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Here’s the disclaimer: If you want to make a cryptocurrency that people actually use and that is worth money, you have to do a lot more than just create it. You need to have a solid, well-implemented idea, a business plan, and some serious marketing skills. This article just shows you how to make a very basic crypto-token. It will cost the Ethereum equivalent of a few U.S dollars to set up and won’t automatically make you any money, but it will be fun to have if you’re into this sort of thing....

Installing Teddit This tutorial shows you how to install Teddit on Ubuntu. We are using the domain “yetanotherteddit.xyz,” though you can use your own domain name or the localhost. Setting Up the Web Server With Teddit installed, you need to set up the web server so that it can be accessed from the browser. This section focuses on securing your server using Nginx. With Nginx properly running, you can also easily enable SSL for your webserver....

You can customize Screen Time in numerous ways. In this article, we cover some of the top ways to tweak the app. You’ll also discover how to check Screen Time on your iPhone. How to Set Downtime Downtime is a tool that allows you to schedule time away from your iPhone. During the periods you designate, your device will lock all apps that you don’t approve. Setting up the Downtime feature is a straightforward process....

How to Delete One Photo from a Carousel Post on Instagram To remove an unwanted photo from an Instagram post with multiple pictures, follow these steps: How to Edit Photos in a Carousel Post Apart from deleting photos, you can tag people, edit alt text, and add locations to individual photos. However, you cannot add filters to photos in a carousel after publishing them. How to Delete One Photo from Instagram Stories Instagram Stories makes it easy to delete one photo....

Luckily, there is a way to disable apport in Ubuntu, and it is pretty simple. Open a terminal and type: Change the to Save and exit. That’s it.

Wait! Why Do Autoplay Video Previews Exist? This is actually a really great question with a strong answer. Originally launched to users near the end of 2016, Netflix had a strong belief that its users needed a way to find new content. At the time, the company expected to launch over 1,000 hours of original content in the coming year. With that in mind, Netflix knew it had less than 90 seconds to capture the attention of its user-base....

Disabling your computer’s USB drives can help keep your files safe, and the process is easier than you think. There are multiple methods you can choose from, so if one doesn’t work for you, you can always try another. How to Disable/Enable a USB Drive Using the Registry If you want to try to disable a USB drive using the registry, type “run” in the search box (though maybe first take a look at our guide on creating a backup of your registry)....

If you’ve given it some thought and want to deny the apps the permission you once gave them, you can. You’ll finally be able to relax knowing that the apps that you don’t even use anymore can’t get your data any longer. Why You Should Deny Third-Party Apps Permission to Your Gmail Account When you use your Google account to sign up to use an app, there are three different levels of information they can ask for: basic, read and write and full access....

There are plenty of reasons that you’d want to roll your Linux install back to an earlier version of a package. The process is dependent on your distribution’s package manager, but it should be possible in most cases. Ubuntu/Debian Apt is one of the most beloved package managers in the Linux world, but in this case it’s easily one of the most awkward and cumbersome options to work with. Apt doesn’t have any set mechanisms to roll back packages, and it doesn’t have a caching system that you can really count on in these situations....

Why Download TikTok Videos The main reason to download TikTok videos is so that you can watch them offline anytime. There are a variety of videos you may want to replay over and over again, and downloading these videos is the best way to do that. Whatever your reason, you will find the instructions below on how to download TikTok videos anywhere. How to Download TikTok Videos Anywhere You can download TikTok videos anywhere, using any device, including Android, iOS, and PC....

There are several situations where we would like to download Windows updates instead of installing them directly. If you are on a Windows network, you can install WSUS (Windows Server Update Services) which distributes the Windows updates throughout the network. This approach can be limited because you need to have Windows Server installed on the network. Portable Update is a small portable software which can be a great alternative to WSUS without needing to be installed anywhere....

Installation The installation of FotoMix is rather tricky. It can install a host of other software if not installed carefully. When I first started installing FotoMix, it asked me if I wanted to install Babylon along with the software. You will need to uncheck “Download and Install Babylong 9”. Then you’ll see a dialog box confirming the operation. You will need to press “Cancel” in order to not install Babylon search engine in your browser....

Although there are quite a good number of websites, tools and software available to convert a video file to audio, I found Pazera Free Audio extractor the simplest and most user friendly. I don’t recommend using web services to convert videos to audio because you have to first upload the video in their servers and then wait for some hours for the conversion to take place. When the conversion is over, you will again have to download the converted audio file....

Certainly not all Linux books are free (just ask Tim O’Reilly) but the nature of Linux means that the “spirit of freeness” tends to surround more than just the operating system. Some of the websites listed below offer full length dead-tree versions of the same books, the purchasing of which could be a great way to support these organizations. Without further delay, here are a few of the sites I’d recommend for anyone wanting to hone their Lin-jitsu....

Unfortunately, there is no universal cause for this, so there’s no universal solution. However, seeing as there are several possible ways to resolve this, I’m going to run through some of the most popular causes and solutions to this age-old issue. Disable Deep Sleep (Dell Monitors) Dell monitors (and maybe others) have a special feature called Deep Sleep, which lowers the power usage of your monitor even more than going into regular standby mode....

Why Your Windows PC Battery Drains Fast There are various reasons behind battery drain issues on Windows. The most common are: Multiple apps running in the backgroundPC in fast startup modeHigh screen brightness on your PCPC’s display is set for a high refresh rateHigh-performance graphics for apps How to Check Your Battery Health A PC’s battery backup largely depends on the health of its battery, which is why you should check your system’s battery health first to assess whether it’s actually the cause of the poor backup....

Generally though, 5xx type errors are HTTP status codes that mean something’s wrong on the website server, and the server itself didn’t specify its exact status. Causes of a 500 Internal Server error This generic error code usually indicates a problem with your website or server’s misconfiguration, though the exact cause may not be pinpointed. When this happens, the website will serve up an error webpage to your site’s visitors as shown in the photo below....

Edge’s Flashing Tabs Problem – Why it Happens If you are browsing a couple of websites using the Edge browser with several tabs open, you might notice some of the tabs you’ve opened blinking or flashing a bright orange color. Microsoft conceived this as a beneficial feature to draw your attention to anything you might want to attend to. It’s not a bad idea, but that frequency of the flashing might be quite irritating....

We’ve gathered some fixes for a faulty or broken Wi-Fi connection on Windows 10. The Obvious Stuff First of all, are other devices connecting to your Wi-Fi network without issue? If they are, then read on as your problem must be related to your Windows PC. If not, then your problem could be related to your router, and the first port of call should be to turn it off then on again....

Extensions Note: The following extensions will make your Firefox look better in Gnome, but do bear in mind that the more extensions you install, the more bloated it is. GNotifier GNotifier is great as it taps into the system’s notification center. Basically, it forces Firefox to use the Gnome Shell notification system instead of creating its own. For example, if you download a file, you’ll get a native “download completed” notification....