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If you're having an issue with your Google Chrome where everything is turned black. The following fix will solve your problem in a matter of seconds. What does it look like? I've added a screenshot of what happened to my Google Chrome after the update. Follow the following steps to fix the problem. Right click on Chrome shortcut and click properties. Inside properties, under Compatibility tab choose to Run this program in compatibility mode for Windows Vista. Any variant would do. If one doesn't work try other. and your Google Chrome should be up and running but if you'll restart it the problem will persist. To fix it permanently we need to tweak some settings. With the Chrome running Go to Settings and under Advanced Settings Disable 'User hardware acceleration when available' Relaunch Chrome and it should be working fine now. This post was updated from Google Chrome, so I know it works. ;)

Since 2011, Netflix has become one of the most powerful companies in the world, boasting a worldwide user base of nearly 150 million. Between 2011 and 2015, Netflix and other streaming services penetrated the global market so effectively that piracy plummeted roughly 50%. However, for the first time in years, that trend line is changing.  In 2018, global piracy went up. Global piracy rate is a useful indicator for the health of the streaming market because it highlights a key value of streaming providers:  convenience . Netflix proved that even in a world where piracy is accessible and relatively low-risk, users are willing to pay for convenience. No one wants to search dodgy corners of the internet to stream  The Office if they don't have to. The migration of users from streaming services back to piracy indicates that streaming services are no longer offering the same level of convenience they used to. There are two major reasons for this. The first is ma...

With the latest update to FireTV sticks, they lost the ability to work as a cast sink.  The new FireTV sticks don't have the option for Mirroring at all. But there's nothing to worry about and there seems to be a workaround for that. Firstly, you'll need the CastApp to be installed on your FireTV Stick.  You can download the CastApp from this direct download link .  If the link does not work you can get it from the XDA forum thread here . Or https://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-tv/general/chrome-cast-receiver-fire-tv-t3708913 Once downloaded you need to install it in your FireTV stick. To do that either install adblink from this tutorial or transfer it to FireTV stick using ES File Explorer like most of the people do. Once installed open the application and check Google Cast. Now open Google Chrome web browser. Click on the menu button on the top right and click on Cast... After that click on down ar...

When working in a team often times we come across the situation where we need to share what is on our screen. A screenshot is a still picture of what is on your screen.  Following are different ways you can take screenshot on Windows. 1. Print Screen and Ctrl + V This method works irrespective of the Windows version you are on. So if you are on Windows XP, Windows 7 or Windows Vista this is the best possible and easiest way to take screenshot. > Press PrtScn. > Open Microsoft Paint or any other image editor. > Press Ctrl + V which stands for paste. 2. Screen Shot softwares. Screen shot softwares have run out of business over the time there but still there are many out there. Most of them carry too much ads to be trusted. Fortunately some of them are really simple and easy to use. One such screenshot software is LightShot . Apart from this there is a tool that comes bundled in Windows now called Snipping Tool .  It is simple and ver...

As good as Adobe Photoshop is, not everyone can afford to own a licensed version. Most of the Photoshop version out there in use are just pirated copies. But is it really that necessary? Unless you are running a million dollar enterprise or a graphics developer team I really don't see any good reason for having a Photoshop, especially when there are lot's of work around to any problem. Here I will be discussing some alternative approaches and softwares that can help you out from any Photoshop need with using Photoshop. 1. GIMP If you go on a search for a free alternative to Photoshop, this one will always be there in any list. And why not! GIMP is perfect in its own and there is a better version coming out very soon viz GIMP 3.0 Only problem GIMP has so far is it's inability to deal with high resolution. It's rather difficult to explain in words but I can give you an example of the problem. Say when you Open and image as a layer in your canvas and resize ...

Do you find it frustrating that there is no pause or stop button right next to where the Windows show the update progress? Follow these steps to stop the ongoing Windows download. Step 1: Open Run(WINDOWS KEY + R) and type services.msc and press enter. Step 2: Locate Windows Update service and double click it to open. Step 3: From what appears next you can stop, pause  the on going Windows update and also prevent Windows from updating itself.

PHP and MySQL always go side by side. Now if you are going to build a PHP website that would be saving any kind of that you will need a database to store that data. MySQL is that database which will be saving your data, and to access, modify or save data in this database you need SQL which stands for Structured Query Language. Now if you are aware of the previous post  we are going to use EasyPHP for our work here as well. Considering you have installed and configured EasyPHP from previous post . Lets get started with MySQL. 1. First of all open the EasyPHP dashboard by right(or left) clicking the EasyPHP tray icon. 2. Now click on Start under Database Server to start a database server. 3. If you find multiple option go with any I went with the first. And click on start. 4. Once started we need to run queries. To do so we need PHPmyAdmin. Go to the  EasyPHP dashboard again and there you will find MySQL Administration PHPmyAdmin as shown. 5. Upon opening ...

If you are going to learn PHP programming you will need to run a server that hosts your PHP pages. For doing this there are multiple ways. All of them are nothing but server applications that run an Apache server on your system, For some reasons I find installing the Apache server itself bit confusing. But that can be worked around by using WAMP or EasyPHP. If you are getting "msvcr100.dll missing" error see this . 1. Going with EasyPHP download the latest EasyPHP Dev Server from their official site, here . As of writing this the latest is 16.1.1 2. Go with the default installation. Which will install in the directory of your windows. 3. Once installed you will see an EasyPHP tray icon as shown. 4. Right(or left) click the tray icon and click Open Dashboard. Which will open up a page in your Web Browser as shown. 5. Once we got the all we have to do is start the service we need. Since we want make PHP pages, click start under HTTP SERVER. If there are multiple ch...

When you make a call over the Internet it is called Voice Over Internet Protocol or VOIP call. It is fairly cheap compared to the regular operators we use for phone calls. Although it cannot be considered reliable. But then again you can even make anonymous phone calls using these services. EvaPhone and Call2Friends provide these services for a limited time for free that too everyday. Link:  https://ievaphone.com/ Link:  https://call2friends.com/ You can even consider buying subscription of these services which is fairly cheap and has no expiration. That is pay per use.Just know that even though these calls are anonymous they are anonymous to some extent only and you identity can be traced through them.

If you are having trouble playing the full hd videos this might help you up. I have an atom processor tablet with 2 gb of ram and was able to run the full hd videos without any lag or loss of frames. Assuming you havent tried anything new you have already tried running your videos on VLC player. Try Media Player Classic with ffdshow codecs. This significantly improves the playback of full hd videos. Link:  https://mpc-hc.org/downloads/ If the default media player classic isn't the answer for you try klite codec pack. Link:  https://www.codecguide.com/download_kl.htm

Even though Windows has it's screen shot taking abilities, but it becomes hectic when you are in a situation where you need to take multiple screen shots. I recently came across with Lightshot on a system of a friend of mine at work. Lightshot is by far the best screen shot application for windows. That being said, it consists of everything you need and more. For instance you can highlight portions in the screenshot as you take it. Add text to the screen shot for better understanding. You can download Lightshot from their official website here:  http://app.prntscr.com/en/index.html If you are in Software testing Lightshot comes handy and would save you a lot of time.