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Forma LMS ensures consistent compliance and competency management for highly regulated industries. many businesses use the Forma LMS platform to perform training sessions for employees. Some of its features include allowing students easy integration with any intranet software, which extends its functions with a wide range of plugins. For more about Forma LMS, please check its Homepage To get started with installing Forma, follow the steps below: Install Apache2 HTTP Server Forma CMS requires a web server and Apache2 HTTP server is the most popular open-source web server available today....

Hestia Host Control Panel is a free, simple, and fast web host control panel that you can use to host websites, mail servers and other web hosting features from a simple web interface. Hestia which also runs on low-resource servers comes with Nginx + PHP-fpm and advanced caching that are available right out of the box. With its auto-installer, you’re able to install more than 439 apps with one click....

Every time folks think about content management systems, WordPress, Drupal, and Joomla come to mind. Microweber is a CMS that most people haven’t heard of. However, if you’re looking for an open-source CMS that’s intuitive with drag n’ drop and real-time text writing and editing features for building websites, then Microweber is a great place to start. Besides building great websites and blogs, Microweber comes with an integrated online store feature by default....

Moodle is an open-source course management system that works great for professionals, businesses, and colleges who want to run and manage their courses or training materials online securely. It is probably the best and most popular open-source learning management platform available today. However, if you’re going to be setting up Moodle in your environment, make sure to run it over HTTPS. This setup might take a while to complete and the process below should work on other Linux platforms as well....

PhpStorm provides on-the-fly error prevention, autocompletion, and debugging, and supports HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. You can install and use it for free for 30 days. after which, you must purchase a license. This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to easily install the PhpStorm IDE installer on Ubuntu 16.04 | 17.10 | 18.04 desktop… For more about PhpStorm, please check its Homepage. To install PhpStorm on Ubuntu, follow the steps below: There are two ways to install PhpStorm on Ubuntu: one is via its ToolBox App and the other is using Snap....

The just-released preview of Windows 11 comes with new features such as redesigned user desktop, including a centered Start menu and taskbar, rounded corners windows, themes, and colors that will make Windows 11 better looking than previous versions. One legacy feature that’s also available in the new Windows 11 is the ability to remotely manage servers, including Active Directory server and other services, including Server Manager, Microsoft Management Console (MMC) snap-ins, consoles, and more with RSAT....

If you are looking for a simple CMS system that is easy to install, simple to maintain, and flexible, then you should be looking at Siberian. This CMS platform is fast and lightweight and gives webmasters extensible features to collaborate and automate engaging experiences with users across multiple devices, including mobile. For more about Siberian, please check their Homepage To get started with installing Siberian, follow the steps below:...

It is designed for ease of use to allow webmasters to create forum communities with all the features needed from a bulletin board with fewer resources. If you’re looking for a simple and straightforward forum platform that’s free to use and easy to customize, you’ll find SMF to be useful. This brief tutorial is going to show students and new users how to install SMF on Ubuntu 17.04 | 17....

For the uninitiated, Wekan is an open-source, Kanban board built with the Meteor JavaScript framework. It is one of many alternatives to Trello, providing almost the same features and capabilities. Kanban board is an agile project management tool designed to help visualize work and help teams complete tasks efficiently and collaboratively. If you’re looking for an open-source, Kanban board platform that is easy to use and manage, then Wekan is a great place to start....

VirtualBox is an open-source, cross-platform virtualization software that allows users to run multiple guest machines (virtual machines) simultaneously on a single host computer. The latest version of VirtualBox has a template for Windows 11. However, when one creates a Windows 11 VM and attempts to install Windows 11, one will get an error that the machine does not meet Windows 11 basic requirements. To be able to install Windows 11 on VirtualBox, you’ll need to include some registry flags to not check for TPM, RAM, and Secure boot requirements, and we will show you how to do that when we’re installing Windows 11....

Windows Subsystem for Linux lets developers run a GNU/Linux environment, including most command-line tools, utilities, and applications directly in Windows without setting up a virtual machine or dual-boot. With the WSL environment configured, you can attach and mount physical Linux drives or mount points on Windows and explore the content via File Explorer. This feature also works on a dual-boot system running Windows 11 and Ubuntu Linux installed on different drives....

If your Ubuntu Linux machine has a built-in or external camera attached, you can record videos and apply fun special effects and share the fun with others. There are many applications one can use to record videos in Ubuntu Linux. However, the default webcam and camera application in Ubuntu Linux is called Cheese. The cheese camera application can be used to take still photos as well as videos. The videos in the video stream are automatically saved in the Videos/Webcam folder in your home folder in Ubuntu Linux....

Modern computers—those manufactured in the last several years—are powered by 64-bit processors and operating systems and are only natively capable of running 64-bit applications. This is why software shipped these days is almost exclusively 64-bit. You will still run into some 32-bit apps (especially if you’re running older apps), and running them on a 64-bit version of Windows is usually pretty seamless. So, how does it all work? Let’s find out....

What is a Browser Sandbox? Sandbox is a bit of a weird term to use with computers, but think about what a real-life sandbox does. It’s a set of walls to keep all the sand inside. Otherwise, it just kind of creeps out to ruin part of the lawn. It also gives us a defined space to play in. The kind of sandbox we’re talking about, a browser sandbox, does the same thing....

OneDrive app is installed on Windows computers by default. When you get a new computer, and OneDrive services are not forcibly disabled, the app is accessible by default. The OneDrive app lets you sync files and folders on your computer with Microsoft cloud allowing you to access them anywhere on your mobile devices and other computers using the service. When you set up your computer to sync files and folders with OneDrive, you can work with your synced files directly in File Explorer and access your files even when you’re offline....

In some environments, before you can access the Internet or external services you must use a proxy server. A proxy server is a network device that sits between your PC and the Internet or external resources. This server makes requests for websites and services on behalf of your PC. A proxy server is usually installed to help save bandwidth, since frequently used resources are cached, to protect computers from ads, malware, and other harmful threats on the Internet....

Contenido is open-source content management (CMS) that makes it easy for anyone to build and maintain websites for any purpose. This German open-source cm enables you to have functioning websites by just installing it and within a few minutes have templates available to start building your content. Whether you’re creating a personal or business website, Contenido CMS can help you create and manage your content on every device with its intuitive and powerful admin dashboard....

Flextype is new open-source flat-file CMS that’s fast, easy to set up, and provides amazing APIs for plugins, themes, and core developers. Like other flat-file CMS, there’s installation needed, just copy files to your server! Looking for flat-file content management systems to power your websites and blogs? Tired of CMS with database implementations with slow speed? This new CMS may have the answers to those questions, and the steps below show you how to install it on Ubuntu....

Using Windows Snap to Split Your Screen Windows 7 first introduced the Snap function. Snap lets you quickly arrange your windows by simply pushing them against the edges or corners of the screen. If you want to maximize a window, grab it by the title bar and then push it against the top-center of the screen. You’ll see a translucent shade form to show you which space the window will take up....

The good thing that has happened over the years is most devices now work with Linux machines out of the box. No need for complicated configurations and troubleshooting. However, there may be some cases where devices may not work properly on Ubuntu and other Linux systems. Students and new users may not know what to do initially but focusing on basic troubleshooting steps may get them working again. This brief tutorial shows students and new users how to troubleshoot wireless network issues on Ubuntu Laptops....