Quickemu is a frontend for QEMU (a very fast hypervisor) Quickemu quickly creates and runs highly optimized desktop virtual machines for Linux, macOS and Windows; with just two commands. You decide what operating system you want to run and Quickemu will figure out the best way to do it for you. Quickemu I think is…
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Should You Move To Linux?
The answer to the question; “Should I move to Linux form Windows ?” is highly subjective. You have to ask: What do you use the machine for? The answer to the first question is, if you are doing an activity that is highly specialized like high end 3D gaming, or you are a professional video…
What is Linux?
Basically Linux is an open source Unix like operating system kernel created by Linus Torvalds in 1991 at the Univocity of Helsinki in 1991 when he was a 21-year-old computer science student, working towards his PHD. Torvalds wanted to build an operating system that would mimic the proprietary Unix operating system. He open-sourced the code…
What is Virtualbox?
Oracle VM VirtualBox is a type-2 hypervisor for x86 virtualization developed by Oracle Corporation. VirtualBox was originally created by InnoTek Systemberatung GmbH, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2008, which was in turn acquired by Oracle in 2010. VirtualBox may be installed on Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Solaris and OpenSolaris. There are also ports…
Passkeys, Almost There
A passkey is a digital credential that is used as an authentication method for a website or application. The passkeys standard is a type of passwordless authentication, promoted by the World Wide Web Consortium and the FIDO Alliance. Google has announced that passkeys, touted by the tech giant as the “beginning of the end” for…
Google Voice Still Here
Google Voice is a telephone service that provides a U.S. phone number to Google Account customers in the U.S. and Google Workspace customers in Canada, Denmark, France, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the contiguous United States. It is used for call forwarding and voicemail services, voice and text messaging, as…
Windows Camera App
Windows Camera is an image and video capture utility included with the most recent versions of Windows and its mobile counterpart. It has been around on Windows-based mobile devices since camera hardware was included on those devices and was introduced on Windows PCs with Windows 8, providing users for the first time a first-party built-in…
Gimp’s Foreground Selection Tool
Making precise selections in GIMP is crucial in almost any project. GIMP has several tools to do this. Each has its advantages and disadvantages. There is no one tool for everything. The new kid on the block is “Foreground Selection Tool.” This tool lets you extract the foreground from the active layer or from a…
GIMP The Free Photoshop Alternative
GIMP is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image manipulation and image editing, free-form drawing, transcoding between different image file formats, and more specialized tasks. It is not designed to be used for drawing, though some artists and creators have used it in this way. Like photoshop, playing the piano, or anything…
Snappy Driver Installer
If you’ve lost your driver discs, you’re unable to find drivers on the manufacturer’s web site or Windows Update can’t configure your hardware, use Snappy Driver Installer to quickly find and install all missing drivers. Snappy Driver Installer is a utility that accesses a massive database of divers against the hardware on your computer, updates…
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