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How to Setup Parental Controls in Kodi

How to Watch Disney+ on Kodi

How to Share Files Between Host PC and Virtual Machines

How to Create Your Own Custom Stickers in Telegram

How to Restore Clonezilla Backups to Different Partitions

How to Use Zoom's Studio Effects Feature

How to Make an Image Background Transparent in Photoshop

Learn how to make an image background transparent in Photoshop to easily incorporate it with another image or design.

How to Share USB and Network Devices in VirtualBox

It is easy to setup a virtual operating system with VirtualBox, but sharing USB and network devices in VirtualBox is not as straightforward. Learn how to do so here.

How to Enable AV1 Video Playback on Windows, Linux, macOS

AV1 is one of various codecs developed to compress video files. Here you’ll learn how to enable AV1 video playback in Windows, Linux and macOS.

How to Let Your Friends Watch You Play Games on Steam

Steam lets you broadcast your game sessions to your friends so they can watch you play, leave comments, and even voice chat! Here’s how to do it.

How to Change UUID in VirtualBox HDDs

While restoring your Virtualbox VM, you may come across a UUID that does not match the error message. Here’s how to change the UUID in Virtualbox HHDs.

How to Increase VirtualBox HDD Size with Clonezilla

One common error in Virtualbox is the lack of hard drive space in the virtual machine. Here’s how to increase Virtualbox hard drive space with Clonezilla.

10 of the Best Kodi Add-ons to Stream Your Favorite Sports

There are tons of available add-ons for Kodi. In this article we’ll cover the various Kodi add-ons that will stream sports on Kodi.

How to Recompress Your Videos with Handbrake For Quality and Speed

If you have a huge library of movies taking up lots of storage space, you can recompress them using Handbrake to free up some storage space.

How to Control Kodi Using Your Voice

At the moment, Kodi doesn’t come with any options for voice control built in. If you want to control Kodi using your voice, follow along below.

How to Install Guest Additions in VirtualBox

Guest Additions in VirtualBox is an important tool to fix issues in the guest operating system. Learn how you can install Guest Additions in Virtualbox.

How to Shazam a Song with Earphones On

If you are using Shazam to identify songs, now you can use it with your earphones on. Learn how you can identify songs, even with earphones connected.

How to Install Kodi on RetroPie

In addition to running RetroPie on the Raspberry Pi, it is also capable of running Kodi as an extension. Learn how you can install Kodi on RetroPie.

How to Use Nginx as a Reverse Proxy

In addition to being a web server, Nginx can also be a reverse proxy server. Here we will show you how you can make use of Nginx as a reverse proxy.

How to Build a Chatbot without Coding

Building truly intelligent chatbots requires plenty of technical and coding knowledge. Luckily there are many tools for you to build your own chatbot without any coding skills.

How to Boot an OS from a USB Drive in VirtualBox

It is easy to boot from ISO files or a CD/DVD drive in Virtualbox, but what about a USB drive? This guide shows you how to boot from a USB drive in VirtualBox.

The Unofficial Guide to Disable Spotify Connect

The Spotify Connect feature can be both useful and frustrating. If you are disturbed by its presence, here’s how to disable Spotify Connect on your phone.

How to Share a Song and Playlist on Spotify

Spotify has various ways for you to share songs or playlists with your friends. You can even share a song that begins to play at the time you specify.

How to Shrink a Virtualbox VM in Windows 10

If you have a need to free up more storage space, here are the steps to shrink a VirtualBox VM and reclaim storage space taken up by the guest OS.

The Meltdown and Spectre Patches Probably Aren’t Slowing Your Computer Down

The more tangible worry for the Meltdown and Spectre fixes was that they would slow down the computer. Luckily, this turns out to have been somewhat exaggerated.

How to Create and Use an Attractive Template in Microsoft Word

If you work with the same type of documents frequently, you can save yourself the trouble by saving an existing Word document as a template. This will show how to create a template in Microsoft Word.

How to Make Use of Pivot Table in Excel to Improve Your Productivity

If you’re organizing a large amount of data, sometimes you need more than just a table and need your data to answer important questions you may have about it. This is where a pivot table in Excel comes into play.

How to Easily Digitize Your Handwritten Notes

Handwritten notes can be filled with history, and if you have tons of these, there are ways to digitize them and preserve them in their most primitive form.

How to Embed Fonts in Microsoft Word

When you use a custom font in a Word document, your co-worker might not be able to view it. Learn how to embed a font in Microsoft Word so the style is the same everywhere.

How to Move Steam Games to Another Drive

Valve has baked a feature into Steam for you to change game folders. This tutorial shows you the exact steps to move steam games to another drive.

How to Boot from a USB Drive in VMware

VMware doesn’t come with options to boot directly from a USB drive. This guide will show you how to effortlessly boot from a USB drive in VMware.

5 Uber Tips & Tricks to Make Your Next Ride More Enjoyable

Are you a frequent Uber user and looking to make your life easier? Here are some Uber tips and tricks to make your ride more enjoyable.

How to Easily Insert Dummy Text in Microsoft Word

When you’re experimenting with layouts in MS Word, it helps to have words already in the document. Here are some ways to add dummy text to Microsoft Word.

How to Use the Built-in Microsoft Office Clipboard in Windows

Windows’ own clipboard is very basic, while the Microsoft Office clipboard is far more advanced. Learn how you can make use of the Microsoft office clipboard in Windows.

How to Watermark Your Images in Photoshop

Adding watermarks to your images is important to secure your brand, and it can be done with ease. Learn how you can watermark images in Photoshop.

How to Use Regular Expressions to Improve Productivity in Your Daily Tasks

It is pretty boring to do the same things everyday. Learn how you can make use of regular expressions in your daily tasks to improve your productivity.

How to Crop in Photoshop – A Beginner’s Guide

Cropping is a fairly simple process, unless you are doing it in Photoshop. Here is a beginner’s guide to the various ways to crop an image in Photoshop.

How to Import a Google Music Playlist to Spotify

If you have been a Google Music user and recently switched to Spotify, learn how you can import your Google Music playlist to Spotify to enjoy your music.

How to Do a Mail Merge with Thunderbird and LibreOffice Calc

Thunderbird is a powerful email client. Learn how to harness its ability using the Mail Merge add-on with LibreOffice Calc.

10 Tips to Easily Speed Up Your Virtual Machine

If your virtual machine is running at a terribly slow speed, here are some reasons why and some tips to speed up your virtual machine.

How to Easily and Quickly Rip DVDs with VLC

If you need a quick solution to turn your DVDs into files, you can do so with VLC. Learn how you can rip DVDs with VLC in a few simple steps.

5 Great Things You Didn’t Know You Could Do on Steam

Steam tends to stay strangely quiet about some of its finest features. Here are five favourite Steam features that you probably didn’t know were available.

7 Great Ways to Reduce Your PC’s Power Consumption Immediately

PCs use a lot of power and can contribute a good amount to your electricity bill. If you are thinking of saving on your electricity bill, check out these ways to reduce your PC’s power consumption.

How to Convert Virtual Machines from VMware to VirtualBox and Vice Versa

If you’re looking to migrate from VirtualBox to VMware or vice versa, here’s how to convert virtual machines so you can take them with you.

How to Capture the Sound of a Cave

In this article we explain how to steal the sound of a real world space like a cave or tunnel, and use it in your music and sound design. All this is made possible by the magic of convolution reverbs.

Adjusting Play Count in iTunes [Windows]

Are you interested in adjusting the play count in iTunes manually? If so, this tutorial will show you just how to do that on Windows.

How to Download Older Versions of Software for Any Operating System

Have you ever wondered how an older version of a program compares to the latest release? Here’s how you can download older versions of software to find out.

How to Sync Adobe Reader Files on All Your Devices

Adobe Reader is arguably the best PDF reader on the market. If you have multiple devices and want to access your PDF files anywhere, here’s how to do that.

How to Check the True Bitrate of Your Audio Files

A lot of audio files are upscaled and mislead listeners that it is of a high quality. How do you check the true bitrate of an audio file? Here’s how.

How to Create a Manuscript With Scrivener

Scrivener is a useful software for writing books and creating manuscripts. Let’s see how it works and create your first manuscript.