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Through all of human history, a mess of tabs has been a sign of poor productivity. But that 100-tab habit could be the secret to your productivity, so long as you have the right extensions and hardware.

 When it comes to productivity, everyone has different needs. Some people like to write to-do lists, some people like to stand while they work, and others like to keep 100 tabs (or more!) open at a time.

 But, in reality, a mess of tabs can be a sign of productivity. There are situations where you need to have 100 tabs open, especially if you’re researching a dense subject or juggling a handful of projects.
modern browsers require a ton of system resources, and webpages can demand more than 2 GB of RAM. Even the most productive tab-junkies will run into lag, stuttering, and crashes while running 100 tabs on an underpowered PC.
So, if you’re a tab lover, then it’s time to take things into your own hands. You can easily optimize your 100-tab productivity by using browser extensions, and you can make the most of your PC (even if it’s a crappy PC) by upgrading a few pieces of hardware.
Or, if those tabs get in your way and slow down your computer, there are some good ways to close tabs and save them for later.

It’s Time to Wrangle Those Tabs

Whether you’re blessed with a 100-tab-capable computer or you’ve just ordered some new PC parts, you’re going to run into a fundamental 100-tab problem. The horizontal tab list on the top of your browser just isn’t made to handle a ton of tabbage.
Sure, you can right-click a tab to pin it to your browser, dump your tabs into bookmarks, or open multiple browser windows to organize disparate clusters of tabs. But these primitive forms of tab organization are far from convenient or effective. If you want to wrangle 100 different tabs in one window, then you’re going to need some browser extensions.

Vertical style tab extensions are essential for tab-junkies. Tabs are easier to read and organize while they’re vertical, and most vertical tab extensions have built-in grouping or “tree” features. Firefox popularized vertical tabs with its Tree Styled Tabs extension, but users of Chrome, Opera, and the Chromium-based Edge browser can use the Tabs Outliner extension.
If you want an extension that automatically organizes tabs into groups, then you should check out OneTab. It’s available for both Chromium browsers like Chrome and Firefox, and it turns a mess of tabs into an organized tree-style list with a single click.
Without good hardware, these extensions are basically worthless. Browsers are extremely resource-heavy, and a ton of tabs can turn a weak computer into a stuttering mess. Thankfully, it’s easy to pinpoint hardware problems on a computer, and some extensions can reduce your need to perform expensive (or impossible) hardware upgrades.
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It is common for browsers to offer to help save our passwords for us when we sign in to a new website for the first time. This is an automatic settings that comes on default on most browsers. The 'Save Passwords' feature can also be turned off on virtually every browsers both on Computer and Mobile devices. 

Google Chrome
To find this setting in Chrome for desktop, click on Chrome’s menu > Settings. At the bottom of the Settings page, click the “Show advanced settings” link. Under Passwords and forms, uncheck “Offer to save passwords with Google Smart Lock for Passwords“.
You can click the “Manage passwords” button here to see what passwords Chrome remembers and delete them, if you like.
In Chrome for Android, iPhone, or iPad, click menu > Settings. Tap the “Save Passwords” option under Basics and set it to “Off”.
You’ll also see a list of saved passwords you can manage on this screen, if you have any passwords saved. Tap “Edit” to edit your list of saved passwords.


Mozilla Firefox

In Firefox, click menu > Options. Click the “Security” tab at the left side of the options page and uncheck “Remember logins for sites”.
You can click the “Saved Logins” button here to see what passwords Firefox has already saved and remove them from Firefox, if you like.

Apple Safari

In Safari on a Mac, click Safari > Preferences. Click the “AutoFill” tab at the top of the window and uncheck “User names and passwords”.
You can see which user names and passwords Safari already remembers by clicking the “Edit” button to the right of User names and passwords or clicking the “Passwords” icon at the top of Safari’s preferences window. You can remove saved passwords from this list, if you like.
On an iPhone or iPad, you’ll find this option in the main Settings app. Head to Settings > Safari > AutoFill. Disable the “Names and Passwords” option.
You can see what names and passwords Safari already remembers by heading to Settings > Safari > Passwords. You can also remove them from here, if you like.

Microsoft Edge

In Microsoft Edge on Windows 10, click menu > Settings. Scroll down to the bottom of the Settings pane and click the “View advanced settings” button. Scroll down to the “Privacy and services” section and set “Offer to save passwords” to “Off”.
You can click the “Manage my saved passwords” link here to see which passwords Edge already knows and remove them, if you like.
If you’re using anther web browser, you’ll find the option in a similar place. Head to your web browser’s options and look for an option named something like “save passwords”, “remember passwords”, or “autofill user names and passwords”.
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With over a billion monthly active users, WhatsApp, in addition to its constant updates has added a new feature – video calls. This New video calling feature is only available in the Beta version (Testing Mode Version). It’s as easy as you might imagine: pull up a contact in the app, tap the call button and choose ‘Video call’. 

 If the other person has a version of WhatsApp that supports the feature, it’ll launch a FaceTime-like call; if not, you’ll be notified that your contact needs to update their app. 


WhatsApp’s impending support for video calling appears to be closer to launch. According to new reports, the feature is now functional in some of the beta builds of the Android application, following its recent arrival in the Windows Phone version of the Facebook-owned messaging app. The iOS app was also updated just last week, but video calling support was not included at that time.

The arrival of video calling on Android was first spotted by the blog Android Police, which found that some users on the beta builds of the application were able to access video calling through an updated app interface.

For those on a version of WhatsApp which includes video calling support, you’re able to tap the call button or tap on a contact card to kick off a video call. In this case, a new dialog box will appear, offering the choice between a standard voice call and a video call. In addition, the call log will show which calls were made via video by annotating them with the camera icon, instead of the telephone icon.

When you have video calling, tapping the call button or contact card brings up a dialog with both voice and video as options. There may be a version of the app later that flips the switch on video calls automatically, but for now you're at the mercy of the WhatsApp gods.











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As the usual saying goes that Nothing Last forever, So goes for Batteries too, they don’t last forever — they only have so many charge cycles. As you use your battery, it will degrade over time and you’ll get less and less battery life from it. Eventually, you’ll want to replace a device’s battery — or get a new device with a new battery.
Even if you can’t access the battery yourself, you can often pay to have it replaced. For example, Apple stores will replace an iPhone or iPad’s battery for a fee.

All Batteries’ Capacities Decrease Over Time


A battery doesn’t just go from “good” to “bad.” Instead, as you use it, it will slowly degrade. The battery’s capacity will decrease and it’ll be able to store less and less power. This is a gradual process, and you won’t necessarily notice until you realize you used to get a few more hours of battery power from your device.

You can help prolong your battery’s life and keep its capacity up by properly caring for your battery, but all batteries will eventually fall victim to entropy. There’s just no getting around this. If you’re lucky, you’ll never have to replace your battery — it will just keep working well enough until you upgrade to a new phone, tablet, laptop, or other device with a new battery. If not, you’ll have to replace it.
If a battery is nearly dead, some devices will warn you that it’s time to replace it.

How to View a Device’s Battery Health

You can check your battery’s health level before you see a critical warning. Some devices may not display such a warning at all, so you may need to check the battery health information to see whether the status is critically low or not. Here’s how to find battery health information on some common operating system:
  • Windows Laptops: We recommend NirSoft’s BatteryInfoView to find a Windows laptop’s battery health, but there are other utilities you can use instead.
  • MacBooks: Hold down the Option key and click the battery icon on the menu bar. You’ll see a “Condition:” line displayed here.
  • iPhones and iPads: You’ll need some sort of third-party application that will display your device’s battery health. For example, CoconutBattery is an app you can install on your Mac. It’ll let you view the battery status of connected iPhones and iPads. This information isn’t normally displayed in iOS.
  • Android Phones: Open the dialer app and dial *#*#4636#*#*. Tap “Battery information” to see that status of your Android device’s battery.
For other devices, search for the type of device and “battery health” to get instructions.






When It’s Time to Replace a Battery

Whatever your device says about the health of its battery, it doesn’t necessarily matter. For example, if your battery reports it’s at 40 percent of its original capacity and you’re still happy with how much battery life you get, you don’t necessarily need to replace it. But its battery life will continue to decrease.
On the other hand, if you’ve seen a device’s battery life decline sharply and you want longer battery life from it, it’s probably time to replace its battery. Be sure to follow tips for extending a device’s battery life before deciding the battery’s hardware is at fault. It could just be background applications draining your device’s battery more quickly.

How to Replace a Battery

If you have a smartphone, tablet, laptop, or another device with a removable battery, this is easy. You’ll just need to purchase a replacement battery designed specifically for your device, power down your device, and then replace the current battery with the new one. This will give your device a fresh battery with maximum capacity, increasing its battery life.
More and more smartphones, tablets, laptops, and other devices are made without batteries you can access yourself. In some cases, these are designed so the manufacturer can replace the battery for you. For example, you can take an old iPhone, iPad, or MacBook to an Apple Store and pay a fee to have Apple employees open your device and replace the battery for you. Check if your manufacturer offers this service.
There’s always the option of doing it yourself, of course. You could potentially open up your device, get a replacement battery, and try to seal it back up again. We don’t necessarily recommend this — so many modern devices have batteries and other components that are glued together and not designed to be opened. This may be a more reasonable option for some devices — it depends on the device and how it’s built.

The battery health status your device reports can help you decide whether it’s time to replace your battery, but the decision is ultimately up to you and based on how much battery life you need. For example, if you have a laptop that originally offered eight hour battery life but is now down to four hours, you may not necessarily want to replace the battery. If that four hours is good enough for you, you may want to save your money and put it toward buying a new laptop in the future. That’s your decision.
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You can sign a PDF document from your phone, tablet, or any other computer and email it off to someone. But some organizations still don’t accept documents via email — you may need to fax documents instead.
No, you can’t use your smartphone’s phone connection as a fax machine or dial-up modem. You’ll need to rely on an app or third-party service that does the faxing for you, just as you would sending the occasional fax from your PC

Yes, This Will Cost You

You won’t find an app that lets you send an unlimited number of faxes for free. Every app you’ll find here will cost you money to use regularly. Some apps may let you send a handful of pages for free, but that’s it. These services have to maintain phone numbers and interface with the telephone network for you. Your smartphone can’t act as a dial-up modem, so you’re depending on a service’s servers to do the heavy lifting.
But, although this will cost you, it can save you money and be more convenient than the alternative. The alternative is paying to use fax machines at a store, or purchasing your own fax machine and hooking it up to a telephone landline. Both will likely be significantly more expensive if you just need to send a few faxes.
This method also lets you do everything entirely electronically. You can sign and fill in PDF documents on your phone and fax them. Or, use your phone’s camera to scan paper documents and fax them.

iPhone or Android Apps

.Search for “fax” on the App Store and you’ll find quite a few options, but none of the apps areactually free, and the few that do provide a few free fax pages are usually limited to just a handful of pages before they start charging you.
But there’s a bigger problem — the vast majority of the time when you need to fax something, you’re faxing a document that contains very personal information — it’s health care and government that tend to require faxing things, after all, and they are also dealing with your personal information.
You should not trust just anybody with handling your personal information in a fax. So we’ve got some recommendations for you.

If you are going to be sending sensitive faxes all the time, or you work for a company and you’re trying to choose a service, RingCentral Fax, which is partially owned by Cisco and AT&T, is probably the best choice for your needs, especially since they have a lot of great security features and support for multiple users with separate fax lines.
They also have a really slick mobile app that’s probably one of the nicest ways to deal with faxing, or you can send faxes through email instead. It has all the other features you can imagine, including integrations with Outlook, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, and you can even get a toll-free number. It also has a lot of security features that would be useful for businesses or people that are transmitting secure information.
Of course, if you just want to send a few faxes, you can sign up for one of their cheap plans that start under $7 per month… and then just cancel after a month or two.
Occasional User:
If you just want to send a few faxes every now and then, you can also choose eFax, which is well known as the company that basically invented faxing digitally. They have a nice mobile app that lets you both send and receive faxes.
If you just need to send the occasional fax, we also recommend MyFax, which lets you send up to 10 free pages without having to pay. This doesn’t sound like much, but it’s more pages per month than most people have to fax per year. If you do need to send more pages each month, you can upgrade to a regular plan.
Both of these providers are reputable and owned by the same large company that has been doing this for years. It’s not some fly-by-night operation. They might not have all the security features that RingCentral does, but you don’t need to worry about who has your personal information.

Faxing Over Email



If you’re using Windows Phone, Blackberry, a Fire Tablet, or some other operating system, you can always sign up for RingCentral, eFax, or MyFax and then use their website to send the fax — or you can use their fax by email feature.

Almost all of the providers let you send faxes by emailing a document to the number you are trying to fax to, combined with a custom ending. For instance if you wanted to fax something to 2348-0345-0943, you would send the document to an email like 2348034509493@somefaxservicehere.com (not a real address).
Being able to send faxes over email means that any mobile device can easily send faxes without needing to install an extra app.
Ultimately, there’s no single best fax application for everyone. If you need to send quite a few pages on an ongoing basis, a subscription-based service like RingCentral or eFax could be the best. If you want to just send a quick fax, MyFax is probably your best bet.
If you’re using another smartphone platform (like Windows Phone), your best bet is to find a fax service that lets you fax by email, which is generally the easiest and best way to send faxes anyway.

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Hard drives are getting larger and larger, but somehow they always seem to fill up. This is even more true if you’re using a solid-state drive (SSD), which offers much less hard drive space than traditional mechanical hard drives.
If your hard drive is getting filled up and you want try to free up some space, these tricks should help you free up space for important files and programs by removing the unimportant junk cluttering up your hard disk.

Run Disk Cleanup

Windows includes a built-in tool that deletes temporary files and other unimportant data. To access it, right-click one of your hard drives in the Computer window and select Properties.
(Alternatively you can just search for Disk Cleanup in the Start Menu.)
Click the Disk Cleanup button in the disk properties window.
Select the types of files you want to delete and click OK. This includes temporary files, log files, files in your recycle bin, and other unimportant files.
You can also clean up system files, which don’t appear in the list here. Click the Clean up system files button if you also want to delete system files.
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Windows 10 includes bunch of personalization settings that let you change your desktop background, windows colors, lock screen background, and more. Here is what you need to know to get your computer looking exactly how you want it.

 We’re going to be talking about the Personalization settings Windows makes available at Settings > Personalization, so you might as well go ahead and try your hand on the various options available . There are certainly other ways you can customize your computer’s look, though, such as configuring folder options to display files the way you want or setting up Action Center how it makes sense to you.

Change Your Windows Background

The first set of options you can change control your desktop background and they should look pretty familiar to you if you’ve been using Windows for a while.
To use a picture as your background, choose “Picture” from the “Background” drop-down menu. Just like in previous versions, Windows 10 comes with a few pictures to choose from or you can click “Browse” and locate your own picture.
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Windows 10 is supposed to automatically update itself. But it might take weeks or longer for a big update like the Anniversary Update to reach your PC. Here’s why that happens–and how to skip the wait.



You Recently Upgraded to Windows 10 or the November Update


If you just recently upgraded your PC to Windows 10–or upgraded from the initial version of Windows 10 to the Windows 10 November Update–you won’t be able to upgrade to the Anniversary Update for 30 days.
That’s because you have 30 days to downgrade to your previous version of Windows. During this period, Windows won’t automatically download and install the Anniversary Update or any other major new builds.
To check if you’re within that 30 day period, head to Settings > Update & Security > Recovery. If you see a “Go back to Windows 7”, “Go back to Windows 8.1”, or “Go back to an earlier build” option here, you’re within that downgrade period. If you don’t see any option to roll back here, this isn’t your problem.

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