Coming clean right off the bat: I’m not a fan of using password management software, for both convenience and security reasons. I keep a few passwords close to heart, I don’t let Chrome remember most of my passwords because I don’t want that information available, and mostly I keep the actual password management aspect of things to myself. Mind you, I’ve used password managers before some years ago when I believed in having a different password for every account I used, but due to their complexity to me at the time, they soured me somewhat on the whole concept....

Diff, colordiff and wdiff Diff The command-line utility called diff is a part of the “diffutils” package present in the repositories of every major Linux distribution. It’s a simple tool that compares files line by line and can also compare files in two folders. If selected files are identical, diff won’t print any output, and you can tweak its options (for example, to ignore white space or letter case). The general syntax is The results can be shown in two columns with -y or –side-by-side option....

Besides the “standard” system resource tools like “ps“, “df“, “top” and other useful commands like “htop”, “iotop” and “glances”, system information can be found under the “/proc” filesystem. One of the most useful is the “cpuinfo” file, which contains data on a system’s CPU. To see it type: The output tells us three things about this Raspberry Pi: It has a processor based on the ARM architecture (rather than Intel as in Windows PCs and Macs), the processor uses the ARMv6 instruction set, and that the processor is the BCM2708, which we know is a processor from Broadcom....

So did Mozilla manage to fulfill the promise? Well, I’ve been using Firefox Quantum since its release, and I am pleasantly surprised by its performance, design and stability. Today, let’s see where the new Firefox stands and whether it’s worth a look or not. Firefox Quantum’s speed In my experience, I would say it is much faster than the previous Firefox. Not just page loading speed, but the navigation, tab opening/closing, menu, and pretty much everything is faster....

It even comes with six months of Fitbit Premium so your lucky friend (or you, if you’re treating yourself) can trial all the exclusive features for the first half of 2023. The Fitbit Luxe is a slim and comfortable fitness tracker that looks great on the wrist. The Luxe offers a wide variety of features, including step tracking, sleep tracking, Active Zone Minutes to tell you when you reach your target heart rate while working out and stress management tools....

Why does this happen? Your computer stores the current time in a clock on your motherboard. This allows the computer to keep track of time even when turned off. To account for time zones, different operating systems use different methods. Windows assumes the local time is stored in the motherboard, so it doesn’t apply any kind of time zone offset. Linux, on the other hand, will interpret the time on the motherboard as UTC (a....

If you’re looking for a photo editor that will clean up, sharpen, add text, etc., you’re looking in the wrong place. But if you’re looking to make some really different and fun pictures, it will do much better. Its best feature is that it has so many options, it’s questionable if you’ll ever use all of them. It allows you to either take a photo through the app, use a photo from your camera roll, or import a photo from Facebook or your documents....

You can download an Android app that will generate infinite wallpapers for you based on a specific pattern. If you like design or abstract art-based wallpapers, then you will surely love these apps. Below we have listed four Android apps that generate unlimited wallpapers. Note: these apps generate wallpapers using a specific algorithm and don’t download any of the content, so you don’t need an Internet connection to generate and use new wallpapers....

Once installed, your stock boot animation will be gone, and you will see the latest Marshmallow in its magical action on your device. If that sounds good to you, and you cannot wait to get it running on your device, here’s how you can do that. Note: you need to have a rooted Android device to do this. Installing the Android 6.0 Marshmallow Boot Animation What you are going to do is replace the stock boot animation with the Marshmallow one using the root explorer app....

As part of its Black Friday sale, BT has slashed the price of Google’s Nest Audio smart speaker down by £40 – making it a very affordable way to improve your audio setup. The £40 reduction takes this speaker down from £89 – a price we already felt was a good deal for what was on offer – to £49. Can’t say fairer than that. If you’re after a different type of deal, make sure you check out our best Black Friday deals page, as we will be continually updating it throughout the sale with all the finest savings....

Installation If you are using Windows/Mac, you can download the installer and do a standard installation in your OS. However if you are using Linux, the installation method is slightly different. There are two ways to install Thunderbird 3 in Linux (Ubuntu): First method: Download the tar file from the Thunderbird download site. Extract the tar file to your Home folder. You should now see a Thunderbird folder. Open up the Thunderbird folder....

Below you can see its size compared to a Moto G Android phone. You can also see the ports along with the switch button, which can be used to set up the Nano as a media-sharing device, access point, router or bridge. The TripMate Nano can be used in many different scenarios. For this review, let’s imagine that you’re at a friend’s house or a hotel with a public, unsecured WiFi connection....

Note: A valid credit card number means that it can be validated by the algorithm used to encrypt the number. It doesn’t mean that you can use this number to make a purchase. Decrypting the Credit Card Numbers There are 16 digits in the credit card number and it can be divided into three parts. The first digit represents the major industry identifier (MII). It identify the institution/industry that issues the card....

Just Plow Through Perhaps one of the most expensive ways to reach people on mountaintops and very remote areas, in terms of return on investment (ROI), is by installing the internet line just like you would with any other. It’s a no-brainer that this process is very rare, but there are some instances where several hundred kilometers of wire have been laid just to reach a remote village with a population of under a hundred....

The Ads Advertising has been around ever since the first websites started to crop up. This isn’t something new, so why is Facebook’s advertising cause for concern? The problem with Facebook’s advertisement isn’t the fact that it exists. It’s the fact that it’s becoming a more integrated part of the social network’s ecosystem. Imagine if you were talking to one of your friends, and then a salesman bumped in between the two of you, holding a sign that advertises a new vacuum cleaner....

In this post we will show you how to add subtitles in VLC player and then sync it with the video (if required) to get a comfortable experience. Add Subtitles in VLC Media Player Although VLC is also capable of downloading subtitles automatically, here we will show you how to manually add subtitles in VLC. If you don’t already have the subtitle file for your video, you can download it for free from the Internet (OpenSubtitles is a good place)....

What You Need to Know About Slack Pronouns The Slack pronouns feature is available for both the free and premium versions. Similarly, both free and paid Slack administrators can allow their members to enable pronouns. Slack will show the added pronouns on your profile alongside your name and job title. However, do note that the Slack pronouns feature is not enabled by default. You will have to manually enable it....

In today’s brave new world, Apple has released three separate apps for Catalina users to replace iTunes. One of the apps is the TV app which now handles all of your purchased and rented content as well as streaming and uploaded content. Whereas iOS users could previously upload content directly through iTunes, that is not the case anymore. Admittedly, Apple has made it a little confusing, but rest assured, by the end of this article you will be an expert....

It can be frustrating having to fill out forms all the time on different apps, which is why the autofill framework makes the experience better. On Android, the autofill feature uses Google’s own password management service to enter your username and password into apps, though it will work with other password manager apps as well. It is only available for Android 8.0 and above. Enable Google Autofill Open the Settings app on your Android device....

Can’t view a PDF in Windows? It might have a password. Learn how to remove a password from a PDF. Why Back Up Wi-Fi Passwords Backing up Wi-Fi passwords allows you to: share them with other devices, especially your own. For instance, it’s much easier to batch-transfer your saved Wi-Fi passwords to a new PC instead of reentering them. restore them after performing a clean Windows install. share them with friends and family so that they can also connect to your Wi-Fi network....