Out of the box AIMP2 has a stylish and sleek interface with easy to use controls. Right away I was impressed with this player. The UI is very nice to look at and easy to control which is always a great thing to experience right off the bat. I was able to quickly load in an album to test out the sound. Crystal clear sound from this player indeed! Without making a single change to the EQ, Volume, or Effects AIMP2 played my FLAC files with impressive quality....

There are a couple of ways to get this information, which may or may not be enabled on your system. It’s useful to know more than one way to get the uptime information in case the commands are disabled on your shared hosting server. uptime The uptime command gives information on system load averages for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes: Example: w The w command shows who is logged on and what they are doing, including system load averages for the past 1, 5, and 15 minutes....

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Google first released the Play Integrity API in a developer preview last year, as an optional feature for apps and games to implement. “The Play Integrity API helps protect your apps and games from potentially risky and fraudulent interactions, such as cheating and unauthorized access, allowing you to respond with appropriate actions to prevent attacks and reduce abuse,” the company said in developer documentation. Play Video Explainer video from last year’s preview release...

Google is now testing an improved algorithm for separating a subject from a background, which the company says will provide more accurate background blur and background replacement. The before and after demo (embedded below) certainly looks impressive, but your results may vary based on camera quality and room lighting. Google says the change only applies to Meet in web browsers — for now, at least. Not all computers can handle real-time video effects, so if Google Meet detects your device is too slow, it will now move video processing to the cloud....

Google Chrome added a “Side Panel” feature that gives you quick access to your bookmarks and the Reading List in late March 2022. If you don’t want to see the Side Panel button in the Chrome toolbar, we’ll show you how to disable it. The Side Panel is essentially a combination of the “Other Bookmarks” folder and the Reading List. There is a tab for each one inside the sidebar....

This is where the Combined Community Codec Pack comes into the picture. All you need to do is download and install, although for best results you might want to read on. Launch the setup process, and you should come to the “Select Components” dialog. Here’s where you want to uncheck Windows Media 9, as well as remove the checkboxes for the two items under “Players”. We’re trying to play this under WMP11, afterall....

What Is TCP/IP? TCP/IP is sometimes broadly referred to as the Internet Protocol Suite. Together, TCP and IP control how digital information is broken into packets, how those packets are routed between your computer and the destination, and how your PC can ensure that the packets were all received correctly. It is critical to how the modern internet works, and recently celebrated its 40th birthday. RELATED: The Foundation of the Internet: TCP/IP Turns 40...

Some iPhone models include a biometric security feature called Touch ID that lets you verify your identity with your fingerprint. This saves time because you don’t need to enter passcodes and passwords as often. Here’s how to set it up. First, make sure your iPhone supports Touch ID. All iPhone models since the iPhone 5S with a home button (a circular button just below the screen on the face of the phone) support Touch ID....

Another handy ink feature is Ink Replay. With it, you can replay the drawings from start to finish. This is convenient for documents, spreadsheets, or slides full of handwritten markups that you want to decipher. Microsoft Office’s Ink Features You can use Ink to Shape, Ink to Math, and Ink Replay in Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. PowerPoint also offers an extra tool called Ink to Text. Each feature works slightly differently than another and differently in PowerPoint versus Word and Excel....

The issue was first reported by CyberLink, a maker of a popular media player. Intel has dropped support for the Intel SGX DRM in its latest chips, leaving on the 7th through 10th generation Intel chips able to handle Ultra HD Blu-ray discs on PC. “The removal of the SGX feature, and its compatibility with the latest Windows OS and drivers, has caused a substantial challenge for CyberLink to continue supporting Ultra HD Blu-ray movie playback in our player software....

All you need to do is open up the /boot/grub/menu.lst file in your favorite text editor (in sudo mode) Find the section of the file that contains the timeout information Just put a # before the “timeout 3” line in the file, then save and restart your computer. Now grub will wait forever until you make a choice. This is especially useful if you want to prevent your computer from ever booting into Windows…

Click on View on the Ribbon and select Freeze Panes. Now click Freeze Top Row. If you want to Freeze other rows as well just highlight them before choosing Freeze Panes. That’s it! Now as you can see by the example, you will be able to scroll throughout the document while keeping the column or rows in place.

The current iteration of Microsoft Edge started out as a great browser based on the Chromium engine, but over time, Microsoft has added more and more bloat. Now there’s another new feature that doesn’t seem to be popular: visual search. Microsoft Edge’s new visual search feature allows you to take any image on any website and search for similar images (or what the image depicts) using the Bing search engine....

Apple just released iOS 16 Beta 5 to people using the in-progress release on their iPhones, which adds the ability to always display the current battery percentage in the status bar on more devices. The percentage appears inside the battery icon, after it is enabled from Settings > Battery > Battery Percentage. 9to5Mac reports it was enabled by default for some people on the beta. Apple already allowed iPads and iPhones without notches (like the new iPhone SE) to show the percentage in the status bar, but the option has been missing on other models, since the notch takes up more space....

Using Thumbtack To start sharing important and interesting parts of the web just go to the Thumbtack site and log in with your MS Live ID or create a new account. Then create a Thumbtack nickname which will identify your clips and collections. While you can copy and past into Thumbtack manually, it’s better to get the bookmarklet for easier submission. Just click on the link at the top of the Thumbtack screen....

The error email I get from “watchdog” once a week looks like this: To fix this problem, we’ll need to edit the sshd_config file, which is the main configuration file for the sshd service. The location will sometimes be different, but it’s usually in /etc/ssh/. Open the file up while logged on as root. [01:01:51] ————————- Security advisories ————————-[01:01:52] Warning: SSH version 1 possible allowed! note: Be careful, if you screw this up you won’t be able to ssh to your server anymore…...

Using Google Calendar Sync This small application is straight forward and currently will only work with Outlook 2003 and 2007. Installation is straight forward following the wizard. You will need to close any instance of Outlook that is currently open to complete the installation. Now it is time to sign in and choose sync options and the amount of time between the syncs. Sync Options Choosing your sync options will be determined on how you want to share the data between Google’s calendar and your Outlook one....

Managing Add-ons To start managing your IE Add-ons click on Tools and go to Manage Add-ons. The Manage Add-on screen opens and from here you can do several things like view the Add-ons installed, their status, version, load time and more. Narrow down the information about different Add-ons based on their type. There the ability to search for more information about each Add-on. To make navigation easier they can be easily sorted according do different criteria....

For this task, we’ll use bash’s for loop command structure. Replace with a variable name, and with either a command that outputs a list or an explicit list. You can run it on a single line with this syntax instead: So if you want to unrar a list of files, you could use this command. You don’t necessarily need the quotes, but it helps when the filenames have spaces or something like that in them....