The answer is the YPOPs! open-source application, which runs in the background and simulates a browser to provide an interface via POP to download your email into a desktop client. Important Note: This utility most likely violates the Yahoo! terms and could potentially result in your account being terminated, so use at your own risk. If you are worried about this, you can get POP access with Yahoo! Mail Plus for $20 / year....
Nowadays, sharing serious news on April 1st is a good way to make people ignore it. The internet gets saturated with fake announcements and phony products. It wasn’t always like this, though. This is why Google announced Gmail on April 1st, 2004. RELATED: How the Internet Killed April Fools’ Day (and Why It Needs to Stop) Not a Joke Let’s go back to 2004. Web-based email clients were not a new idea at this time....
If you use Outlook to check and manage your email, you can easily use it to check your Gmail account as well. You can set up your Gmail account to allow you to synchronize email across multiple machines using email clients instead of a browser. RELATED: Email Basics: POP3 is Outdated; Please Switch to IMAP Today We will show you how to use IMAP in your Gmail account so you can synchronize your Gmail account across multiple machines, and then how to add your Gmail account to Outlook 2010, 2013, or 2016....
To make a copy of all your saved passwords, bookmarks, and add-ons, back up your Mozilla Firefox profile to a safe location either on your internal or your external storage. Later, you can restore this backup to bring all your items back into the browser. We’ll show you how to do that. The way this works is that you copy your Firefox profile folder to a location you deem safe....
Windows 10 makes it super easy to change your default web browser. This way, you can set Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave, or another browser of your choice as the default. We’ll show you how to do that. Once you’ve set a browser as the default, your PC will open all your web links in that browser. Later, you can change the default browser again if you want. Set a Web Browser as the Default on Windows 10 First, make sure the browser you want to make the default is installed on your PC....
If you use Microsoft Excel for financial data where exchange rates are part of what you need, check out the Currencies data type. This gives you various exchange details that you can include in your spreadsheet. You can obtain the last trade time, high and low, change percent, and more by entering a pair of ISO currency codes. Then, simply select the details you want to include and refresh the data as needed....
The TikTok algorithm is a huge part of the TikTok experience. People are constantly referencing it and talking about how their “For You” page totally gets them. And it’s true, just use TikTok for a day or two and you’ll witness it adapt to your interests and personality very quickly. RELATED: Why Is TikTok So Popular? Why the Social Network Is Unique How Does the For You Page Work? To understand how to improve the For You page, we first need to look at how it works....
Probably one of the most frustrating things that can happen to you in Windows is not being able to logon to your user account because you changed the password and then forgot it or because you accidentally deleted the account. If you don’t know the password for any other Administrator account, you have a big problem! Most people immediately begin searching for a way to crack the Administrator account password using some free tools or hacks off forums....
One of Windows 11’s most contentious features is the redesigned taskbar. Many long-standing abilities have been stripped away, including the “Combine Taskbar Labels” preference. Luckily, there’s a way to ungroup the icons on your Windows 11 taskbar. Stardock is a company that has been making customization software for Windows going all the way back to the XP days. Start11 is the company’s suite of tools for Windows 11, and it includes a number of taskbar tweaks that make Windows 11’s taskbar function a lot more like Windows 10’s....
The Command Line Linux is a command-line operating system. You can choose to drop a desktop environment on top of it, such as the GNOME or KDE desktop environments, but still, underneath, there’s the text interface that hasn’t really changed since the days of the first Unix implementations in the 1970s. In a terminal window, Linux uses a shell such as Bash to read your commands and to either act on them itself or pass them to the appropriate command or application....
Introducing the getopts builtin Passing values into a Bash script is pretty a pretty simple matter. You call your script from the command line or from another script and provide your list of values behind the script name. These values can be accessed inside your script as variables, starting with $1 for the first variable, $2 for the second and so on. But if you want to pass options to a script, the situation quickly becomes more complex....
With Sway, you can create a presentation without design skills or creative experience. The application provides you with cards, or blocks, for a structured way to build your content. You can easily insert text, images, and videos, give your Sway an attractive appearance with subtle animations, and share it easily. RELATED: The Best Free Microsoft PowerPoint Alternatives Getting Started on Sway Visit the Sway website and sign in with your Microsoft account....
Why People Are Reluctant to Adopt Smart Home Gear While there are small frustrations that come with smart home experimentation, like your voice assistant interpreting your command to turn something off as a request to play a Spotify playlist instead, the biggest frustration comes from the lack of interoperability, the cost of buying into smart home platforms, and, all too, replacing smart home gear. So if you’ve been reluctant to jump feet first into the smart home market, we can hardly blame you....
During the Installation The install process is straightforward and easy to sort through. One point of interest during the install process is the option to have Moo0 System Monitor start with your computer each time as shown below. The default is to have the app start with your computer each time, so if you prefer to run Moo0 System Monitor on demand rather than full-time then deselect “Start on System Boot”....
After you install IE7 you have to make the menu bar appear. Right click an empty spot on the tool bar and place a checkmark next to Menu Bar. It will also show up temporarily if you hold down the Alt key. You will see that IE 7 puts the Menu Bar underneath the Address Bar which we don’t want. Open up notepad by clicking Start \ Run, type in notepad and click OK....
Many of you might remember the old Send to X Powertoy that was included way back in the Windows 95 days. The Send To Toys utility is a similar add-on that offers the same functionality, plus a lot more. Installing Send To Toys The installation process is very simple, and even gives you a quick configuration screen so you can turn on or off some of the features during install....
RELATED: How Far Can an Electric Car Go on One Charge? Fill in the details for your vehicle’s information and select “Save.” Now you’ll be brought to a page for your vehicle. Scroll down and you’ll see a search bar for finding parts and accessories. Below the search bar, you can browse by category. Use the arrow buttons to scroll through the categories.
Qualcomm revealed the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 in December 2021, which is now being used in most high-end Android phones and tablets released this year (including the Galaxy S22 series, OnePlus 10 Pro, and Galaxy Tab S8 series). The new Snapdragon 8+ Gen 1 is a mid-cycle upgrade, with slightly improved graphics and performance to hold us over until next year’s Snapdragon 8 Gen 2. Qualcomm says the new chip has an upgraded Adreno GPU, with “up to” 10% faster graphics and a 30% reduction in power usage, compared to the Snapdragon 8 Gen 1, so mobile games (or anything else graphics-heavy) will perform a bit better....
The problem that people keep running into left and right is getting to the point where XP starts to install and getting the message “Setup did not find any hard disk drives installed in your computer”. This error happens because your new computer has a storage controller that isn’t supported natively in XP, usually an SATA (Serial ATA) controller. If you don’t have a floppy drive in your computer (who does anymore), then you’ll need to use a process called slip-streaming to integrate the storage drivers into your XP installation CD....
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