When you get an HTML email for the first time that contains pictures or images, you’ll see a yellow security message at the top of the message. To download the images once, right-click on the message and select Download Pictures. After that the pictures for the email will be displayed, where in this case it’s the Twitter logo. If you always want the images from a specific sender to display images, select Add the Domain @whatever....

Before Here is our test browser with an assortment of bookmarks not in folders. As you can see it does not take many to fill the visible area of the “Bookmarks Toolbar” therefore requiring the use of the drop-down menu at the end. Even if you have your bookmarks placed in folders they too can fill your toolbar up very quickly. After As soon as you have installed the extension and restarted Firefox you will notice an immediate difference....

This question is a little tricky to answer as each and every dVPN has its own way of doing things. It doesn’t help that, like with anything even remotely connected to cryptocurrency, there are forks of forks and different implementations everywhere as people go off and do their own thing. Still, though, there are a few general observations you can make when comparing regular VPNs to dVPNs. Decentralized vs. Centralized The main difference between the two types of VPN is structure....

Note: User Style Scripts & User Scripts can be added to most browsers but we are using Firefox for our examples here. The How-to Geek Wide User Style Script The first of the two scripts affects the viewing width of the website’s news content. Here you can see everything set at the normal width. When you visit the UserStyles website you will be able to view basic information about the script and see the code itself if desired....

Setup This is what myRuler looks like when it first starts up…the first time it will be set at a default of 500 pixels. Whenever you start myRuler again afterwards it will remember the pixel size you used the previous time. You can change the horizontal versus vertical orientation, theme, or minimize myRuler to the “System Tray” using the “Right Click Menu”. Click on the “myRuler Link” to see the keyboard commands for moving, resizing, directional flipping, and screen placement....

Having their humble beginnings as a simple, secure alternative to Windows and Mac, Chromebooks have since carved out a sizable piece of the laptop market. Not only are they great, affordable devices for students, they’re also ideal for anyone who wants a functioning laptop that receives regular updates and never catches a system-breaking virus — which is most people, really. The first thing you’ll notice about the Lenovo Flex 3i Chromebook is its low price....

The spherical Echo might look like the Echo Dot, but it’s physically larger and has improved speakers. There’s a 3.0″ woofer, along with dual front-firing 0.8″ tweeters. Unlike any of Google’s smart speakers, the Echo has a 3.5 mm line in/out port, so you can connect different speakers or plug in a new audio source. Finally, the speaker can act as a hub for Zigbee devices, and it might have support for the new Matter standard in the future....

The Rise of Online Shopping Thanks to COVID-19 and the lockdowns 2020 has become the best year ever for online shopping. We already loved online shopping—no crowds, no travel, no hassle—but this year the convenience was overtaken by practicality as the main benefit. Living in lockdown and going through periods of self-isolation, no non-essential shopping, and many stores closed due to staff problems, online shopping became a lifeline for many....

Note: For this article we’re accessing the Home Server Shared Folders from Windows 7. Default Shared Folders After installing Windows Home Server you’ll notice that the default shared folders are Music, Photos, Public, Recorded TV, Software, and Videos. These folders cannot be deleted, but we can create our own folders if needed. We can also go through and change permissions and view folder histories. Accessing Shared Folders You can access your shared folders on the server a few different ways....

RELATED: How to Find (Or Make) Free Ringtones Customize the Sound for All Notifications To change the universal notification tone, launch Settings on your Samsung Galaxy phone. In Settings, select Sounds and Vibration > Notification Sound. On the “Notification Sound” page, you’ll see all the tones that Samsung offers. Tap the one you’d like to use. To use your own tone, then check out the last section of this guide to learn how to do that....

If you’ve ever wanted to be able to download Google Maps data for offline use, you should check out gmapcatcher, a cross-platform application that caches map segments locally. There’s both a GUI version and a command-line version that you can use to pull down the maps data. The whole thing is written in Python, but the installer should handle everything for Windows users. If not, install Python and try again....

If you’re a keyboard geek and you use Photoshop, you’ve likely been annoyed that the escape key doesn’t work in other applications while Photoshop is running. It’s one of those tiny things that can drive you insane, so The Geek hacked together a solution for you. You could always press Shift+esc to get the traditional escape key behavior in other applications, but he decided to make your life simpler through the power of AutoHotkey....

Dark Mode Is Great, but The White “Flash” Isn’t There’s a problem with Firefox’s dark mode that persists, despite various bug fixes over the last few years. If you’re not a devoted dark mode user, you might not be familiar with this problem. If you are—and, I certainly am—you’re probably thrilled to find out there’s a simple solution that works whether the bug gets fully squashed or not. The problem? Even if you have Firefox in dark mode, whenever you open a new blank tab, it is blindingly white....

Migration Strategies The simplest and most effective strategy is a blue green deployment—get the new server up and running, and then when it’s production ready, switch traffic over to it, and remove the old server once you’ve verified there are no issues. With load balancing this process can happen incrementally, further reducing chances of availability problems. A blue-green deployment involves copying over all the files, packages, and code on the old server over to the new one....

Schedule Disk Cleanup Basic Windows includes some handy tools to help keep your machine operating smoothly. One such tool is Disk Cleanup that can remove temp and old files to help you reclaim some hard drive space. You might want to set it up to run weekly or monthly depending on what works best for you. To schedule Disk Cleanup to run on a regular basis we need to schedule a task....

GitHub has a feature called GitHub Actions that run automatic builds, tests, and other scripts whenever you make changes to a repository. One handy use case of this is automatically building and pushing Docker containers to a container registry. GitHub’s New Container Registry GitHub’s new container registry, called GitHub Container Registry, is a bit different than most registries like the Docker Hub. It functions as an extension of GitHub Packages, a package storage system that associates packages with their source code repositories....

Sometimes your Linux distribution doesn’t detect your laptop’s Bluetooth hardware. Or perhaps you want to add a USB Bluetooth dongle to a desktop computer. Either way, here’s how to get Bluetooth working. The Bluetooth Saga Bluetooth is named after a 10th-century Danish king, Harald Bluetooth. He was known as the unifying king. By encouraging communication between the many differing factions, he consolidated the country under Christianity. Ericsson released Bluetooth, the short-range wireless communication standard in 1998....

Chrome 76 added support for the prefers-color-scheme CSS media query, which allows websites to ask your operating system what color scheme you prefer so they can theme themselves appropriately. Here’s how to set it up for your website. What Browsers Support Dark Themes? As of writing, most of the major browsers support dark mode, although some browsers haven’t been updated to support it yet. You can check the current status on caniuse....

VPN-ing into your server will allow you to connect to every possible service running on it, as if you were sitting next to it on the same network, without individually forwarding every port combination for every service you would like to access remotely. Using a VPN connection also has the upshot of, if desired, granting access to other computers on the network as if you where in it locally from anywhere across the internet....

DD-WRT Configuration Before setting up the VPN Server, you must first make sure your installed build of DD-WRT includes the PPTP VPN features. The DD-WRT feature list shows this as “PPTP / PPTP Client” on their chart. Check the installed version on your router (which you can see in the upper right corner on the configuration pages) against the chart. If the feature is not included in your build, you will need to flash your router with a DD-WRT version which does include the “PPTP / PPTP Client”....