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Several programs can prevent the app switcher and charms from appearing when you move your mouse to the corners of the screen in Windows 8, but you can do it yourself with this quick registry hack. You can also hide the charms bar and switcher by installing an application like Classic Shell, which will also add a Start menu and let you log directly into the desktop. Editing the Registry First, open the registry editor by pressing the Windows key, typing regedit, and pressing Enter....

Apple users have iTunes to synchronize their media libraries back and forth, but what do Android users have? Google doesn’t provide any official method of synchronization. Enter Synx, a simple, open-source tool for synchronizing your media files and your Android. Synx synchronizes media folders on your computer with the equivalent media folders on your Android. You can also use your Android’s storage like a USB flash drive if you’d rather copy files back and forth manually....

If your Synology NAS drive is giving you problems, or you’re just upgrading to a whole new system, there are a few ways you can reset it, depending on what you want to do with it. RELATED: How to Shut Down and Restart Your Synology NAS Manually and Automatically In total, there are three ways to reset a Synology NAS: resetting just the network settings (which will also reset the admin login password), resetting and reinstalling DiskStation Manager (still keeping all your data intact), or resetting everything (including erasing all data on the hard drives)....

Windows DreamScene was a great feature in Windows Vista, which allowed you to put videos as desktop wallpapers but unfortunately it was replaced by a slideshow feature in Windows 7. Here’s how to get it back. For example, you could put a live aquarium on you desktop like the image above. Fortunately though, we know just a way to bring it back to Windows 7. No more static cling for your desktop; now your wallpaper won’t have to simply stand still, and it can get animated and dance around....

It can be tricky to diagnose problems with running Kubernetes workloads. You might be lucky and find the cause in your application’s logs, via the kubectl logs command. In some cases there’s no avoiding a live debugging session though, where you interactively engage with your Pods to uncover issues. The kubectl debug command simplifies these debugging tasks by providing a new ephemeral container inside your Pod. This can be used to inspect the Pod’s environment so you can start troubleshooting problems that are surfacing in your existing containers....

Stop organizing your ebooks like they’re just a tired pile of documents and start organizing them in style with Calibre—an open source ebook organizer that supports metadata, cover flow, format conversion, and more. Why Calibre? Calibre is an absolutely fantastic application for organizing your ebook collection. It supports 22 ebook formats including MOBI, EPUB, LIT, PDF, and more. It can accept those 22 formats and convert them to 16 formats, with customized output for dozens of specific ebook readers including the Kindle, Nook, Sony Readers, and more....

Backing up your data can be such a trivially easy affair that you don’t have an excuse for putting it off—and risking your data in the process. Today we look at the CrashPlan backup suite and how you can use it for free remote backups. A good backup solution is simple to use, creates multiple copies of your data (including offsite versions), and is inexpensive enough that you’ll continue to pay for it....

Is your Start menu getting so cluttered you can’t find anything? The All Programs section of the Start menu may be in alphabetical order (sometimes by company names rather than program names), but would you rather have it categorized? There is an easy way to organize the All Programs section of the Start menu without using third-party software. To manually organize your Start menu, click on the Start orb, right-click on All Programs and select Open from the popup menu....

Web browsers now allow websites to show you notifications. On many news and shopping websites, you’ll see a popup telling you the website wants to show notifications on your desktop. You can disable these notification prompts in your web browser if they annoy you. Google Chrome To disable this feature in Chrome, click the menu button and select “Settings”. Click the “Advanced” link at the bottom of the Settings page and then click “Content Settings” button under Privacy and security....

RELATED: How to Stream Every ‘Star Trek’ TV Show in 2022 Star Trek: The Motion Picture Play Video Ten years after the cancellation of the original Star Trek TV series, the popularity of reruns led to a planned TV revival. Those plans shifted into what became the first-ever Star Trek movie, reuniting the original TV series cast, including William Shatner as Admiral James T. Kirk, Leonard Nimoy as Spock, and DeForest Kelley as Dr....

NVIDIA’s GameStream technology lets you stream games from a GeForce-powered Windows PC to another device. It only officially supports NVIDIA’s own Android-based SHIELD devices, but with a third-party open-source GameStream client known as Moonlight, you can stream games to Windows PCs, Macs, Linux PCs, iPhones, iPads, and non-SHIELD Android devices. NVIDIA GameStream vs. Steam In-Home Streaming RELATED: How to Use Steam In-Home Streaming Before we show you how this works, it’s worth noting that Steam’s In-Home Streaming might be a better solution for some....

Looking to decorate your house with some cool artwork? Grab some of your favorite Sci-Fi pics and some surprisingly simple tools, and create a Pop Art style poster in minutes. Through a simple process called “posterization,” you can reduce any graphic into a cool limited graphic with a similar look that Andy Warhol would have used when he created his famous Marylin Monroe image in the sixties. Pick a theme, grab some images, and get ready to decorate your home with a surprisingly easy and surprisingly cool poster any inkjet printer can produce....

The first of the year is Public Domain Day, a day intended to call attention to copyright issues and the public domain. At the Center for the Study of the Public Domain they have an interesting (and sobering) review of works that won’t enter the public domain this year. Copyright laws, in their original incarnation, were intended to briefly protect intellectual property long enough for the original author to profit from the work and sustain him or herself to make more works....

We cover a lot of home server apps here at How-To Geek, so it can be tough to keep track of everything. That’s why we’ve rounded up a ton of ways to keep your constantly-connected Windows machine working for you. Server Apps and Streaming One of the most fun ways to use your computer is as a streaming media server. You can stream music and video between Windows 7 computers on your network, over the Internet with Windows Media Player 12, or to your PlayStation 3....

How VPNs Work A VPN or Virtual Private Network uses encryption to conceal the traffic leaving your home network. A VPN server at the other end of this encrypted “tunnel” stands in for your network on the public internet. From the perspective of other devices on the internet, the VPN server is the device sending and receiving data on the web. That also means whatever country that VPN server is in will register as your location, no matter where you are in the world....

If you find chatting with multiple chat clients troublesome, then Pidgin is the tool for you. In today’s article, we’ll show you how to connect to popular chat networks, encrypt your conversations, and render mathematical formula in Pidgin. Pidgin for Everyone Pidgin is a chat program that lets you use multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on MSN, talking to a friend on Google Talk, and sitting in a Yahoo chat room all at the same time....

Is your desktop so cluttered you can’t find anything? Is your Start menu so long you have to scroll to see what programs are there? If so, you probably need an application launcher to organize your desktop and make your life easier. We’ve created a list of many useful application launchers in different forms. You can choose from dock programs, portable application launchers, Start menu and Taskbar replacements, and keyboard-oriented launchers....

Firefox is one of the more popular web browsers that runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Firefox has a lot of built-in, useful features and you can install many extensions to expand its functionality. We’ve covered a lot of functionality in Firefox and have included links to articles below that cover features and extensions that can help you make the most out of Firefox and improve your web browsing experience....

Google’s Android Market isn’t the only place you can get Android apps. Whether you’re looking for free paid apps, social recommendations or an app store to replace a missing Android Market, you have a lot of choice. Each app store is completely legit — the ones that offer free apps pay the developer for the privilege. You may even have an alternative app store on your device already if you’re an Opera user....