Amazon Echo owners already know how to summon Alexa by talking directly to the device. But what if you’re not near your Echo? Well, you can still talk to Alexa, run various tasks, and access different types of content. You can control an Echo device remotely …
As your PC loses that just-out-of-box glow of perfection, it eventually starts to slow down. As the various programs you’ve installed interact with each other, it may seem to be acting peculiar. Sometimes, though, a slow system or weird behavior can be an outward and visible …
Networks are a tough thing to manage and monitor. It’s understandable, network traffic happens inside copper cabling or optical fibers and it can’t be seen. This makes it a bit complicated for any administrator to have a clear and definite picture of what is going on …
The free and reliable P2P bittorrent client qBittorrent 4.1.4 was released today with new features, bug-fixes, WebUI and search improvements. qBittorrent 4.1.4 release highlights: Recognize *.ts files as previewable Allow to disable speed graphs Clear LineEdit on ESC Fix divide-by-zero crash Remove speed limit checkbox in …
PlayOnLinux, a graphical frontend for the Wine software compatibility layer which allows Linux to install Windows-based applications, released version 4.3 a few days ago. While Phoenicis PlayOnLinux 5 is currently under development, the POL 4.3 is a bug-fix release that also brings Phoenicis (POL 5) winebuild …
MusicBrainz Picard music tagger now is available as Snap package for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and higher. Snap is containerised software package designed to work within most Linux desktop. It bundles all its required dependencies, so the latest Picard 2.0.4 works in Ubuntu 16.04 while the …
The new development release Wine 3.21 was announced a day ago with some improvements and various bug-fixes. Wine 3.21 release highlights: Typelib marshaller rewrite using NDR functions. Graphics support on recent Android versions. Support for memory font resources in DirectWrite. Joystick support improvements. A lot of …
The popular network packet analyzer Wireshark released version 2.6.5 yesterday afternoon with numerous bug-fixes. Following vulnerabilities, bugs has been fixed in Wireshark 2.6.5: The Wireshark dissection engine could crash. The DCOM dissector could crash. The LBMPDM dissector could crash. The MMSE dissector could go into an …
The PC vs. consoles standoff will never end. Why bother? There have always been amazing titles on PC and sometimes they run even better! Next-gen is on, so new games look very smooth and realistic. Let’s take a look at the 5 coolest of them, which …
ASUS has introduced its latest mainstream VivoBook 14 laptop, with the new model in some ways bringing the series a bit closer to its premium counterparts. The new VivoBook 14 (X420UA) comes in an aluminum unibody, features a 14-inch display, and runs up to Intel’s fully-fledged …
