the 2FA sends codes to mobile,email and you can pick codes to be sent to SMS with a back up code to your alternative email in case you don't have phone

you know the email you shoulda given when setting up your account to get links sent to if you forget your BT account password so you can reset it

anyhooooo a wee #TipsAndTricks for BT users in case you never knew about the 2FA and get a email from BT alerting you someone has been trying to gain access to your account

2FA on BT was new to me

Stuck on Windows 10 1909? Some workarounds on moving forward

The next feature release of Windows 10, 21H1, is due out in the next couple months. But what happens if you’re still on an older version and want to get unstuck?

Here’s what to do.

#TipsAndTricks

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3611672/stuck-on-windows-10-1909-some-workarounds-on-moving-forward.html

Jackbox games have become a popular pandemic life pastime, likely because the barrier for entry is absurdly low: One person hosts the game; everyone else pulls out their phones, types a code into a website, and they’re good to go. No need to make an account or download a separate app—just type four digits into a browser prompt and think of a clever username.

How to Test Out 'Invite Anyone' Remote Play on Steam

#TipsAndTricks
https://lifehacker.com/how-to-remote-play-steam-games-without-a-steam-account-1846355074/amp#click=https://t.co/JnpRiEdYiP

Confuse Google Ads With The AdNauseum

Firefox/Opera/Chrome/Chromium Derivatives Extension To Obfuscate Browsing Advertising Data

https://adnauseam.io/

more here:

https://lifehacker.com/confuse-google-ads-with-this-chrome-extension-1846337139

#TipsAndTricks

Google one users get extra editing tools/options for Google photos

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ new to me

open Google one app benefits tab

apparently you do

#TipsAndTricks

if you are an android tinkering person you can enable clipboard monitoring via android ADB

which i did on one android for join

nosanitize

http://forum.joaoapps.com/index.php?threads/clipboard-monitor-listener-no-longer-works-on-android-10.49808/

Using adb command to have access to clipboard in Android

https://github.com/clipto-pro/Android/issues/11

it is a choice for users to allow apps access to clipboard and considering android OS doesn't have a built in clipboard history feature you do need an app for that

#TipsAndTricks

Youtube-dl is a very useful command-line tool that lets you download videos from YouTube and some other websites.

Using youtube-dl is not that complicated but I understand that using commands for such tasks is not everyone’s favorite way.

Not Comfortable Using youtube-dl in Terminal? Use These GUI Apps

https://itsfoss.com/youtube-dl-gui-apps/

#TipsAndTricks

chrome:flags into the address bar in the Chrome Android app.

Next, type the word highlights into the search box on the screen that comes up.

See the line labeled "Chrome Share text highlights on Android"? Tap the box beneath it and change its setting from "Default" to "Enabled."

And finally, tap the Relaunch

#TipsAndTricks

handy wee feature for chrome android

download later

chrome://flags

Type download later into the search box on the screen that comes up.

Tap the box beneath both "Enable download later" and "Show download later dialog on WiFi" and change both of those settings to "Enabled."

Tap the Relaunch

The next time you tap on a file to download within Chrome, you'll see that shiny new scheduling option

#TipsAndTricks

smart peeking panel that pulls up any link in an overlay atop the page you're viewing

To add the option into the Chrome Android app on your phone:

Type chrome:flags into the app's address bar.

Type the word ephemeral (yes, ephemeral) into the search box at the top of the screen that comes up.

Find the delightfully named "An ephemeral Preview Tab using the bottom sheet"

Tap the box beneath it and change its setting to "Enabled."

Tap the Relaunch

#TipsAndTricks

Memex 🧠 is an interesting web browser add-on that is designed specifically for powerusers

no it's not a meme generator

It is a Vannevar Bush inspired bookmarking/local search engine of sorts

find webpages that you visited in the past

The extension is available for Firefox and Chrome

It is also open source, and has a good privacy policy

#TipsAndTricks

https://github.com/WorldBrain

According to recent reports—like this one in Android Police — https://www.androidpolice.com/2021/02/02/phone-hub-for-chrome-os-is-slowly-rolling-out-to-beta-and-dev-channels/ - the new Phone Hub feature can now be tested in Chrome OS 89 (Dev) and 90 (Canary), and it’s got a much cleaner and more polished UI than it did in its initial leaked appearance last August.

#ChromeOS #TipsAndTricks

What Is a Bang?

A bang, or !bang, as it is commonly known, is a term you can include with your DuckDuckGo search to limit your results to a particular website or service

example, if you are searching the web with DuckDuckGo and you want to limit your results to How-To Geek website, you can include “!howtogeek” with your search term

Searching for “windows 10 !howtogeek” will perform a search for “windows 10” using How-To Geek’s own search engine

#TipsAndTricks

#FunFact

The Great Suspender Chrome extension removed for being malware

Google automatically removed the extension

Tip: if you did use that extension and it has vanished but need to find a tab/tabs

There is, fortunately, a way to access those tabs again, but it does require a bit of work

That involves searching through Chrome’s history for tabs marked with the extension’s unique “klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg” and copying only the actual links of the web pages

#TipsAndTricks

"read later" reading list now available on Chrome mobile for saving tabs to your read later list

once you enable the read later flag on all chrome browsers your reading list also syncs if you are signed in to chrome < you might need to toggle that on via your chrome sync settings if you use customise sync

to save a tab, web page, to reading list on Chrome mobile just bookmark the web page/tab and tap "reading list"

#TipsAndTricks

#CoSoSec

RBS customers can grab 12 month malwarbytes premium for free for 10 devices

Malwarebytes Premium for the protection of supported versions of Windows, Apple Mac, Chromebook, Apple iOS (iPhone, iPad and iPod) and Android phones and tablets

Simply Log in to your Digital Banking, select the security tab and click get Malwarebytes

You’ll get coupon code and a link to the Malwarebytes site

https://personal.rbs.co.uk/personal/fraud-and-security/malwarebytes.html

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ended up on

https://twitter.com/_hisriver

page

the author of rust extension

A handy browser extension to search Rust docs and crates, etc in the address bar instantly!

A handy browser extension to search Rust docs and crates, etc in the address bar

https://rust.extension.sh/

and

c/c++ search extension

Input keyword cc then press Space in the address bar to get started. Just that easy!

https://cpp.extension.sh/

available on chrome, firefox and edge

#TipsAndTricks

thought some here might like

a bot you can use to grab twitter conversations

the bot can only grab conversations made within 7days

https://twitter.com/pdfmakerapp

it converts conversations into PDF for you and grabs all tweets after the initial tweet

bonus

You can also PDF archive any page outside Twitter (any URL)! Just Tweet to @PDFMakerApp with a keyword "grab" and the URL of the page you'd like to archive

I actually forgot about this

#TipsAndTricks

#ChromeOS

chrome://flags/#screen-capture

Once you’ve relaunched, you can know fire up the new screen capture tool by using the shortcut in the quick access menu at the bottom right or by using the key combo for a partial screenshot

That combo is Ctrl+Shift+F4(the overview key)

#TipsAndTricks

Facebook allows search engines like Google to index your profile and publicly available information.

But if you don’t want people to be able to look up your social profile outside of Facebook, you can choose to delist it.

Here’s how

#TipsAndTricks

https://www.howtogeek.com/708115/how-to-delist-your-facebook-profile-from-search-engines/