How To Copy Dvds With Your Mac

How to make an Image of Your Target DVD in Mac OSX Before we can burn, you have to get a copy of the disk image. This will save a copy of the video file onto your computer. Once this is done, you will be able to begin the process of burning your disk. So, get your disk in hand and we will begin the process. All you have to do is follow these steps....

November 21, 2022 · 2 min · 420 words · Sandra Miranda

How To Create Tailored Toolbars In Libreoffice For Focused Writing

LibreOffice has various tools that allow you to configure the entire interface to put the options you need exactly where you need them. In this tutorial we create a collection of task-focused toolbars that can be activated as needed. We also create an additional menu and load it up with our mos-needed tools. Set up a new toolbar In LibreOffice Writer, select “Tools -> Customize … ” from the menu bar....

November 21, 2022 · 4 min · 749 words · Lisa Lafontaine

How To Customize The App Icons In Windows 10 Start Menu

Customize Windows 10 Start Menu Tile Icons To customize Windows 10 Start menu tile icons, we are going to use a free and portable application called TileIconifier. Head over to GitHub and download the file. Once downloaded, extract the contents of the zip file to any folder of your choice and execute the application. As soon as you open the application, it scans your system and displays all the apps. By selecting the app in the left pane, you can see the corresponding icon on the right pane....

November 21, 2022 · 3 min · 436 words · Cherise Gray

How To Delete Or Deactivate Your Instagram Account

Should You Delete or Deactivate Your Instagram Account? Deactivation is a temporary process to disable and hide your profile without deleting any data permanently. Deactivate your Instagram account when you want to take a temporary break from Instagram. On the other hand, deletion is permanent and will disable your account and remove your data from the server forever. How to Delete Your Instagram Account on Desktop and Mobile Deleting your Instagram account is only possible from a mobile browser or desktop....

November 21, 2022 · 5 min · 948 words · Dale Brown

How To Disable Extension Version Checks In Gnome Shell

On the other hand, Gnome Shell has some serious issues. With each release extensions tend to break. This can be incredibly frustrating for users that have extensions that they depend on for their day-to-day workflow. If this sort of problem has pestered you in the past, listen up. This article is for you. Ever since Gnome version 3.12, it has been possible to disable extension checking. This is done by messing around deep inside Gnome configuration settings, but it’s a fairly simple process....

November 21, 2022 · 3 min · 616 words · Ivan Harry

How To Disable Third Party Cookies In Chrome And Firefox

In case you are wondering, first-party cookies are the cookies stored by the website you are visiting, and third-party cookies are nothing but the cookies whose domain or origin is different from the website you are visiting. Since the web browsers treat the first- and third-party cookies differently, it is easy to disable third-party cookies. Disable Third-Party Cookies in Chrome Disabling third-party cookies in Chrome is relatively easy and straightforward....

November 21, 2022 · 3 min · 465 words · Peggy Kehoe

How To Easily Access Your Tab History In Firefox With A Single Click

After installing the add-on, when hovering the mouse pointer over a tab, you’ll immediately notice a drop-down list of recently visited sites. The list is in descending order, with the most recently visited page on top. Although Firefox has its own way of showing you the browser’s history details, this add-on makes the task a lot more simpler and accessible. This eliminates the need for going to the browser’s “History” page in the menu bar....

November 21, 2022 · 3 min · 478 words · Anne Shahan

How To Easily Move The Cursor While Typing In Android

It could be because your fingers aren’t as thin as you would like them to be or that you just have bad aim. Either way, the good news is that there is a solution to that irritating yet simple task. All you have to do is install one single app onto your Android device. Control Your Android’s Cursor with the Volume Buttons The app you’re going to need to control your Android device’s cursor from your volume buttons is called Volume Key Cursor Control....

November 21, 2022 · 3 min · 572 words · Alicia White

How To Easily Optimize Images In Your Wordpress Site With Pixpie

Then comes the second problem. Optimizing images each time before uploading them to the Web can be a tiring routine, especially if you have several articles that you need to publish every week. Automation is the key, and if you run a WordPress site, there’s a plugin for it. Image Optimization in Automation PixPie is a WordPress plugin that will help users to optimize images uploaded to the media library on the fly....

November 21, 2022 · 3 min · 633 words · Terry Lee

How To Enable Facebook Graph Search Right Now

Unfortunately, the Graph Search is only available for the U.S. English users of Facebook. If you have chosen any language other than U.S. English in your account, then you will not be able to access this new search engine by Facebook. However, if you change your current language to the one mentioned above, you will have access to this fully functional search engine. Here’s how you can go about changing your current language and enable Facebook Graph Search for your account....

November 21, 2022 · 2 min · 279 words · Mary Stevens

How To Enable Or Disable Boot Log In Windows

This article will show how you can enable or disable the boot log feature in Windows. Note: this tutorial should work for Windows 7 and 8, too. Boot Log Using the System Configuration Tool The easiest way to enable boot log in Windows is to make use of the options provided by the System Configuration tool. First, press Win + R, type msconfig in the text field and press Enter to open the System Configuration tool....

November 21, 2022 · 3 min · 471 words · Luann Russell

How To Encrypt Your Gmail Message And Protect Your Privacy

Google doesn’t encrypt your message by default. In fact, it will even scan your mail content so as to serve you related ads. If you are planning to fix things up on your own, there is a Chrome extension – Secure Gmail, that allows you to encrypt your email. Note: Secure Gmail is only available for Google Chrome. In Google Chrome, install the Secure Gmail extension. If you are already logged in to Gmail, refresh the browser....

November 21, 2022 · 2 min · 284 words · Shirley Fairchild

How To Find An Image Source And Details Using Google

Finding an Image’s Source Go to the Google Image search page. Click on the Camera icon that you can find at the right end of the search bar. A new search bar pops up. You will find two options to choose from, either of which can be used to select the image you wish to find the source for: Paste image URL: Use this option when searching for an image you found online....

November 21, 2022 · 3 min · 485 words · Joseph Anderson

How To Fix Cannot Verify Server Identity Errors For Apple Devices

As such, this post will discuss the “Cannot Verify Server Identity” issue and show you some ways to fix it. What the “Cannot Verify Server Identity” Error Is (And Why It Exists) The “Cannot Verify Server Identity” error appears almost randomly and will be persistent. You may not be able to access your inbox or emails. The reason this appears is due to some behind-the-scenes verification between your Apple device and the email server....

November 21, 2022 · 3 min · 625 words · John Zimmerebner

How To Fix A Corrupted Wordpress Database

If you have a corrupted database issue, here are the ways to fix it. Using WP_ALLOW_REPAIR For those who are using WordPress version 2.9 and above (if you are not, I urge you to upgrade it to the latest version now), WordPress comes with a database repair feature that allows you to repair the corrupted database without little technical knowledge. Connect via FTP to your website and download the wp-config....

November 21, 2022 · 3 min · 451 words · Diana Lynn

How To Fix An Upside Down Screen In Windows

Why Is My Screen Upside Down? This is the kind of thing that might just happen if you update your PC, make changes to your registry, or any number of undetectable things. A friend of mine who installed Windows on his Mac via Bootcamp, for example, has experienced this a few times. Naturally, an argument always ensues where I blame his Mac for the issue and he blames Windows, before I begrudgingly help him out....

November 21, 2022 · 2 min · 262 words · David Rooker

How To Fix Busy Windows Processes

1. Never Fear, The Task Manager Is Here If you are the least bit technologically literate, you most likely know how to hunt the culprit via the task manager and shut the bugger down. If you don’t, just press “Ctrl+Shift+Esc” and click the “Processes” tab on the new window that opens. Here, you’ll see the important resources each process uses, whether it be memory or CPU muscle. As you find applications using a lot of your CPU or memory, just zap them by right-clicking them and clicking “End Process....

November 21, 2022 · 3 min · 484 words · Paul Adams

How To Fix The Windows 10 Automatic Repair Loop

It’s a critical problem in need of fast – and sometimes drastic – solutions, and we’ve compiled a bunch of fixes for you right here. How Do Automatic Repair Loops Happen? First up, an explanation. The most common reason for automatic repair loops is when Windows doesn’t get to shut down properly – due to a power cut, for example, a crash, or your laptop battery running out of charge....

November 21, 2022 · 3 min · 460 words · Grace Danner

How To Fix Tiworker Exe High Cpu Or Disk Usage Issues

What Is TiWorker.exe? When you see this process eating up your resources, your first thought is probably “what is TiWorker.exe?” and the next is most likely “is this safe?” This process is part of Windows Update and is also called WMI Worker or Windows Modules Installer Worker. In layman’s terms, it’s involved in checking for and running Windows updates. Usually, you should only see this process use resources when an update is actually running....

November 21, 2022 · 6 min · 1097 words · Nathalie Ashworth

How To Fix Your Search Engine Keep Changing Issue

There are various reasons why your search engine and homepage may keep changing – from annoying extensions to sneaky “opt-out” checkboxes in software, to more malicious things like malware. We cover all the fixes for you here. Search Engine Has Changed (to Yahoo or Another) If your search engine or homepage keeps changing to Yahoo (or really any other search engine), then the most benign explanation is that at some point you accidentally opted in to change your search engine (usually through third-party software that has a sneaky checkbox in the installer asking if you’d like to opt out of changing your search engine, which means that by default they do change your search engine)....

November 21, 2022 · 4 min · 719 words · Kenneth Carroll