When you are trying to share the same Firefox profile across different platforms (such as Windows or Linux) or across different versions of Firefox, you will see a warning – “You’ve launched an older version of Firefox“. The message goes on to explain that using an older version of Firefox for the same profile might Read More …
Libre Hardware Monitor is an open-source tool for displaying hardware information in a Windows computer. It can also detect the sensors installed in your PC and use them to tell you the current temperatures for the motherboard, processor, graphics card and hard drive. It can also tell you fan speeds for all the cooling fans Read More …
When you are creating a new online account for any sort of service, you have to pick a username and password. To ensure that your account stays secure, you must choose a non-dictionary, not-easy-to-guess, long and impersonal password. There are many methods of creating such passwords, and many experts have given many different guidelines on Read More …
Even though Chrome has made is very hard for websites to automatically start playing any media (sound or video) as soon as you visit these sites, some of these websites use workarounds and still manage to annoy the visitors with auto-playing sound. Fortunately, Chrome has also provided a quick method to stop the sound being Read More …
Yesterday my old faithful Logitech B100 wired mouse stopped working and this is when I realized how difficult life can be without a good computer mouse. I quickly ordered another Logitech mouse through Amazon. In the meanwhile I tried working with the touchpad of the laptop but it is not the same as using a Read More …
Whether you have recorded videos, pictures or audio files using any device, they are usually saved with date and time in the filename such as DSC20200112.JPG. These filename do not really convey any other information about these files, for example, what they are about, the location, people involved etc. Instead of having files named like Read More …
When you are using a web browser, it stores files downloaded from website such as HTML code and images into a folder on your local hard drive. This offline storage of website files is known as cache. It is used to loading of a previously visited website faster. Instead of downloading everything all over again Read More …
Windows 10 comes with black taskbar, Start menu and desktop colors but lets you change the dark or light themes that Windows desktop uses. You can learn how to switch to change the Windows mode in settings. But if you want to further customize these colors then you can use a freeware called WinColor. This Read More …
Earlier this week, this website ran into a problem of a database mess and we had to restore the database from backup. Since backend was inaccessible, the restoring was done directly through phpMyAdmin interface. When we tried to upload the 60 MB SQL dump, phpMyAdmin simply failed because there were too many SQL queries to Read More …
Unless you are using your computer for whole lot of typing or have to enter lots of numbers, the various special lock keys like Num Lock, Caps Lock and Scroll Lock are not that useful. Perhaps this is the reason why modern notebook computers rarely have the LEDs somewhere on the laptop that can readily Read More …