Install Windows Software Easily

Winget is great you go to one of to webgsite that gives you scrip to download the software so you can run it in your commad prompt or Powershell. There are also links to download the software from within your web-browser.Now there is a GUI application the does all of the automatically. WingetUI is a…

What is Winget?

The Windows Package Manager is a free and open-source package manager designed by Microsoft for Windows 10 and Windows 11. It consists of a command-line utility and a set of services for installing applications. Independent software vendors can use it as a distribution channel for their software packages. If you’ve ever used Linux, it is king…

Quickemu, Easy Virtual Machines

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…

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…

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…