But, identifying a song is difficult when you hear it on your device If you’re privately listening to your music with earphones. Now it’s possible to identify a song on your device, even if you have your earphones connected. How to Identify a Song on Shazam with Earphones On The previous versions of Shazam made you use the device’s external speakers to identify a song. With the app’s latest update, it is no longer an obligation to use your device’s speakers to name a song....

What’s the Purpose of Sideloading? As mentioned above, sideloading apps has significant advantages, such as adding new functionality to your device. Users who opt to do this benefit in a variety of ways. For example, all apps undergo a review process before they can be listed on official platforms. Unfortunately, this can take some time. Sideloading allows users to install an app direct from a developer without having to wait for this review process....

How to Start a Workout On your Apple Watch, press the Digital Crown button to open up the app screen. Open up the Workout app. You’ll find a list of different exercises. Select the workout you’re about to perform. This will automatically start recording the workout. Depending on the type, the Watch may measure the distance covered, heart rate, calories burned, etc. Note that any distance covered will only be recorded if Location Services is enabled....

1: Make Sure The Lighting Is Balanced If you take a panorama and the photo seems to go very dark in some areas and excessively bright in others, you have a lighting issue to fix! For the perfect panorama, you need an environment that has a balanced amount of light. Aside from lighting, however, you also need to take into account the shape of your environment. If you are taking a panorama of an artificially-lit hall, you’re going to experience lots of difficulties due to the different ways that light reflects from objects depending on the distance to the source....

How to View Old Street View Images Google refreshes Street View data in a set time for many areas. This way, it allows you to view older images of places. However, do note that you can only use this time travel feature on Google Maps Street View on the desktop version. Open any web browser and head over to maps.google.com. Enter a location that you wish to see how it looked in the past....

Uses for a Text Expander One of the main uses for a text expander is adding more text to a SMS or an email with less typing. There are usually phrases or signatures you may need to type in all the time. When you can simply copy and paste it to the end of the email, you will feel less stressed and more professional about replying to an important email while mobile....

What’s wrong with the panel? This version of UNE comes with three desktop sessions – Ubuntu Netbook Edition, Ubuntu Netbook Edition 2D (for older PCs) and Gnome. The default UNE sessions lock the gnome panel and a few other GNOME settings in order to separate the UNE interface from the normal GNOME interface. When you right click on the panel, you will find that all the customization options are greyed out....

In Windows/Mac, you just have to download the respective software and uninstall it in your system (Be sure to uninstall the older version first). In Ubuntu, if you have installed Dropbox via PPA or deb file, you will find that it your Dropbox does not get updated with the system upgrade. 1. To upgrade your Dropbox account to 1.0, first shutdown the current Dropbox service. You should be able to do it by clicking the Dropbox icon at the panel and select “Quit Dropbox”....

Setting Up Your Test Environment The first thing you’ll need is a working instance of Bash. This is the default shell in the Terminal in Linux, Unix, BSD, and macOS (unless you’re running zsh). You can check which shell you’re running by typing the following command into your terminal: It should print out the shell that you’re using. My output tells me I’m using /bin/bash, which is exactly what I’m looking for....

Assuming you have an already running Linux system (probably using ext4) but you want to add some hard drives and use Btrfs, this is what you would need to do. First you need to install the Btrfs tools. On Ubuntu: Assuming that /dev/sda is the main disk with Linux installed on it and you want to use two new disks /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc, the next step is to create the btrfs filesystem on these disks....

One thing you can enjoy when you have your iPhone 4 jailbroken is the capability to use FaceTime Video Calling even if you are using a 3G network. FaceTime is one of the coolest features of iPhone 4 which enables you to do video calls to your friends and families. However, you must be in a WiFi zone to be able to utilize such feature… but not anymore. A Cydia app called My3G makes it possible for you to use apps which require WiFi connection to run even over a 3G network....

Setting up an Instagram account To set up your new Instagram account, you will need to download Instagram for Android and open it. Once you are in the application, you will need to press the Sign Up tab. Here you will need to add an email address, username and a password to continue. Optionally, you can add in your phone number and a profile picture. Adding Friends to Instagram After entering in that info to create the account, you can search for your friends who already use Instagram....

Toggle Play/Pause This is unquestionably one of the most frequently used shortcuts on Netflix. Forget going to the screen and hitting the play or pause button. All you need to do is hit the Space bar or Enter key. Press either button once to pause and again to play. That’s all there is to it. The Space bar being slightly larger is likely more of a go-to but either key works fine....

Whatever the scenario, Linux and other operating systems running an X server have the ability to forward a graphical application through SSH. Following a few simple steps, you can run a remote application in all of its full graphical glory. Note: if you are making multiple SSH connections to your remote machine, you can get your machine to show all active SSH connections. Installation and Setup Before you begin, you need to make sure that the SSH client and server are installed on the correct computers....

Steam Play isn’t available in the official mainstream Steam release just yet. It’s still in beta, but that doesn’t mean that it’s difficult to install, exclusive, or buggy. It’s actually well polished, and you’ll find that it reliably runs a whole new library of games. Install Steam If you haven’t already installed Steam on your Linux install, go ahead and do that now. Debian/Ubuntu Fedora First, enable RPMFusion. Then, install Steam....

How do you enable Tab Groups in Chrome? Let us walk you through the quick and easy steps. Turn on Tab Grouping As the Tab Groups feature remains under development and is not yet available to the general public, you will need to enable a quick setting. Open any new browser tab, and in the “Omnibox” or the search bar, type in chrome://flags. A search bar will now appear at the top of the page....

The Story of dd The command was originally developed at AT&T Bell Laboratories in the 1970s by a computer scientist named Ken Thompson. It was developed for Unix-based systems and given a name that was chosen as a reference to a statement found in IBM’s Job Control Language, which was called “DD.” It can be noted that the syntax of the command closely resembles a statement in the Job Control Language....

Fortunately, you can use Zeal, an offline documentation browser, to store programming language and software documentation on your computer and access it quickly and effectively. Zeal uses document sets (docsets) provided by Dash. They include documentation for many programming and scripting languages and libraries, as well as various software such as Docker, Nginx, WordPress and ElasticSearch, to name a few. Here’s how to install, use and customize Zeal on Linux....

With appropriate codecs, DVD movies can be played in gxine, Totem movie player and VLC. I personally prefer VLC as it simply works, without having to do much configuration. First, install the following library: This will install most of the codecs for multimedia (audio and video) playing. Next, you have to install “libdvdcss2” to watch encrypted DVD. The library package is not available in the Ubuntu repository, you have to use the “libdvdread3” installer script....

The biggest game of the World Cup so far sees the Netherlands take on Holland with a place in the World Cup semi-final against Brazil or Croatia on the line. These two sides have provided some of the most memorable encounters in the history of the tournament, including the 1978 final, which Argentina won on home soil. 20 years later, the France 1998 clash ended win one of the World Cup’s greatest ever goals, with Dennis Bergkamp winning it at the quarter final stage....