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Readers like you help support MUO. When you make a purchase using links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Read More. Using incognito mode on your browser doesn't guarantee you complete privacy. Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) and other entities can still find out what websites you visited in a private browsing session. Fortunately, it's easy to delete private browsing data on Linux and prevent others from viewing your browsing history.

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How to Import a VDI File Into VirtualBox

Sep 11, 2023 |

By Deepesh Sharma

| MUO

Installing operating systems on VirtualBox is addicting and can get you to try new OSes almost daily. But configuring a new virtual machine and going through the OS installation all over again becomes a chore after a few rounds. A better way is to use Virtual Disk Images, which are hard disk images consisting of preinstalled operating systems that you can import into VirtualBox. Here's everything you need to know about downloading and importing Virtual Disk Images into VirtualBox.

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How to Set a Custom Playing Status on Discord

Sep 08, 2023 |

By Deepesh Sharma

| MSN

Discord is a communication platform specially developed for gamers. As a result, many of its features are inclined toward gamers and their needs, such as support for streaming and the activity status. Whenever you launch a game (or another program) alongside Discord, it adds a status displaying the program name and duration for which you've been playing the game. Here's how you can enable the activity status on Discord and customize it to suit your needs.

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How to Add a New Folder to an Existing GitHub Repository

Sep 01, 2023 |

By Deepesh Sharma

| MUO

Creating a GitHub repository is easy. You specify a new repo name, configure licensing and README, and upload all your files. However, creating a new folder inside an existing GitHub repository isn't as intuitive as it should be. Since a direct option to add a new folder on GitHub doesn't exist, you might wonder whether it's possible to create a new directory inside a repository. Fortunately, there are multiple ways to add a new folder to an existing GitHub repository.

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What Is a Tuple in Python? 3 Examples

Aug 14, 2023 |

By Deepesh Sharma

| MUO

Tuples are an immutable data type in Python, meaning the data stored inside cannot be changed after initialization. Tuples are useful for storing collections of data where the order of elements is important and should not be changed. Tuples can be nested and used as keys in a Python dictionary, unlike lists. Most programming languages have at least one sequential data type you can use to store a collection of objects. In C and C++, you have arrays, whereas in Python, you have lists.

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How to Download and Install TeamViewer on Linux

Aug 13, 2023 |

By Deepesh Sharma

| MUO

Readers like you help support MUO. When you make a purchase using links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Read More. TeamViewer is no doubt one of the most popular remote computing clients available on the internet. Like Windows and macOS, Linux users can also install TeamViewer to remotely access other devices and computers. Here's how you can download and install TeamViewer, a remote control and access software, on your Linux machine.

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How to Create a Windows Virtual Machine in Linux With KVM Original

Aug 12, 2023 |

By Deepesh Sharma

| MUO

Running a Windows virtual machine alongside Linux has its benefits. With a Windows virtual machine set up, you don't have to wrap your head around compatibility layers or look for open-source alternatives to your favorite Windows apps. Additionally, if you're a developer, it becomes easy to test your software on multiple operating systems. Kernel-based Virtual Machine, or KVM is your best bet when it comes to setting up a Windows virtual machine on Linux.

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6 Quick Ways to Speed Up Chrome on Android

Jul 15, 2023 |

By Deepesh Sharma

| MSN

If your virtual private network doesn't have a kill switch, you need to switch to a VPN that does. A kill switch is an essential VPN privacy feature that instantly disables your internet if your encrypted VPN connection drops out for any reason. This prevents your online activity from being exposed outside the VPN tunnel, which is important because that exposure can be dangerous in many situations.

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6 Quick Ways to Speed Up Chrome on Android Original

Jul 15, 2023 |

By Deepesh Sharma

| MUO

Readers like you help support MUO. When you make a purchase using links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Read More. A slow browsing experience on your smartphone can be a mood killer. It's annoying when you want to urgently google something up and Chrome starts lagging. This becomes even worse when there's an emergency and all you're left with is a loading bar and a blank screen. Fortunately, it's easy to prevent this by speeding up Google Chrome on Android.

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12 Incredibly Useful KDE Apps That Are Worth Trying

Jul 12, 2023 |

By Deepesh Sharma

| MSN

KDE Plasma is one of the most customizable and feature-rich desktop environments for Linux. But a desktop is of little use without a bunch of apps to support it. Luckily, the KDE community has developed hundreds of nifty little apps that you can install on your KDE desktop for free. Here are some of the most useful KDE apps that will be a fantastic addition to your software arsenal.

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12 Incredibly Useful KDE Apps That Are Worth Trying

Jul 12, 2023 |

By Deepesh Sharma

| MUO

Readers like you help support MUO. When you make a purchase using links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Read More. KDE Plasma is one of the most customizable and feature-rich desktop environments for Linux. But a desktop is of little use without a bunch of apps to support it. Luckily, the KDE community has developed hundreds of nifty little apps that you can install on your KDE desktop for free.

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Pomodoro Technique

Jul 11, 2023 |

By Saikat Basu , Sai Ashish Konchada, Deepesh Sharma , Karim Ahmad

| MUO

Pomodoro Web App Tomato.es Is Time Management Made Simple Can't focus? Get to work, now. Tomato.es is a free Pomodoro timer you can use directly in your browser – and it's possibly the best such app I've ever used. The Pomodoro technique is simple: work for 25 minutes, non-stop, then take a five minute break. Repeat three times, then take a 15 minute break. Continue repeating until all of your daily tasks are complete – or it's time to sleep.

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How to Install a KVM in Arch Linux and Configure Your Virtual Machine

Jul 09, 2023 |

By Deepesh Sharma

| MUO

Readers like you help support MUO. When you make a purchase using links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Read More. Want to run different operating systems on top of your Arch Linux installation? You can always use VirtualBox or VMware to create a virtual machine, but KVM wins the game with its high performance and flexible set of features. Setting up a new virtual machine on Arch Linux using KVM and QEMU can seem daunting at first.

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5 Reasons Why You Don't Need a WordPress SEO Plugin

Jul 08, 2023 |

By Deepesh Sharma

| MUO

Readers like you help support MUO. When you make a purchase using links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Read More. Most people who start a WordPress website for the first time need help deciding which SEO plugin to choose. The options are endless: Yoast SEO, Rank Math, All in One, SEOPress, etc. But there's one thing most webmasters don't know—you don't need an SEO plugin to rank on the search engine results page (SERPs).

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How to Add or Change Keyboard Layouts on Linux

Jul 08, 2023 |

By Deepesh Sharma

| MUO

Readers like you help support MUO. When you make a purchase using links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Read More. If you're someone who prefers to interact with computers in a language other than English, then keyboard layouts are a lifesaver for you. Most probably, you'd like to set your native language as your system's primary input language. Even if you're used to typing in English, there are chances that you might not fancy the default QWERTY keyboard layout.

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How to View and Flush DNS Cache on Linux

Jun 14, 2023 |

By Deepesh Sharma

| MUO

Readers like you help support MUO. When you make a purchase using links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Read More. When you access a website using its domain name, your system sends a request to a DNS server to get the IP address for that domain. This domain-IP address pair is saved in the DNS cache for later use so you don't have to send requests to the DNS server every time to make a connection. But sometimes, the local DNS cache gets corrupted and causes HTTP errors.

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How to Change the Screen Resolution on Linux Original

Jun 13, 2023 |

By Deepesh Sharma

| MUO

Readers like you help support MUO. When you make a purchase using links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Read More. The display is the first thing you interact with after booting into a Linux machine. An improperly configured screen resolution can hinder your work and lead you into thinking that Linux distros are poorly optimized for desktops. Contrary to popular belief, Linux distros are easy to use, and configuring your screen resolution on Linux is a cinch.

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Wordpress Themes

Jun 09, 2023 |

By Danny Maiorca, Katie Rees , Deepesh Sharma , David Abraham

| MUO

From social networks to intranets, from directories to RSS aggregators – WordPress has you covered. Between all of the free and paid themes and plugins, you can make your WordPress site pretty much anything you want it to be.

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Everything You Need to Know About Windows Screen Savers

May 20, 2023 |

By Deepesh Sharma

| MUO

Readers like you help support MUO. When you make a purchase using links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Read More. Do you remember spending hours gazing at your computer screen, endlessly looking at the flying Windows logo or the mysterious 3D pipes? For most people, screen savers are a blast from the past. But older Windows users know how screen savers literally saved their screens from burn-in.

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8 Things You Should Do After Switching to GNOME

May 11, 2023 |

By Deepesh Sharma

| MUO

Have you recently switched to GNOME? Complete this checklist to get the best out of your new Linux desktop. Readers like you help support MUO. When you make a purchase using links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Read More. Switching desktop environments always comes with some unsolicited troubles. You need to configure new settings, review installed applications, and maximize the resemblance between your old and new desktops.

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How to Crossfade Audio in Adobe Premiere Pro

May 10, 2023 |

By Deepesh Sharma

| MUO

Readers like you help support MUO. When you make a purchase using links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Read More. Want to sync two audio tracks by crossfading them in Adobe Premiere Pro? Perhaps you've added background music to your video and want it to gently crossfade into the next clip. As a video editor, you want your audio tracks to flow as smoothly as possible, without any unexpected cuts or transitions.

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Adobe Premiere Pro

May 10, 2023 |

By Deepesh Sharma , Andy Cormier, Danny Maiorca, Samuel L. Garbett

| MUO

How to Create Speech-to-Text and Manual Captions in Premiere Pro Want to make your content more accessible? We're going to show you how to add captions and transcriptions in Premiere. How to Edit Vertical Short-Form Videos With Adobe Premiere Rush If you want to post verticle short-form videos, you need to know how to edit them. Premiere Rush will get the job done. How to Resize an Image in Premiere Pro Working on video projects in Premiere Pro means you'll also work with still images at some point.

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The Ultimate Fiverr SEO Guide to Get Your Gigs Noticed

May 08, 2023 |

By Deepesh Sharma

| MUO

Readers like you help support MUO. When you make a purchase using links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Read More. Imagine this—you're logging into your Fiverr dashboard to check the gig you published two days ago and you already have five orders lined up for delivery. It sure sounds pleasing, and nearly impossible at the same time. This can be you, but only if you know how to leverage the power of SEO in your Fiverr gigs.

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Arch Linux | MUO

May 04, 2023 |

By Debarshi Das, Sahil Kapoor, David Delony, Deepesh Sharma

| MUO

Readers like you help support MUO. When you make a purchase using links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Read More. How to Install BlackArch Tools on Arch Linux Turn your regular Arch Linux installation into a pentesting lab by adding the BlackArch repository and installing powerful security tools. How to Install Visual Studio Code on Arch Linux Want to learn how to code on Arch Linux? Consider installing Visual Studio Code, a cross-platform, feature-rich code editor for developers.

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