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How to Block Web Pages Using Windows hosts file

Windows hosts file In Windows, the hosts file is a text file that the operating system uses to map hostnames to IP addresses. It is located in the System 32 folder in Windows 10 at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc. You can change the IP address that a given website resolves to on your computer by editing the hosts …

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How to Save Text Messages to Your Gmail Account?

It’s so simple to back up your text messages from your Android phone to your Gmail account that there’s no excuse not to do it and make them searchable in the process. Continue reading to learn how to convert your Gmail account into an SMS vault. What You’ll Need It’s really simple to misplace your …

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What are Shorteners? and How to Use It?

Sometimes we want to share links on the internet. For example, you want to share this link in Twitter: www.google.com/maps/place/Beasley’s+Chicken+and+Honey/@35.777025,-78.638112,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x9ede9af11fda231a But this URL is very long. Twitter limits posts to just 280 characters. That doesn’t leave many characters to say something about the link! Luckily, there is an easy solution: URL shorteners. A URL shortener …

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How to Create an App Password for Gmail

If you use 2-Step-Verification and are seeing a “password incorrect” error when trying to access your Google Account, an App password may solve the problem. An App Password is a 16-digit passcode that gives an app or device restricted access to your Google Account without having to divulge your personal password and complete access to your Google …

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How to create ER diagram using MySQL Workbench

While MySQL Workbench’s community edition lacks a simple feature for creating Entity Relationship Diagrams, there is a workaround. Creating ER Diagram of a Database in MySQL Workbench, as documented by Tushar Soam, worked fine for me. The relationship connections do not point to the primary and foreign key fields, which is the only drawback I …

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How to Label and Move Emails in Gmail Automatically?

People organize their inboxes in a variety of ways. One method is to transfer emails to special folders, known as Labels in Gmail. So, in this section, we’ll teach you how to label and transfer emails automatically. Labeling is especially critical if you get a large number of communications on a regular basis. Those branded …

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How to Use VSCode as Arduino Code Editor

Using VSCode for Arduino: To install the Arduino extension, press “Cntrl+Shift+x” to open the Extensions viewer and search for “vscode-arduino.” This should only produce one result. To install, click the “Install” button. After installing the extension, connect an Arduino Uno development board to a USB port on your computer and restart VS Code to ensure …

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How to connect SFTP server using Ubuntu File manager

There’s a lot to like about Secure Shell. It provides a more secure version of the File Transfer Protocol, as well as the ability to simply administrate your Linux servers remotely (through the command ssh) (FTP). So instead of risking the transfer of files over an insecure means, you can make use of SSH, via …

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