How To Load Additional Web Pages In Firefox Sidebar

Firefox lets you browse the Web with a web page opened on the left side to keep up with its information. In this article we will show you how to use this feature. Note: The sidebar page doesn’t actually behave like a separate browser window that you could easily navigate. It is just a web page with information you can only see and interact with; you cannot move away from this page....

December 25, 2022 · 3 min · 501 words · Paul Ashbaugh

How To Make Facebook Private

How to Make Your Facebook Profile Private To start moving your profile toward complete privacy, make sure all of your posts are limited to being viewable to just your friends. Log in to your account and select the drop-down arrow in the upper-right corner of the Facebook screen. As the drop-down menu appears, select “Settings & Privacy,” then choose “Settings” again. When the Settings screen appears, look on the left side and locate and click the option for “Privacy....

December 25, 2022 · 5 min · 858 words · Andrew Cummings

How To Manage Your Microsoft To Do Tasks In Linux With Ao

Installation Ao is available on multiple platforms. If you are on Linux, the easiest way to get the latest version is by using snap: It’s worth noting that in Ubuntu comes with snap support baked-in by default, and you can find Ao’s snap in Ubuntu Software among the other “Productivity” apps. If you aren’t fond of Snapcraft (here’s how to install Snapcraft if you disagree) and are using an Arch, Red Hat, or Debian compatible distribution or prefer AppImage, you can find packages of Ao at GitHub....

December 25, 2022 · 4 min · 777 words · Jared Parsons

How To Map A Network Drive In Windows 10

Mapping your location will imply that you can create a shortcut to another drive or folder shared on your network. Doing this means that the mapped network drive will display under “This PC” in file explorer. You can map a network drive using the file explorer or from the control panel. Turn on Network Discovery Before we map a network drive, we need to turn on the “Network Discovery” feature so that it can detect other computers in the network....

December 25, 2022 · 3 min · 482 words · Cameron Denny

How To Migrate From Evolution To Thunderbird In Linux

Downloading and Installing Thunderbird If you don’t already have Thunderbird installed on your system, you can grab it from the Snap store or just install it from your package manager/Software Center. Migrating Mail From Evolution to Thunderbird The easiest way to export your data from Evolution is to browse to the folder(s) you want to back up. Then, go to “File -> Select All.” Next, select File and choose “Save as mbox....

December 25, 2022 · 3 min · 435 words · Lorrie Roos

How To Open And Mark Up A Pub File On Your Mac

Well, we can use a simple tool to allow you to open them as a PDF. Then once they are readable we can make it up with Preview. Let’s begin by opening that .pub file as a PDF. We will do that with the help of an online tool called Word to PDF. Don’t let its name fools you, it can convert a lot more than just .doc files....

December 25, 2022 · 3 min · 451 words · Joshua Earp

How To Overclock Your Amd Gpu With Amdgpu On Linux

For AMD card owners, the utilities that you need to overclock your card are included in the drivers you already have installed. They just aren’t easily accessible in any graphical tool. You need to modify a few configuration files instead. Install the Latest Drivers First, you already have some drivers installed. They may not be the latest ones, though. You can absolutely choose the proprietary drivers if you’re running one of the supported systems....

December 25, 2022 · 4 min · 733 words · Manuel Davis

How To Perform Search And Replace In Wordpress

Search and Replace button in WordPress Post editor If all you need is to add a Find/Replace button in post editor so you can easily fix up the typographical errors in the article, TinyMCE Advanced is the best plugin that you can use. After it’s installed, you can go to “Settings -> TinytMCE Advanced” to find a list of buttons that you can add to the post editor. One of them is the “Find/Replace” button....

December 25, 2022 · 3 min · 568 words · Steve Desposito

How To Play Media Files On Your Ps4

As of 2015, your PS4 is also very capable of playing media files that you keep on an external USB hard drive (You can’t store media files locally on your PS4, unfortunately,), and in this article we’ll show you how. Prepare Your External HDD/USB Drive The first thing you’ll need to do is make sure that the device that you’ll be using to play your media files is formatted correctly....

December 25, 2022 · 3 min · 506 words · Julia Carey

How To Prepare Your Mac For Os X Lion

Apples newest operating system, OS X Lion is expected to come some time in July. Just to tantalize us, Apple has not released a specific date, and that means that you should be ready to go at any time if you want to be the first one in your social circle to have the new OS. So, let’s go about getting your Mac prepared for the new operating system....

December 25, 2022 · 3 min · 624 words · Ashley Freeman

How To Prevent Wordpress From Creating Thumbnail Images

A good thing is, you can turn the automatic thumbnail feature off and the step is very easy. No hacking/modification of code or plugins required. In your WordPress dashboard, go to Settings -> Media. Under the Images Sizes section, change all the value to zero. Save the changes. That’s it. Now whenever you upload an image, you will see that the “Thumbnail”, “Medium” and “Large” options are greyed out under the Size section....

December 25, 2022 · 1 min · 89 words · Beverley Hart

How To Protect And Recover A Hacked Gmail Account

Whether we are talking about stolen passwords or hacker attacks, no service or account is one-hundred percent safe. Gmail is no different. However, it offers some very important and useful security features which can prove to be vital and can protect your account from being hacked. 1. Two-Factor Authentication Two-factor authentication is a somewhat new login method, but that is also rapidly becoming popular. As the name implies, it is based on two steps: first, you input your password in the regular way, and then the service sends a text message to your phone with a code (or via the Google Authenticator app) that you have to input in the service in order to access your account....

December 25, 2022 · 3 min · 545 words · Kimberly Hagen

How To Receive Better Windows Notifications With Snarl

Snarl is a free Windows Notifications replacement which can handle all the notifications and also features a centralized configuration. The best thing about Snarl is that it will not steal the focus of the window when showing a notification. Snarl can display several notifications at the same time without cluttering the screen. The Interface After installing Snarl, it will show a welcome notification and an hourly time notification. The default color scheme of the notification dialogs is dark grey with 100% opacity, but you can change the color scheme along with the opacity in the Snarl preferences....

December 25, 2022 · 4 min · 679 words · Renee Simpson

How To Record System Audio On Quicktime

To solve this problem, Matt Ingalls (GitHub) has created an addon named Soundflower that adds an audio extension to macOS. By using this extension as your audio output source, and input source in Quicktime, you’ll be able to record audio directly from your system, bypassing the built-in mic. It’s way easier than it sounds. Let’s check it out. Download Soundflower onto your Mac by opening the Soundflower page on GitHub, scrolling down to “Assets” and clicking on “Soundflower-2....

December 25, 2022 · 3 min · 431 words · Victoria Schultz

How To Recover Data And Partitions For Free With Testdisk

Getting TestDisk While it is a Linux utility, you don’t actually have to have Linux installed to use it. There are several live CDs you can use to run TestDisk, and a full list can be found here. If you’re not familiar with Linux or live CDs, don’t let that put you off. Many of the systems in the link above are very user-friendly and require no special knowledge. You download the ....

December 25, 2022 · 3 min · 569 words · Whitney Giles

How To Repair A Corrupted Usb Drive In Linux

In this article, we prioritize the safety of your data. First, you’ll see how you can back up your flash drive’s contents and then proceed to various fixes for the problem at hand. This way, if an attempt at fixing the problem ends up making it worse, you may still be able to revert to the snapshot of the current state of your flash drive. Take a Compressed Full Backup Image In Linux, there are many tools for backing up any storage device....

December 25, 2022 · 5 min · 857 words · Josephine Thompson

How To Restore Closed Tabs In Various Browsers

How to Recover Accidentally Closed Tabs in Chrome To open the last tab you closed, simply right-click on the last tab bar. Towards the bottom you’ll see the option to open the last closed tab. By clicking on it once, it will only open one tab. If you closed more than one tab, just repeat the process, and the tabs will appear in the order you closed them. You’ll also get the same options if you click on the space to the side of the tab....

December 25, 2022 · 4 min · 676 words · Carol Howard

How To Revive The View Image Button In Google Image Search

Although this made it a lot easier to snag full-sized images from Google Image Search, it also led to several cases of copyright infringement which prompted Google to remove the button after making a deal with stock image provider Getty Images. If you need this functionality, fear not! You can get it back in a few simple steps. Use a Browser Extension View Image is a Chrome and Firefox extension that brings back the button to Google Images, thus restoring the direct link functionality....

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 264 words · Kim Calderon

How To Schedule Backup And Synchronization Tasks In Windows

WinDataReflector is a free backup and synchronization solution which lets the users create backup and sync jobs and execute them with a click when needed. You can also schedule automatic backup and synchronization tasks. WinDataReflector also supports two way synchronization which means that the source and destination will always be kept identical. All the changes to source will be propagated to the destination and vise versa. Although WinDataReflector is very easy to use, one needs to keep a close eye on each step of the backup and synchronization because some steps can be confusing....

December 25, 2022 · 4 min · 642 words · Benjamin Scott

How To Set Up And Configure Quiet Hours In Windows 10

As useful as it is, there will be times, like in working hours, when you just want these notifications not to bother you with sliding animations, sounds, and other tricks. Thankfully, there is a small feature called Quiet Hours in Windows 10 that disables all the notifications. The following is how to enable Quiet Hours in Windows 10. Enable Quiet Hours in Windows 10 Enabling the Quiet Hours feature in Windows 10 is as easy as clicking a button....

December 25, 2022 · 2 min · 360 words · Carol Cargill