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Windows 10 is fast approaching and while there’s no immediate need to upgrade from 8.1, or even 7, odds are you’ll want to make the jump eventually. Windows 10 comes packed with new features, such as a redesigned Start menu, the Cortana voice assistant and a new browser called Edge, …

How can I install Adobe Flash Player Plugin version 11.2 with yum command on a Fedora Linux 64 bit desktop or 32 bit version 20 laptop system? Tutorial details Difficulty Easy (rss) Root privileges Yes Requirements None Estimated completion time 5m Adobe provided yum repository that contains RPM packages of …

Create a new tar archive. $ tar cvf archive_name.tar dirname/ Extract from an existing tar archive. $ tar xvf archive_name.tar View an existing tar archive. $ tar tvf archive_name.tar Check if remote port is open with bash: echo >/dev/tcp/8.8.8.8/53 && echo "open" Suspend process: Ctrl + z Move process to …

Samsung’s new flagship smartphone is almost here. The Galaxy S5 was subject to truly monumental levels of hype and months of rumours in the run up to its unveiling, but now that the phone is official, how much of an upgrade is it over last year’s model? We’ve put the S5 side-by-side …

Last fall, Google rolled out one of its largest changes of the past decade – an entirely new search algorithm, nicknamed “Hummingbird.” In contrast to the past updates, Panda and Penguin, which modified existing search algorithms and affected roughly 2 to 5 percent of search queries, Hummingbird is believed to …

The Samsung Galaxy S5 smartphone will be announced by April, feature iris scanning technology and be sold alongside an updated Galaxy Gear smartwatch. Lee Young Hee, executive vice president of Samsung’s mobile business, said the flagship Android smartphone will have a new design to make it stand out from the …

In 2014 Apple will no doubt release the new Apple iWatch as well as the iPhone 6S, leaving the design side out of this for a while we want to hit on the new wireless charging feature that would allow charging capabilities of up to three-feet away. The iWatch and iPhone 6S …

LG introduced its first curved display smartphone in India, the G Flex, at an event in New Delhi. Indian consumers will have to wait till next year to get their hands on the device, as the G Flex will be available in India only in February 2014.The LG G Flex has an …

Red Hat’s next major flagship release, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7 is here and ready for your testing. Besides adding new features for virtualization, the cloud, and in-place system upgrading, this release also sees Red Hat moving from Oracle’s MySQL to MariaDB for its default database management system (DBMS). RHEL 7, …

Google extended its mega event, Great Online Shopping Festival (GSOF) by a day after getting a huge response from shoppers with over a million users visiting the site in the first 24 hours. The second edition of India’s GOSF, which started Wednesday, will now go on till Saturday instead of …