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Our Specs The computer being tested on has the following specs: Windows 7 Ultimate w/VMWare 8 1 TB HDD, 7200 RPM Intel Core i5 650 – 2 cores w/HT technology – 3.20 GHz 8 GB DDR3 1600 MHz RAM nVidia GeForce 550Ti display adapter 750W PSU Other stuff that’s not important In VMWare, I allocated the following: 4 GB RAM (System requirement: 2 GB) The entire processor (System requirement: 1 GHz) 30 GB HDD Space (System requirements officially recommend 20, but I slapped an extra 10 there)....

Fortunately, as long as you have an Android phone, you can use an app from the Google Play store to note down the numbers easily during a call. The app substitutes for the pen and paper and provides you an interface to note down whatever you want to note down. If that works for you, here’s how to do that. Saving a Number During a Phone Call To do this you are going to use a free app called Call Writer that can be downloaded from the Google Play store....

In this article I will focus on the ways to achieve this in Firefox, Chrome and Vivaldi. There are specially made extensions for this purpose but you can also achieve the same effect without employing a third-party option. We will explore both methods in this article. Firefox Without Extensions To save your browser session in Firefox, the easiest way is to bookmark all the tabs and save it in a special folder in your Bookmarks menu....

Next, tap the Menu button and select “Search with camera”. Take an image of the barcode/qr code and it will take you to the URL embedded in the barcode/qr code.

If the majority of your TextEdit work requires you to create documents without formatting, you should just set plain text as the default text mode. It is quite easy to do. Set Plain Text as the Default in TextEdit You are not going to use a third-party app to get the task done. All you need is access to the TextEdit app. Click on Launchpad in your dock, search for and click on TextEdit, and it will launch for you....

However, is the ease-of-use worth it if apps are tracking and collecting information about you? Uber was discovered breaking Apple’s rules. They were tracking users even after they deleted their app from their phones. And it’s also been said that Uber is buying email information from an email unsubscription service. Both are troubling. With all that going on, what do apps really need to know about you? We asked our writers, “Should apps be able to collect information about you?...

Considering the company’s youth, we’re intrigued at how quickly it rose to stardom, and we believe that it’s worth taking a look at it from a technical perspective. In this SiteGround review we twisted every knob we could to determine whether it deserves its stratospheric rank. What SiteGround Offers SiteGround may not have many years under its belt as a service, but it packs a hefty load of offers. Among them are shared web hosting, cloud hosting, reseller hosting, and dedicated servers....

1. Set Your Homepage Options The most important factor of a web browser is what you will see when you open up a new tab/window, and the settings required to tweak this appearance are located in the “General” section of the Safari preferences. Over here, you can choose to open new windows and tabs with an empty page, Safari’s Top Sites view, the same page that was loaded on the last active tab or window or a custom home page you specify in the Homepage field....

Sleipnir Has The Look The interface fits right in with the system and the overall Mac interface we are used to. Your tabs, bookmarks, and other controls are at the top, the center is restricted to your browser experience. At the top left, you have the star which allows you to create your bookmarks. Next to this, you have the tabs which are way more visual than what we are used to....

There are a few reasons, but what initially sparked this column were the changes happening with HBO Max as it pulled content off the service. It’s not rare for a streaming service to remove content due to the licensing agreements coming to an end, but this felt a very different scenario. This was Warner Bros. Discovery removing content from its own service, and the reason that’s emerged is cost-saving to avoid paying residuals....

This means that it is possible to use Git to track every change in every file for every directory. This is highly useful if you are doing a project where you want to have a rolling snapshot of everything that you are doing. What is Git? At its core, Git is a simple history tracking program. In that, it tracks the changes across different versions of a file. The way it works is that whenever you change a file, Git will create a hash for that specific file version....

In this article, we break down and evaluate all of the best options currently on the market and help you find the best handheld gaming devices for your needs. Android-Powered Portables We would be remiss to write an article like this without acknowledging Android in the portable gaming space. Beyond the obvious touch-powered Android experiences one would expect from phones and tablets, some Android devices (like the GPD XD Plus) come with a built-in controller for a more traditional gaming control scheme....

How Short Links Can Be Abused One of the best ways that malware developers can use to distribute malicious software is with links. We see links everywhere throughout our time on the Internet, either on websites or on our social media feeds. All sorts of files are distributed as links on a daily basis, so malware distributors aim to get their malware out there by “hijacking” our tendencies to click links so they can direct us to harmful files and websites....

The differences between Analog and Digitial sound Even though man has the ability and the means to record sound, that record will never be an exact representation of the original sound. The following image shows the waveform for analog and digital sound wave. As can be seen, the analog sound wave (1) is rather different from the digital one (2). The analog waveform is continuous and have successive crests and troughs that represent highs and lows of our voice whereas a digital waveform is like a barchart where the highs and lows are represented as number....

An Audible subscription offers you unlimited access to thousands of Audible Originals, podcasts and audiobooks. It also grants you one credit per month for a title to download and keep. There are also exclusive member-only deals to be had. Just to reiterate, this Black Friday deal is for new customers only. If you’ve signed up to the Audible service previously, you won’t be able to take advantage. The fresh voucher that comes as part of this deal must be claimed by the end of the year....

The preamble to the official Black Friday sale has given us a wide variety of deals on a multitude of products. But one of the best products to buy during this shopping season is an SSD, as they rarely see price drops during the rest of the year. To that end, we’ve discovered a fantastic deal on the 1TB Crucial P5 Plus SSD, which has had its price slashed by 28%, bringing the price down from £131....

Python, which is included by default in most Linux distributions, provides simple HTTP servers through the “SimpleHTTPServer” and “http.server” modules. The former is found in the Python 2 Standard Library, while the latter is included in Python 3. These lightweight HTTP servers require no separate installation and can be started instantly with a single command. Installing Python Your system most likely includes at least one Python version, but if that’s not the case, install Python 3 using your native package manager....

Up until now, the travel apps available either didn’t provide flight, hotel, and rental car info, or they did provide it, but didn’t allow you to book from the app. It seems they were just waiting to release the perfect one that makes it possible to do it easily and quickly from an app, without having to go back to Safari to finish the deal. The interface for the Travelocity app couldn’t be any easier to manage....

Ultimate Windows Tweaker is a freeware Tweak UI Utility for tweaking and optimizing Windows Vista and 7, 32-bit & 64-bit. There is no installation required and it can simply be downloaded and used as a portable application. With a few mouse clicks, you will be able to tweak your system and make it runs more faster, stable and more secure. Once you have downloaded (and extracted) the application, simply double click to launch the UWT....

Think of it. You, too, probably view the new tab page a couple of dozen times a day. And wouldn’t it be better if you could just type in quick notes there or view the day’s to-dos instead of seeing just a glorified Google search bar? Of course it would be better. Today I’ll talk about the Chrome extensions that are best to do the job. 1. Dayboard Dayboard is the simpler version of Wunderlist’s new tab page....