Magento 2 is one of the most popular eCommerce platforms in use today to run very successful online stores. It’s an open-source platform and works great in Linux systems, including Ubuntu. If you’re running Windows and want to use Magento, using Windows with WSL 2 might be your best option and the steps below will show you how to do that. With WSL, you can install a full Linux operating system inside Windows....
Postleaf is a lightweight, simple, open-source, content management system (CMS) based on Node.Js for the modern publisher who wants to leverage modern technologies. With its minimal admin panel, you’ll be creating content in no time. Postleaf also comes with a beautifully designed backend, supports inline editing, and semantic markups, provides simple backup, and more. When looking for a flat-file open-source CMS to power your content and websites, you might want to consider Postleaf....
React is an open-source JavaScript library that makes it painless to create interactive UIs, including simple design views for each state in your application. For developers looking for an open-source JavaScript library to build a cool user interface, React should be a great place to start. Because of its flexibility, developers can use React simple component logic to bring HTML directly into JavaScript instead of templates, and can also easily pass rich data through your app and keep the state out of the DOM....
TeamViewer is a cross-platform remote support software that’s free for personal use. If you want to use it to provide remote support services for your business or non-personal use, then you must purchase a license to use it to abide by its licensing terms. There are multiple remote support tools available for Windows users. Many of these tools are cross-platform – meaning they work on other operating systems as well, like macOS, Linux, and a few others....
VLC is one of the most popular, cross-platform media players available today. With it, you can play virtually all media formats, including DVDs, Audio CDs, multimedia files as well as VCDs, and various streaming protocols. Simply install it on your machine and begin enjoying your media without configuring many settings. For more about VLC, please check its homepage. To get started with installing VLC, follow the steps below: Install VLC from Ubuntu Repositories VLC is included in the official Ubuntu repositories....
XWiki is an open-source content management framework written and based on Java. It allows anyone to build enterprise-class websites for any purpose. XWiki CMS system offers a platform for developing projects and collaborative applications using the wiki paradigm. Some of the features include WYSIWYG editing, OpenDocument-based document import/export, tagging, strong rights management, and more. Whether you’re creating a personal or business website, XWiki CMS can help you create and manage your content on every device with its intuitive and powerful admin dashboard… XWiki is a Java-based CMS, so you must have Java installed to use it....
Thankfully, there are some tricks you can do with tables in a Google Docs document that creates a perfect form that people can fill out while keeping the lines in the form in place. You can make a fillable Google Docs form with many different elements using tables. Read on to learn how. If you want to see the final product, check out the final form here. How A Standard Google Docs Form Fails The most common form field people like to insert into a fillable form is a simple text field....
Firefox is a privacy focus web browser that uses the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages instead of Chromium which is used by Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. The default web browser in Windows 11 is the new Microsoft Edge browser. Most people might not realize that the new Edge is better and more useful than the old one, and may not be open to using it, and instead are switching to Firefox to make it their default browser....
Vivaldi is built for speed and efficiency and supports Windows, Linux, and Mac OS. For users looking for a web browser built to speed up web browsing, Vivaldi should be considered. The default web browser in Windows 11 is the new Microsoft Edge browser. Most people might not realize that the new Edge is better and more useful than the old one, and may not be open to using it, and instead are switching to Vivaldi or another browser to make it their default browser....
Due to compatibility issues, iOS automatically converts HEIC images to JPG whenever you share them with other apps. But if you use an iPhone and a PC, you are bound to collide heads with a HEIC file sooner rather than later. iCloud for Windows, for example, does not sync your HEIC images in a PC-compatible format. If you want to open HEIC files on Windows, you must either download the relevant codecs or convert them to a compatible format manually....
Yet, torrenting itself isn’t illegal and can be a cost-effective and useful way to share files with people without paying for online file storage. So, if you’re trying to open a Torrent file on Windows or Mac, but aren’t sure how to do it, here’s what you need to know. A Quick Recap of How Torrents Work BitTorrent is a “peer-to-peer” file transfer protocol. In short, this means that it allows data to be transferred from one computer to another directly....
Windows 11 comes with a new start menu with live tiles that contain shortcuts to apps, settings, and files. The new start menu looks refreshing and modern. However, not everyone will say the same thing. If you want to go back to Windows classic menu similar to Windows 10, the steps below will show you how to get that back in Windows 11. Windows 11 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft....
If you use WhatsApp on Android, you can seamlessly back up your chat history to Google Drive. You can then restore everything quickly if you reset the system software or make the upgrade to a newer Android phone. This tutorial shows what you must do to back up and restore WhatsApp with Google Drive. Back Up WhatsApp Data to Google Drive You can back up your WhatsApp chats and attachments manually to Google Drive whenever you want....
Smartphone cameras today are so good that you can not only take a highly-detailed picture of a document, but probably zoom right down to the ink dots. So why are we using scanners at all any more? Well, your camera app just doesn’t have the same functions as scanner software. Luckily you can scan documents to Google Drive using a neat tool in the app that most people probably don’t know about!...
Maybe it’s vacation photos you want to send to a friend, home movies that your uncle asked for, or your music collection, 4K raw video files, backup data, video games, etc. No matter what you’re sending, there are ways to make it work. However, before choosing the best way to send the large files, first identify how big they actually are so that you’re using the most appropriate service (i....
Windows Terminal is a modern host application for the command-line shells that include Command Prompt, Windows PowerShell, and bash (via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)). Unlike the previous shell apps in Windows, Windows Terminal comes with many features including multiple tabs, panes, Unicode and UTF-8 character support, a GPU-accelerated text rendering engine, themes customization with text, colors, backgrounds, and shortcuts. Your default profile in Windows Terminal is the default terminal shell you get when you type ctrl+shift+t, type the key binding assigned to newTab, run wt new-tab without specifying a profile, or click the ‘+‘ icon....
Setting file and folder permissions Ubuntu Linux should be the same as any modern operating system. You can use file permission to control who should have access to files you own. You won’t be able to set permissions on files and folders you don’t already own or have access to. To view and set the permissions for a file, right-click it and select Properties, then select the Permissions tab. There are three groups or classes you can set permissions for....
Setting up a new website in Google Analytics isn’t quite as straightforward as it should be. However, following the steps below, you should be able to have your website enabled with Google Analytics tracking in under 30 minutes. Set Up Your Google Analytics Property To set up your website on Google Analytics, you need to add the website in Google Analytics Administration. First, log into Google Marketing Platform with your Google Account....
It offers features that may not be available to other PHP-based CMS, like WordPress Joomla, or Drupal. For one, it doesn’t need a database server, call it database-less. It comes with all features that you need but is smaller than WordPress, like SEO-friendly design, flexible CSS framework, and more. Herbie uses a unique algorithm to find or list any content based on date, type, category, tag, or author, and the performance will remain fast even if you have thousands of posts and hundreds of tags....
Instead of purchasing an SSL certificate for your website and other applications, one can use Let’s encrypt free SSL certificates to secure their web portals and applications. Let’s Encrypt SSL certificates are valid for 90 days. However, you can create an automated process to automatically renew before expiring. If you’re going to be operating a website or need to secure your application with HTTPS, then Let’s Encrypt certificates are great....
