1. Enable Chrome Home If you own an Android device, there’s a good chance you’re using Chrome as your browser. The Chrome browser is widely considered to be one of, if not the, best Android browsers available, but there is a way to make it even better. Chrome Home moves the address bar to the bottom of the page. With increasingly large devices hitting the market, enabling Chrome Home makes it easier and faster to reach the URL/address bar....

1. Mercury Reader Reading an article on a website riddled with banners, ads, recommendations, and widgets can be highly distracting. It can slow down your research and make it hard to focus on what matters. The Mercury Reader is one of the best tools to clean up a website of all unnecessary content. To clear an article of all the unnecessary clutter, simply tap on the Rocket icon in the upper-right corner of the display to get a clean reading experience....

So here’s an idea for you: you could fill one of your spare flash drives with portable apps which you can run directly from the disks and plug and play in whatever computer you like. Here are the best ones out there to get you started. 1. Search Everything The Windows search tool never really quite cuts it when it comes to finding better-hidden files, and the files that it does find it tends to take its sweet time doing so....

While five million people in the United States work at home part of the time, that number has currently exploded thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. Millions are trying to figure out how to increase work-at-home productivity overnight. The good news is Google Assistant, which is available on iOS and Android devices, may be able to help you adjust. 1. Make Calls with Your Voice Forget fiddling with your phone. Instead, confidently place calls just with your voice....

So let’s say you broke your home button on your device. Now you are wondering whether your iPhone can still be used or if you should bring the smartphone to a service center for somebody to repair it. Fortunately, Apple is aware of such issues with the company’s devices and have prepared a useful function in iOS which you can use to replace the home button of your iPhone....

Launching Launch Pad There are two ways to launch the Launchpad. The first way is to click on the application in the dock. The Launchpad application is next to the Finder application. The second way to launch Launchpad is to take your first four fingers, place them all apart on the track pad, and then spread all four fingers together. Once launched, Launchpad is very simple to use. Simply take your first two fingers and slide the track pad from right to left to navigate the pages....

AMC Security is an improved version of Advanced Mobile Care. Does the improved version make your phone even faster and safer? Let’s check it out. And after that we have a giveaway event for this app. Do check it out toward the end of this article. Installation and getting started To get started, install AMC Security from the Google Play Store. Being a security and privacy app, it is necessary to be able to access your data or even control almost all aspects of your phone....

There are always going to be situations or apps that cause our devices to overheat, but knowing how to cool down a hot Android device is a must. The first thing we have to figure out is where the heat is coming from. This is going to determine where the problem is located which will help us find the right solution. Check Which Apps are Using Most Battery Overheating and battery power are often connected....

Antiword has been ported to FreeBSD, BeOS, OS/2, Mac OS X, Amiga, VMS, NetWare, Plan9, EPOC, Zaurus PDA, MorphOS, Tru64/OSF, Minix, Solaris and DOS. For this article, I’ll focus on using it in Linux. Main Features Antiword lets you view and convert MS Word documents from the command line. You can convert to the following formats: Plain text Formatted text PDF Postscript XML (only DocBook is currently supported) Limitations Before you get too excited, I have to mention that Antiword was last updated in 2005 and is not compatible with newer DOCX documents....

If there was ever any doubt about Apple’s sheer level of dominance in the smartwatch market, it’s worth considering the latest research from industry analyst Counterpoint. The firm has published the results of its research into the smartwatch market for the third quarter of 2022. It’s looking rather rosy for the market as a whole, with a year-on-year shipment growth of 30%, but it’s looking especially rosy for the market leader....

Aptana Studio is a free, open source cross platform compatible IDE that supports a large variety of languages. The default Aptana Studio’s editor comes with full support for HTML, CSS and Javascript. If you are a PHP or Ruby On Rails developer, you can also get it to support the the code you want by adding the respective modules via plugins. Platforms supported by Aptana Studio include PHP, Ruby On Rails, Python, iPhone Web apps, Adobe Air, Nokia and AJAX....

Are Essay Writing Services Legit? Most of the time, an essay writing service will do what it says it does. A company will hire academic writers, either in-house or freelance, and assign them tasks. The writers type up the full essay then hand it to you. The service lets you legally claim the essay as yours so you can just put your name on it. Often, the service will put a huge emphasis on a no-plagiarism stance....

CloudPull supports: Gmail (and Google Apps email), Google Contacts, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and Google Reader. It will perform a backup every hour, and “maintain old point-in-time snapshots of your account for 90 days.” The cool thing about using CloudPull to back up your Google account is that the backups are created in standard file formats. This means that your items can be easily imported into Apple programs. For instance, your email messages can be imported into Apple Mail....

Personally, I’m not very fond of the Windows 8 start screen background images that are included. Although there are twenty backgrounds, in my opinion they’re all pretty unimaginative. I’d prefer either a custom background or at least an image that I like. So today I’m going to share with you a free tool that will help you change the background image of the Windows 8 start screen. This tool is called Windows 8 Start Screen Customizer, and it will help to liven up your start screen in a matter of minutes....

Change Default Search Engine in Edge To change the default search engine in the Edge browser, you don’t have to install any plugins from Microsoft. Instead, the Edge browser users the Open Search standard. This simply means that you can add any search engine to Edge as long as the search engine is using the Open Search standard. Before you can add Google as your search engine, you first need to open the Google search page....

Understanding Password Theft Here at MTE, I have already covered the ways in which hackers can get ahold of your passwords. However, that list is composed mostly of methods used to sniff out and easily get ahold of your credentials. Right now, I want to cover with you the methods that hackers use to crack open your account from the outside rather than infiltrating your packet traffic. These methods are a little simpler but more time consuming....

This is a sponsored article and was made possible by DocHipo. The actual contents and opinions are the sole views of the author who maintains editorial independence, even when a post is sponsored. Starting with DocHipo I’ll preface this review by stating that I spent 20 years as a graphic designer, so I can be a little picky. Because DocHipo allows for collaboration, I asked Phil South to collaborate with me, as he, too, spent some of his career in graphic design....

The End-to-End Networking Principle As the term’s wording suggests, “end-to-end” can be explained very simply by describing it as a principle of eliminating intermediary processes. In other words, end-to-end systems try to travel the path of least resistance to deliver information faster. When you send a packet on the internet, your router sends the data to another router, which forwards it to another router, and so on and so forth until the data reaches its destination....

In this post, we give you the lowdown on Apple Silicon. By the end, you’ll know whether it’s right for you! What Is Apple Silicon? Apple Silicon is a term to describe all of the Central Processing Units (CPUs) made through Apple’s engineering team. In other words, Apple Silicon are in-house processors for Apple devices. You’ll find in-house chips throughout the smaller form-factor product line, such as iPad and iPhone....

There are many reasons why people execute such attacks, but a recent trend has emerged in which attackers are now asking for remuneration with the promise that the attacks will stop once the payment is made. To better understand how to stop ransom web attacks, we will need to dive into the minds of the attackers and understand how they differentiate themselves. How Ransom Web Attacks Work Think of a ransom DDoS attack as a kidnapping....