Windows 10 comes with its own syncing feature that helps you sync data with other Windows 10 devices. Annoyingly to some, Windows sometimes enables this feature by default. This means Windows will be gathering data and syncing it automatically, sometimes when you’d rather it wouldn’t! If you have privacy concerns with syncing features, or you just find it annoying, you can turn this feature off. Here’s how. What Does Windows 10 Sync?...
CyanogenMod, often abbreviated as CM, is one of the best custom ROMs ever available for Android devices and brings with it numerous features to help you make your life much easier and better. What’s great about this ROM is it is available for almost all the Android devices available out there. Check out this CyanogenMod review for all its goodies. Design: Makes it Stand out of the Crowd When it comes to choosing a custom ROM, most people go by the design that the ROM has to offer....
United States: Sharing Passwords Makes You a Felon Did your friend give you the password to his Netflix account? According to a US 9th Circuit Court ruling, that’s a felony. It’s the unfortunate result of a rigid interpretation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The court declared that password-sharing between two parties is wrong unless they both have explicit authorization from the site owner. The average person doesn’t own Netflix, YouTube, or any of the major websites for which they might be sharing passwords....
Introduction The Devolo WiFi 6 Repeater 5400 aims to give you faster, wider-reaching Wi-Fi. It does this by transmitting a high-speed network of its own, which connects back to your existing router. To ensure top performance, Devolo has equipped this extender with 4×4 MIMO on the 5GHz radio band. That means it can send and receive data at a massive 4,800Mbits/sec – the maximum possible within the Wi-Fi 6 standard. It also works with devices that use the older 2....
LCD vs. OLED vs. AMOLED: Meet the Contenders Let’s hop right into that. First, here are the basics of what each of these display types are. LCD LCD, or Liquid Crystal Display, is a basic display type that took storm and replaced the old CRT (tube TV/monitor) standard. There’s a lot of variety in LCD panels, including LED-backlit panels (which are often called LED panels, to everyone’s confusion), IPS panels, and so on....
We asked some of our writers, “Do you plan on leaving Facebook after data was used to control an election?” Our Opinion Alex reports he is “incredibly done” with Facebook, explaining “I have maintained a dormant Facebook account on the off-chance I would require it professionally or the service would improve.” He feels like it has only steadily gotten worse, though. When he logged into his news feed to deactivate his account, he just found trash posts that he didn’t care about....
We asked our writers, “Do you think using tech to predict crime is a good idea?” Our Opinion Alex feels that it doesn’t necessarily have to be like Minority Report. He believes it’s “possible to use big data to predict crime without trying to arrest people for crimes they haven’t committed” if it’s used to decide how to distribute resources that “don’t trample on civil rights.” He stresses that it needs to be understood that it’s just a tool and not a “definitive statement about what will or will not happen....
What are DSLR and Mirrorless Cameras? DSLR stands for Digital Single-Lens Reflex. This is named after the system which resides inside the camera. A DSLR has a reflex mirror inside. When light enters through the lens, it bounces off the mirror and goes into the optical viewfinder. On the other hand, a mirrorless camera does not have a mirror. Light goes directly into the image sensor. The image is previewed on an electronic viewfinder or LCD monitor....
Note: Gnome Disks is part of the Gnome desktop. If Gnome Disks is not installed in your system, you can install it with the following command: Creating a Bootable USB installer with Gnome Disks To get started make sure you already have an ISO file that you want to install and a USB drive. Insert your USB drive into the computer, and make sure it shows up in the File manager....
Android to Android Content Transfer To get started, you will need to download Smart Switch from Google Play on both devices. You will need to select your old device, whether it’s an iOS device or Android, and hit Start. If you are transferring content from one Android to another, you will need to select which is the sending device and which is the receiving device. On the Sending device hit “Connect,” and the receiving device should get a message saying that x device wants to send it content; just tap “Receive....
For Linux users who want to access their Evernote’s notes on their desktop, you definitely have to check out Everpad – one of the best Evernote desktop client for Linux. Installation Open a terminal and type the following commands: Usage When you first run Everpad, instead of a window opening, you will find the Everpad indicator icon in the system tray. To get started, simply right click on the icon and select “Settings and Management”....
Getting Exaile To install Exaile, Ubuntu Lucid users can click here or use the Ubuntu Software Center to fetch the exaile package. For other distributions, check the Exaile website. Multiple Playlists This is a feature I can’t believe is missing from so many media players. Exaile allows you to keep several playlists open at the same time and drag files between them. This is immensely useful for those of us who like to create playlists for compilation albums or specific occasions....
This is a sponsored article and was made possible by Fineshare. The actual contents and opinions are the sole views of the author who maintains editorial independence even when a post is sponsored. Finecam: Virtual Camera Assistant Finecam is a software tool, which when teamed with an iOS client on your iPhone, turns the iPhone easily and quickly into an additional or even main webcam for any software that can access a camera....
For many users, it is not clear why this has happened and the number does not change even if one of the icons is removed. Windows appends a (2) when it encounters a duplicate of the same file, but it is not initially clear where the pinned shortcuts on the taskbar are held. Removing the unnecessary numbers is possible, but it means entering a folder that is hidden by default....
Finding and Connecting with Like minded People in a Specific Area Let us proceed to the how to stuff now i.e how to search for people twittering for specific things in a specific area. Go to the GeoChirp homepage. To connect with people, you need to login using your Twitter account. The login link could be found at the top right corner of the page. Click it and press Allow in the Twitter Authentication page, after providing your Twitter username and password there....
Years ago when computers were still a brand new thing to many people, what many who managed their finances used was a program called Quicken. But that soon gave way to many other programs. Some people use Microsoft Excel, finding it easy to use a spreadsheet in this instance. But of course, with the dawn of mobile devices, many people use an app or a combination of apps to manage their finances....
Automatically Caption Instagram Stories Open the Instagram app on your mobile. On the Home tab, click on the “Your Story” button. Alternatively, you can swipe from the left side of the screen to access the Instagram Story creation page. Record a new Story video or select an already saved video from your phone’s gallery. Once you are done selecting the Story, tap on the “Sticker” icon at the top of the screen in the editing section of the video....
Windows 10 Automatic Login As a default, you’d need a system password to sign in to a Windows computer. It will always require you to set up this password when in its original factory-shipped condition. Other than that, there are several second layer sign-in options, such as dynamic lock, Windows Hello PIN, picture password, or a physical security key. To enable automatic login for a Windows 10 device means removing all these authentication steps including the system password....
Usually after a photoshoot session, you will have tons of photos to process. Instead of going through one by one to process the images (sharpen, rename, save as different file format etc), you can use a batch program to handle them all at the same time. If you have already installed GIMP in your system, you already have a useful batch handling tool available for your usage. In Ubuntu, install the extra plugins: Run Gimp, go to “Filters -> Batch -> Batch Process” ....
Find Your Application’s Desktop Parameters Each application that appears on our desktop has a .desktop configuration file. This comes in the form of a text file, filled with values that define how it should act, work, and look on the desktop. Among those, you can find a value for its icon. Fire up your favorite terminal and move to the folder where you will find those settings files for all your applications, with: Note that, depending on your distribution, this path can be different....
