This is a sponsored article and was made possible by Flexcil. The actual contents and opinions are the sole views of the author who maintains editorial independence, even when a post is sponsored. Original Flexcil Not realizing there was now a Flexcil 2, I tried Flexcil again and remembered why I didn’t stick with it before. It had somewhat of a learning curve. There is a lack of instructions. Many note-taking apps have instruction manuals within sample documents....

If you ever need a feature-packed file manager, FreeCommander XE is one of the best options you can get. Here are some of the notable features of FreeCommander XE. Features and Usage To get started, you can download and install FreeCommander from its official website. Along with the regular installable version, FreeCommander also comes with a portable variant. This is pretty helpful as you can carry it on your thumb drive or just use it without any installation in your system....

But if you’d rather not drop down much cash upfront then this contract deal is an absolute steal. as you’re getting the Pixel 6a for absolutely nothing. The monthly cost is £18, which gets you a whopping 100GB of data on the Three network along with unlimited calls and unlimited texts. As the Pixel 6a is a 5G capable device, you can also turn that 100GB of data into 100GB of 5G data – this is much faster than 4G data and ensures the phone is future-proof....

Having an alert sent to you through email can be very useful. For example, if you have a large build being done in the background, it makes no sense to wait around for the process to finish. In such cases, you can have Linux send you a message once the build is done. It saves you a lot of time. You can also have an email alert sent to you at a certain time....

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What Does DHT Mean? DHT is short for “distributed hash table,” and it represents a medium by which you find peers, also known as “bootstrapping.” I’ll explain that in a bit. Just keep in mind the fact that you can find peers through the DHT. While many people say it’s decentralized, it’s actually very difficult to do this, given the unicast nature of the Internet. When you connect to the web, you don’t announce your presence to the billions of computers already connected....

It can be overwhelming, and if your accounts are through several different platforms, it can really get out of control. How do you manage multiple email accounts? Our Opinion Sayak reports he manages his multiple email accounts with “a hybrid of different methods.” He uses the Mozilla Thunderbird desktop client to manage three emails accounts, with all of them relating to work and at least one being Gmail. On a mobile device, he uses separate email apps for Gmail, Outlook, and Protonmail....

As you may expect, scammers are using the spread of the new coronavirus, COVID-19, to fool people into clicking malicious links. While we’re in the early phases of the virus where fake news spreads like wildfire, it’s a good idea to learn how to identify a scam based on COVID-19. How Scammers Use the COVID-19 Fear The predominant methods scammers use is phishing. This is when a scammer sends an email or message that contains fake news or information....

The following guide covers how you can access and sign in to your Hotmail account and discusses methods to retrieve an inactive Hotmail account, create a Hotmail username, delete it, and change a Hotmail email to Outlook. Where Is My Hotmail Account? As active Hotmail users know already, the famous email address hasn’t disappeared. It remains operational, just like Gmail, Outlook, and Yahoo. A Hotmail email account can be used with the Outlook email client, Microsoft Teams, Skype, OneDrive, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, and even the Windows Insider Program....

If you use Gmail in Google Chrome, there’s a handy extension that allows you to see your Google Tasks along with your Gmail inbox. RightTasks for Gmail is a free Chrome extension that places a Google Tasks sidebar to the right of your Gmail page. This makes it easier for users to add tasks straight from their inbox. First, you’ll have to download and install the extension from the Web Store....

However, there is no reason to stay limited in these options. Nor do you have to wait for third parties to give you more alternatives: if a site, any site, offers a search function, then in most cases you can integrate it in your distribution’s main menu as a new search engine – or “Search Action,” as it’s called. The tools needed To add new Search Actions to Peppermint’s main menu, you need three things: the ability to edit the entries in the Peppermint Linux main menu, a browser you will use to visit the sites you wish to “turn into search engines,” and a simple text editor where you will paste those site URLs and “clean” them of unnecessary “fluff,” keeping only “the search part....

Previously, you could back up your Whatsapp chats to your computer using iTunes; however, in recent versions of iOS, this backup is done directly to the cloud using iCloud Drive. By using iCloud Drive, your entire Whatsapp data (chats + media) can be backed up into the cloud and can be restored easily should the need ever arise. Although you may have iCloud Drive enabled on your device, that does not necessarily mean Whatsapp backups are enabled....

Why Blocking Tracking Pixels Matters If you are not familiar with tracking pixels, it’s important to understand how they work. For HTML emails, which are generally what you are receiving, there is usually a link to an image that is hidden inside the email. This is the most popular place to insert a tracker. When you click to open that image, it gets the image from a remote server. When this happens, whoever sent you the email now knows you have opened the email, which leads them to believe you are interested in the subject material....

Change Google Assistant Language Google now lets you choose between more than 40 languages to interact with Google Assistant. Here’s how you can change the language of Google Assistant on your Android device: Open the Google app on your Android smartphone and head to Settings. Tap on Google Assistant. Scroll down until you find the Languages option. Note that you can add up to two languages. To change the primary language, tap on the first option....

When you change the user agent string, it technically changes the way websites interact with your browser. For example, if a site has a file that only renders when you’re using Chrome for Android, you can change the user agent to Chrome for Android in Safari and see that site as if you’re viewing it for real on your Android device. Here’s how you can go about doing that....

Install Grub Customizer To install grub customizer on Arch, Manjaro, and compatible distributions, use: On Fedora, you can try: On Debian, Ubuntu, and compatible distributions, you can bring it on board with: Afterward, find it among the rest of your installed applications and run it. Change the Background Grub Customizer offers many options that allow you to modify your Grub boot menu, from tweaking its entries to configuring its looks. Go to “Appearance settings....

Note: while the instructions here are meant for Ubuntu, most, if not all, of them are applicable for other Linux distros, too. Graphical Utilities to Check RAM Usage Ubuntu, by default, includes an application called System Monitor. You can access it by going to the bottom-left “Show Applications” button and then typing “monitor” to search for it. If it isn’t installed on your distribution, you can install it with:...

How do plagiarism-checkers work? Every piece of text-matching software has its own approach. Most work on the same basic principle: check entered content against a database of source material and look for similarities. Considering the vast amount of content that may potentially be plagiarized, though, this is not a trivial task. A simple line-by-line search would take forever and be impractically resource-intensive. That’s why most tools that check text for plagiarism use fingerprinting....

Files are generally assessed on their bitrate. A 320kbps MP3 is obviously better than a 128kbps version, right? Ordinarily, yes. But it’s not hard to bluff the bitrate and mislead listeners through “upscaling.” In fact, upscaling can sometimes damage audio quality. Audio encoding is a complex process, and Stack Overflow user “vaxquis” provides an intricate explanation of how it works. If you find the subject interesting, his explanation is one of the clearest available....

Size Size of the phone actually makes a big difference. Depending on how you use the phone, the size of the phone can greatly determine whether you will like it or not. For example, if you often text one-handed, a phone with a larger screen will not go well for you. In this case, it’s good to get a device with size that you can hold on to comfortably. Processor What tasks do you want to do on the phone will greatly determine what speed processor you need....