Five Worthwhile Uses for Private Browsing Mode (Besides Porn)

Did You Know? The Sesame Street writers made Mr. Snuffleupagus–Big Bird’s imaginary friend–a real friend everyone could see after a series of high profile child abuse cases made them concerned children would think adults wouldn’t believe them, just like the characters didn’t believe Big Bird when he said that his friend was real. Geek Trivia During World War II, The U.S. Military Turned Which Of These Animals Into Self-Guided Explosive Devices? Bats → Sharks → Ferrets → Homing Pigeons → Advertisement Download The Secret to Peak Productivity (FREE eBook valued at $16.00) In this constantly-connected, do-more-with-less world, being able to increase your productivity is a real advantage. Certified Professional Organizer and productivity expert Tamara Myles has developed a simple model—the Productivity Pyramid—which provides an actionable framework for anyone to achieve better results. Click here to download Want to Change Your Email Preferences? 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The information obtained via Sentiment Analysis serves as a measure of people’s opinions and attitudes regarding people of interest, products, services, ideas, etc. How to Save All Your Current Tabs in Chrome for Reading Later Chrome allows you to open tabs from your last browsing session when you open the browser. However, what if you want to save your current set of tabs to re-open at any time? Chrome doesn't provide a way to do that natively, but there is an easy workaround using bookmarks. Read This Article → How to Open a Recently Closed Tab in Safari for iOS That feeling you get when you close the wrong browser tab by accident is no fun. Fortunately, Safari for iOS, like most modern browsers, provides a way to recover from your little mishap. You just have to know where to look. Read This Article → Five Worthwhile Uses for Private Browsing Mode (Besides Porn) People snicker about private browsing mode, but it isn’t just for pornography. In fact, it’s not even just for browsing privately–it has other uses. It’s named Incognito Mode in Chrome, Private Browsing in Firefox and Safari, and InPrivate Browsing in Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer–but it’s essentially the same feature in all these browsers. Read This Article → How to Control Your Belkin WeMo Switch from the Home Screen Controlling your lights, switches, and other smarthome products from your phone is really cool, but it can be inconvenient to open up an app just to turn something on or off. Here’s how to make things a bit quicker and easier and control your Belkin WeMo Switch right from the home screen on your Android device, or from the Notification Center on your iPhone or iPad. Read This Article → How to Stream Live TV from NextPVR to Any Computer in the House Even if you have multiple computers, you only need one TV tuner card to watch TV on all of them. If you’ve set up NextPVR to watch live TV in Kodi, you can actually stream that live TV and its recordings to any computer on your network–from the browser on your laptop, or through other Kodi boxes. Here’s how to set it up. Read This Article → How to Disable the Security Warning Message Bar in Microsoft Office Programs Macros in Microsoft Office programs allow you to automate repetitive tasks, but some macros can be dangerous. Macros are bits of computer code and they're infamous for containing malware that will infect your computer if you run them. Microsoft Office protects you from files containing macros by default. Read This Article → How to Organize Apps on Android TV 6.0 and Above Android TV is a nice step up from a simple Chromecast, but up until Marshmallow (Android 6.0), there was no way to customize the app layout on home screens—a serious omission by Google. Now that the newest version of Android TV is available to many of the popular boxes out there, here's how to get your apps in the order you want. Read This Article → How to Speed Up Menu Animations in Windows Windows includes various visual effects and animations that make using the operating system feel a little more friendly. A good example of this is the animation that fades or slides menus into view a few hundred milliseconds after you click them. Adjusting that delay, though, can make using your PC feel a little snappier. Read This Article → Facebook Now Has Two “Hidden” Message Inboxes, Here’s How to Access Them You might have heard that there is a somewhat unknown Facebook inbox where potentially scads of filtered messages go to die. It turns out, there are actually two. Here’s how to make sure you’re getting all your messages. Read This Article → How to Upgrade to Windows 10 Enterprise (Without Reinstalling Windows) Windows 10 Enterprise offers quite a few exclusive features that aren’t available in the Professional edition of Windows. You can get these features without reinstalling Windows, and without even having an Enterprise disc. In fact, you don’t even need your own Windows 10 Enterprise key to perform this upgrade. Read This Article → Advertisement Download The Secret to Peak Productivity (FREE eBook valued at $16.00) In this constantly-connected, do-more-with-less world, being able to increase your productivity is a real advantage. Certified Professional Organizer and productivity expert Tamara Myles has developed a simple model—the Productivity Pyramid—which provides an actionable framework for anyone to achieve better results. Click here to download