By default, when you use Windows, it keeps track of some of your recent activities, including files and folders accessed, recently used apps, and others are added to the “Recommended” section on the Start menu. This feature is there to help you get to the stuff you recently opened or used to improve your productivity. It also makes it easier to find items that you have been working on in file explorer....

The new Windows 11 comes with many cool features and a refreshing new graphical interface, including a centered Start menu and taskbar, rounded windows corners, themes, and colors that make the OS look more modern and cohesive. One setting that Windows has always had is to configure the taskbar to automatically hide or disappear when out of focus to make the screen look bigger. This setting can come in handy, especially on smaller screens....

For students and new users, the steps below will show them how to set up WordPress with Nginx and FastCGI to perform faster even with a single server. If you want to improve your WordPress site performance, you should install the Nginx HTTP server and enable FastCGI caching. Doing this will greatly improve WordPress performance. This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install the Nginx HTTP server and enable FastCGI on Ubuntu 16....

Rather than switch from one tool to another, the new Windows Terminal brings these tools together. You can run Windows bash scripts, connect to Azure virtual machines, and open a Windows Subsystem for Linux terminal—all within a single window. Installing The New Windows Terminal The new Windows Terminal app is still in active development. Rather than test it internally, Microsoft has made a “preview” release available as a download in the Microsoft Store....

This brief tutorial is going to show you how to install Apache2 on Ubuntu 17.04 and how to disable directory listing or indexing to prevent exposing sensitive directories. When you install Apache2 by default, all directories are exposed by default. All directories are indexed and listed by default. One reason directory listing is bad is Apache2 automatically lists all the content of a directory if a file from the directory cannot be located when requested by a web browser....

Apache CouchDB is a general-purpose NoSQL database server that works just like any other database behind an application server of your choice. It allows you can add custom functions using different programming languages such as Erlang, C/C++, Java, etc. It uses JSON natively and supports binary for all your data storage needs. It is used by major corporations and businesses looking for high-performance NoSQL database systems. Most people will tell you a thing or two about MySQL and MariaDB, however, for professionals, Apache CouchDB is a stable choice....

eduTrac is an open-source, student information system that helps you build and manage online courses for students, teachers, and anyone who wants to build their online courses. This LMS is robust and mobile-friendly and responsive out-of-the-box so your students and teachers can enjoy reading and interact with your portal from any device. eduTrac comes with an intuitive and powerful backend that will get you started right away with solutions for large businesses, universities, and schools to create tailored, individual learning scenarios very easily....

Friendica is a free and flexible, decentralized social networking platform that makes it easy for you to build and maintain your social networking projects and communities. This software comes with built-in support for ActivityPub, including platforms like Funkwhale, Hubzilla, Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, OStatus, and diaspora* protocols. For more on Friendica social platform, please visit its home page To get started with installing Friendica, follow the steps below: Install Apache2 HTTP Apache2 HTTP Server is the most popular web server in use....

Fuel CMS is an open-source content management system for premium-grade websites and blogs. It is built on CodeIgniter, a popular PHP web framework for advanced web development. Whether you’re creating a personal or business website, Fuel CMS can help you create and manage your content on every device with its intuitive and powerful admin dashboard. If you currently run your website and content on other CMS like WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla you may want to give Fuel CMS a try....

If you are looking for a flat-file CMS platform that is easy to install, simple to maintain, and flexible, then you should be looking at Mono CMS. With Mono CMS, you get a simple and fast editor for creating posts, a clean design, and a lightweight. For more about Mono CMS, please check their Homepage This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install Mono CMS on Ubuntu 16....

ProcessWire is a flexible, lightweight, and simple content management system based on PHP. It is designed for ease of use to allow webmasters and owners to create powerful and dynamic content websites. If you’re looking for a simple content management platform to manage your websites or blogs and 100% free, you’ll find ProcessWire to be useful. This post covers installing the latest version of ProcessWire, which at the time of writing was at 3....

Your notes stay updated across all your devices. and stay organized so you can find notes quickly with instant searching and simple tags. This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install it on Ubuntu 16.04 | 17.10 | 18.04 desktops. For more about Simplenote, please visit its homepage. Whether you’re on a Windows, or Mac Linux PC, Simplenote should work and allow you to move between different PC platforms....

For the uninitiated, Symfony is a free, open-source, reusable PHP components and framework that help speed up the creation and maintenance of your PHP web and API applications. If you are looking for a solution to develop and maintain your PHP application with ease and don’t want to fiddle with repetitive coding tasks, then Symfony is a great place to start. It comes with support for more than 50 stand-alone components available for your applications....

Vagrant is great for developers as it isolates machine dependencies and their configurations within a single disposable, consistent environment, so whether you are working on Linux, Mac OS X, or Windows, everyone will be running the same code in the same environment, against the same dependencies and configured the same way. For this post, we’ll be using VirtualBox as our virtualization platform which is also the default provider for Vagrant....

This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users an easy way to install and run WordPress with the support of HHVM ( Hip Hop Virtual Machine). HHVM was developed by Facebook to run applications that are based on PHP and the Hack language. Most will agree that HHVM is faster than the traditional PHP stack. So, if you want to improve WordPress’ performance, running it on HHVM, MariaDB and Nginx might help a bit....

With Windows Hello, one can use a PIN, facial recognition, or fingerprint to sign into their Windows devices. Windows Hello feature offers several ways one can ditch their passwords in favor of a more secure and personal method of authentication. To set up facial recognition authentication with Windows Hello, you’ll need a Windows computer with special hardware that supports these features. For instance, you’ll need a fingerprint reader to authenticate with your finger, and facial recognition authentication requires an infrared or Intel RealSense camera....

By default, Windows set the date and time automatically based on your time zone and country, and region. Daylight saving time (DST) is also set automatically based on the country and region you are in. Allowing Windows to manage your system’s date and time automatically will ensure that your PC date and time are accurate as long as you have an internet connection to time servers online. With all that said, Windows also allows you to manage your system’s data and time manually....

In a work environment, there might be shared network resources that most people frequently access. If you find yourself in the same situation, then mapping the shared network resource should be something to consider. When you mapped a shared network resource, it is assigned a drive letter on your local computer. You can then easily access the shared location simply by going to your computer folder and clicking on the assigned drive letter to access the network location....

But, your iTunes library may turn into a mess if not organized properly. Let’s find out how to organize iTunes files effectively so you have fewer worries about storage and the overall clutter. Step 01: Delete Duplicate Files File organization is all about deleting unnecessary files and managing the required ones in a better way. iTunes makes it easier to locate and delete duplicate files. Open this app on your system and select any option from the pop-up menu....

The Start menu is where you’ll also find your Pinned apps, All apps, and Recommended apps (frequently accessed apps and settings in Windows 11). The Start menu is a modern or Universal Windows Platform (UWP) menu app. UWP apps can be used across all compatible Microsoft Windows devices, including PCs, tablets, Xbox One, Microsoft HoloLens, and more. When the Start menu stops working, there are not many things you can do in Windows....