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Simple IE-to-Firefox Syncing with Plain Old Favorites Tracie writes in to share a Firefox add-on that saves her lots of time and headaches when it comes to accessing her Internet Explorer bookmarks in Firefox: Plain Old Favorites circumvents the import/export model by directly tapping into both Internet Explorer’s favorites list as well as the Windows’ favorites list in real time. If you’re in a similar situation to Tracie, where you use both browsers but want to keep IE as a bookmark manager, it’s a clever solution....

CORS stands for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing. When CORS is used to load a resource, the browser usually sends a “preflight” HTTP OPTIONS request. The server must respond specifying the origins it will interact with. It may also define additional constraints, such as the HTTP headers which can be sent. The browser checks the current origin and the outgoing request against the server’s specifications. The request is allowed to continue if all the checks pass....

Alexa is great for all sorts of stuff, including smarthome control, but if you’re tired of having to turn off everything at night before you go to bed (or at least making sure it’s turned off), you can actually have Alexa do all that for you with a single command. RELATED: How to Set Up Alexa Routines to Control Multiple Smarthome Devices at Once We’ve talked about Alexa Routines before....

iOS 13 has a new feature that might just save you from all spam and robocalls. The new Silence Unknown Callers feature will mute all calls coming from a number that’s not in your contact list. Stopping the Endless Stream of Spam Calls Silence Unknown Callers is a simple toggle that will automatically block unknown numbers from calling you. Your contacts and people you’ve interacted with will still be able to call you, but you won’t be bothered by incoming calls from anyone else....

As Files is compatible with the SMB protocol, you’ll be able to connect to network shares created with most common servers. These include shares hosted by Windows and Mac machines, Samba servers on Linux, and popular NAS drives. Here’s how to get connected. Adding a Network Share Begin by opening the Files app. It’s installed by default so you should find it on your home screen, in your App Library, or by searching in Spotlight....

There are several different ways to create custom Ubuntu live CDs. We’ve covered using the Reconstructor web app in the past, but some commenters recommended the Ubuntu Customization Kit instead. It’s an open-source utility found in Ubuntu’s software repositories. UCK offers more powerful features than Reconstructor does, but Reconstructor makes most tasks easier for novice users. Be sure to take a look at Reconstructor, too. Installing Ubuntu Customization Kit You’ll find the Ubuntu Customization Kit in Ubuntu’s Software Center....

A Venn diagram provides a helpful visual for relationships with commonalities. Although Google Slides doesn’t offer this exact type of illustration, it’s easy to create a Venn diagram for your presentation. Each circle in the Venn diagram contains the unique properties for what that circle represents. Then, the overlapping section of the circles contains what they have in common. This makes a Venn diagram useful for any industry from marketing to finance, and even for comparisons in a classroom environment....

Gmail provides a high storage limit – 10 GB and counting – but it doesn’t help you much if you’re close to reaching it. You’ll need to know some tricks to free up space in your Gmail account. Once you’re at the limit, mail will start to bounce instead of being received. You’ll also see a message saying that “You have run out of space for your Gmail account.”...

If you want to run a website on AWS, you may not even need a server! AWS’s CloudFront CDN can serve static web content directly from an S3 bucket, leaving you paying only for requests and data transferred (which might even be free). How Does Serverless Hosting Work? “Serverless” is the concept of running applications without managing dedicated Linux servers yourself, usually with a Platform-as-a-Service solution like AWS’s App Runner or Lambda Functions....

Lazydocker is an open-source terminal interface for managing your Docker environment. It gives you a powerful control surface for interacting with containers, images, and volumes. Lazydocker makes it quick and easy to inspect Docker objects without repeating lengthy terminal commands. The standard Docker CLI isn’t designed for always-on monitoring or quick investigation of issues. Finding a problem with a service often requires at least three commands – first listing your containers with docker ps, then interacting with the potential culprit (docker restart ), and finally checking the change has been effective by repeating docker ps....

If you’ve followed along, you’ve bought hosting and installed WordPress software for a swanky new webpage. Today we’ll explain the less obvious perks of WordPress and how you can get a bit more mileage out of your new web software. This is the third and final entry in our series on owning your own website and creating content with a basic WordPress installation. In language any beginner could understand, we’ll talk about the plugins and tweaks that you can use to get features you might have not realized were even possible....

Needless to say, this can be incredibly monotonous and time consuming if you are adding more than a few IP addresses. Thankfully, there is a much easier way which allows you to add an entire subnet (or more) in seconds. Adding an IP Address from the Command Line Windows includes the “netsh” command which allows you to configure just about any aspect of your network connections. If you view the accepted parameters using “netsh /?...

Branching is a trivial exercise in Git. Unfortunately, trivial tasks rarely get due attention, and mistakes happen. If you’ve misnamed a branch, it’ll have to be renamed. Here’s how to do that. Why Branch Names Are Important in Git Anything to do with branches in classic version control systems (VCSs) was a big deal. It required a coordinated understanding that a branch was being added or merged, and all of the people using that repository had to make sure they didn’t do anything—or forget to do something—in order for the operation to proceed and succeed....

You may want to prevent changes from being made on your perfectly setup Ubuntu computer, but locking down user accounts gives annoying error messages and prevents temporary changes. With Gofris, you can accomplish this without complicated hard drive imaging. Locked-Down Changes It takes time to get the perfect installation and setup of you computer, especially on Linux systems where virtually every aspect of the OS can be tweaked. If you’re like me, you want to keep this pristine....

The average Windows 8 user can only download apps that Microsoft has approved from the Windows Store. Windows 8 offers two ways to sideload unapproved apps, which are intended for developers and businesses with internal apps. These methods cannot be used by the average geek to install unapproved apps from the web. Windows 8’s new interface takes the Apple iOS approach of forbidding unapproved software, not the Android approach of allowing all users to enable sideloading....

RELATED: How to Delete an Instagram Draft What Happens When You Unsend an Instagram Message? When you undo send an Instagram message, the platform takes that message off of your chat conversation. Neither you nor the recipient will see the message in the chat history. The recipient isn’t notified that you’ve deleted a message from the chat. It looks as though you never sent the message in the first place....

Zsync is a Linux command that allows you to compare an existing .iso with an up-to-date zsync meta file to download only the missing or out of date parts. Combine those parts with your existing file and what you are left with is a completely up to date iso without spending the time to download the entire file. Just how much bandwidth can this save? In our testing, upgrading an iso from Ubuntu 10....

The Document Map in Word 2007 provides easy navigation in long documents. You can jump around your document by headings or pages. It also provides a bird’s-eye view of your document’s structure. Recently, we showed you how to use the navigation pane in Word 2010. It is similar to the Document Map in Word 2007. Several features were added to the Navigation Pane in Word 2010, such as a Find tab and the ability to reorganize your document by dragging and dropping headings....

Months after rolling out to Android, iPhone, and iPad, Slack has brought dark mode to its desktop and web apps on Windows, macOS, and Linux. The theme is a mix of black and gray with white text, making it easy to read throughout the workday. At the time of writing, Slack states that you must manually enable dark mode. In a future update, the service should be able to automatically switch between light and dark mode based on your operating system’s settings....

Each layer in the model handles a specific networking function. The standard helps administrators to visualize networks, isolate problems, and understand the use cases for new technologies. Many network equipment vendors advertise the OSI layer that their products are designed to slot into. OSI was adopted as an international standard in 1984. It remains relevant today despite the changes to network implementation that have occurred since first publication. Cloud, edge, and IoT can all be accommodated within the model....