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Jun
24
2024

How to Use Dictation on a Mac for Voice-to-Text Typing

How to Use Dictation on a Mac Double-press the Fn button to start dictating on your Mac. You should see a microphone icon appear or hear a macOS confirmation tone. If this is your first time using Dictation, click OK in the popup window to confirm you want to use it. After activating Dictation, start saying what you want to type to see it appear on the screen. Dictation ignores pauses in your speech, allowing you to take a moment to compose your thoughts. However, this does mean you need to di.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Check Any Cryptocurrency Price From Your Linux Terminal

Checking Cryptocurrencies Prices From Your Terminal If you are trying to get the latest prices of cryptocurrencies from your Linux terminal, then by following this simple tutorial, you can be up and running in a matter of minutes. This simple project makes use of an application programming interface (API) to pull the latest crypto prices. For this tutorial, you will use the API that is provided by CoinMarketCap. While it is free to use, you would need to first register on the site. While.

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Jun
24
2024

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
24
2024

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
24
2024

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
24
2024

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
24
2024

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
24
2024

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
24
2024

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
24
2024

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
24
2024

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
24
2024

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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Jun
24
2024

How to Fix Problems with Thumbnails on Windows 10

What Are Thumbnails Anyway? By default, instead of just using generic icons for your documents, Windows 10 would create small pictures of image or document contents known as thumbnails. These tiny images are stored in a special database file known as the thumbnail cache. Thanks to this file, Windows would not have to recreate thumbnail images every time that you open up a folder. If you are seeing garbled or incorrect thumbnails, it is very likely that the thumbnails that are stored .

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Jun
24
2024

How to Send Large Files as Email Attachments

Sending Emails As Attachment Many email service servers stop you from sending files that are over a particular size. When this problem happens most of the users do not know how to send large files as emails. To send large files through email, you can either upload your attachment to any cloud storage and get a link to email to the recipient or use it as a file sharing service. Whatever method you decide to use, in the long run, you would not be restricted by size limits and you can decrease th.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Fix “iMessage Not Delivered” on Your iPhone

What Does “Delivered” Mean on iMessage? We need to first differentiate between Delivered and Read. Delivered means the other person received the message on their device. Read means the recipient has tapped on it. Of course, this doesn’t mean they’ve actually read it it only means the message has been opened. Don’t panic if you don’t hear back immediately; they might have selected it but subsequently got distracted. You can toggle read receipts for yoursel.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Capture or Record Your Android’s Screen Using a Mac

Download and Install AndroidTool Download AndroidTool to your Mac PC. Double-click on the ZIP file to extract the application. Then drag the application file to the Applications folder to install it. Enable USB Debugging on Your Android Device To allow your Android device to work together with your Mac, you must turn on USB debugging. On Android Oreo, go over to your Settings > System > About Phone. If you are running an older version of Android, About Phone or About tablet would be .

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Jun
24
2024

How to Uninstall Windows 10’s May 2020 Update

Warning: You Only Have 10 Days After all the long testing process, we have seen reports of bugs that are found in the Windows 10 May 2020 Update. If you have just installed the latest version of Windows 10 and run into problems, you can simply uninstall it. Here is how to uninstall the May 2020 Update or any other major Windows 10 update.Microsoft allows you to uninstall a major update and also to “rollback” to your previous version of Windows 10 probably the November 2019 U.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Keep Your Mobile Browsing Private

Keeping your mobile browsing private There are lots of ways that your mobile browser can compromise your privacy, but there are a few precautions that you can take when you are using a popular mobile browser on the go. While none of these precautions are completely foolproof, they do offer a little more control on how websites track you and what information is saved on your mobile device. Safari To adjust your privacy settings in your Safari browser, go over to Settings > Safari. Scrollin.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Create a LinkedIn Headline That’ll Get You Noticed

The Formula for a Perfect LinkedIn Headline The headline of your profile is basically a professional version of the famous “describe yourself in three words” get-to-know-you game. You are a complex person who has many useful skills and professional qualities that you would like to outline to your future employer/client. However, all that you have got is one line and 120 characters. The easiest way to ensure that your “title” is both memorable and clear is by using a .

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Jun
24
2024

How to Make a VoIP Phone With Google Voice

Making VoIP Calls With Google Voice What would you think about getting a VoIP phone that you can use to make calls without requiring an active cellular provider? Thanks to Google Voice, this is now turned into a reality. Google Voice has been hanging around for quite a long time. But up until now, you could only receive incoming voice calls from your cell phone. Outgoing VoIP calling was never an option. When you install Google Voice on your phone, it will ask you to link the service to the p.

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