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I recently received a notification informing me that my Bitwarden subscription is about to expire. My password manager contains some of my most sensitive data. As readers of my article on the possible enshittification of Bitwarden know, there is a chance that Bitwarden is preparing
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Stowaway Do you love flying but hate the pre-flight and airport nonsense? With Stowaway, you can forget about all that and put yourself in a window seat right away. I tried it and put myself in the pilot’s seat, and there are numerous options for
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Thunderbird has changed its email program so that clicking the X no longer closes the program but minimizes it to the system tray (down by the clock). Here’s how to change that. Previously, when I clicked the minimize button in Thunderbird, it minimized to the
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How to fix a maximized, non-resizable selection box in Opera. When you save/upload an image (or anything else) in your browser, it opens a box to select the file to upload, or if you are downloading, it asks you to select a folder for the
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When I discovered that I could get YouTube Premium for around $3 per month, I snapped it up right away. At the time, I didn’t realise that YouTube Music was included in the deal, so I cancelled my subscription to Spotify and now enjoy all
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If it’s more convenient for you to have information on a website read to you, then this “text-to-speech” extension may be what you are looking for. I’m going to test this on the first article that appears on DavesComputerTips as I write this. And the
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This is a follow-up to How To Manage Copyright Issues In YouTube, which reminded me that the copyright scene has spawned numerous copycat entities that act like ambulance chasers, scaring creators and website owners into parting with their hard-earned cash. My YouTube Channel Update At
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Several companies based online are threatening to block Google’s crawler that collects information to train its AI. Ad revenue has taken a hit during the past decade, firstly with the widespread use of ad-blockers, and now with Google search prioritizing AI summaries. Google utilizes a
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I moved $75 from my PayPal account to my bank account. Here is how I did it. Sign in to your account. On the first screen, look for the “PayPal balance” box and click on “Transfer Money”. Or you can click “Wallet”, and then “Transfer
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Over the years, YouTube (YT) has become a behemoth, but it is also messed with by Google in ways that are not always to our liking. Change The Huge Video Thumbnails One of the biggest complaints lately is about the huge video thumbnails, which force
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In version 1.92, Brave introduced Brave Containers, a new feature that gives users a convenient way to organize and isolate different parts of their online activity. This feature is designed to keep different browsing activity separate without having to create multiple browser profiles. Whether you’re
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Recently I’ve been having trouble downloading more than half a dozen files from Google Photos, with the message ‘Preparing to download xx items…‘ remaining on the screen for ages. Eventually, a message pops up telling me that I’m trying to download too many items and
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This is for your computer, and not you. 🙂 You can use a Chrome extension to easily enable or disable your system from powering down. It’s called “Caffeine – Keep Awake”. If you were doing something on your computer and didn’t want it interrupted by
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I’ve been uploading videos to YouTube since 2007, when it wasn’t the beast that it is now. Copyright and other content restrictions were fairly lax back then, but over the years Google has enforced its rules on copyright very aggressively. For that reason, if we
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