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Jun
24
2024

How to Block Popup Ads on Android

Blocking Popup Ads on Android Popup ads are frustrating enough on desktop, but they’re even worse on a mobile device with limited screen size. If you’re sick of popups ruining your phone experience, we’ll explain how to stop popup ads on your Android phone. Let’s discuss each of these in turn to help you defeat Android popup ads. 1. How to Stop Android Popups in Your Browser If the sites you visit serve popup ads regularly, you can turn them off or disable them wit.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Lock/Unlock an Android Phone With Your Voice Using Google Assistant

How to Get Google Assistant on Android Ever wonder if the hands-free capabilities of Google’s voice assistant extend to unlocking your smartphone? Google Assistant can do a whole lot using voice commands including a smartphone unlock with Voice Match depending on your version of Android. To use Google’s voice unlock feature, you’ll need to have Google Assistant on your phone. Newer Android phones (typically with Android 7.0 Nougat and newer) come with Google Assistant alre.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Control Your Android Device Entirely With Your Voice

Control Your Android Device with voice Android voice commands allow you to control your smartphone with your voice. All you need is Google’s official voice control app, called Voice Access. Let’s look at how to use Voice Access on Android, as well as a few examples of how to control your phone with your voice. Install Voice Access on Android First, you’ll need to install Voice Access on your device. The guided setup process may differ depending on your phone, but it&rsquo.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Turn Off the Camera and Screenshot Sounds on Your iPhone

How to Turn Off the Camera Sound on iPhone Turning off the sound on your camera sound on your iPhone is something that many people want to do. That sound does not really add anything valuable, and it is loud when taking a picture especially at night. If you are wondering how to turn off the camera shutter sound on your iPhone, you have come to the right place. We would show you several methods to do that. Flip the Silent Switch The easiest way to turn off the camera sound on your iPhone X,.

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Jun
24
2024

How To Find Out Who Blocked You on Facebook

How to Find Out Who Blocked You On Facebook Who blocked me on Facebook? It is a question that many of us will have asked since joining Facebook. Thankfully, there is plenty you can do if you suspect that someone has blocked you on Facebook. You can’t exactly see who blocked you on Facebook, but there are a few decent indicators to watch out for. The first thing you should do is determine whether you’ve been blocked or unfriended. Can You Still Tag Someone Who Has Blocked You? Let.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Secure Your Gmail Account in 6 Easy Steps

How to Secure Your Gmail Account Gmail is the most popular free email service used by millions of people around the world. Billions of messages are sent and received through Google’s email software each day. Many of these messages contain personal or confidential information. Unfortunately, it’s also true that malicious hacks, phishing attacks, and password leaks are becoming more commonplace. To prevent your personal email ending up in someone else’s hands, you’ll ne.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Move Apps to an SD Card on Your Android

Using an SD Card on Android One of the reasons why you would want to use an SD card as an installation memory of your android device is because your device storage is about to be filled up or you can't install apps anymore because of low storage. The fix to this is by using your memory card as internal storage for your phone. Memory cards are slower than internal storage, so you may notice slightly worse performance for more resource-intensive apps. When picking a card, go for the fastest an.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Fix Windows 10 Sleep Mode Issues

Windows 10 Sleep Mode Issues Putting your PC to sleep is a great way to save energy while still making sure you can resume without wasting power. But what can you do if your PC keeps waking up or goes to sleep automatically? With so many factors coming into play, it can be a difficult problem to diagnose. Check Your Sleep Mode Settings When your computer doesn’t go to sleep, check all your settings and factors that prevent a sleep state. The hardware, power options, and configuration .

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Jun
24
2024

How to Find Out Who’s Searching for You Online

Who Is Searching for Me Online? If you’re concerned that someone might be looking for you, there is sadly no way of knowing who they are. In most cases, however, you probably have a good idea. Friendly faces will probably turn up via Facebook. Others, however, are likely to find another way. While it’s not possible to reveal who they are, you can at least use the same tools they’re using. So, while you can’t find out who searched for you on Google, you can set up alert.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Erase Your Social Media Presence: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat

Deleting Accounts Through the Platforms There are various reasons why you might want to delete your social media accounts. You may miss the days of anonymity, you might want to reclaim your privacy from companies, or maybe you just aren’t interested in the platform anymore. All of the major social media sites allow you to deactivate or delete accounts. However, how easy this process is to complete depends on the site. In fact, BackgroundChecks.org provides a directory called JustDelete.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Hide Your Social Media Profiles From Bullies

Hiding your social media profiles Social networking can be a wonderful thing, but it can also a breeding ground for bullies. It’s one of the many reasons to hide your social media profiles. If you’re dealing with social media bullying and/or harassment, or just want to hide your social media profiles for another reason, we’re here to help. In this article, we’ll show you how to make your Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts private. We’ll also reveal how peo.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Collaborate in Real-Time With Pages, Numbers, and Keynote on Mac

Inviting Others to Share a Document If you find yourself in a situation where you need to collaborate on documents, spreadsheets, or presentations on Mac, there are different ways to go about it. Pages, Numbers, and Keynote all offer some terrific features for collaboration when you are working from home or even within the office. The first thing you need to do when you want to collaborate on a document is to invite your participant(s). You have a few ways to do this depending on your Mac Shar.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Set Up a VPN on Your Xbox One

Why Use a VPN on Your Xbox One? Regardless of what system you are using, whether PC, console, or mobile, there are always reasons to use a VPN. Generally speaking, you can circumvent region blocking for streaming and downloading. From a gaming point of view, a good quality VPN can help you to improve online gaming speeds. ISPs are notorious for throttling online gaming; employing a VPN will prevent this. Your ISP won’t know where the data is going, or what sort of data it is. As a.

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Jun
24
2024

How To Delete Previous Google Searches From History

How to Remove Previous Searches From Your Google Account Having a record of everything you’ve searched on Google can be useful if you want to return to something you looked up earlier. But you might wish to clear recent searches for privacy or reduce the amount of data Google has about you. By default, Google keeps track of all the searches you make when logged into your Google account on any device. If you weren’t logged into Google when you made the searches you want to delete,.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Check if Someone Else Is Accessing Your Facebook Account

Is Someone Accessing Your Facebook Account? It’s a commonly accepted fact: Facebook knows far too much information about us. Millions of people willfully tell Zuckerberg and his team of cronies what they like, what they hate, who they have a crush on, which school they went to, and a whole lot more.And let’s not mention people’s strange desire to post photographs of everything from their dinner to their vacation. Okay; so, we all agree that if someone has unauthorized access .

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Jun
24
2024

How to Trace Emails Back to Their Source IP Address

Why Trace an Email Address? Before learning how to trace an email address, let us consider why you would do it in the first place. In this day and age, malicious emails are all too frequent. Scams, spam, malware, and phishing emails are a common inbox sight. If you trace an email back to its source, you have a slight chance of discovering who (or where!) the email comes from. In other cases, you can trace the origin of an email to block a persistent source of spam or abusive content, permanen.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Check the Quality of a Movie Before Downloading

What is a Movie Quality Ranking? Movie Quality Ranking is the process of rating and ranking a movie based on its quality. We would start with the literal quality of the movie downloads. We would then work through the various formats in reverse order, starting the worst quality and ending with the highest. Depending on the site that you use, this information can pop up in a few different places. It might be in the file name, in an adjacent information box, or in the NFO file. Remember, you can .

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Jun
24
2024

How to Merge Excel Files and Sheets

What is Excel? Microsoft Excel is a spreadsheet program that is used to record and analyze numerical data. Think of a spreadsheet as a collection of columns and rows that form a table. Alphabetical letters are usually assigned to columns and numbers are usually assigned to rows. How to Merge Sheets in Excel Excel makes it easy to combine more than one sheet into a new workbook: Open the sheets you want to merge. Click Home > Format > Move or Copy Sheet. Use the dropdown menu to sel.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Back Up Your Website Through SSH Command Line

What Is SSH Command-Line? SSH gives you the ability to talk directly to your webserver. It doesn’t give a pretty interface, or a nice GUI, just a straight-up powerful command line. This can be daunting to some people, but the sheer power, speed, and level of automation it provides can be an absolute lifesaver and makes the process of migrating sites incredibly easy. Many shared hosts unfortunately don’t allow SSH access to your account by default. However, this is changing, and if .

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Jun
24
2024

How to View and Delete Your Location History on Facebook

Deleting Your Location History on Facebook If you have the Facebook mobile app installed on your device, chances are it is storing a lot more of your location history than you happen to know. While this data is private and only you can see the data, in light of Facebook’s recent privacy problems, it can be a little unsettling to see how much location data the social network is saving. So how does it work? Facebook explains that if you have Location History turned on in the app, they will.

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