1: Skype! The application we all know to use an excessive amount of memory made a sleek comeback to the communications apps for Windows 8. Along the way, Skype’s been making some major improvements and updates that have transformed its application for good. No longer do you get the clunky Windows Desktop application that uses up well over 150 MB of your RAM on a decently busy day. You now get a fully-integrated Modern app for Windows 8!...

1. Unit Converter Pro The Unit Converter Pro app may sound like a paid app (thanks to the suffix “Pro” attached to the name), but it is actually a free and very popular unit conversion app. With over 1 million downloads, the Unit Converter Pro app does not involve any ads or in-app purchases. The app supports the conversion of more than 1500 different units into 80 categories. The app has a pretty simple user interface, daily updated foreign currency rates, etc....

Mac OSX 10.5.2 contains over 300 fixes, which enhance the stability, compatibility, and security of your Mac. In your hackintosh, never use the inbuilt software update function to upgrade to 10.5.2. It will not work and will crash your system. If you followed my instruction to install your Mac OSX Leopard, you have to use the netkas way to update to 10.5.2. Enjoy! PS: Before you start the 10.5.2 update, remember to backup all your extension files, and recover them after it has finished updating....

Facebook Lite is a newly released app by Facebook that uses less data and works in all network conditions. It is lightweight (the app is less than 1MB) and designed for 2G networks and areas with limited network connectivity. Similar to the Tinfoil app that we reviewed earlier, Facebook Lite is simply a wrapper of its mobile web site. However, one thing that makes it different is that it comes with native notification so you don’t miss an alert or update....

Surf’s official site says the browser “is able to display websites and follow links.” That’s it. There’s no built-in support for tabs and no included method of bookmarking – just a bespoke Internet experience. If that sounds like your kind of deal, you can install it right now. Installation of Surf The most reasonable way to get Surf is with Git: Like I also discussed in my Dwm tutorial, Surf encourages you to edit its configuration file “src/surf/config....

The two email address are your_username@googlemail.com and your_username@gmail.com. You probably know about the latter one and use it to correspond with your friends, colleagues, etc.; now you can use the alternative (@googlemail.com) for other uses. As we said before, the main use of this feature would be to make more than one account on a particular site, yet having all notifications and correspondence sent to the same inbox. The thing is the @gmail....

While a system with the LXDE desktop environment on it may take as little as 150MB of RAM after it boots up, Chromium, Chrome or Firefox will quickly eat up hundreds of megabytes and even multiple gigabytes of RAM as we open a few tabs. And that’s when it happens! Hard-disk starts to make that grinding sound. Music starts to stutter. When we switch to another application, it takes tens of seconds until it appears on the screen....

In this article, we will show you four cool things you can do with Automator. Once you have done these, perhaps you’ll start to experiment yourself and use it more often to automate your frequently used processes. 1. Word Count Curiously, not many apps have a built-in word count, which is odd as with a lot of situations you have a limited amount of words, or worse still characters, that you can use for your text....

What Is the /proc Directory? The “/proc” directory is populated from scratch every time your Linux system boots and throughout the time that it’s running. The kernel takes a survey of all the hardware in the system and stores that information there, making it easy for other programs to look at detailed information on the system hardware. Probably the most important thing to understand about “/proc” is that it’s not a normal directory with normal files – it’s more like a view into the system internals....

Not anymore. Wazala makes setting up your own online store a breeze. The concept of Wazala is similar to Ecwid. You create an online store on Wazala, embed the widget onto your existing site, and voilà, your online site is now up and running. There is no need to setup another e-commerce site, nor do you need to reconfigure your site for shopping cart functionality. One thing I like about Wazala is that it is elegant and simple to use....

All you need to do is enter the URLs you want to compare. Currently, the website is in Spanish but if you have Google Translate enabled or if you are using Google Chrome, it will automatically translate the page to English. It also shows you the potential position of the websites by rating them out of 100. The higher the number, the better position it will have in different search engines....

However, it should be interesting to understand more about these particular files. They seem important, as their absence can prevent softwares from running, so what are they, anyway? And how do they work? Let’s get some answers. DLL Files? Almost everyone has, at some point in time, dealt with DLL files, often when a newly installed software does not work because one of those files is missing. DLL stands for “Dynamic-Link Library”, and is Microsoft’s implementation of the shared library concept in the Microsoft Windows and OS/2 operating systems....

What is DNS? DNS, or Domain Name System, is used to translate typed URLs to their numerical IP addresses. Just about every internet service provider includes a DNS server in their infrastructure. This allows users of their service to make DNS requests from a geographically local server, helping cache frequently visited website identities and permit fast communication. Many third-party DNS services also exist: the most popular services are from Cloudflare and Google....

What Is Hybrid Sleep? “Hybrid Sleep” is, in essence, a hybrid of both “Hibernate” and “Sleep.” Therefore, in order to understand it, we first need to look at what both “Hibernate” and “Sleep” actually do. What Hibernate Is When a computer goes into hibernation it saves on energy by turning off its main components, including the RAM. Unfortunately, the RAM is where all your currently open software and data is kept....

Let’s Explain Alphabet For many years, Google has been a suitable umbrella for over 100 startups it has acquired in hopes of using their technologies to either improve their current platforms (e.g. the acquisition of ZipDash for real time traffic analysis in Google Maps) or start entering a new market (e.g. the acquisition of YouTube). Alphabet is Google’s way of expanding this umbrella to cover much broader projects that may require a separate entity outside of Google itself to manage....

However, there’s something else that we often forget about: firmware. Firmware is the software for the hardware, the configurations and options that software can interact with in the form of drivers to allow you to use it. Are firmware updates that important? How do you get firmware updates in Linux? Why should vendors make their firmware available for Linux? These are all questions that are answered in this article on what LVFS is and how to use it....

What Is Microsoft Visio While it’s part of Microsoft Office, you won’t find it in Home versions, as it’s more of a business tool. You can buy the standalone edition starting at $280 or subscribe for $5/month for a single user as part of Microsoft Office 365. Visio is designed specifically for creating diagrams and flowcharts. That’s all it does, but that’s all it needs to do. Some of the ways users put Microsoft Visio to work for them include:...

Yet, in direct contradiction to this, on the 17th of February 2017, a major bug in Cloudflare’s software caused a massive amount of private data from millions of websites to be accessible at any point in time. Some of this data even appeared on cached copies of websites that showed up in Google’s search results. This particular event, which came to be known as Cloudbleed, has presented a valuable opportunity for a discussion on the safe use of technology....

Note: this issue should not prevent you from receiving Android notifications on your Windows desktop. Check USB Connection Type The first step is to always check the USB connection type on your Android device. While some Android systems default to File Transfer or something similar, many default to charging only. To change the connection type, connect your Android device directly to Windows via a compatible USB cable. Once connected, look for the USB symbol in your phone’s notification tray....

Download If you are keen to try out Ubuntu 13.10 Final Beta, you can download the ISO file here. What’s new in Ubuntu 13.10? 1. Mir and XMir The biggest changes in Ubuntu 13.10 is the implementation of Mir, the new display server to replace the old X window system. As an effort to unify both the desktop and mobile experience, Canonical created their own display server – Mir to replace the old and outdated X system....