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Sentry is an error-tracking platform that lets you monitor issues in your production deployments. It supports most popular programming languages and frameworks. GitLab is a Git-based DevOps platform to manage the entire software development lifecycle. GitLab can integrate with Sentry to display captured errors. In this article, we’ll use the two services to stay ahead of issues in a React application. Getting Set up GitLab and Sentry both have self-hosted and SaaS options....

After switching to OS X when I got a new MacBook Air, one of the first things I needed to duplicate was my extremely customized AutoHotkey setup — the most important of which is using the J and K keys to navigate throughout tabbed windows easily. Yeah, I’m a Vim user. I’ve never been a fan of having to use CTRL + TAB to switch from one tab to the next — to start with, you have to move your hands from the home row, and it’s awkward, and why should I have to do that just because somebody decided that keyboard shortcut before tabs became popular?...

Using your Android to control your computer is a great way to interact with programs. Your phone can be used a trackpad, or could be used to use a media player using custom controls. Monect lets you take things further by turning your Android device into all manner of peripherals. What Are the Options? There are plenty of apps available in Google Player that let you use your phone or tablet as a wireless keyboard or mouse for a computer....

Have you ever faced the problem where you only want to have one DHCP server on the network for central management of your scopes, but you have multiple Vlans? HTG explains how to use a DHCP relay agent. Overview The DHCP protocol was created so that clients could obtain their IP address automatically and without human intervention (yes that used to be an actual part of IT-ing, back in the day)....

As detailed by LastPass, an unauthorized third party gained access to the developer environment through a compromised developer account. While some proprietary source code and other proprietary info was stolen, LastPass has clarified that no sensitive user info, such as master passwords, encrypted account passwords, or account information, was taken by the attacker. An investigation is underway to determine the size and scope of the breach, but in the meantime, Karim Toubba, LastPass’ CEO, is reassuring users that the breach didn’t affect any sensitive info or passwords....

Controlling a phone with your voice still feels futuristic. Google Assistant makes a lot of this possible, and if you have an Android phone, you can even answer or reject calls without touching your device. We’ll show you how. Voice control seems like it would be a pretty standard feature, but Google Assistant only gained this ability in June of 2021, starting with Pixel phones. It works just like any other Google Assistant command that you might use on your phone....

Go anywhere people are taking photos and you’ll see someone taking photos with an iPad or some sort of Android tablet. Everyone’s already pointed out how silly this looks — but is it really a bad idea? There’s no question people look silly when they do this, but people look silly when they do many common things. Many people still think Bluetooth earpieces look ridiculous, but they’re still used by many people each day....

In the open source community you’ll often hear the phrase “free as in speech” or “free as in beer” in reference to software products, but what do these phrases actually mean? Let’s walk you through the meaning behind each. The terms are generally used to differentiate between free software, like the Internet Explorer or Opera browsers, and open-source software, like Chromium or Firefox. In a nutshell, it translates to “zero price” (gratis) versus “with few or no restrictions” (libre)....

DNS by Itself Is Not Secure The DNS system includes no built-in methods to verify that the response to the request was not forged, or that any other part of the process wasn’t interrupted by an attacker. This is an issue because whenever a user wants to connect to your website, they have to make a DNS lookup to translate your domain name into a usable IP address. If the user is connecting from an insecure place, like a coffee shop, it’s possible for malicious attackers to sit in the middle and spoof DNS records....

RFID is essentially a form of electronic bar tag — one that can be much smaller. A nearby reader can use radiowaves to read the RFID tag without any visual contact. How RFID Works RFID stands for radio-frequency identification. A small chip — known as an RFID tag — is attached to or implanted in an object. The tags contain information that can be read at short range via radio waves....

Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites. The Question SuperUser reader Erty is curious: What is that little bit called? username@computer:~$ And in Windows: C:\Users\Username> Is there a formal way to refer to that text? Thanks in advance! The Answer SuperUser contributor Barlop offers some insight: If all this talk of the prompt has you in a command-line sort of mood, check out some of the following How-To Geek articles about life at the prompt:...

Windows RT is a special edition of Windows 8. It runs on ARM and you’ll find it alongside Intel x86 machines in stores, but you’ll be surprised just how much Windows RT differs from the Windows you know. Windows RT is so different that Microsoft has told Mozilla Windows RT “isn’t Windows anymore.” If you’re looking to buy a Windows system in stores, you should know the difference between Windows RT and the other editions of Windows 8....

As consumers continue to shift their lives away from the desktop and onto their mobile devices, having an external hard drive that can you connect to without any cables is a convenient way to stash away photos, videos, and music you want to take with you on the road. But how do they work, and are they worth the increased cost over the more traditional external media solutions we’ve used until now?...

The Neutrality of Hacking When most people think of hackers, they likely think of people attempting to crack into websites, steal credit cards, and attack governments. You might picture someone in a dark jacket and sunglasses, staring at a screen full of ones and zeroes as they take down an electrical grid. However, hacking rarely looks like that, and not every hacker is engaging in criminal activity. The act of hacking is generally a neutral thing....

OnePlus hasn’t been making Android phones for a very long time, but over its four years in existence it has made numerous screw ups. This all finally led up to last week’s massive credit card breach. It’s time we stop trusting a company with such clearly low standards. Update, 12/6/18: Who Is OnePlus? Founded just a hair over four years ago—at the end of 2013—OnePlus is a subsidiary of Chinese electronics manufacturer Oppo....

Shout “Windows 8” and you’re likely to hear “Vista” echoed back at you. For Microsoft, Windows 8 has received a Vista-like reception and it’s showing in tepid sales and an abysmal market share. Windows 8 was released to the general public on October 26, 2012, over five months ago, and only just recently captured 3% of the total desktop operating system market share. When it was released in October 2009, Windows 7 gobbled up 10% in the same amount of time....

Sure, everyone involved can come up with a variety of excuses — they aren’t technically misleading customers, it’s all in the fine print, and these are the standard ways the industry operates — but hardware has been advertised in many misleading ways. We’re not the only ones calling these marketing gimmicks misleading. Some of these tricks have even been the subject of class-action lawsuits for misleading consumers. Today we will look at 8 ways hardware manufacturers attempt to pull the metaphorical wool over the consumer’s eyes....

The “new iPad,” as Apple is calling it (the 10th generation), is more in line with the current iPad Air, Pro, and Mini than the previous model. It has the same boxy design as the other models, along with a USB Type-C port (goodbye, Lightning), Wi-Fi 6, and optional 5G. The home button has been removed, with Touch ID moving to the power button on the top, like the more expensive models....

There are a few different ways you can go about getting your videos converted to play with your iOS device. There’s no shortage of Commercial & Shareware products for this, but we’ll use free and Open Source software (mainly Handbrake). We’ll look at the basics for converting DVDs, ISO, and AVI video formats that aren’t compatible with your iOS device to the iTouch friendly MP4 / H.264 format. For this article we’re using iTunes for Windows, an iPod Touch 4th Gen running iOS 4....

PowerShell has four types of jobs – Background Jobs, Remote Jobs,WMI Jobs and Scheduled Jobs. Join us as we find out what they are and how we can use them. Be sure to read the previous articles in the series: Learn How to Automate Windows with PowerShell Learning to Use Cmdlets in PowerShell Learning How to Use Objects in PowerShell Learning Formatting, Filtering and Comparing in PowerShell Learn to Use Remoting in PowerShell Using PowerShell to Get Computer Information Working with Collections in PowerShell...