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Install keepass2 on Ubuntu

04/16/201904/15/2019 by Huy

Keepass is my personal’s choice password manger software. Keepass is free and open source software that let you securely store all your passwords in one database with only one master key or a key file. The databases are encrypted with AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) and Twofish encryption algorithms. I will show you how to install … Read more

CPUz alternative for Linux

09/27/201903/12/2019 by Huy

When you are completely switched to Linux like me, there are many great free programs in Windows environment like Cpuz, CCleaner, …etc. There are many ways to view your desktop/laptop’s hardware in Linux. Most of the hardware information are in /proc, for example To view CPU information $ cat /proc/cpuinfo or $ lscpu To view … Read more

Enable 3D Hardware graphics acceleration for VMWare Workstation on Ubuntu

03/09/201903/09/2019 by Huy

Due to my work I need to use Internet Explorer, but I can’t make Internet Explorer to work on Ubuntu environment. So Windows on virtual machine is my only option to use Internet Explorer. I normally use Virtualbox but this time I want to try out VMWare. VMware works fine for me, but I ran … Read more

How to check NVME SSD temperature in Linux

04/17/201903/04/2019 by Huy

Recently I bought a Dell Latitude E7470 for all of the Linux testing, it came with the SK hynix SC300 M.2 2280 256GB SSD. The Sk hynix SC300 via SATA interface has read speed around 510 MB/s and write speed around 380 MB/s (SATA 3.0 interface speed is around 600MB/s which with overhead likely what … Read more

How to remove advertising from Viber Desktop

09/07/201910/29/2018 by Huy

Viber is a very popular free messaging app/software. Viber users can send text, pictures, making regular call or video call, all for free! Viber is a great social chatting app. I use Viber on both my phones and computers for work and personal. I don’t have any problem with the Viber app for phone, but Viber software for Windows comes with ads. Small / regular ads are ok for me, sometimes Viber on PC show very huge annoying ads that covers most of contact list. In this article I will show you how to remove advertising from Viber Desktop on Microsoft Windows 7 and 10.

I didn’t capture any huge annoying ads image, what you are seeing below is their normal ads which is ok for me. When any large size ads come up, it will cover 1/3 or sometimes even 1/2 of the contact screen. That is not acceptable for me. I understand software companies provide free software, they must have some sort of income to support themselves . But taking too much screen’s screen real estate is very annoying.