If you’re an audiophile as well as a Linux user, you might have a big issue with Pulse. You might find yourself disappointed that you can’t tweak your entire Linux sound setup (at least easily) to have an equalizer. Bummer, right? Not to worry, it turns out, as someone has created a piece of software that makes it fairly easy to get a system-wide equalizer up and running. It’s called pulseaudio-equalizer....

Thankfully, there is a way to paste content without retaining the original formatting; this feature is called “Paste Special.” It also provides some useful options when pasting images into a document. You can Paste Special by pressing “Ctrl + Alt + V” in the Microsoft Office suite and a number of other applications. This article will show you how Paste Special can be used in two of the most popular Office apps – Word & Excel....

As such, attacks have become more covert. Instead of directly asking the user to download a file or click a link, they attempt to hide the infection as much as possible for a higher success rate. One way to do this is to make a direct copy of a popular website and have everything run “as normal,” albeit with some hidden malware lurking within. The Case of NordVPN Recently, we saw an example of this with NordVPN....

If you want your downloads to be more visible and accessible, an add-on called Download Status Bar might be a good solution. The add-on places a preview of all downloads on the browser’s status bar (located at the bottom), with added controls of pausing, resuming, canceling or clearing a current download. After installing the add-on, all downloads will appear on the status bar, and you only need to hover your mouse over each download to see its downloading progress and other information....

Introduction If you’re looking for an economical way to extend your wireless network, the Mercusys ME30 could be the perfect solution. Costing less than £30, it acts as a wireless relay for your router, broadcasting its own Wi-Fi network to areas that don’t get a good signal from the main transmitter. The reason it’s so cheap is that it uses last-generation Wi-Fi 5, rather than the current Wi-Fi 6 standard. That means it can’t match the top speeds of today’s premium wireless gear, and it’s also liable to slow down if you have lots of devices using the network at once....

Mango Mango is the codename for the next major update of Windows Phone. It adds more than 500 new features to the existing version and makes the phone more intuitive and user-friendly. The Mango release will be available for free to Windows Phone 7 customers and is scheduled to ship on new phones later this year. Some of the major update include: Silverlight 4 as core platform IE9 as the main web browser Live Tile enhancements: use of back of tiles and ability to update Live Tiles locally Deep linking into apps from notifications and Live Tiles Deep integration of calendar, contacts and social networking sites (Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and several others)...

Just because you are building a high-end gaming PC doesn’t mean you have to pay an insane price for every single part. Here are some mistakes people make when buying parts for a gaming PC and how you can avoid them. Don’t Buy “Gaming OC” Video Cards This might seem counter-intuitive. You’re a gamer: you want the best. You don’t want that regular RTX 2080 Grandma is using. You want that beast: “RTX 2080 Gaming OC eXtreme Edition....

This is one of the most powerful way for a site to be discovered by the world and then become popular. Who wouldn’t like to be famous? (Digg effect, anyone?) We all know the power of having popular site(s), right? I mean, the money, the fame, the money, the money, that sort of things… That is why most Webmasters are doing their best to maximize this bookmarking trends. The problem is, because so many people addicted to the bookmarking sharing trends, more and more bookmarking services are popping out everywhere and it has become a bit difficult to keep up with all of them....

Jobs was known for his famous personality worldwide, with many institutes having invited him to deliver speeches and inspire others with his well-chosen words. One of his most famous speeches, named “Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish”, is the one he delivered to the Stanford University graduating class of 2005. This speech can be found at various locations on the net, but we’ve also included a link to its video below for you to see: Apple’s Engineers have also embedded the entire speech in Pages for OS X, as a tribute to the late Apple icon....

PaperPlane Features Installation and Usage Installing and using PaperPlane is simple and straightforward. To start, head over to the official website and download the application. Once downloaded, install it like any other Windows software. After installing the software, launch it using the desktop shortcut or by searching for it in the Start menu. As you can see from the below image, the app will automatically populate the launcher with your frequently used programs....

Lookout Mobile Security is a versatile security app that aims to protect your mobile phone from various aspects. It is currently available for Android, Windows Mobile and Blackberry (Sorry, iPhone users). It covers you from three aspects: It is a virus and malware scanner, backup tool, as well as a tracking device. Download and install Lookout Mobile Security Once you have installed Lookout Mobile Security, you can start to configure it for maximum protection....

While I can not shield you from PRISM, Chrome and Firefox users do have several excellent and reliable solutions that offer some measure of online privacy, one of which is aptly named “PrivacyFix”. We have previously looked at solutions such as Ghostery and Abine, but what does this one have to offer? Get the App Head over to the site to grab the extension. The add-on promises to work on social networks, search results and even provide data on what you are worth, in real dollars, to places like Google, Facebook and others – and yes, the sites do place a monetary value on each of us....

Installation Firstly, if you’re not using Kubuntu, you can install Gwenview from the Software Centre, or with the following command: It will then appear in the “Graphics” application sub-menu. You can also search for it from the Dash. Usage I use Gwenview in order to prepare screenshots for posting here on MTE, and I’m able to do each one in about fifteen seconds. I use the keyboard shortcuts whenever possible. For each screenshot, I usually have to crop out unnecessary parts of the image and reduce the width to an appropriate size....

Hardware Fixes for Raspberry Pi Monitor Not Working When you connect a Raspberry Pi to a monitor via HDMI, several aspects could prevent the setup from working properly: Your Raspberry Pi’s HDMI portYour monitor’s HDMI port or the HDMI cable itselfThe failure of a converter, if you’re using one, like an HDMI-to-VGA converterThe SD card Below, you’ll find a list of suggestions to fix these problems. 1. Check the Cable Connection The first thing you should check is the HDMI cable connection between the Raspberry Pi and the monitor....

Do you wish for a way for you to remove the lengthy time stamp from the file names? Using the method described below, you can That way the screenshot names will be short and sweet, just like you wanted them to be. Here’s how you can do that. Removing the Time Stamp From Screenshot File Names on a Mac What you are going to do is run a command using Terminal that will tell your OS not to attach the time-stamp details in the screenshot file names....

Here is a neat trick that allows you to move the selected region to another part of the screen. While selecting the region, press “Space” on the keyboard without releasing the mouse. You will find that you are able to move the selected region to any where you want on the screen. Once you have moved to the area you want, release the “Space” button without releasing the mouse to continue resizing the selected region....

It’s happened to everyone at some point. You lose the data on your phone or even lose your phone itself. You may feel as if all is lost, but it doesn’t have to be. You can easily save all your data, even if you’ve never backed up before. You can accomplish this with Primo iPhone Data Recovery. It allows you to recover data directly from your device, from an iTunes backup, and also from iCloud....

Read on for our selection of fixes for when your second monitor goes missing. Do note that this article only deals with the Windows platform. Are You in the Correct Port? Starting with the simple stuff, we’ll skip the Route-1 advice to check for loose connections (and try different cables) and go for the slightly more advanced issue of your second monitor not being connected to the right port. If you have a dedicated graphics card, then all visual output connections go from there, so any monitor cables (VGA, HDMI, DVI, whatever) you connect to the motherboard boards won’t work....

Fortunately, you don’t need a special type of air conditioner to do all those things (and more). If are looking for more control over your remote-controlled air conditioner at home or in the office, Sensibo is the answer. Once you learn everything it can do, it may just become your new best friend. What is Sensibo? Sensibo is a small device (aka the “smart pod”) that connects your air conditioner to the Internet (via the “smart hub”)....

But where possible there are in fact deeper levels of control; you just don’t see them right off the bat. Setting custom display resolutions is a very good example. In this article we’ll show you how to find the settings for custom resolutions in the Mac OS X settings, as well as some other little known facts relating to displays that you might find useful. New Resolution Adding a new display to your Mac in Yosemite and above means you may have to edit the display resolution in the System Preferences....