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Firefox Quantum‘s interface is still extremely customizable thanks to its userChrome.css file. You can edit this file to hide unwanted menu items, move the tab bar below the navigation toolbar, view multiple rows on your bookmarks toolbar, and do other things that normally wouldn’t be possible. How This Works RELATED: Firefox Quantum Isn’t Just “Copying” Chrome: It’s Much More Powerful Firefox’s userChrome.css file is a cascading style sheet (CSS) file that Firefox uses....

RELATED: What Are Dodging and Burning in Photography? How to Dodge and Burn in Any Image Editor To dodge and burn a photo, you need a way to selectively darken and brighten the different areas of it. Any image editor that allows you to make local adjustments will do. These include: Adobe Photoshop Adobe Lightroom CaptureOne Pixelmator GIMP Paint. NET Snapseed And plenty more options For this article, I’m going to demonstrate two methods with Photoshop, but you should follow along as closely as possible with whatever image editor you like to use....

What Does the hosts File Do? When you type in a regular web address to access a website, like google.com, your PC doesn’t automatically know how to connect. It needs the correct IP address associated with the web address in order to make a connection. The hosts file is the first place your PC will check to find an IP address for a website, but by default, the hosts file doesn’t contain any....

You know that flash drive full of kitten pictures you carry at all times? Of course you do: we all have one. Sometimes you want to free up some space on your kitten drive, so you drag a couple gigs of old pictures to the Trash on your Mac. But you don’t see any more free space is gained. What gives? Well, the files are still in your Trash. You might think there’s a single “Trash” folder on your Mac, but that’s not the case: there’s one for every drive you use....

Apple’s iOS 12 operating system will bring automatic operating system updates to iPhone and iPad. The App Store can automatically update your installed apps, too. Here’s how to enable these updates, or disable them if you’d rather update manually. For example, you may want to disable automatic updates of your operating system and apps to save on data. Operating System Updates To toggle automatic operating system updates on or off, head to Settings > General > Software Update....

Apps can consume a lot of space on an iPhone or iPad. In iOS 11, a new feature allows you to remove an app from your device without removing the app’s data. In other words, you can remove the app and free up space without losing anything—when you redownload the app in the future, you can immediately pick up right where you left off. This feature can be used in two different ways....

Select “Programs and Features”. Tap on the box that says “Can’t decide what to wear? Outfit Compare”. Tap on “Get Started”. Tap on “Add First Outfit”. Select either “Take a photo” or “Photo library” (if you already took the photos). Take the photo or select it from your camera roll and add it. It will appear in the app to the left. Then tap on “Add Second Outfit”. Once you’ve added the second photo, tap on “Compare Now”....

Twitter has managed to take the idea of following someone 24/7 and somehow keep it from being creepy. If regular following isn’t enough for you though, you can get the Twitter app on your smartphone to send you push notifications when specific accounts Tweet. This is really useful if you want to stay up to date with news accounts, or just read every one of Justin Pot’s witty musings as soon as you can....

More games support Linux than ever, thanks to Steam for Linux. But, like on Windows, many of these games require the latest graphics drivers for optimal performance and the fewest bugs. The latest versions of Ubuntu may include fresher drivers, but not necessarily the most recent ones. You can install the most recent drivers yourself, but be careful: you may run into issues if you do this. Ubuntu packages and tests certain versions of the graphics drivers for each release, and doesn’t perform major updates....

When you use images in your document, you might want to keep them together. This allows you to move them as a group and resize that group to fit your document better. Here’s how to group images in Google Docs. As of this writing, Google Docs doesn’t offer an official method for grouping images the way that Microsoft Word lets you group shapes. But with a little magic from the drawing tool, you can create your group and use it in your document like any other image....

The Mickey Mouse watch face on Apple Watch will read you the time if you tap and hold the watch face with two fingers. It will even do it in the voice of Mickey or Minnie Mouse! There’s a way to get this feature for all watch faces using the Settings app. From your Apple Watch, press the Digital Crown to open the apps screen (You can switch to the list view in the apps screen as well....

At this writing, the Schedule feature on Twitter’s website only works on desktop or mobile web. Hopefully, Twitter will bring this feature to its mobile app soon. To get started, go to the Twitter website on your computer or smartphone, and then switch to the Twitter account for which you want to schedule the tweet. RELATED: How to Switch Between Twitter Accounts on the Web Next, click “Tweet” in the sidebar on your computer or tap the Tweet floating action button on your iPhone or Android phone....

Slack offers integration options that let you connect directly to email services. But if you simply want to share an email quickly and easily, you can grab a Slack email address and forward it to your workspace. Maybe it’s a raving review of your company’s product from a customer, or perhaps it’s a list of project items for the team from your headquarters. Whatever that email contains, it can be shared with your Slack workspace, or even kept private as your own reference....

If you want Alexa in your car, the Roav Viva is an Alexa-enabled car charger that can make that happen for about the price of an Echo Dot. Here’s how it works and how to set it up. What You Should Know First The Viva, like any other car charger, plugs into the cigarette lighter in your car. From there, you can use it as a regular car charger with its two included USB ports to charge up your phone....

Most iOS apps that require your location give you a choice: you can “Always” grant it access, or only grant it access “While Using the App”. Uber, however, only gave you an “Always” or “Never” choice, which means it could track you after your ride ends and you stop using the app. And they did just that. With iOS 11, that finally changed—Apple forced apps to offer the “While Using” option for location permissions....

If you run a Facebook Page with more than a handful of followers, your Facebook notifications can get a little out of hand. By default, any time there’s activity on your Page—likes, comments, new followers—you’ll get a notification on your personal account. Here’s how to fix that. You have two choices for how to handle this: you can customize your notifications by category and frequency, or you can turn off those notifications altogether....

Ever wish you could grab an image of what you’re seeing in that beautiful new video game? Well you can—in fact, some tools even let you pause the game and take a screenshot using a free-moving, in-game camera. The usual shortcuts to take a screenshot of your PC’s desktop often don’t work properly in games. You may just end up capturing a black screen or a picture of your desktop when you press the Windows+Print Screen button to take a screenshot of a full-screen game, for example, so other methods may be required....

What Are VPNs? In short, VPNs are services that will let you connect to the internet through their servers, effectively changing your IP address and partially protecting you from tracking by your ISP and any websites that you visit. If you want to keep yourself undetected while browsing, they’re an important part of your toolkit, although you’ll also need to use Incognito Mode and follow some other steps for anything resembling anonymity....

Turn Off iPhone’s LED Flash Alerts To begin the flash alert deactivation process, open the Settings app on your iPhone. In Settings, choose General > Accessibility > LED Flash for Alerts. On the “LED Flash for Alerts” page, toggle off the “LED Flash for Alerts” option. And you’re all set. From now on, your iPhone’s flash won’t blink when you receive a new notification. Your regular notifications and their alerts will continue to arrive, though....

While you’re browsing through shopping websites, Microsoft Edge might suggest coupons or price comparisons with a feature called “Shopping in Microsoft Edge” that became enabled by default in December of 2020. Here’s how to turn it off. First, open Edge. In any window, click the menu button (three dots) and select “Settings.” In the Settings tab, click “Privacy, search, and services” in the sidebar. Scroll down to the “Services” section and flip the switch beside “Save time and money with Shopping in Microsoft Edge” to turn it “Off....