If you use your Android phone or tablet for long periods of time, it must be having tons of apps installed. Both, the home screen and the app drawer, which contains the full list of apps, become cluttered and it becomes difficult to locate the app you want by scrolling through the many pages of the home screen or the app drawer. Here is a nice little free app which can solve this issue. It offers a very fast search for apps, music, contacts, bookmarks and other phone data by typing. It is called Quickdroid and besides being free, its source code is also open.
How to install a theme for all users in Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 7
Whenever you install a new desktop theme (themepack) in Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 7, it gets installed only for your user account. Other users on your PC will not have access to the installed theme. They will need to install it again when they are signed in to their personal account. This is not intuitive and also wastes disk space. Here's a trick to install any theme for all users in Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 7.
How to reset and clean Frequent folders from the Home folder in Windows 10
Unlike previous versions of Windows where This PC / Computer was the default location for File Explorer, in Windows 10 there is a new folder called "Home". The "Home" folder is what you see now in Windows 10 when you launch the File Explorer app. You can customize the Home folder like you could customize Favorites. The user can add any desired folder there. Also, since the Windows 10 Start Menu no longer shows Recent items, the Home folder tracks and shows frequently used folders and recent files. In this article, we will see how to reset and clean Frequent folders from the Home folder in Windows 10.
The ultimate list of Google Chrome hotkeys
Hotkeys or keyboard shortcuts for any app save your time and improve your productivity. You can usually operate faster by pressing key combinations than using menu commands in the onscreen user interface. We have covered Mozilla Firefox hotkeys previously (HERE and HERE); now we should like to share the ultimate list of Google Chrome keyboard shortcuts.
A new login screen is spotted in the leaked build of Windows 10
After Windows 10 Build 9901 leaked to the internet, enthusiasts discovered several features which do not exist in the official build 9879. One such feature is a new login screen. Today we will see how to enable it and test it yourself.
Lesser known hotkeys of the Mozilla Firefox browser
Previously, we covered the most common hotkeys for Mozilla Firefox which everyone should know to use the browser productively. In this article, I would like to share with you an additional set of hotkeys which are not so well-known.
Change the User Agent in Internet Explorer 11
The user agent of a web browser is a string value which identifies that browser and provides certain system details to servers hosting the websites you visit. Thanks to the new flags page in Internet Explorer 11, it is now very easy to change the user agent string. You can experiment with it using the latest publicly available Windows 10 build at this moment, which is 9879. Let's see how it can be done.
Enable the new Trident engine in Internet Explorer 12 on Windows 10
Internet Explorer 12 features a new updated Trident rendering engine which is present for now only in Windows 10. Even though the name, Trident is the same, it is more lightweight. The old rendering mode is also still included for backward compatibility. The new Trident mode is not active by default, instead IE automatically decides which engine it will use. If you want to try the brand new content rendering mode, here is how you can do it.
How to center new windows in Fluxbox for Linux
Today I will write a Linux article for a change. Windows fans, don't worry I am not ditching Windows. As you know I use Linux too alongside Windows to keep an eye on the best distros and best window managers. Fluxbox is one such awesome window manager for Linux, my favorite one. It is extremely lightweight, blazingly fast, easily configurable and very feature rich. You can use it without any Desktop Environment and still manage windows comfortably and productively. By default, Fluxbox places newly opened windows ordered in a row until the screen width allows them. I did not find this behavior very useful and would like to share with you how it is possible to place newly opened Fluxbox windows at the center of the screen.
Speed up OpenVPN and get faster speed over its channel
OpenVPN is a well-known VPN client for secure remote access or virtual private networking. If you use OpenVPN and experience a slow speed over its channel, you might be getting annoyed. This issue is very common for all OpenVPN users. While the general advice you can find on the Internet is to tweak the MTU (Maximum transmission unit) value and/or MSSFIX parameters, here is another trick you should try. It can help you significantly improve the bandwith. Here's what you should try.
