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It may not be a fountain of youth, but Photoshop is the secret of beauty experts everywhere. Here’s some tips on how to reduce wrinkles and make the people in your pictures look younger in virtually no time at all. Whatever you might think about using photo editors to create an unrealistic standard of beauty, the fact remains is that it’s done every day by professional image editors. And today we’re going to show you some tricks that even the pros use to keep models looking young....

When it comes to home servers, Linux is king. It’s free, it’s efficient, and the possibilities are endless! Join us as we go through the many ways to keep your open-source server streaming and serving up stuff for you. First and Foremost: Remote Access If you’re running Linux, then odds are that remote access from anywhere is first in your mind. For that reason, let’s start with the obvious:...

What Is an Ultrawide Monitor? If you’ve never used an ultra-wide monitor before, you may be wondering what exactly constitutes one. Ultrawide monitors, as the name suggests, are a lot wider than your average monitor. They start at 29 inches and have an aspect ratio of at least 21:9, but they can go all the way up to 32:9. The screen resolution starts at 2560 x 1080 pixels and can go as high as 5120 x 1440....

What Is SIM Cloning, and Why Does it Happen? A SIM card is essentially a security measure to prove that you’re entitled to access a cellular network. Your phone number is associated with a particular SIM, and the SIM also has its own unique identification number, registered with the service provider. When a SIM card is “cloned” it means one of two things. Either two identical cards now exist on the same network, or the original card has been blocked and the number associated with that card has been moved to a new SIM in the possession of a malicious actor....

What Is the CHIPS Act? The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, usually shortened to just the CHIPS Act or H. R. 4346, is a bill that received bipartisan support in the House of Representatives and Senate. The final iteration passed in the House on Thursday, with 243 votes in favor and 187 votes against, and is awaiting the signature of President Joe Biden before it becomes law. The main centerpiece of the CHIPS Act, and where the acronym comes from, is the “Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) for America Fund....

In the world of digital design, two names stand above the rest: Photoshop and Illustrator. These two Adobe applications are extremely popular, but what’s the difference between them? Why would you use one over the other? For the non-Adode fans out there, this also applies to GIMP (an open-source alternative to Photoshop) and Inkscape (an open-source alternative to Illustrator). Keep that in mind when we’re talking about these applications....

Earlier this week we asked you to share your strategy for installing applications on a new (or rebuilt) computer. The responses piled up and now we’re back to highlight your tips. A common thread throughout the responses was the hierarchy of importance in installation (core hardware driver updates before installing Angry Birds for example). More cautious users also mixed in backups and drive imaging to provide a safety net. Huuisie might win the award as the most cautious of the bunch with his detailed and backup-laden routine:...

WebAssembly is a new way to run code on the web. With huge tech companies behind it, it’s poised to revolutionize the way we write web applications, but comes with its own quirks and limitations. Are WASM frameworks a viable competitor to JavaScript libraries like React? What Is WebAssembly? WebAssembly, or WASM, is the second universal programming language that all web browsers can understand and run. However, you’re not going to be writing scripts in WebAssembly yourself—it’s a low level assembly language, designed to be very close to compiled machine code, and very close to native performance....

Once a week we share three of the questions we’ve answered from the Ask HTG inbox with the greater readership; this week we’re looking at white noise screen savers, efficient file naming systems, and recovering from a password compromise. Where Can I Find a White Noise Screen Saver? Dear Screensaver, Years ago (back in the days of Windows 95) I had a screen saver that replicated the white noise/snow patterns of an early analog television set....

Courtesy of Instructables user Inducktion shares a very detailed tutorial on how to build a wireless power charger. He explains the impetus behind the project: For what the project lacks for in miniaturization it more than makes up for with thoroughness. Hit up the link below to check the project out. This transmitter works fantastic, and can run on pretty much any voltage above 12 volts, and below 24! It’s also extremely efficient (little power lost) and, it generates almost no interference....

There are a staggering number of articles on the Internet trumpeting the dangers of “Wi-Fi radiation” and how risky it is to your health. Don’t worry: it’s a bunch of nonsense. If you don’t want to read a single sentence further, that’s fine, we’ll spoil the whole article for you: Wi-Fi poses absolutely no threat to anyone’s health. If you’re curious as to why (and perhaps so you can explain things to your overly anxious friends) we’re happy to outline exactly what’s going on....

Whether you want to backup your game saves because you’ve worked so hard on them or you want to import game saves precisely so you don’t have to work so hard, we’ve got you covered. Image adapted from icon set by GasClown. There are a multitude of reasons you might want to export and import game saves from your Wii including: saving the progress on your favorite games before sending in your Wii for service, copying the progress to a friend’s or your secondary Wii, and importing saved games from the web or your friend’s Wii so that you don’t have to bust your ass to unlock all the specialty items yourself....

Have you ever installed a Windows program in Linux under WINE, only to discover that it doesn’t bind system wide hot-keys anymore? HTG has the work around you’ve been looking for. Image by djeucalyptus Overview Every one who has even thought of the idea of switching to Linux, has probably very quickly encounter the problem that there is this one Windows app that you NEED to function. We’ve already shown you that you can accomplish this using WINE....

Diving into diff The diff command compares two files and produces a list of the differences between the two. To be more accurate, it produces a list of the changes that would need to be made to the first file, to make it match the second file. If you keep that in mind you’ll find it easier to understand the output from diff. The diff command was designed to find differences between source code files and to produce an output that could be read and acted upon by other programs, such as the patch command....

The Shortcuts widget gives you a one-tap option for enabling or disabling noise cancellation (or changing to a different noise-control mode) right from the home screen. RELATED: How to Organize Shortcuts in Folders on iPhone and iPad Shortcuts is Apple’s built-in automation app for iPhone and iPad. You can use it to create simple or complex automations. In this guide, we will be creating two distinct shortcuts, one for enabling noise cancellation mode and one for disabling it....

Need to quickly get feedback or answers to a question? Microsoft has added a quick poll feature, powered by Microsoft Forms, to both the Outlook client and Outlook Online. Here’s how it works. The built-in poll feature, like the Quick Poll add-in, is only available for Office 365 and Microsoft 365. If you’re using a stand-alone version of Outlook such as Outlook 2016 or 2019, the poll option won’t be available to you....

If you’ve had a Facebook account for years, you might have sent out quite a few friend requests when you first opened your account. Not all of those requests were likely answered. That’s all right, because you can go through your pending requests and delete them. This wasn’t always the case. For quite some time, if you wanted to cancel friend requests, you actually had to go to the profile and cancel it from there....

You might not realize this, but there’s actually another icon hidden inside the Google Chrome executable file—and it’s a high-quality version of the same logo, but golden. Here’s how to use it. If you’re wondering how we got the smooth icon you’re seeing above, it’s because the latest dev channel version switched the icon from the older style. Enabling the Hidden Gold Icon All you have to do is open up the shortcut Properties screen and head to Change Icon....

There are several ways to create a virtual machine using KVM. QEMU can use KVM and libvirt and its Virtual Machine Manager UI provide a convenient interface around it. KVM can be used to create nested virtual machines on compatible hardware. This lets you create VMs inside VMs to accommodate more complex use cases. Consider a virtualized development environment that runs on your host. You might need to run virtual device emulators within that environment, nested two levels deep from the bare metal hardware....

One major proponent of SBOMs is Microsoft which published its approach to their generation back in October 2021. Earlier this year the company open-sourced its tool for producing SBOMs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. In this article, you’ll learn how to start using the project to index your code’s dependencies. It produces SPDX-compatible documents that list the files, packages, and relationships within your project. SPDX (Software Package Data Exchange) is the ISO-accepted standard for SBOMs so you can pass generated reports directly into other ecosystem tools....