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Jun
24
2024

How to Identify Deleted Videos in YouTube Playlists

How to See the Title of a Deleted YouTube Video As you know, when you open a deleted video, the page doesn’t give you much information on what it was. You can’t see the video title, channel name, upload date, or anything else that would help you identify it. Thankfully, there are a few ways that you can hopefully recover this information. See Deleted Video Titles via a Google Search As it turns out, the most reliable way to see a deleted video’s name is by simply performing.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Set Up Mozilla Thunderbird for Auto-Responses & Scheduled Emails

Auto-Response Filter If you find out that you are writing the same emails every time and you wish that you could schedule the reminders and follow-up emails, it may be the time to set up auto-responses and scheduled emails. We would show you just how to do that in Mozilla Thunderbird, which is the free, cross-platform, and open-source desktop email client. An auto-response filter allows you to define filters for incoming emails and join them with a template message. When an email triggers th.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Save Disk Space in Windows 10

Low space on windows 10 As far as disk space requirements go, Windows 10 is downright gluttonous with its minimum requirement of 16 GB (for the 32-bit version) and 20 GB (for the 64-bit version). Compare that to macOS Sierra, which needs just under 9 GB, and Ubuntu, which barely needs 5 GB. This may not be an issue if you’re on a 1 TB HDD, but it can be frustrating to have so much space wasted on a 32 or 64 GB SSD. Fortunately, Windows 10 offers several features and ways to reduce the op.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Set Your Wi-Fi and Ethernet Connection as Metered in Windows 10

Why You Might Want to Use a Metered Connection There are a number of reasons why you might want to use a metered connection. The main one is if your internet provider limits the amount of data that you’re able to use, or if you’re charged extra for exceeding the limit. Enabling a metered connection will help stop your data from being wasted on things you don’t need or want. A metered connection can also be handy if you have a slow internet connection because you’ll be.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Put Your Face on a Different Body Using GIMP

Why Use GIMP? GIMP is freely available for everyone to use, and it’s definitely got some powerful tools. You just have to take some time to learn it, and it will become a very worthy alternative to Photoshop. There are, for example, plenty of ways to use GIMP to edit backgrounds.If you don’t already have it, you can download and install GIMP from the official GIMP website. GIMP is available for Windows, Linux, and Mac. And if you’re still unsure about how GIMP compares to Phot.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Stop Facebook From Tracking You

How Does Facebook Track You? We’ve become a society intent on sharing… everything. How many times do you scroll through your Facebook feed and sigh at the information people are spewing forth? It goes further than that. 1. Facebook Like and Share Plug-In Tracking The Facebook “Like” and “Share” buttons found on almost every website funnel data back into the Facebook advertising algorithm. The presence of the Facebook social share buttons means Facebook i.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Handle a Copyright Infringement Notice From Your ISP

What Is Copyright Infringement? When a studio releases a film or a musician releases an album into the public realm, the vast majority of the time, this content features copyright protection. It isn’t just music or films. Photographs, paintings, books, articles, podcasts, and countless other types of content carry copyright. Copyright is a legal right that protects work, granting the original content creator exclusive rights over the ownership and distribution of the work. Copyright can .

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Jun
24
2024

How to Uninstall and Remove Google Drive From Your PC or Mac

How to Disconnect Google Drive From Your Computer Before you delete Google Drive from your computer, you should disconnect your system from your account. This is also a useful step if you don’t want to fully remove Google Drive yet. To disconnect Google Drive, you’ll need to click the Backup and Sync from Google icon. It looks like a cloud with an upward-facing arrow. On Windows, you’ll find this in the System Tray at the bottom-right of your screen; you may need to click .

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Jun
24
2024

How to Screen Mirror Your iPhone or iPad to a TV

Mirroring your screen to a TV Don’t get stuck watching videos or playing games on a small screen, you can use your iPhone or iPad on larger displays thar has screen mirroring methods instead. There are a few ways to watch iOS or iPadOS content on a Television, which includes  AirPlay, Chromecast, and wired adapters. 1. Cast Video or Mirror Your Screen With AirPlay The Apple TV connects to your TV via HDMI and functions as a set-top box with its own apps and App Store. It has .

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Jun
24
2024

How to Fix Crackly Audio and Other Mac Sound Problems

No Audio on Your Mac? Check Sound Preferences The first place to check if you are having audio problems is macOS Sound preferences. Go to System Preferences > Sound. Click on the “Output” tab and take a look at where your audio is being routed. Check the volume slider at the bottom, and uncheck the “Mute” box if necessary. You should see a list of devices that you can use as sound outputs, with the default option (on most Mac computers) being Internal Speakers. If so.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Use and Customize a Third-Party Keyboard on Your Mac

Using a Third-Party Keyboard With Your Mac Apple offers two flavors of the external keyboard to use with your Mac: the Magic Keyboard and the Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad. Despite their names, neither is particularly exciting. So you may want to set up a third-party keyboard to use instead. Modern Macs support nearly all USB and Bluetooth devices. So any USB or Bluetooth keyboard should be compatible at least for basic features like typing standard keys. Special media keys may not work, .

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Jun
24
2024

How to Get Wi-Fi Without an Internet Service Provider

Browsing without an ISP Getting on the web is very costly. In the United States, for example, the average cost of a home internet connection is $60 per month. Don't fancy paying all that amount of money? Do not worry, even if you do not have a regular Internet Service Provider (ISP), there are still other Internet Plans available to help you go online. Below, is how to get W-Fi connections without an internet service provider. 1. Mobile Hotspot The best way to make sure you have the internet.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Optimize Windows 10 for Gaming and Performance

Using Windows 10 for Gaming Windows 10 is a great OS for gamers, mixing native games, support for retro titles, and even Xbox One streaming. But it isn’t perfect straight out of the box. 1. Optimize Windows 10 With Gaming Mode Looking for another option to squeeze the best gaming performance out of Windows 10? Later releases of the operating system feature a gaming mode, built-in optimizations for Windows 10 gamers. To find out more, press Windows key + I, type game mode then click C.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Limit Data Usage and Internet Bandwidth in Windows

How to Limit Data Usage in Windows 10 Limiting bandwidth on your computer will stop you from wasting data. It’s very helpful to manage this setting if you have a specific data limit as it can stop you from being overcharged. First, let’s look at how to control your network usage and apply a bandwidth limit using the tools that come with Windows 10. Enable a Metered Connection in Windows 10 One way to limit bandwidth in Windows 10 is to enable a metered connection. Enabling thi.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Install Homebrew on a Nintendo Wii Using LetterBomb

Why You Should Install LetterBomb on Your Wii Released in 2006, the Nintendo Wii is a retro gaming giant, a record-breaking console that shipped over 100 million units. These days, the Nintendo Wii seems old and outdated; apps don’t work, it doesn’t support high definition, and it won’t even play DVDs. While games will still run on your Nintendo Wii, almost all the apps (Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, YouTube, etc.) don’t. Furthermore, you might have completed all of yo.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Separate Work From Personal Life

Work and Personal life When you do freelancing from home or when you work from home, the line between your personal self and professional self tends to become thin. The risk of identity mix-ups and misplaced data is constant. One email sent to the wrong address or one ill-advised selfie posted to your social media profile could get you fired. To reduce the potential for such disasters and for better work-life integration, let’s see how to separate your work and personal life in the di.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Set Up TeamViewer and Access Your PC From Anywhere

How to Install TeamViewer To start, download TeamViewer on your computer. The service has apps available for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS, as well as Android and iOS. We’ll cover Windows here, but the experience is similar across platforms. When installing, you can select Default installation, as we’ll set up unattended access shortly. TeamViewer is free for personal use, so select Personal / Non-commercial use for the second box and hit Accept to install. After installati.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Chop Down a 20,000 Email Inbox to Zero in 30 Minutes

The Bloated Gmail Inbox Between promotions, newsletters, notifications, and everything else that comes flying into your inbox every day, it’s very easy to accumulate too many emails. If you don’t have time to deal with it, you could find yourself sitting on an inbox with upwards of 20 to 30 thousand messages. Toss Out the Trash It should go without saying that you need to take out the trash often, not only at home but in your Gmail inbox as well. Click on your Trash in the left n.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Collaborate in Default Mac Apps

Collaborate by Sharing Notes on Mac The Notes app is an excellent tool for taking notes and creating lists. And since it’s available across Apple devices, you can sync and access it whenever you need it. If you and your coworkers need to put your heads together on a project and keep your thoughts organized, you can share both folders and notes on Mac. To share a folder in Notes, make sure that the folder sidebar is open. You can click the Show Folders button in the toolbar or View >.

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Jun
24
2024

How to Search YouTube Like a Pro Using Advanced Search Operators

Using YouTube’s Filter Options Much of the time, you can use YouTube’s built-in filters to help narrow your search results. To access them, first, run a search on YouTube. Next, click the Filter button and you’ll see several filter options. You can choose just one of them or combine several for deeper searches. Note that some combinations won’t work, however. For example, if you filter by upload date, you can’t also filter by channels. Let’s quickly run .

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