At the moment, Kodi doesn’t come with any options for voice control built in. If you want to control Kodi using your voice, follow along below. If you’ve not used it before, you can install Kodi on Linux pretty easily. Windows users can set Kodi up on their PC with ease, too. Using Google Assistant with the Yatse App Yatse is one of the most popular third-party remote control apps for Kodi....

A better solution would be an add-on for Firefox called Converter. This add-on converts units to other related units with a click of a button. You can either convert an individual measurement or convert all measurements within a page in one go. First, you’ll need to install the add-on, then restart Firefox. Upon restarting, you can now navigate to the web page where you have measurements for conversion. In the example below, I wanted to convert a length measurement of 1/8 of an inch....

Using the Gboard Clipboard Function On your Android phone, open any app that allows you to write a message. Click on the editing field to bring up the Gboard app. Tap on the Clipboard icon in the top row. If the Clipboard icon is not there, click on the three dots in the top corner. This will reveal additional tools. Tap on the Clipboard icon when you see it. If your clipboard is off, tap on the toggle button near the top to activate it....

Spotlight can find seemingly everything, but one thing you might have not heard of is that Spotlight includes basic file functionality. You can cut, copy and paste files directly from the Spotlight windows, allowing to easily make duplicates in deep-buried files. This is done using the handy Finder’s “Cut and Paste” abilities, which happen to function directly from Spotlight in OS X. So, without any further ado, here are three tips that you can use to easily copy, cut and paste files directly from Spotlight:...

Let’s imagine you’ve been listening to a certain track extensively for the last week, and you’d like to hear similar tracks. Tapping into Spotify’s usual recommendations won’t do because they cover your entire musical palette. Here’s where Spotify Radio comes in. The functionality allows users to create more targeted playlists based on a song, album, playlist or even artist. As with a real radio station, you never know what Spotify will play next when you’re using Radio, which makes it a great tool for music discovery....

Why Use Network Backups? Network backups are great for a couple of reasons. First, once you set them up they require minimal effort to maintain. You don’t need to plug a drive into your computer to start the backup or even remember where you put your backup drive. It happens over the air with no plugging required. For laptop users who might do all their computing from the couch, this is a huge benefit....

With Trianglify Wallpaper, you can manually create abstract desktop backgrounds based on triangular shapes and add color to your desktop. You can also set it on auto and let it loose to create and place new wallpaper on your desktop automatically. Let’s see how. Installation Trianglify isn’t actually an app but is a library for creating abstract triangu lar-based wallpapers. There are many solutions based on it and even a web app, but if you’re on Linux, the best way to use it is through the Trianglify Wallpaper desktop app that we’ll use here....

Thankfully, you don’t have to extract specific frames from your videos and then arrange them in a single image manually. You can use tools to easily create thumbnail sheets from videos. We show you two ways of doing so in Linux in this article. Using Gnome Videos If you are using Gnome, its default media player, named “Videos” (actually “Gnome Videos”, since it’s part of the Gnome suite of tools and up to recently known on its own as “Totem”), offers an option for easy creation of thumbnail sheets....

On the other hand, maybe you just want to be prepared for the worse, such as your Twitter account getting hacked, compromised or magically deleted. If a social networking account is important to you, it’s always a good idea to have a backup just in case something like this happens. So today, we’ll show you how you can request an archive of your tweets and download your tweets from Twitter....

1. Enter Your Notes Manually The easiest, yet hardest, approach to digitizing your handwritten notes is to enter them manually in a computer. This probably isn’t your idea of digitalization, but for just a few pages this isn’t a huge hassle. For instance, I frequently write down ideas on paper as they come, and depending on what the idea is about (e.g. work, a to-do, home improvements, etc.), I then put it in the respective file where I keep notes about that particular topic....

What is responsive design you ask? Simply put, responsive design is when your website is fit to scale to whatever device the user is on (try resizing your browser and see how the layout of this site changes according to the browser size). So if the visitor is using a small screen like a smartphone, all the parts of your website will rearrange to best suit their needs. For example, there will most likely be bigger menu buttons and text links so the user doesn’t accidentally click on something they didn’t want to....

Try a Partial Search If there is a word or phrase you fully expect to see somewhere in the title, search for that first. Drive will begin making recommendations based on your search query as you type it. Adjust Search Tools Google drive has some awesome search tools built in. Click the search bar, then click “More Search Tools” from the dropdown menu. Here, any of the values can be adjusted to hone in on a specific file or folder....

With Google Forms, it’s easy to create an interactive survey that recipients can fill out directly in their email clients. In this tutorial, we show you how to create and embed a Google Form in an email, ready to send out to the world. How to Create a Google Form Survey or Poll To embed a Google Form in your email, you’ll first need to create your form with all its questions and answers....

TilEm Let’s start with the hardest emulator to master – TilEm. This software is designed to emulate only the TI using the chip Z80. If like me, you have no idea which one was using which processor, TilEm can emulate the TI 73, 82, 83, 83+, 83+ SE, 84+, 84+ SE, 85, and 86. It is not packaged for Ubuntu, so the only way to get it is to compile from the sources....

We also discuss command line text selection and current line clearing, as they go hand in hand with copy-paste techniques. Altogether, these workarounds can help you leverage the command prompt like a typical word processor tool. Note: in case of trouble with command prompt, you can self-diagnose and resolve any pending issues using the Update Troubleshooter or SetUpDiag. Enable CTRL + V in the Windows Command Prompt First, we are examining how to resolve the Ctrl + V issue in the command terminal, as it is easier to fix....

Activating Ambient Mode First of all, if you haven’t already, you will need to download and install the Google Assistant app on your phone. Once Google Assistant is installed, start the app and go to the main page. Here you will notice the explorer option (the compass icon) near the bottom corner of the page. Tap on the icon. This will take you to the Explore section of the app – the part where you can configure settings like alarms, the weather forecast, etc....

1. Google Mozilla Firefox Firefox users can easily add Google search to their browser using an extension called Sidebar for Google Search. Its UI is uncluttered, and the Google search is activated on a side panel by simply toggling the extension “on.” The extension offers a complete set of Google search features on the side panel, including News, Images, and Videos. The best part is that you can close the sidebar from the same toggle button, which means the extension won’t interfere with your browsing experience....

The Windows Experience Index isn’t really known to accurately measure the performance of PCs, but if you’re comparing your system with other PCs, it can be quite a useful tool to identify hardware deficiencies. Starting with Windows 8.1, Microsoft decided to remove the graphical interface to the Windows Experience Index. What this essentially means is that this isn’t available in Windows 8.1 anymore: The underlying benchmark utility which measured the PC’s performance is however still available in Windows 8....

Fortunately, you don’t have to be an installation specialist to solve this problem, although it involves a few minor technical edits. We will go through these fixes one by one, from the most obvious solutions to the registry editing steps. What Is the “This Setting Is Managed by Your Administrator” Issue? Contrary to the way it sounds, “This setting is managed by your administrator” has nothing to do with whether or not you are logged in as an administrator....

When the basic fixes fail, that’s when drastic times call for drastic measures (more or less). Keep reading to discover what those fundamental and not so basic solutions are. That way you can get YouTube up and running as soon as possible. Check Downdetector Whether you’re using YouTube on your Android or iOS device (through Chrome), Downdetector is a sure way to know if YouTube is down or it’s you....