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Posts in Category: "How-To"

How to Enable/Disable Google's "Dino" game in Chrome

Have you ever had internet issues while using Google Chrome and stumbled upon a small pixelated T-Rex? Did you wonder why there’s an extinct animal in your web browser during connection problems? Well…That’s actually a video game! and it is very addictive one! more

League of Legends freeze at minute 7 fix

League of Legends is one of the best games of all time. This according to statistics and whether we like it or not, it’s very addictive; So if you’re a millennial or a zoomer you definitely have tried it before in your life and if you say otherwise i won’t believe you :) more

Jekyll simplified

What is Jekyll? Jekyll is a static web pages generator. A normal regular websites usually work dynamically, That means they communicate in real-time with databases or Interpreters…etc. For example; A dynamic website will use languages such as PHP, Python, Perl, Ruby…and other script languages, All these require a interpreter in order to execute and talk back to the website which is most likely is hosted on the same server. It’s a long process that takes a lot of resources and time. from both; The server and the client (you). more

How to improve battery life in Linux systems

Linux based systems also known as Distros which is short for distributions, have many advantages over other operation systems but also they have downs! One if these cons is the horrible battery life while using them on a notebook or a laptop or any other portable computers. more

Why your LTE connection is slow at certain times?

Have you ever had an insomnia and stayed awake all night? or at least until 3AM in the morning trying to sleep? Then you noticed your internet connection got extremely fast and the ping got much lower? This is not a coincidence! Because at these specific times almost all people in your area are busy sleeping; That means the pressure on tower cells that delivers data to you is very low. more

Add pagination to your Github page or Jekyll website

My modified github pages theme didn’t have pagination implemented already despite jekyll have a built-in plugin for it called jekyll-paginate, so i spent a lot of time trying to understand how it works until i got it done, here’s how in short and a simplified manner. If you’re on github pages you don’t need to install anything because it’s already installed by default and cannot be removed, otherwise install the plugin i just mentioned in your jekyll system by using: more

Windows Beep

Computers back in the day used to be shipped with something called PC Internal Speakers which was mainly used by the BIOS and sometimes old software, today motherboards still have a port for them but you have to buy one now instead of getting it for free. i got mine from my old Pentium 4 PC when i was cleaning stuff i used it on my newer motherboard to see if still works and it did! but only when i turned on the PC not when i logged in to Windows. more