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Jun
3
2020

How to Keep Your Cryptocurrency Safe

Mistakes to avoid when dealing with your Cryptocurrency If you own any cryptocurrency, you’ll need to adapt to a new way of keeping your money safe. You can’t just keep your Bitcoins under the bed or deposit your Ether in a bank (at least, not yet). So what are you supposed to do? Mistake 1: Failing to Back Up Wallet Keys Cryptocurrencies don’t come with online banking and password resets. Instead, you have a set of private keys that allow you to access the funds in your var.

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Jun
3
2020

How to Encrypt Files and Folders in Ubuntu

Encrypting files in Linux Encryption is something everyone should take seriously on any platform. You might think you’re more secure on Linux than you are on Windows or even macOS. But is Linux really as secure as you think? Encrypt and Decrypt Files Using GnuPG GnuPG is a free implementation of the OpenPGP standard, also known as Pretty Good Privacy (PGP). It allows you to encrypt your files and sign them, allowing you to securely send files to others. GnuPG can also be used to encryp.

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Jun
3
2020

How to Publish Ebooks on Amazon With Kindle Direct Publishing

Creating a New Kindle Book Once your book is written, you’ll need to head over to the KDP website. Go to kdp.amazon.com and sign in with your Amazon account. The first time you sign in, you’ll see their terms and conditions. To create a new Kindle book, click the + Kindle eBook button: You’ll now see the Kindle eBook Details screen: Go through each field and enter the relevant information. Here are the sections you’ll need to complete: Language Book title (and opt.

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Jun
2
2020

How to Hide Files and Folders From Prying Eyes on Linux

Hide Existing Files and Folders Using the Terminal To hide an existing file or folder using the Terminal, press Ctrl + Alt + T to open a Terminal window. Use the cd command to go to the file or folder you want to hide. For example, we’re going to hide our FilesToHide folder in the Documents folder. So we use the following commands: cd Documents/ cd FilesToHide/ You can also change to a folder by putting the full path in a single cd command: cd ~/Documents/FilesToHide/ The “~&r.

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Jun
2
2020

How to Use Gmail Offline

Read This Before You Start As you may have guessed, Gmail Offline can be used only with Google Chrome. You should never set it up on public or shared computers as the emails are stored in your browser’s storage. For some reason, if you have to, remember to delete the app when you’re done as detailed in a later section. Obviously, you need a working internet connection to set it up first before you can start using it offline. Once you set it up, you can browse through your emails, s.

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Jun
2
2020

How to Text From Your Computer

Texting From a Computer Despite the convenience of instant messaging, SMS still plays an important role for automated alerts and messaging people with older phones. If you use SMS often, you might want to check your text messages online so you can respond faster with your computer keyboard. As it turns out, there are many ways you can view and send text messages from the comfort of your computer. Here are the best apps for checking your SMS messages on a computer. Note that all of these soluti.

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Jun
2
2020

How to Get the Stock Android Experience on Any Phone

Stock Android Google’s Pixel devices are the best pure Android phones. But you can get that stock Android experience on any phone, without rooting. Essentially, you will have to download a stock Android launcher and a few apps that give you the vanilla Android flavor. It’s really simple, meaning anyone can do it without much technical know-how. We’ll walk you through what to do. 1. Get the Best Stock Android Launcher Google has its own Pixel launcher, but it’s only av.

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Jun
1
2020

How to Spell and Grammar Check in Microsoft Word

How to Do a Spelling and Grammar Check Microsoft Word comes with lots of ways to check the spelling and grammar in your document. Let us take a much closer look In-line Spell Checking By default, Word would make use of in-line spell checking. Words you misspell would come up with a red line below them. To fix the mistake, simply right-click on the word and click on the word that you are meant to type from the pop-up menu. To have Microsoft Word ignore a “misspelling” that is corr.

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Jun
1
2020

How to Stop Facebook From Selling Your Browsing Data

Digital Advertising Alliance to the Rescue The Digital Advertising Alliance is responsible for enforcing ethical privacy practices across the online advertising industry. In was formed in 2009 after a group of seven advertising bodies in the United States agreed to implement self-regulation. In 2010, the group created AdChoices. AdChoices is a number of mandatory and regulatory guidelines that totally cover all online internet-based advertising. The program is primarily interested in the priv.

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Jun
1
2020

How to Search Reddit Effectively

How to Search Reddit for Subreddits, Users, and Posts If you want to search all around Reddit not minding whether you are looking for a subreddit or for a post you can make use of the search bar. Type what you want to see in the search bar and press Enter to search. When you make use of the search bar, Reddit would pull up users, subreddits, and posts that contain the term that you searched for. For example, if you search for “programming,” you will find the subreddit /r/progr.

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