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We all can still monitor what we do online while using Incognito or private mode. Yesh, this is right, We can track/monitor from Any browser but in this mode, the browser won’t save the history, cookies, site data and form information.

  How Incognito Works:

When we browse anything from the browser, it stores your browser data. It saves the cookies from a website, also stores the history of file…

How to run any Windows software in Ubuntu

Sometimes it’s very important or required to run a .exe file,  Either we need to boot a system to open Windows OS in dual boot or we need a new separate windows machine. To increase productivity, you can install a .exe file on Linux only using Wine Tool.

Wine Tool is an open source tool, that allows to run any windows software to run on Linux environment.

wget https://dl.winehq.org/wine-builds/Re…

There is text editor required to read any text file in Linux like a notepad. Let’s know about the best 5 text editor which you can read any file-

Emacs

Current Version- 24.5

Written in C

How to open a file in Emacs-

$ sudo emacs <filename> Nano

Current Version- 2.6.0

Written in C

How to open a file

$ sudo nano <Filename>

Gedit

Current Version- 3.26.0

Written in C, Python

How to open a file

$…

For Linux user, who has migrated yourself from Windows to Linux recently, have facing common problem to install any application. We will learn here how to install any application in Linux using command line and Software Center. Command Line is much faster and easy to install any application as compare to GUI in Linux- There is 2 common way to install any application-

 You can install using…

Linux Shell or Terminal-

Linux shell is a program or tools which work like a interpreter, that receive command from user and send it to OS and show the outputs. In this post we will use terminal (CLI) to run basic commands-

Sudo: –Sudo stand for Substitute user do or  SUPER USER DO. Sudo command use to run a program with Super user or Root user permission. We use command like –

$ sudo apt-get…

After fresh installation of Ubuntu/Linux, we face WiFi problem, its not showing, keep disconnecting after 5 mins or less. To solve this problem we should install or update WiFi drivers. You can install driver using below commands:

  First check the network controller name using this command: – lspci -vnn

You will get an answer like this:

02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation…

Sometimes, we get an error when we are trying to use apt-get in Ubuntu–>

Error-

E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock – open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/) is another process using it?

You can delete the lock file using this commands:

# sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/lock

This line will delete your lock, You may also need to…

Ubuntu name is an African word with meaning “Humanity to others” which is developed by Mark Shuttleworth and his developer team. Vision for it was to give free softwares and OS should be available free for everybody in same terms. Ubuntu is a Open Source Debian based Linux operating system and release in 2004 and sponsored by Canonical Ltd (Founder- Mark Shuttleworth) Ubuntu releases a new version…

Windows 10 has no control over the update, as like Windows 8 or 8.1. Windows 10 made it mandatory to download, install updated automatically to ensure your devices stay up to date. In every update, Microsoft releases new Security patches or improvements,

  Ideally, we should enable it and make our machine or device up to date with the latest update, but sometimes we get stuck with our task and…

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TechFlax

Computer security is a big concern now a day for IT offices or IT users, we do store our Important data on our machine, we should apply some security features on our machine. One of them is to prevent External Hard Disk, Pen Drive, Floppy Drive or any USB drive to your machine. This task is done by IT Admin. This feature will prevent you to get Virus on your machine from USB.

You can see the USB,…

Outlook 365 is a part of Microsoft Office Suite. Microsoft providing an Email client called Outlook as a Gmail. Outlook also contains Calendar, Task Manager, Contact Manager, and Web Browsing etc.

First, need to enable  POP/IMAP in your Gmail account using below steps:

Log in your Gmail account

Click on settings (Right Side)

Click on Forwarding POP/IMAP.

In POP Download, enable the POP of all…

How to Upgrade to Windows 10

As all, we know that Windows 10 free upgrade is ended on July 29, 2016. Some of the folks didn’t upgrade to Windows 10.

Why we should upgrade to Windows 10-

Windows 10 comes with improvement over old windows for example security, speed, interface, compatibility and windows software tools.  Windows 10 is more familiar to use with mouse and keyboard, Here you can read about why you should upgrade…

How to get Wi-Fi password from command prompt

Wi-Fi becoming a fundamental utility now a day, We are addicted to seeing Wi-Fi sign in our laptop or device. Sometimes we forgot our Wi-Fi password then we have to make the change from Router or any devices. Now we get the password from our laptop with simple steps.

Follow these steps to get Wi-Fi Password-

Run CMD as Administrator, You can find CMD from search menu or right-click on the…

IP Addressing and Subnetting-Part 1

Addressing – Addressing is a method to assign an address to a device or host. It is a unique identification of the host in a network to communicate with another network.

Addressing has 2 types-

Hardware Addressing

Logical Addressing

Hardware Addressing-  Hardware addressing means MAC address of devices. MAC address is a unique identification number which represents the device in LAN (Local Area…