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Basic Computer Security: How to Protect Yourself from Viruses, Hackers, and Thieves

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People often think of computer security as something technical and complicated. And when you get into the nitty-gritty, it can be—but the most important stuff is actually very simple. Here are the basic, important things you should do to make yourself safer online. Enable Automatic Updates All the software we use every day is likely riddled with security issues. These security issues are constantly being found—whether we’re talking about Windows, Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, the Adobe Flash plugin, Adobe’s PDF Reader, Microsoft Office—the list goes on and on. These days, a lot of operating systems and programs come with automatic updates to close these security holes. No longer do you need to click a button or download a file to update your software; it’ll update itself in the background without any input from you. Some people like to turn this off for one reason or another. Maybe you don’t like that Windows restarts after installing an update, or ma

How to Send Large Files Through Email - Explained

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We Already know that Email is Normally use now these days to send Documents, Files and other type of data. Sometimes We need to send large files through Email so Here we Show How to Send Large Files through Email in Easy Steps A lot of internet users send files via emails . However there is one problem and that is that you can only send files with limited sizes. Let’s take example of Gmail. Gmail allows its users to send maximum data attachments of 25MB . This is definitely not enough if you are sending your pictures or a video to your friends or family members. So, what to do ? No worries, Yes you can send large files through email Easily What’s the Maximum Size of an Email Attachment? In theory, there’s no limit to the amount of data you can attach to an email. Email standards don’t specify any sort of size limit. In practice, most email servers—and some email clients—enforce their own size limits. In general, when attaching files to an email, you can be reasonably sur

How to Easily Download Video from the Web with xVideoServiceThief

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Downloading videos from the Internet can feel like a bit of a drag. There are various websites that can do the job, but usually they’re short on options and slow on speed. That’s where xVideoServiceThief comes in. This surreptitiously-titled tool, which sounds like some kind of 90s computer virus, lets you download videos, instantly convert them into most major formats, and even schedule your downloads. Here we’ll show you how to use xVideoServiceThief to turn video downloads into a walk in the park. How to Use xVideoServiceThief First, you’ll need to   download xVideoServiceThief   (xVST) from the official website. It’s available for Windows, Mac and Linux. While it’s essentially the same thing on all platforms, we’ll be doing our demonstration in PC, so certain details in the instructions may vary slightly. After installing xVST, open it. (The tool itself recommends that you run as admin each time by right-clicking its app icon and clicking “Run as administrator.”) You’l

The Differences Between Image File Formats

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A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, as Shakespeare says in Romeo and Juliet, but if you take a picture of that rose and save it as a JPEG with high compression, you may experience a decline in image quality. It’s no problem, though, since you also have the option to use PNG, TIFF, GIF, SVG, or even a new format like HEIC or WebP. Some of those formats would look great on the Capulet family newsletter, while others would fit in better on Romeo’s blog, so decoding these file types can be pretty useful. Lossy vs. Lossless Every image format can be categorized as either “lossy” or “lossless,” and these terms mostly explain themselves. Lossy compression cuts down on file sizes by permanently deleting information about a file, making it smaller but also degrading the quality. Lossless compression just rearranges the data in such a way that it takes up less space but can be packed and unpacked (or unzipped!) without any damage to the file. Raster vs. Vector When