All About Directories The first command you learn when you’re introduced to Linux is probably ls, but cd won’t be far behind it. Understanding directories and how to move around them, particularly nested subdirectories, is a fundamental part of understanding how Linux organizes itself, and how you can organize your own work into files, directories, and subdirectories. Grasping the concept of a tree of directories—and how to move between them—is one of the many little milestones you pass as you familiarize yourself with the landscape of Linux....

If you need to view, edit, or delete credit card numbers automatically saved by Microsoft Edge, it’s easy to do so using the browser’s payment info settings. Here’s how. First, open Edge. In any Edge window, click the ellipses menu button (three dots) found in the top-right corner and select “Settings.” In Settings tab, click “Profiles” in the sidebar, then select “Payment Info.” On the “Payment Info” screen, you’ll see a list of any credit cards saved in Edge, including credit cards saved to your Microsoft account (if you’re signed into that account with Edge)....

In a blog post, ExpressVPN explained the specifics of its massive bug bounty. It only applies to a certain part of the company’s technology. “The first person to find and demonstrate a security-critical bug on our VPN server technology, TrustedServer, will receive a new bonus award of US$100,000,” reads the post. That means that any general bug you find in ExpressVPN won’t net you the big money (though the firm does have a traditional bug bounty program)....

Log into you Gmail account and select Contacts and select specific or All contacts you want to Export. Now choose CSV (Comma Separated Values) format so we can import the contact list into Thunderbird and click the Export button. Download the file to a location onto the hard drive. As you can see below I use the Firefox extension DownloadThemAll. The next step is importing that file into Thunderbird. Open Thunderbird and go to Tools Import....

Using Kantaris Media Player Kantaris is a quick download around 10MB and installs very easily following the installation wizard. Kantaris can play virtually every type of media file you want to associate with it. The user interface is very intuitive and offers cool options such as Last.FM Radio, previewing movies, and creating a video library. Click on the Info button to retrieve album art and song information from the Last....

Select the cell(s) you you want to wrap. Click Home on the Ribbon and select Wrap Text. That’s all there is to it! Excel will wrap the text in the cell and also increase the height of the cell row.

The feature actually launched a few years ago to some users, but now all users can encrypt their conversations when using Meta’s chat application. There are two ways to use Messenger’s end-to-end encryption. You can swipe up on an existing chat to enter vanish mode, which will make it, so all of your messages are deleted when the chat window is closed. There’s also Secret Conversations, which is used by clicking the lock when you create a new chat....

Microsoft Security Essentials (MSE) is free Anti-Malware protection that replaces their previous “pay for” utility One Care. It has left beta and version 1.0 was released to the public yesterday. As with the beta we showed you before, this version provides real-time protection and runs quietly in the background. It actually runs a lot like the beta version and the user interface is the basically same. Before installation make sure there is no other Antivirus or spyware application running on the machine....

Mainstream Laptops Are a Little Modular When we talk about a modular laptop, we’re specifically referring to laptops that have high levels of modularity. Modularity exists on a spectrum of possibilities. There are laptops with zero modularity, such as the M1 MacBook Air. You better be sure that the storage and RAM specifications on the laptop are what you want because there’s no way to change or upgrade them. Then we have a more typical level of modularity that most modern laptops have....

Earlier you had to compile the program on your Linux machine to be able to use it. However, the developer(s) have come out with an easy solution by releasing deb files for the same. Features of OpenShot Support for many video, audio, and image formats (based on FFmpeg) Gnome integration (drag and drop support) Multiple tracks Clip resizing, trimming, snapping, and cutting Video transitions with real-time previews Compositing, image overlays, watermarks Title templates, title creation Solid color clips (including alpha compositing) Support for Rotoscoping / Image sequences Drag and drop timeline Frame stepping, key-mappings: J,K, and L keys Video encoding (based on FFmpeg)...

Plex is one of the most popular ways to stream your own media collection, but there hasn’t been an officially-available app for playing all Plex content on Linux — until now. Plex revealed in a blog post today that the Plex desktop application (the client for playing content, not the server) is finally officially available for Linux systems. It’s distributed as a Snap package, which means you need a distribution that supports Snap and the framework installed....

The answer is a great little freeware utility called DriveSpacio that helps you find out where all that free space has gone, similar to the more well known WinDirStat (Download from Ninite) utility. The benefit of using this one is that it integrates directly into the Explorer shell and has a lot more reports. Using DriveSpacio Once you’ve downloaded and opened the utility, you’ll see a screen with the hard drives in your computer....

Update: We’ve also covered how to limit system restore’s disk usage in Windows 7. The utility to change the settings is a command line utility called vssadmin. You’ll have to open a command prompt in administrator mode by entering cmd into the start menu and hitting Ctrl+Shift+Enter, or right-clicking the command prompt and selecting Run as Administrator. Show Allocated System Restore Size Type in the following command into the prompt:...

Once installed, you can simply drag and drop to reorganize the taskbar buttons. You can also hold down the Ctrl key and reorganize the tray icons… notice that the Outlook icon is in the middle here… And after moving it now it’s over on the right. The settings dialog gives a really interesting option, the ability to group tasks but not collapse them into a button… so instead of this:...

Right click My computer Properties hardware and go into Device Manager. Or a much easier way to access Device manager is to enter “devmgmt.msc” into the run line then click OK. In device manager just navigate to the device which is not behaving correctly. For this example I will use the Integrated Sound Device. Right click the device and select Properties. Now click the Driver tab then the Roll Back Driver button....

One could argue that Dear Esther launched the entire genre called walking simulators. This led to beloved games like Gone Home, Firewatch, and a slew of other games not focused on combat. Instead, these games focus on story and exploration. Some people use the term “walking simulator” as an insult, but it can also be endearing. The Steam description does a great job of explaining what makes Dear Esther so beloved:...

Thanks to forum member ScottW, our own Microsoft MVP, for the idea for this article. Use Mousotron to Measure Mouse Distance Mousotron is a little application that measures not just how far you’ve moved your mouse, but also your keystrokes, mouse button clicks, and even the scroll wheel usage. It lives in the system tray, but it also has a widget that displays on the desktop. The only problem is that the default setup is really quite ugly…...

Note: These screenshots are from Vista, but it works the same in Windows 7. Let’s say I’m in my x:\wpmu\wp-content directory. Sure, I can usually click the “wpmu” part of the path and simulate the Up button, but it doesn’t always work, especially if I’ve lowered the size of the window or tiled two windows beside each other. This window is 600px wide, shouldn’t I have an easier way to go Up?...

Even though the chip is the same, it seemed crazy to think that Apple would offer the same level of performance with the iPhone SE as it does with the far more expensive iPhone 13. However, based on the first round of benchmarks reported by MacRumors, the new budget-friendly phone does score just as well as the flagship. In Geekbench, the new iPhone is listed as “iPhone 14,6.” It scored 1695 for single-core and 4021 for multi-core....

Fan Tokens in Action For example, holders of fan tokens can vote on which uniform a team wears. They could also be rewarded with tickets to games or apparel. There are endless possibilities. The concept is still fresh and use cases are still being created. Teams that offer these tokens hope to increase engagement and awareness of their teams. Even though we like to think that teams operate with only winning in mind, they ultimately operate as a business....