Posts

For example, by removing specific information, even if someone has your phone number, they won’t be able to find you on Instagram. Follow along with this guide, as we detail additional options that will help you stay hidden from prying eyes. Remove Your Facebook Account From Instagram To make sharing easier, Instagram allows you to link your Facebook account to the app (and vice versa.) If you want to prevent people from finding you on Instagram, we advise against it....

So what can you do to improve your WordPress password security? The answer is using bycrpt algorithm, particularly with the wp-password-bcrypt plugin. bcrypt is based on the Blowfish cipher and is an adaptive function. This means that over time the iteration count can be increased to make it slower, so it remains resistant to brute-force search attacks even with increasing computation power. Luckily, even if you are not technically competent, you can easily upgrade your WordPress system to replace MD5 hashing with the bcrypt algorithm....

The following simple methods will help you solve the low volume problem in a Windows laptop forever. Use these fixes to increase your laptop volume in Windows 10. 1. Use Preamp Values in EqualizerAPO As a first step, you may want to check your speaker or headphone properties for equalization. This can be achieved in the “Properties” of your audio device from the “Enhancements” tab. Next, download this free utility called EqualizerAPO to adjust the sound values manually....

Actually, VMware tools are installed by VMware player automatically, but sometimes VMware may fail to install those essential tools due to reasons like crashing, network connectivity, etc. If your Ubuntu guest doesn’t come with VMware Tools installed, here is how you can get it done. Why You Should Install VMware Tools Setting up a guest operating system inside a host operating system using VMware is relatively easy, but managing and scaling the installed guest operating system is totally a different issue....

In this tutorial, we are going to show you how to limit the disk space usage of your users in Windows 7. Limiting the user’s profile size In Windows 7, the user profile is usually stored in “c:\users\username” (replace username with the name of the user). This profile includes all the data related to an user. You will be able to find “Desktop”, “Documents”, “Music”, “Videos”, “File settings”, etc within this profile folder....

It’s an app you probably need to use every day but are afraid to launch because of the amount of mobile data it uses. Instead of having your blood pressure through the roof worrying about how much data the app is using, try the following mobile data saving tips. Disable WhatsApp Chat Backup with Cellular Data If you’re using WhatsApp on an iPhone, then back up your chat to iCloud....

Cameyo is a Windows only software that virtualize your applications into a single exe file. With this virtualize application, you can bring it around and use it in any computers, without installation. Usage Download and install Cameyo Run Cameyo. Click “Capture installation”. It will first take a snapshot before the installation. When the Proceed with installation message appear, proceed with your application installation. In this example, we will install the Opera browser in our Windows system....

How to See the Distance Between One or More Places in Google Maps [Android] Open Google Maps on your Android device, and either use your current location or type one in. You can also long-press on an area until the red balloon appears. When Google Maps gives you information on the address you typed, it will appear at the bottom. Tap on it, and it will take up your entire display....

This is the goal of VisualPing, developed both as a website and a Chrome extension. If you want to monitor a website, but don’t want to sit around watching it all day, you can give the website to VisualPing. It’ll then keep track of the website and the changes that take place on it. Once it detects a change, it alerts you so you can check if the information you need has been posted....

Thankfully, Gmail offers a simple process to move emails from one Gmail account to another to keep receiving new emails as well. If you are looking to move your old emails to your new Gmail account, follow the process explained below. Enable POP in the Old Gmail Account POP (Post Office Protocol) is a protocol that retrieves all the emails from a server and saves them to the client. By enabling POP in your old Gmail account, you can allow Gmail to fetch emails (old and new) from your old account and transfer them to another account (your new account)....

1. ZIP Extractor While Google Drive lets you preview the contents of an uploaded zipped file, you can’t open/download the individual files within a zipped folder. To deal with this problem, you can install a native Google application called ZIP Extractor. It’s available both as a Google Workspace Marketplace app and a Chrome Web Store extension. For the latter, select “Add to Chrome” to proceed. (It will also work with Microsoft Edge browser....

Why You Should Overclock Your Memory In contrast to CPU overclocking, RAM overclocking isn’t known to provide a massive surge in performance. In fact, many professionals recommend not spending money on memory sticks rated more than 3000MHz, as you tend to run into diminishing returns beyond that. But what if you have a slightly older system with RAM sticks rated below 3000MHZ? Or if you want to squeeze out just a tiny bit more FPS in games even on a high-speed RAM rated more than, say, 3200MHz or even 3600MHz?...

There are a few reasons one would want to partition an external drive. One is to use some of the space for general file storage and the rest for backups via the Windows Backup and Recovery Tool or Apple’s Time Machine. You also may want an encrypted portion of a drive for confidential files. If installing an operating system, you’ll need to partition part of a drive for the OS....

What Does PS Remote Play Do The Remote Play app (Android | iOS) allows users to play games, navigate the console home screen and browse the console’s menus, all from your mobile device. You can start playing on your TV and later fire up the app on your mobile device to resume playing from the point you left off. Additionally, you can turn on your PlayStation console and start playing directly from the Remote Play app – no television necessary....

To do so, you have to first check out which app is using the most mobile data. If your phone is running Android 4.0 and above, you can go to “Settings -> Data usage” to view which app is using the most mobile data. Once you have identified the app, tap on it and scroll all the way down to the bottom. Check the box “Restrict background data”. This will prevent the app from accessing your mobile data (it will still work in WiFi)....

Hide audio files from music players The solution is pretty simple and straightforward. In fact, you don’t have to use special apps, change file extensions, etc. All you have to do is create a simple file. In this case we will prevent all audiobooks from showing up in the Music app. Before proceeding any further, I assume that you store the songs and audiobooks in separate folders. This helps you better manage the files and hide the audiobooks....

Here’s how: Install the WikiLook add-on for Firefox and be sure to restart your browser. While browsing the Web, use your preferred method of defining a word. Hold down Shift while right-clicking a word Hold down Ctrl (or Command on Mac) while right clicking a word Hold down Alt (or Option on Mac) while right clicking a word Highlight a word, right-click on it, and select “WikiLook” from the menu...

If so, you need to declutter your inbox. There are many different ways to achieve “inbox zero,” such as going through the emails and either deleting, doing something because if it, responding to it, or sending it to a “do later” file. But if you have a lot of subscriptions for newsletters and other information from online sources, that can take a very long time. One way you may be able to tackle the problem is by reducing the actual number of emails that land in your box....

KDE Connect is easily the best option to control your PC graphically. It enables you to use your phone as a trackpad and type on your phone’s digital keyboard. You can also send links, files, and notifications from your phone. KDE Connect even allows you to send text messages from your computer. In addition to all that, it has built in multimedia controls. Install KDE Connect On Ubuntu KDE Connect has become relatively popular over time, and you can find an updated version right in Ubuntu’s main repositories and easily install it with Apt....

What Is DRM? DRM, or Digital Rights Management, is a software solution to a copyright problem. When content is distributed on a disk without any kind of DRM, the end user can do anything they want with it. They can copy it a million times and sell it on the street for five bucks, save it to their hard drive, share it on the web and more. DRM tries to solve this problem by making it impossible to use content in specific ways....