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How to Open Private Browsing in Opera for Mac To open a private browsing window in Opera for Mac, select File in the top-left corner of Opera and choose New Private Window. How to Open Private Browsing in Opera for Windows To open a private browsing window in Opera for Windows, select the O in the top-left corner of Opera and choose New private window. How Opera Private Browsing Works Private browsing mode is indicated by the hat and glass beside the name of the current tab....

Why Use Windows Speech Recognition? There are many reasons, including a disability or an injury, why someone may not be able to use their hands to navigate a PC. That’s why speech recognition was built into Windows—to help those who have to overcome a physical problem. Even so, speech recognition is also a great tool for anyone who wants to experiment with voice interaction or would rather not use their hands to control their PC all the time....

Rather than directly (and permanently) changing audio data, the WMP volume leveling feature measures the differences between songs and calculates a standard volume level. This is a non-destructive process that ensures each song you play is normalized in relation to other songs. The information is then stored in each song’s metadata (much like ReplayGain) to keep the levels for all future listening. How to Automatically Normalize Your Music Library in WMP 12 If you want to eliminate or minimize major volume changes between songs in your Windows Media library, launch the WMP 12 application and follow these steps....

While you can use it to stream free movies, you won’t find newly released Hollywood films. Instead, you can watch classics, documentaries, and other types of films. There are also some full-length free TV shows that are mainly part of animated series and newscasts, among other types. You can also browse through their huge collection of music-related videos. Here’s what you can do on Veoh: Bookmark the shows and playlists you’re most interested in....

Think of a default gateway as an intermediate device between the local network and the internet. The default gateway transfers internal data to the internet and back again. How Traffic Moves Through a Default Gateway All the clients on a network point to a default gateway that routes their traffic. The default gateway device passes this traffic from the local subnet to devices on other subnets. The default gateway connects a local network to the internet, although internal gateways for communication within a local network are used in corporate networks....

Apple introduced the concept of multi-touch on its iPhone smartphone in 2007 after buying Fingerworks, the company that developed the multi-touch technology. However, the technology isn’t proprietary. Many manufacturers use it in their products. Multi-Touch Implementation Popular applications of multi-touch technology are found in: Mobile smartphones and tablets Trackpads for use with laptop and desktop computers Touch tables, touch walls and whiteboards How It Works A multi-touch screen or trackpad has a layer of capacitors, each with coordinates that define its position....

With a private encryption key, your backed up files can’t be seen by anyone unless they can provide the password that decrypts the key, thus revealing the data. Is Setting a Private Encryption Key a Good Idea? In one word? Yes. Did you know that any cloud backup account without a private encryption key setup is open for the service to look at, anytime they want? It’s true. In practice, they have better things to do than look through one person’s dog photos, but it could happen....

VNC Applications VNC was created as an open-source research project in the late 1990s. Several mainstream remote desktop solutions based on VNC subsequently emerged. The original VNC development team produced a package called ​RealVNC. Other popular derivatives included UltraVNC and TightVNC. VNC supports all modern operating systems. How VNC Works VNC works in a client/server model and uses a specialized network protocol called remote frame buffer. VNC clients (sometimes called viewers) share user input—keystrokes, mouse movements, clicks, and touches—with the server....

As Facebook points out in the announcement, WhatsApp already uses end-to-end encryption for chats stored on your phone. However, chat backups, stored on Google Drive or iCloud, were not similarly encrypted, and many users asked for that to change. So WhatsApp has begun slowly adding the feature. Encrypting your backups is optional, so if you’re not interested in taking steps to set it up, you won’t have to. If you do want to encrypt your backups, however, you’ll have the choice to either set your own personal password or use a 64-digit encryption key....

How to Turn Last Seen On or Off on iPhone Turning off the last seen setting is easy to do on iPhone. Here’s how to quickly toggle this setting off and on. How to Turn Off/On Last Seen on Android It’s also easy to turn off the last seen setting on Android. Here’s how to quickly toggle this setting off and on. If you want to allow others to see when you were last online, you can choose Everyone or My Contacts to turn the option on....

Though there hasn’t yet been an official announcement, Time to Walk appears to be a beta Apple Watch feature that, though not yet live, will be able to grab audio tracks, then offer you guided audio workouts. These could be power walks, regular walks, or runs. “Walking is an excellent form of cardio if you do it with intensity and intention,” John Thornhill, a master trainer at Aaptiv, told Well+Good....

Avoiding Spam The number one reason why many people use disposable email addresses is to avoid having their primary email address become a target for Spam. After all these years, Spam (also known as unsolicited and unwanted email) is still a significant problem on the Internet. Whenever you register on a website that requires a valid email address, you might overlook fine print that gives the site permission to use your email address and or to sell the information to others....

In a news post on the Xbox website, Microsoft has listed a number of next-gen titles that will be coming to Game Pass. This relies on a user’s internet connection rather than the strength of their hardware, so Game Pass subscribers will be able to stream games regardless of their console model. Microsoft is committing to back-to-back monthly releases for 27 new titles, including Halo Infinite, Scorn, Forza Horizon 5, Flight Simulator, and many more....

Causes of High Disk Usage on Windows 10 There are several potential causes for high disk usage in Windows 10, but most come down to the same basic idea: Too many things are running for the computer to handle. One common cause is swapping or paging. Swapping occurs when a computer runs out of physical memory (RAM) and needs more space to store information about the running processes and applications. It uses a file on the hard drive called swapfile....

Why Won’t My AirPods Connect and Pair? There are many reasons why your AirPods might have trouble pairing with your Bluetooth devices. Some of the possible reasons include a low battery charge, Bluetooth issues, software update problems, hardware damage, debris on the AirPods or charging case, and more. What to Do When AirPods Aren’t Connecting to iPhone, iPad, or Other Devices If you’re not sure what’s causing the issue, try our solutions below (ordered from easiest to hardest) to get the problem resolved....

While Windows does have a built-in compression tool, it’s limited to reading and creating ZIP files. 7-Zip is a useful alternative for those who need additional compression and extraction capabilities. It’s licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License and can be freely shared and distributed. Ukrainian freelance programmer Igor Pavlov owns the 7-Zip Copyright (C) and released the beta version in January 1999. 7-Zip Features Here are some other features worth mentioning:...

How To Prepare A Page For Background Video in Adobe Muse CC With the widget installed, you can now create the page that will use the video. How To Use The Fullscreen Background Video Widget in Adobe Muse CC Using the widget is dead simple. How To Add Video and Test A Page In Adobe Muse CC Though you have added the code that will play the videos, Muse still doesn’t know where those videos are located....

Currently, Photoshop on the iPad doesn’t work with camera RAW files (uncompressed, minimally processed images), but Adobe says it will soon. In a recent video, product manager Ryan Dumlao shows off the new feature by directly importing and editing a RAW photo file from his camera. He goes on to explain that it will support numerous RAW file formats, and you can import from just about any digital photo device (i....

What Is an AIT File? A file with the AIT file extension is an Illustrator template file that’s used to create multiple Adobe Illustrator (.AI) files. AIT files hold the different components of an Illustrator drawing, including the images, settings, and layout, and are useful when working with projects that should have a similar, pre-formatted design, like brochures, business cards, etc. Creating an AIT file is done through the program’s File > Save as Template menu....

As Engadget points out, 5G only used to be an option for Cricket’s more expensive plans, but now it’s available for all of them. Still, there is a chance that 5G might not be available in your area or on your model of phone, in which case you wouldn’t be able to take advantage of it. The 8Mbps speed limit is still in place for the basic Unlimited plan, though, and the two cheapest plans are still subject to data caps....