There are many misconceptions about Incognito Mode and private browsing that give users the illusion of privacy and even total anonymity. This article busts some myths and sheds more light on the reality that Incognito Mode and private browsing are not so private after all. Who Coined the Term “Incognito Mode”? While Apple was the first to introduce the private browsing feature with Safari, it was Google who came up with the term “Incognito Mode” to describe the same feature in Chrome....

Of course, if you don’t want an all-in-one PC but you still want to nab a great reduction in the Black Friday madness, there’s always our roundup article of the best Black Friday deals where the Trusted team of experts has rounded up some excellent deals for your perusal on all manner of tech. This Lenovo Yoga AIO PC is powered by an AMD Ryzen 7 4800H processor, which with its eight cores and 16 threads, should be an excellent processor for both basic productivity workloads and some more intense multi-threaded tasks....

1. pwgen pwgen creates passwords which are easy to memorize, while at the same time fairly secure. Technically, passwords which are easy to memorize won’t be as secure as a truly random password. However, that is an acceptable level of risk for most common usages, except for maybe online banking, etc. The advantage of a human-memorable passwords is that you will be less tempted to write them down or store them electronically in an insecure place....

Introduction It’s been almost three years since I’ve seen a Tineco vacuum cleaner, which is a shame. The last cleaner I reviewed, the Pure One S12, was a low-cost cordless vacuum cleaner with some high-end features. Finally, we have an update, the Tineco Pure One S15 Pro, which builds on the original’s success in many ways, delivering a thorough clean. Design and features Smart app connectedLCD shows helpful informationGood range of accessories...

Here are some pretty simple changes you can make to changes to take Google out of the picture for most things. Applications GetJar Getjar is a smaller alternative Android market, but GetJar has several applications for free. The Free Android applications are in the Gold category. When you use Getjar, you will be more likely to find lesser known applications that would normally get buried in the larger app stores....

1. Kubuntu Ubuntu uses the GNOME desktop environment with a custom shell developed by its publisher. Although it provides a pleasant visual environment, your mileage may vary if you try to customize it to fit your workflow. If you want a clean desktop experience, and one that you can customize to your heart’s content, you could try Kubuntu as an alternative. Kubuntu uses the Ubuntu core, but with a KIDE Plasma desktop environment....

You can control Rune from any device. It sets up its own web server that lets you access its user interface over your local network. You can open up a browser or connect with a free app and control your Hi-Fi system. What You’ll Need There are a couple of things that you’re going to need to get set up. Nothing here is too out of the ordinary. Raspberry Pi (1, 2, or 3) SD Card or MicroSD (depending on your Pi) Power Supply for the Pi A way to connect your Pi to your network SD card reader Computer (any OS will work) Speakers DAC (optional) External Hard Drive/Music Source...

For those who don’t know, an Adblocker can turn your favorite webpage from this: To this: The most popular ad-blocking extension on Chrome and FireFox is AdBlock Plus, named as such as a competitor to the unrelated AdBlock has since fallen into obscurity and a messy development cycle. AdBlock Plus blocks all matter of advertisements on most websites and is widely adopted enough to even be compatible with most advertisements in plugins, like video players on YouTube and various other websites....

Compression Algorithm Compression algorithm is the method used by the archive to compress the files and make the overall file size smaller. 1. LZMA/LZMA2 Lempel–Ziv–Markov (LZMA) chain algorithm is a lossless data compression algorithm. LZMA uses a dictionary compression algorithm which makes use of complex data structures to encode one bit at a time. LZMA2 is a container which contains both the uncompressed and LZMA-compressed data. It supports multi-threaded compression and decompression of data....

Now, follow these steps to upgrade to iOS 4.1 without updating to the latest baseband version. Step 1: Download TinyUmbrella You will have to use an application called TinyUmbrella. Now, you have to visit TinyUmbrella Official Website to download the application. After which, you have to download iOS 4.1 firmware here. Step 2: Run TinyUmbrella Launch this little program to start the process. Make sure you have switched off your firewall or allow your firewall to run this application....

Encryption is one of the safest solutions to the aforementioned problem. While there are many tools available in the market that allow you to encrypt and decrypt information, wouldn’t it be even more convenient if there were a text editor that could double as an encryption/decryption tool as well? In this article we will discuss one such application, EncryptPad. Note: all the instructions/commands explained in this article have been tested on Ubuntu 16....

First Steps: Installation and Interface You can install NewsFox from the official website and open it either from the Preferences menu, by clicking the NewsFox icon in the toolbar, or by typing “chrome://newsfox/content/newsfox.xul” into the address bar. The interface might remind you of an email client. A list of RSS feeds is on the left (2) with the main toolbar (1) on top. The central area (3) is where the articles from a selected feed show up....

However, just last week Google announced that a major update to Android Auto would overhaul the entire interface. This new version of the app no longer requires a compatible head unit, instead relying solely on your smartphone. This means that Android Auto now works with any car as long as you have a phone running Android 5.0 or later. It was developed to provide an intuitive interface to stay connected without compromising safety on the road....

1. File naming procedure First, you should establish your own nomenclature for the files. It does not matter so much how you do it, just each new file you add to your collection should follow the same format. For example, I use “01 Song Title.mp3”, which is the number of the song according to the album’s track list, followed by the title of the song. I always capitalize the first letter of each word....

The Advantages and Disadvantages of AudioBook Many of my friends can’t hide their confusion every time I tell them that I listen to books. For a society that still associates books with visual activity, the audiobook is a weird concept. Several disadvantages hamper the adoption rate of audiobooks. Here are a few that come to mind. Audiobooks take some time to get used to. Not all books are available in the audio version....

Candelas, Nits, and Lumens 101 Imagine you have a candle inside a cube with a total surface area measuring one meter by one meter (about the size of a bath towel or 20 iPads that have somehow been made into a cube). The total amount of light coming out of that candle at its source is about “one candela.” All the light hitting the walls of the cube equals “one nit,” which is technically defined as “one candela per square meter....

Distributions have their own base set of software repositories. Those are located across an array of servers located around the world, but you don’t really need to worry about that. Your computer is configured during the install process to use the right ones. You can take a look at them, though. On Ubuntu and Debian, the core repositories are configured in a file at “/etc/apt/sources.list.” You can open it up in your favorite text editor and take a look....

H.266 was developed by the Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC), a group of video coding experts that started working on the compression standard back in 2010. Why Is H.266 Better than H.265? The H.266 codec offers some major improvements over the H.265 codec, which was first developed in the hazy days of 2013. There are far more improvements that we can cover here, but these are the highlights for consumers....

Our Opinion Most of our staff here at Make Tech Easier seems to feel the same. Being asked to pay more for an app after you’ve already paid for it just doesn’t feel right. Trevor is not a fan but does see at least one advantage. “The only benefit I see is not needing to download two apps (free and paid) when you want the pro features.” Damien is also not a fan....

This has left some Firefox users concerned, as it’s not yet entirely clear what’s required of existing extensions for them to be compatible with WebExtensions, which will eventually be mandatory for all extensions running on Firefox. Here’s everything we know about it so far and how it will affect you. Why Is Mozilla Introducing WebExtensions? Currently the vast majority of Firefox add-ons are made using XUL and XPCOM, as well as the Add-on SDK which lets people use traditional technologies like JavaScript, HTML and CSS to create add-ons....