Google Chrome normally remembers your browsing history. You can put a stop to that, though, if you set it to always open in Incognito mode. Here’s how you can set up Chrome for private browsing. What Is Incognito Mode? Incognito is the private browsing mode in Chrome. When you use it, Chrome doesn’t locally store your browsing history, cookies, site data, or any information you type in forms between sessions....
We always hear how important it is to backup your data, but do we think about backing up our web-based email? We have shown you how to backup your Gmail account using programs in Windows, but what if you are using Linux? In Windows, you can use GMVault or Thunderbird to backup your Gmail account. You can use Thunderbird in Linux as well, but there iss also a program for Linux called Getmail that will backup your Gmail account to a single mbox file....
Spotify is much more than just a music streaming service. It has a lot of social features as well, including blended playlists and followers. If you don’t want someone to see your Spotify account, you can block them. The ability to block other Spotify users has been a long-requested feature. It’s possible to block artists you don’t like, but until November 2021, it wasn’t possible to block people. We’ll show you how it works....
Did you know Windows has had Speech Recognition built-in since Windows Vista? This is more than just a way to type by speaking aloud — you can use it to control applications and navigate the desktop with your voice. It’s a free, built-in alternative to paid voice dictation programs like Dragon NaturallySpeaking. It’s a shame most Windows users will likely never find it buried in the Control Panel. Set Up Speech Recognition To get started, open the Speech Recognition pane by launching the Control Panel, clicking Ease of Access, and clicking Speech Recognition....
How to Enable the Text-to-Speech Feature First, let’s enable the text-to-speech feature from preferences. To turn it on, click on the “Apple” icon from the menu bar and select “System Preferences.” From here, click on the “Accessibility” button. From here, select “Speech” from the sidebar. Next, click on the checkmark next to “Speak Selected Text When the Key Is Pressed.” From this page, you can also click on the drop-down menu next to “System Voice” to change the voice of the speaker....
Like other smartphones, Android phones use an ambient light sensor to automatically adjust your phone’s display brightness. This often doesn’t work too well. It’s up to each Android phone’s manufacturer to correctly calibrate the auto-brightness feature, and they generally don’t do an amazing job. The phone may go from too bright to too dim without anything in between. Lux is a third-party app that allows you to easily calibrate your phone’s brightness sensor, saving you battery power and reducing eye strain if your phone is normally too bright in dark rooms....
Spreadsheets don’t always have to look like a solid wall of text. You can break that monotony by adding some images to your cells in Google Sheets. Quickly Insert an Image in a Cell Google Sheets has a really simple way to insert an image in a cell. First, go to https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/ and open any spreadsheet. Now, click any blank cell in the spreadsheet and go to Insert > Image....
Download the Arch Linux ISO The first step is to get the Arch Linux installation image from a suitable mirror. To do that, visit the Arch Linux Download page, and depending on how you wish to download the ISO, select the appropriate option. The available options include direct download, torrent, virtual machine image, “Netboot” install for wired connections, and more. To keep it simple, we’ll be doing a direct download. Scroll down to the list of available mirrors and choose one....
While Apple might pitch the Apple TV as the center of your streaming video universe, we know there’s no place like home when it comes to high quality content. Let’s take a look at how to access your vast home media server selection with Plex. Whether we’re talking Apple TV, Chromecast, or Roku boxes, the big thing these days is on-demand streaming content. While that’s all well and good–we love Netflix and Hulu as much as the next cord cutter–there’s still something to be said for using local media....
Apple makes it easy to log out of your Mac with the option in the desktop’s menu bar. But there are also a couple of commands you can use to log out using Terminal, as we’ll discover today. Terminate the loginwindow Process One way of logging out of your user account is by running a command to terminate the loginwindow process. To get started, you’ll need to open Terminal. You can quickly do this using Spotlight Search....
Like the Roku and Chromecast, Sony’s PlayStation 4 can play video and music files from a USB drive or another computer on your network. Your PS4 can even play local music files in the background while you play a game. This is thanks to the “Media Player” app, which Sony added more than a year and a half after the PS4 was released. There’s also a now-free-to-use Plex app for streaming videos from another one of your PCs....
When you manage your own servers, one of the things you end up needing to do on a semi-regular basis is extract stuff from the middle of a file. Maybe it’s a log file, or you need to extra a single table from the middle of your MySQL backup file, like I did. To figure out the line numbers, a simple grep -n command did the job (the -n argument outputs the line numbers)....
Windows 8 offered support for restoring Windows 7 backups, but Microsoft removed this feature in Windows 8.1. There’s still a way to restore your files from Windows 7 backups on Windows 8.1, but it’ll take more work. Microsoft saw the error of their ways and this is now easier on Windows 10. Windows 8.1 does offer support for restoring system image backups, but that won’t help if you’ve just used Windows Backup on Windows 7 to create backup copies of your important files....
Before you can run an iPhone or iPad app on your Mac or MacBook, you’ll first need to download it from Apple’s App Store. RELATED: Macs Will Run iPhone and iPad Apps: Here’s How It Will Work Start by clicking on the Launchpad icon found on your computer’s dock. Next, click on the “App Store” button. If you can’t find it, use the search bar found at the top of the bat to locate the app....
Ditch your cable box and start streaming everything to save some money while still being able to watch seasonal shows. Football is a Thanksgiving tradition in many households, and it’s easy to watch even if you cut the cord. Watch on a Streaming Service Cable replacement services typically offer access to local channels such as NBC, CBS, and FOX, which are the three channels broadcasting football on Thanksgiving. Each of the streaming services below offers a free trial, but the length of the trial varies....
Google’s Chromebooks run Chrome OS, a lightweight operating system based on Linux that provides you with a full Chrome browser and a basic desktop environment. Before buying a Chromebook, you may want to play with Chrome OS in a virtual machine in a window on your desktop. What You’re Getting RELATED: The Best Chromebooks You Can Buy, 2017 Edition Here’s the thing: You can’t get an official version of Chrome OS without buying a Chromebook....
If you’re familiar with JBL, it’s most likely because of its speakers, whether you’re talking Bluetooth or larger, more professional speakers. That said, the company has made waves with its true wireless earbuds (TWEs) recently, and it seems to be focusing more on this product category. With the JBL Live Free 2, the company nails certain aspects but makes some puzzling decisions when it comes to others. Design, Fit, and Comfort The look of the JBL Live Free 2 is nice....
Siri is the incredibly handy assistant that comes with iOS devices. Through voice commands, you can get Siri to do almost anything that you could normally do on your phone or tablet yourself. In this article, we’ll show how to put Siri to work to make your iOS experience easier and faster. How do I use Siri? By default, you can get to Siri by holding down the home button on your iPhone or iPad....
We recently looked at how you can make it easier to manage multiple inboxes in Gmail using the Multiple Inboxes Lab feature. This is a non-standard feature and it’s far from being the only one available to you. In fact there are numerous hidden features that can help you to get more from Gmail. Before delving into Gmail Labs to see what’s available, it is important to note that Labs features are, as Google points out, ‘crazy experimental stuff’....
Are you tired of having to manually remove the utm_source tracking section of URLs before you share or bookmark them? Then you can happily say goodbye to that irksome nuisance with the au-revoir-utm extension for Firefox! If you are a frequent user of RSS, then you have likely seen more than enough of the utm_source URL extension. With this extension, you simply install it and starting enjoying clean URLs immediately....
