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Here’s an example of what the compressed image size can be. As you can see, the image was compressed to over fifty percent its original size. Using Image Optimizer to shrink images to save space is fairly easy. When you open the application, you’ll immediately see all of the images available on your phone or tablet. To choose an image or images to optimize, tap on the image. When you have all of the images chosen, press the button at the bottom of the screen to start optimizing....

Wait. What About Security?! Oh, this one is a question I get a lot when proposing this simple “bypass surgery” to customers. They’re concerned that remote users will be able to log in to their computers if a password is no longer necessary or if they skip the Welcome screen somehow. One thing is for sure, disabling the welcome screen doesn’t open the invitation for remote users to hack into your computer....

I will go over some practical steps that you can take to improve the load time and responsiveness of LibreOffice in the paragraphs below. 1. Increase Memory Per Object and Image Cache This will help the program load faster by allocating more memory resources to the image cache and objects. Launch LibreOffice Writer (or Calc) Navigate to “Tools -> Options” in the menubar or use the keyboard shortcut “Alt + F12....

Mac Spinning Wheel Colors You may have noticed that there are different colors of the Mac Spinning Wheel. Basically, the wheel means that your computer is busy performing a task. Usually, you’ll see it when working on something involving large file sizes – such as editing photos and videos. Blue spinning wheel: A blue spinning wheel is usually an app indicating that it’s loading.Rainbow spinning wheel: This shows up when macOS taking too long on a task....

Installing Bashish Not all the links on the Bashish Download Page seem to be working, however the source tarball is working fine. Once extracted, it can be installed from the command line with If you need details on the above steps, see How to Install Software from a Tarball in Linux. You’ll need to restart your shell for Bashish to take effect. Choosing Themes Bashish comes with several themes in the base package, and you can list them with the command...

Developed in August 2012 and currently in its beta stage, Cupcloud is freely available for Windows and Mac users. This article explains how to set up Cupcloud on your computer and tests out creating cups to be used on an alternate PC or with other users. Download and Install Cupcloud When you download Cupcloud, you are required to create an account before you can download the desktop client. Install the desktop client on your computer....

1. By Trial and Error The easiest way to take picture with the rear camera is to guess where to position for the perfect shot and use trial-and-error. Take a picture, then look at how it turned out and arrange the position of the device accordingly. It might take a few tries, but you’ll eventually get it right. Since you won’t be able to see if the image is clear or not, make sure you give the app enough time to use the auto-focus feature....

With Chrome’s PicMonkey extension, taking screenshots just got easier. You can take a shot of your screen and edit it on the go, without having to install or open any photo editing software like Adobe Photoshop. Here’s how to use PicMonkey: 1. Download the extension from the Chrome Web Store. 2. Once installed, you’ll see a monkey face icon on the top right corner of the browser, just beside the address bar....

KSnapshot for KDE stands out as one of the best screen shot tools available and is unquestionably the best one for KDE. It is a standard KDE program and should come packaged with any Linux distributions that offer KDE. It is very easy to learn, but as we always do at MTE, we are about to make it easier. Starting Ksnapshot There are a few ways to start KSnapshot:...

Perhaps you are in a dangerous situation where you cannot risk making any noise and being discovered. You could have been injured in such a way that you cannot speak. It’s also useful when the cell reception is just so bad that you cannot keep a call connected, but a text message could possibly go through. The text-to-911 service is only available in certain areas, so before an emergency actually arises, you should determine if that is an option where you live....

Many of the spam emails you receive are identified and sent to your spam folder. However, there are still some that make it through to your inbox. The spammers are getting better at making these fake emails look real, so it’s easy to mistake one for a legitimate correspondence. If you have doubts about the validity of an email, you can check the original IP address. The IP will help you by showing where in the world the email came from....

While Siri is very powerful, it might not work that great for some people due to accent issues, and thus might be more of a nuisance. Some might also be concerned over privacy issues, and may just want to disable Siri. Here we cover how to disable Siri on your iOS devices and Mac. How to Turn Off Siri on Your iOS Device You can choose to turn off Siri partially or completely on your iOS device....

How to Change Your macOS Keyboard Layout You can always switch to a different keyboard layout via your Mac’s System Preferences. For example, you could decide to switch to the UK keyboard layout to access some special characters. To change your layout, first navigate to the “System Preferences -> Keyboard” screen. From here, select the “Input Sources” tab. On this screen, make sure you select the “Show input icon in menu bar” checkbox....

But just like most of the pre-installed apps, there is no point-and-click way to easily uninstall OneDrive from Window 10. That being said, if you ever want to, here is how you can completely uninstall OneDrive from Windows 10. Uninstall OneDrive from Windows 10 Since there is no easy way to uninstall OneDrive from Window 10, we are going to use the Command Prompt to uninstall it. Before we do that, we need to close the OneDrive application....

What You’ll Need A Wii U GameCube Controller Adapter, either Nintendo’s official product or Mayflash’s third-party version. Both will work identically for this guide, but the Mayflash version must be switched to Wii U mode. A real Nintendo GameCube controller A 64-bit version of Windows Two open USB 2.0+ ports Unfortunately, you’ll probably need to buy something to follow this guide properly. The launch of Smash Brothers for Wii U introduced a Wii U GameCube Controller adapter, which Dolphin developers were quickly able to make compatible with their emulator....

Google Chrome offers a built-in antivirus scanner that comes with the browser itself that you can use to scan your device for programs that might be harmful. Keep in mind that this is not a general-purpose scanner but focuses specifically on threats that target Chrome. Running Chrome’s Antivirus Scanner Open Chrome on your device. At the top-right corner of the browser you will see three dots next to your profile image....

Viewing Set Flags on macOS In Terminal, you can use an ls flag to view any extant flags. If there are no flags set for a file or folder, a dash will be shown instead. Set flags can be removed by using their inverse, as described below. Setting and Clearing Flags on macOS Flags most frequently come up as a problem. Because they set extra-permission permissions, they can be easy to miss....

What Is Interpreter Mode and Why Is It Useful? Interpreter mode is a feature in Google Assistant that is accessible on both Android and iOS devices. It was initially available on select smart speakers (including the Google Home), smart displays and smart clocks. The option eventually made it on to phones and tablets as well. There are a total of 44 languages to choose from on your phone or tablet, including Arabic, Bengali, Burmese, Cambodian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino (Tagalog), Finnish, French, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Javanese, Kannada, Korean, Malayalam, Marathi, Mandarin, Nepali, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Sinhala, Slovak, Spanish, Sudanese, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu and Vietnamese....

Google for Jobs is a Google feature that allows you to look for jobs in any field or niche and refine the job-hunting process. It makes use of sophisticated Google search tools to trawl the Web for references to job openings and presents them to you on the Google search page itself. Here is how you can make use of this service. Running a search Go to Google and type in the field of work you wish to search, followed by the word “Jobs....

What are iCloud Keychain and iCloud Passwords? If you’ve ever used a Mac for any amount of time, you’re probably familiar with iCloud Keychain, but this term may be less familiar to iPhone and iCloud users. Simply put, iCloud Keychain is the technology that manages your iCloud passwords behind the scenes. This isn’t actually all it does. When Safari asks you to save the credit card information you enter on a website, it’s storing this data in iCloud Keychain as well....