Using Third-Party Filters Heading to the Settings of your adblocker of choice should give you a list of the filters being used. A lot of these filters are maintained by third parties. A few are handled by the actual creator of your extension, but others are used as well. These filters can be modified to block more than just ads – they can also block sites detecting adblockers, trackers, malware domains, social media plugins, and more....

This feature allows users to share photos, videos or text updates with contacts for a period of twenty-four hours before they disappear automatically. Status updates are visible to all contacts by default, but this is not always desirable from a privacy standpoint. If you prefer to block some contacts from seeing your status updates or even just share them with only a handful of people in your life, you will be glad to know that it is possible to get the desired behaviour in just a few taps....

Chatting with Facebook friends is again another addiction seen among most users. Some people have an overwhelming number of friends and this is where it gets all complicated. Say you have just began chatting with your girlfriend on Facebook and suddenly some random stranger starts sending instant messages. In case of strangers and people whom you don’t know, you can always ignore the instant message and continue chatting with the person you were chatting with....

If you are looking for ways to increase the font size of Google Reader site (or any other sites that don’t allow scaling) so as to increase the readability, here is a simple hack using bookmarket. Launch your browser in Android. Launch your menu and go to the Bookmarks options. Add a bookmark. Give your bookmark a name, such as “Enlarge Font”. In the Location field, enter the following javascript:...

Generating the trendline If you’re using the newest version of Excel (2013, 2016, 2019), it’s dead simple: Select the chart you want to add a line to. Click the “+” button on the top-right of the chart – it’s labeled “Chart Elements” when you hover over it. Check the box that says “Trendline.” By default, Excel inserts a linear trendline. If you want to change that, see below. If you’re still using Excel 2010 (support for that is ending in 2020, by the way), it’s a little different:...

Luckily, it’s fairly easy to install apps from unknown sources in Android, although the method varies depending on which Android version you’re on. One rule applies for people using Android 7 and below, and another for Android 8.0 Oreo and Android 9.0 Pie (and onwards). Here we’ll show you both ways. Install Apps without Play Store in Android 8.0 Oreo and 9.0 Pie As of Android 8.0, the method to install apps from unknown sources changed....

The PageSpeed module is a module for the Apache web server to optimise web pages, improve performance and apply output filters. Features Some of the main features of the PageSpeed module include decreasing load time, the amount of requests and payload size. You can use up to 44 filters to optimize your webpage. Here is what the PageSpeed Module can do: Combine Javascript and CSS. One of the main things that the PageSpeed Module does is combine the Javascript and CSS to fewer files, thus reducing resources requests made to the server....

XBMC Media Center is an award winning open source media center application for Xbox, Linux, Mac and Windows. Calling it a media center is really understating its capability since it is in fact an ultimate hub that supports almost every audio/video format and codecs available. It also comes with slick interface and include features such as playlist playback, picture viewing, audio visualizations and so on. Installing XBMC Media Center in Ubuntu Hardy Open your terminal....

How to Keep Your Google Pixel Screen on When You’re Looking at It If you have a Google Pixel 4 (or later) phone, then you can take advantage of something called “Screen Attention.” As Google explains, the option uses the front camera to see if someone is looking at the screen and prevents the screen from turning off. It works best when the screen is well-lit but not in direct sunlight....

Display One of the most immediate differences between the 2021 iMac and 2020 27-inch Mac is the display size. With the 21.5-inch model gone, both options will give you a boost in screen real estate. At 24 inches, the 2021 iMac comes with 4480 x 2520 pixels and a beautiful resolution. However, there is no support for a 5K display. The 27-inch iMac has a 5120 x 2880 display, so 5K is standard....

By setting up a password for your notes, you are protecting them from people spying on you. Once a note has been password-protected, it will ask you to enter the password each time you try to open it. Here’s how you can go about locking notes on your Mac. Locking Notes on a Mac Launch the Notes app by clicking on Launchpad in your dock and searching for and clicking on Notes....

Spicing Up Visuals with Post-Processing Some of these techniques involve injecting post-process effects such as image sharpening to run games at a lower resolution with resolution scaling while not sacrificing image quality. Gamers equipped with powerful systems can make games even better-looking by improving lighting and color correction while adding advanced graphics features such as ambient occlusion, depth of field, shadows, HDR, and advanced motion blur. All of these post-processing graphics features are implemented through a free, open-source tool called ReShade....

There are several others encryption software out there, but the one that worked well for me, and apparently free and does not require any administrator privileges is Rohos Mini Drive. What Rohos Mini Drive does is to create hidden and encrypted partition on the USB flash drive memory. When you plug in your USB drive, you won’t get to see the hidden partition. Only when you run the Rohos application (within the USB drive) and enter your password, then will the hidden partition appear....

Is it useful to pin your own tiles in Windows 8? Pinning your own tiles in Windows 8 is one of the most useful and efficient ways to access just about anything you can imagine. With a utility like Pin to 8, you can pin tiles to open files, folders, programs, libraries and special items. Since Windows does not offer this option on its own, if you find yourself going to great lengths to open things you use all the time, why not pin them to the Start screen for easier access?...

How to Stop People You Follow From Adding You to Groups By default, your followers can easily add you to group chats without asking your permission. It can be highly distracting, but fortunately, there’s something you can do to make this less irritating: mute the discussions to prevent getting new message notifications. Go to Direct and open the message thread in question, then select the “i” button in the upper-right corner to bring up Details....

When you first run Seal, it will guide you through a simple setup wizard. The first step is of course setting up your main password. You can choose to use a password or a set pattern. You will also need to set up a security question (and answer) so you can recover your password (or pattern) when you forget about it. If you have rooted your phone, in the next screen, you will see the following:...

Why Would You Want This? Perhaps you might not understand the need for a context option to open things with Notepad, but it might become clear enough once you start trying to edit SRT and SUB files without using third-party applications. Perhaps you want to edit a PHP or HTML file without having to open anything fancy. What if you know your way around things enough not to need any of those applications that only take up space on your hard drive and bloat up your memory for nothing?...

Use Headphones Most laptops have a low-quality built-in microphone, which can cause echo or muffled audio. The best way to reduce microphone background noise in this instance is to use headphones, preferably with a dedicated microphone. This will ensure that your voice quality is clear and that the microphone does not pick up noise from your speakers. Remove Surrounding Background Noise Another very important step to improve your audio quality is to remove background noise from your surroundings....

Here are the many ingenious ways that Apple has come up with to work around the lack of a physical button on the new line of iPhone X’s. Reachability One of my favorite features native to the iOS ecosystem is Reachability. As someone with shorter fingers, sometimes it’s difficult to get to every part of the screen with my thumb without extra straining to get there. This is where Reachability comes in, and it is especially useful now that the iPhone X screens are even bigger than before....

Getting the Right Image There are currently two supported ways to run the initial Flow image – USB or virtual machine. You can download the USB and VMware images here. Either one will take a while to download, as the image is a few hundred MB. Running in VMware It’s been my experience that recent Chrome OS builds, for whatever reason, seem to have trouble booting in Virtualbox on my system....