Ethernet vs. WiFi: Basic Differences The most basic difference between ethernet and WiFi connections is obvious. One requires you to physically tether yourself to your router, which isn’t ideal on a laptop, while the other allows you to use your connection from anywhere within range. For many people the question of ethernet vs. WiFi just boils down to simple convenience, and this is as far as the argument goes. In fact, people who attend universities or live in shared housing may be literally unable to use ethernet, making WiFi the best and only option for them....

Some of you reading this might be thinking, “Usenet? What is that?” Others might be thinking, “Usenet? I remember using it back in my college days. So much fun!” This platform has been used for a very long time for a variety of purposes throughout its evolution, and it’s come back with a vengeance as the beginning of the 21st century extends its roots (ironically) all the way back to the latter years of the 20th....

Earlier today, Facebook has released the Facebook Places that allows you to check in your location from your mobile device. The Facebook Places is only available for iPhone users at the moment. Android and other mobile device users can also access the check-in feature via the mobile FB site: touch.facebook.com. There is one criteria though: your mobile browser must support HTML 5 and geolocation. With the Facebook Places, you can tag your friends (just like how you tag your friends in a photo)....

However, as we approach the end of another year in tech, we’re ready to get all amped up about a device that may or may not launch in 2023! It’s what keeps us as tech fans, right? Part of the grand rumour cycle, of course, is the divulgence of the first renders of the device. Or at least the first renders based on “images and other stuff” that might give us an idea of what the phone will eventually look like....

The best part is the simple and plain interface and the social aspect. The sheer number of users active on Flickr make the whole experience of photography very social and fun. Flickr was one of the first websites to use web 2.0 elements in its design but it hasn’t really kept up with the rest of the web since then, especially the process of browsing photos in a set. Don’t you agree that it is plain annoying having to click a hundred times just to see all the pics in a set....

Free Software Free software is by no means a new term. The phrase was coined by Richard Stallman in the 1980s when he started the GNU Project (to create a free operating system) and founded the Free Software Foundation (to advocate on behalf of free software). The phrase refers to software that users can safely run, adapt, and redistribute without legal restraint. The Free Software Foundation provides these “four essential freedoms” that software must respect in order to be considered free:...

Many agencies like USGS and EMSC are working to provide global earthquake warnings as soon as they occur. You can use a smartphone app to fetch this data and maybe even get ready for an earthquake before it hits your area. We are going to list four apps that will notify you about all the earthquakes as soon as they are recorded. Points to Keep in Mind Below are some points that you should keep in mind before using these apps:...

But despite the popularity, the developer has decided to let it go and move to another project: Google Quick Search Box (QSB); which promises to do even better than its older siblings. I personally think that keeping the promise would not be easy because it’s very difficult to surpass the greatness of Quicksilver, even for the creator himself. Many have tried without any significant result. But if Google is at your back, almost anything is possible....

How Differential Privacy Works Since data about us is being collected at an unprecedented rate and people are getting uncomfortable with it, the idea that your privacy can be mathematically proven is starting to look pretty good. Companies like Microsoft, Google, Apple, Facebook, and Uber have either implemented it in some form or are exploring their options, but even before big tech got interested, it was being used for things like sensitive research data, medical records, and even parts of the U....

For that, there are reverse image search engines provided by the likes of Google, TinEye, Bing, Yandex, Pixsy, and many more. Since you’re not providing any words in your query, though, how do they know what to look for? And, most importantly, how do they find it? How each search engine’s reverse image search works varies, and they keep their exact algorithms under wraps, but the basic ideas are out there and are not so hard to grasp....

While you may have taken a lot of pictures with the Photo Booth app, you may have noticed that it does not place the captured pictures in a convenient storage place, such as your desktop. The pictures are saved at a secret place on your Mac, and they can only be seen using the app itself. However, with the method described below, you should be able to access the pictures that were taken using the Photo Booth app just like any other normal files on your Mac....

Enabling the Feature The idea for the feature was borrowed by Google from the existing Firefox browser setup. Instead of having the feature be active by default, Chrome instead requires you to manually turn on the feature via the flags page. Here are the steps to activating Google Chrome’s hidden reader mode: First, make sure you are running Chrome 75 and above since the feature is not a part of earlier versions of the browser, then perform the following steps:...

Using ansi2HTML to create colored Terminal code as HTML If you’re on macOS or Linux or have a Linux shell running on Windows, you can use ansi2HTML to output colored Terminal code into Microsoft Word. Install ansi2HTML Without access to yum, we need a package manager to allow us to install ansi2HTML. Unfortunately, the package is not on Homebrew, but we can get it from pip. If you don’t already have pip installed, grab it by running the command below in Terminal: Once you have pip installed, you can pull ansi2HTML down from pip with this command: Linux users with yum available can use the following commands to install:...

The good news is that there are several ways to make portable apps start with Windows so that you don’t always have to start them manually. You can also remove them from the startup process whenever you want. Add the App to the Startup Folder This is the simplest and most direct option. Windows keeps a list of all your startup app shortcuts in a folder. (Required apps and system processes aren’t listed here....

With KDE 4, Autostart and KCron are now both integrated into System Settings. To start either one, simply click on the K menu and then click System Settings. Next, click the “advanced” tab. Under the Advanced User Settings section, you should see Autostart, and under the System section, make sure that you see Task Scheduler. On my Kubuntu system, Task Scheduler was not installed, so I had to start kpackagekit and install the kcron package....

Automating the process would save you a great amount of time, and there are applications that can help you do that. The most well known name in Mac realm is Hazel, but it’s not free. Mac users who prefers free apps could try Automator’s Folder Actions or the good but less-known SmartShuno. Let’s Set Some Rules If you want to give Smart Shuno a try and you visit the site to download the app, you will notice that the page is in Japanese....

Disable Extension Support in Edge – Group Policy Method Since the Edge browser doesn’t allow disabling extension support directly, we have to use the Group Policy Editor. To open the Group Policy Editor, search for “gpedit.msc” in the Start menu, and press the Enter button on your keyboard. In the Group Policy Editor navigate to “Computer Configuration -> Administrative Templates -> Windows Components -> Microsoft Edge” appearing on the left panel....

Disclaimer: The Internet Is Forever Unfortunately, because you’re not the only participant in these conversations, deleting messages on your side means very little. The other party still has it on their Facebook account, and even if everyone involved deletes the conversation, the records may still be living somewhere on Facebook’s servers. Because Facebook is not end-to-end encrypted by default (though you can enable this option), messages you exchange on it can potentially stick around in plain text for the lifetime of both accounts....

LocalCryptos: peer-to-peer marketplace As of April 2020, LocalCryptos (formerly LocalEthereum) may be the premier peer-to-peer crypto-fiat marketplace with no KYC requirements. In short, LocalCryptos lets you buy cryptocurrency with national currencies without asking for any form of ID. Here’s how it works: The site is well-designed, the system is fairly good at keeping scams to a minimum, and you can typically find prices that are fairly close to the market. You can chat with the sellers over their encrypted messaging system so you can ask questions and feel out how reliable they may be....

While websites are displayed on Google Chrome in a preset standard size, you can change that size, increasing the dimensions of the text if you are having difficulty reading it or decreasing the size if you wish to see more information on a page at a time. Changing Font Size Go to Google Chrome and open any website you wish to explore whose font size you wish to change. At the top of the page is the address bar containing the name of the website, and to the left of the bar is a padlock icon....