicious activity regarding your healthcare records than it is to identify and stop hackers who enter your bank account....

1. Download From YouTube There are multiple methods for downloading YouTube videos to the local disk. This particular script was highlighted because it provides multiple download formats, and cleanly integrates into the existing YouTube interface. You can download videos in the format of your choice directly from the YouTube video page. 2. RapidShare Autowait As the name implies, this script removes some of the hassle of downloading from RapidShare. While you’d normally have to wait until RapidShare is ready to start your download, this script will let you “just open all links in tabs and go play outside”....

Recently though, developers have added some intrusive features and a half-baked material UI to the app which seems to have bloated up the app and ruined the experience for many users. Fortunately, there are several other file manager apps for Android that are a good alternative to ES File Explorer. We’ll be sharing some worthy alternatives below in no particular order: 1. Astro File Explorer In something of a mini-miracle, Astro File Explorer is a free app that – would you believe – is not supported by ads....

Good to know: worried you’ll use you USB stick backup? Learn how to create a USB image to back up your data. Why Clone Windows? Many users running a hard drive or a slow SATA drive face the somewhat daunting and unappealing task of reinstalling their Windows OS on a new, fast NVMe SSD. This can feel like a roadblock to enjoying the superior boot times of the shiny new SSD....

1. Start Button The long-awaited Windows 8.1 Start Button is the biggest disappointment of the preview. When users asked for the Start Menu back and Microsoft responded, they thought they were getting much more than just a literal Start Button. The Start Button and “Start Menu” in Windows 8.1 is nothing more than a glorified Win + X Menu. This is not the Start Menu Windows 8 users were looking for....

Unfortunately, Parse is being shut down. Since January 28th, 2016, Parse has been winding down its service, and once January 28th, 2017 comes along, it will be shut down entirely. In this article we’ll be going over our recommended Parse alternatives and replacements and what you can do moving forward as an app developer. 6. Parse Server If you aren’t ready to move on, Parse isn’t completely dead. Rather, it’s being open-sourced and is known as Parse Server....

1. Travel Chromecast is great for the traveling business person who finds themselves shuffling from one hotel to another. Who cares what cable package is available when you can pop in a Chromecast and stream the same media you would have at home? As long as you have easy access to a WiFi network and a TV with an unhindered HDMI port, you have what you need to get up and running....

You can do tasks like commenting on files or even request files from someone. These and other tasks can help you get the most out of Dropbox and use it like a pro. Some of these options are in plain sight, but you’ll need to dig a little deeper to find the others. 1. Request Files from Non-Dropbox Users There will be times when the files you need to save on your Dropbox account are in someone else’s possession....

This is because word processors such as Microsoft’s Word and Libreoffice’s Writer are not designed for those tasks. As such, this can be incredibly limiting if you want to create documents with unusual formats and symbols. Knowing that, one way to get around this problem is by using a flexible document language such as TeX. From there, you can then use a preparation program such as LaTeX to output your TeX file into a printable document....

With over one billion monthly active users, Gmail is undoubtedly one of the most popular free webmail services today. If you are a Gmail user and are looking for a Linux desktop client for the service, look no further, as in this article we will discuss one such app, Wmail. Please note that all the instructions mentioned in this article have been tested on Ubuntu 16.04. Wmail is an open source desktop email client for Gmail and Google Inbox....

Ack is a program written in Perl that aims to be a replacement for the venerable old Grep, which has been around since the early ’70s. (In case you’re wondering, grep stands for “Global Regular Expression Print.”) Ack’s author, Andy Lester, is so confident that Ack is better than grep, that his project’s website is named betterthangrep.com. You can get it in a few ways. If you’re a regular Perl user, you can use CPAN to install it, perhaps with Perlbrew as I outlined in an earlier article....

Active LiveCD is one such tool that comes pre-installed with all the essential backup, recovery and security tools. Active LiveCD Tools and Features Though Active LiveCD comes pre-installed with several useful tools, below are some of the important tools that help you rescue your computer. Active Undelete: Using Active Undelete, you can easily recover any files, folders and partitions as long as they are not overwritten by the system. The good thing about this tool is that it supports multiple file formats and can even recreate the RAID system to restore as much data as possible....

Apple found themselves in hot water last year when a Wired reporter’s Apple ID was hacked into, and his iPhone, iPad, and MacBook Air were all remotely wiped. The hacker was able to get Apple’s tech support to let him take control of the reporter’s devices, bypassing the security questions. iCloud security has been in question since that event last year, and Apple is now adding two-step verification to help guard against such things happening again....

All you need to do is head to this Argos link, where you’ll land on the Nintendo Switch OLED product page. You may think it’s the normal price at £309.99, which you’ll get the opportunity to add one game for free and another for just £20 extra. Mario Kart Live: Home Circuit (either the Mario or Luigi edition) which retails for £79.99 is the free game, while the second game, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword HD is usually £39....

One of the applications I really like on my Mac, is Automator. Action(s) is a similar Java based application offering this same functionality on bot Mac and Windows machines. If you are unfamiliar with the possibilities of an automation app, think of it this way; any tedious task like resizing pictures or changing file names can be automated with Action(s). If you look through some of the preloaded scripts, you will get an idea of how powerful Action(s) can be....

Getting PinguyBuilder Pinguybuilder binaries are hosted on SourceForge. There are two verisons: 3.x and 4.x. Version 3 works with Ubuntu 14.04 and 14.10. For 15.04 and above, you can use version 4. To get the latest binaries (currently 3.3 and 4,3), you can also just use wget. will download version 3, and will get you version 4. To install the downloaded deb file, the developers recommend gdebi (as pinguybuilder has a few dependencies which dpkg would not handle)....

The Pixel range might have started off simple, but there are now multiple models across various price points. We’re not talking Samsung levels of product, yet there’s more Pixel choice than we’ve seen before. We’ve reviewed all the Pixel phones, past and present, including all the models released in 2022, and we know what makes them tick. We’ve compared all the cameras, batteries and displays along with thoroughly running them all through our rigid performance tests....

Best of Games 1. Ant Smasher Ant Smasher is a game that kids love. There are also a lot of videos on YouTube showing animals like Frogs and Dragons playing the game. The basis of the game is to squish all of the bugs that appear on the screen. 2. Angry birds Angry birds is one of the most popular mobile games of all time. It has even transitioned into stuffed toys so you can throw them around the house....