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Ever wanted to take your favorite videos online, and save them to be watched when offline? Thanks to 4KVideo Downloader+ the new product of the popular video downloader from 4K download, that comes with everything you could need to download from your favorite sites, in stunning quality and at a fraction of the time it would take other video downloaders. What Is 4K Video Downloader+? 4K Video Downloader+ is an impressive video downloader that lets you download videos from popular websites, with its unique and easy-to-use software....

When registering a domain name, you’re required to provide personal contact information for the WHOIS database, which is a directory showing who is the owner of a domain. While this promotes trust and transparency, it also puts your name, home address, phone number, and email out there for spammers, scammers, and data harvesters to find. Domain privacy (also called WHOIS protection) helps to fix this problem. Here’s how it works: domain registrars collect your personal information but submit their own details to the WHOIS database instead, keeping your info hidden from the public....

We navigate most modern phones entirely by swiping our fingers across their displays—but in Android’s early days, all phones came with buttons under the screen. One of these once prominent keys has utterly disappeared, its role no longer a core part of how we navigate our phones. Android was designed during the feature phone era, when all of our handsets had an abundance of buttons regardless of whether they came with a touch screen (most didn’t)....

GameSir is best known for its excellent mobile controllers, and to a lesser extent, its Xbox-style gamepads. When the company released the Cyclone 2, a feature-packed controller for PC, mobile, and Switch, I knew I had to get it. Now that it’s 20% off for Prime Day, it’s the perfect time to grab one yourself. The GameSire Cyclone 2 is an Excellent Controller GameSir Cyclone 2 Wireless Controller The GameSir Cyclone 2 is a wireless controller for PC, Switch, and mobile that’s equipped with TMR electromagnetic sticks, mechanical face buttons, and two rear paddles....

Summary Google already rolled out a redesign for the Chrome browser earlier this year, taking inspiration from the company’s Material You design language and improving customization. The address bar received a few changes along with the redesign, and now Google is announcing a few additional features that are now rolling out for Chrome’s address bar. Google Chrome’s address bar now shows autocomplete results based on any word you’ve previously used to search for a website....

Summary There are several Raspberry Pi models to choose from and even more price points. With models as low as $15 and as expensive as $120, here are the price points of the three main Raspberry Pi mini-computers and what they’re good for. The Raspberry for Everyone At $35, theRaspberry Pi 4 Model Bis honestly the Pi for everyone, I think. It comes with 1GB of RAM on the base model, and for $75, you may get 8GB of RAM....

Quick Links Summary I’ve spent most of my career working remotely from a laptop. Now, I do my work from a foldable Android phone, and it’s become difficult even to consider switching to any other platform. Only Android offers a convergent device that can match this level of convenience. ​A Foldable Phone Can Be Three Devices in One The first Android devices were smartphones. Eventually, the tablet boom hit, and Android tablets joined the mix....

Summary Non-printing characters are formatting marks that dictate how your email is laid out. They can help you identify frustrating formatting issues, ensure consistency, and make precise edits to your email before you send it. Non-Printing Characters in Classic Outlook If you’re using classic Outlook, you can display non-printing characters when composing a new message or a reply. With your cursor in the email body, head to the “Format Text” tab, and click the “¶” icon....

Quick Links Summary The Linux Bash shell supports integer arithmetic only. It can neither understand nor cope with floating point calculations. The bc utility gives you precision floating point calculations interactively and in shell scripts. Why Bash Only Supports Integers The original design decision to restrict theUnixBourne shellto integer arithmeticmightbe rooted in the early-computing mapping of an integer to a single byte of RAM. We may never know what was truly behind the decision....

Does your Mac regularly grind to a halt? Do you see the same pop-up complaining about a lack of memory, asking you to kill some apps? Here’s how to fix it and reduce the likelihood of it happening again. Use the Force Quit Option to Kill Running Apps macOS only showcases the “Force Quit Applications” window when it’s completely out of memory, including physical RAM and virtual memory on your boot drive....

Quick Links Is someone following you on Instagram, but you don’t want them to see your posts? There are a few things you can do to hide your posts and stories from them. Here’s how to do that on your iPhone and Android phone. Can You Hide a Post From a User on Instagram? Unfortunately, Instagram offers no feature to hide your individual posts from someone. Your posts and videos are visible to everyone on Instagram, or at least everyone you’ve allowed to follow you (this depends on your privacy settings, which we explain below)....

Summary Every year, the Python programming language receives major updates and improvements. But the version preinstalled on Ubuntu Linux may not be the latest. If you need a more up-to-date release, here are the steps to getting the latest version of Python on Ubuntu. For this tutorial, we’re using the Ubuntu 22.04 LTS version. For demonstration, we will install Python 3.12, which was released on Jun 29, 2025. But this guide is applicable for older versions of Ubuntu and any upcoming Python releases....

Quick Links You want your phone to last as long as possible, and the best way to do that is to care for the battery to minimize its degradation. Here are the best practices you should follow. Don’t Leave Your Phone Empty or Full for Long To understand how to preserve your phone’s battery health, it helps to know the basics of how a lithium-ion battery works. Every second you use your phone, tiny chemical reactions occur inside the battery to release stored energy....