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How Does It Work? When your computer wants to talk to your router, it will need an encryption key to do so. These keys should only be used once in order for them to be effective, but an exploit has been discovered that forces a connection to use an old key again. This flaw occurs during the “4-way handshake” when your computer logs onto a WiFi network. This handshake is, essentially, a series of security formalities your computer and router undertake when connecting....

This post looks at how to translate text quickly with Google Translate. We’re showing iOS here, but transposing the guidance to Android should be straightforward. A Brief Introduction to Google Translate Before we get into the translation process, let’s discuss Google Translate itself. It’s a neural machine translation service that’s offered for free by the search engine giant. It’s been around since 2006, and unlike other (older) services, such as Babelfish, it first used documents from the European Parliament and United Nations to gather the necessary linguistic data....

Luckily, eliminating the majority of the ads on your Android is a lot easier than you might think. Download the app Head over to Adblock Plus site and download the app for Android. You may know the name of this app because of their add-ons and extensions for all the major web browsers. Once downloaded, you can open the application. Adblock Plus will start and open the settings page. You will not see too much on the settings page though....

But if you don’t like or don’t want the Quick Access feature, here is how you can easily customize or remove the Quick Access view from Windows 10 File Explorer. Customize or Remove Quick Access Before removing the Quick Access view, you first need to change the default view of the File Explorer. To do that, click on the “View” tab and select the “Options” option. The above action will open the “Folder Options” window....

Adjusting Tile Size In Metro Since Metro was made primarily for touchscreen devices, navigation is – at the very least – slightly awkward for people using a mouse and keyboard. This is especially true when regarding the tiles and horizontal scrolling features, and also true when using multiple monitors to take advantage of such features. Here is a small exercise you can do: Right-click the “Mail” tile. A check mark should form on its upper left corner....

This switching procedure will require you to access the Terminal and type tons of commands. If you are not comfortable with the terminal, then this is not for you. For the rest, here is how you can run Ubuntu container in Chrome OS. Boot up your Chromebook. Do not open any Linux app. Open the Chrome browser and press Ctrl + Alt + T to launch the Crosh shell. Start the terminal with this command:...

However, this feature is enabled for Enterprise users. Even then the Enterprise users have to manually opt in to use this feature. If you are using Windows Defender as your active antivirus solution and want it to protect your system from any potentially unwanted applications like bundled adware, spyware, etc., then do the following steps. Enable Windows Defender to Scan for PUAs To enable Windows Defender to scan and protect your system from potentially unwanted applications, you need to add a Registry entry....

While scheduling can come in many forms, including Telegram bots, the Google Messages app is one of the more elegant solutions. Here is how you can schedule text messages on Android with the help of Google Messages. Schedule a Text Message on Android with Google Messages Google Messages is the default SMS app in most Android phones, but if your phone doesn’t come with it, you can install it from the Play Store....

Before you concede defeat, what if we told you there were high-definition channels that you could watch free of charge? It’s not a fantasy but rather a relic of an older era of television that many people forgot about: over-the-air broadcasting. The antennas of the past have made a comeback, offering sleek, elegant designs that are more sophisticated and powerful than their precursors. HD TV antennas can pull in channels from many of your local affiliates like ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, PBS and more....

The green light and loud inpatient honks came before I had the chance to even open my car window to buy the paper. So, the first thing I did after arriving back at my office was searching for that headline and found several news telling the horrid story. The story reminds me again that we are living in the world where we should always be careful in everything that we do, even in the virtual part of the world where people don’t physically meet each other....

In fact, it is a robust email platform with superb features like rich text editing, encryption, digital signatures and message scheduling. The best thing is that you no longer have to type the password again or deal with Google’s frequent phone authentication reminders. Follow the simple steps below to quickly sync your Gmail account with Thunderbird. 1. Download and Set Up Mozilla Thunderbird Windows users can download Thunderbird from the official website....

There are two ways of turning your Windows 8 PC into a wireless router, and I will walk you through both. 1. Doing It from the Command Prompt Press the “Windows + R” key combination to bring up a run box, type “ncpa.cpl” and hit enter. When your network connections open, right-click on your Wireless network adapter and select “Properties” from the context menu. Switch over to the “Sharing” tab and allow other devices to use your machine’s Internet by selecting the first checkbox and then unchecking the second before clicking on the OK button....

You would think that there would be an option to sign out from within the Twitter app, but there isn’t. Unfortunately, you can’t just sign out of a Twitter account; you can only delete your account. This means that if you ever want to sign back into it, you’ll have to add it back to your iPad. So here’s how to sign out of the Twitter app on an iPad....

What Doers It Mean? At first, you might panic seeing the “unusual traffic from your network computer” error. Your first thought is probably along the lines of “I have a virus.” That was my first thought when I saw it. While it could be a virus, Google (no matter which browser you’re using) gives you this error whenever the search giant suspects automated traffic. According to Google, using bots, web scrapers, computer programs, and automated services to search can get you blocked....

Tab Notifier is one of the solution to this problem. Tab Notifier is an add-on for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome browsers and it displays notifications on the desktop if the title of the tab being monitored changes. For example, If I have Facebook opened, Facebook displays the no. of notifications in the title of the page. So if you have Tab Notifier installer, you will get a desktop notification with each new update of Facebook....

Taking screenshots is an integral part of documenting what you have done on your Pi, but what is the best way to take a screenshot on a Raspberry Pi? I am sure there are probably lots of inventive methods that could be used, but one of the simplest is to use the command line tool “scrot.” scrot (SCReen shOT) is a simple screen capture utility that is easy to use, yet has some advanced options available....

It is because of this the developer decided to do a crowd-funding campaign. The goal of this campaign (which ran three years ago) was to get funding so that he and his team could turn this video editor into a viable choice for non-linear editing on Linux, Mac and Windows, complete with new, advanced features, tweaks, improvements and lots of other good things. Currently, the new version is in public beta....

If you are a heavy user of web applications, you might want them to be a little more integrated with your desktop so that you can launch them from your application launcher or pin them to your taskbar for quick access. As it turns out there are a number of ways you can go about this on a Linux PC. I’ll show you how to use Google Chrome and the Epiphany browser to make web applications front and center on your desktop....

The Windows 10 File Explorer is a core part of the OS, and it’s something that you access regularly. In the File Explorer you’re used to seeing your files, naturally, but ads? That’s taking it one step too far, but the good news is that there’s something you can do about it. How to Turn Off Ads in Windows 10 File Explorer Go ahead and open File Explorer. There are several ways to do this....

Why Microsoft bundles Windows 10 with Internet Explorer 11 Microsoft Edge is designed for the modern Web, which means some websites that use old technologies might not load correctly in Edge. For this reason, Microsoft continues to include IE 11 so as to offer a seamless browsing experience and compatibility support for websites that use old technologies. Also, Internet Explorer allows Windows 10 users to access NPAPI plugin content like Silverlight and JAVA....