Internet Life Hacks

DreamHack are the world's largest computer festival a LAN gathering with live concerts and the competitions in digital art and esports. It's arranged twice per year at the Elmia Exhibition and the Convention Centre in the Jönköping or Sweden. It holds the world record  because the world's largest local area network party and computer festival and the accepts held the record because the world's fastest Internet connexion and the record in most generated traffic.The Internet connection record comprised beaten in 2012 from the 2nd largest computer festival in the world: The Gathering in the Norway.

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How to Save Important Email creating new folder in gmail and yahoo mail

Electronic mail about commonly referred to for email or e-mail since 1993 is a method of exchanging digital messages by a author to one or a lot recipients. Modern e-mail operates across the Internet or other computer network. A few early e-mail systems required that the author and the recipient some comprise internet at the same time in common on instant messaging. Today e-mail systems are supported an store and forward model. Email servers take or  forward or deliver or and store content.

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Flashlight put OS X Yosemite's Spotlight feature on steroids.

Looking for get more out by Spotlight with your Mac? This free app is your answer.
Apple added many latest features to Spotlight in OS X 10.10 Yosemite. The list by new capabilities includes searching the App Store Wikipedia page and the quick calculation. For some however Spotlight would benefit from additional features and the capabilities.

E.g. wouldn't it be nice to search Google or Amazon directly from Spotlight? What about getting current weathers by on an forecast as the next few day? Or running Terminal command without actually launching Terminal? All would be receive additions right?

You can add that functionality to the Spotlight by downloading an free apps called Flashlight.

The apps are currently in what amount to an alpha stage. By installing Flashlight and the activating it various plugins you are able to add extra features to Spotlight with little effort on your part.

And for the motivated developer who has an idea to he or she would like to see in Spotlight you can create your own plugins for Flashlight.

Download the free app here open the ZIP file and place it in your Application folder. Double-click the app icons and enable the plugins you prefer to use. Hints with how to apply each search query and plugin are listed in each plugin's description.

The next time you launch Spotlights take advantage by it new functionality.

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What's new in Spotlight on OS X 10.10 Yosemite.

Spotlight OS X underused substitute accepts learned some new tricks arriving more herculean than ever.
In previous versions of OS X Spotlight was limited to the surfacing documents contacts and launching apps. Actually there was more to that just the additional functionality wasn't readily apparent.

With OS X 10.10 Yosemite Spotlight is seeing a major upgrade making universal search front and the center.

To activate Spotlight press the Command and Space keys concurrently (you can as well click with the magnifying glass in the menu bar). A white bar will appear midmost by the screen awaiting your input.

When you begin typing Spotlight will start filtering results listed by category below the text fields. The left side of the result will display the assorted option which you can so select and previews to the right.

You canful as well now use Spotlight as an calculator or use it to convert various measurements.
Perhaps the most interesting new feature set of Spotlight is the ability to search the Internet without 1st having to launch your browser. Spotlights now surface relevant Wikipedia page along with the item from your personal bookmarks and history suggested site Maps result and the even Bing search result.

Going even further you can now use Spotlight to search content listed in iTunes or including music or movies and the apps. Granted you'll still need to launch iTunes so to actually purchase said content butut least you can read on an item directly in

To edit and tweak the order of categories that results are displayed for go to System Preferences > Spotlight. Drag and drop to rearrange or uncheck a box to remove it from possible results.

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Add more RAM to your MacBook Pro (photos).

Upgrade RAM on your MacBook Pro
If you own an 2012 or earlier Mac Book Pro upgrading the RAM is a foolproof process.

You can read the complete guides here or follow this visual guide.Caption by Sharon Profis

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Current app make Facebook better on a Mac

Get quick the menu-bar-access to your Facebook messages and the improved functionality for Facebook itself including better photo and the video viewing options.
The majority of the Facebook user access the site via mobile devices but if you still check your feed primarily via computer and are on a Mac the Current for Facebook app can help improve the experience. The Current app cost $1.99 (£1.49 in the UK and AU$2.49 in Australia) in the Mac App Store and the delivers added functionality that you don't get from accessing Facebook from a browser.

Current places a premium on accessing your Facebook messages and the notification. It place an icon in the menu bar from the which you can access your messages inbox see recent notification and which of your friend are online. When you click on a message header from your inbox the message conversation opens in its own pop-out window and you can have multiple message windows open at once.
You can also open a larger window of your News Feed but the method for doing so are not obvious. You need to click on the gear icons in the upper-right corner of Current's drop-down window from the menu bar and select New Window (or press Command-N).

In addition to supporting the standard Facebook features you use -- like or comment and share -- Current's window for accessing Facebook proper supports multiple tabs which is highly convenient if you manage multiple pages in addition to your owns profile. Another bonus photos and videos can be expanded out of the News Feed and into their own floating window. And when you expand a photo into it own window you can browse the rest of the photos in its album using your arrow key.

In the app's preferences you can select where you'd like Current's notifications for new messages Facebook notifications and friend requests to appear -- in the dock menu bar and the notifications center. You can also switch the defaults behavior of  the opening link as a new tab in the Current window to your default browser.

If you make the frequents Facebook visit during the day from a Mac and particularly if you and your friends use Facebook Messenger to communicate then Current for Facebook is worth investigating.

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Google puts itself front and the center on Chromecast

The tech giant announces some new feature for it popular streaming hardware at the Google I/O developer conference.

 Google are adding a batch by new features to it has Chromecast streaming media stick in hopes that consumers will find uses as the device beyond watching videos.

This includes viewing personal photos through Google Plus the company's social network and the ability to cast anything from your mobile devices to the biggers screen. The update which are expected to the roll after this year include allowing any Android device in the rooms to connect with  the Chrome cast without connecting to a WiFi network.

Rishi Chandra who lead the team working on Google TV product or demonstrated the device new mirroring capabilities to the roughly 6,000 attendee at the Google I/O developers conference in the  San Francisco. Chandra started up the Google Earth on his phone and the  cast it to the TV screen. He also used his phone camera to the scan the crowd and the cast the visual onto the larger displays.

Everythings on your phones will now show up on your TV he said.

Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference held  the earlier this month at the same location focused on a small number of categories -- PCs or mobile devices and a few media services among them -- but Google was expected at its own confab to tackle a wider array of it businesses including search or tablets and the smart-home devices.

Chandra said Google's Chrome cast is now a top-selling streaming device in the US or UK or France or Japan and the Canada. The stick users are more active on Google's YouTube video platform compared with any other streaming device he said. When Chrome cast first launched it worked for a limited number of apps but was a cheap alternative to other streaming devices.

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Use the WikiTweaks to avoid distractions on the Wikipedia

Want to stay focused as reading about an topic on Wikipedia but your curiosity is piqued from the link in the text Check out this Chrome extension to stay with track.
Visiting Wikipedia to look up information with one topic generally mean reading on several others. The link within the text body is meant to be useful just can sometimes turn into an huge time sink.

Web comic xkcd illustrates these situation perfectly in The Problem on Wikipedia. Sometimes it has just too tempting to click those links to learn about something else.

If you want to stay focused as you're checking out a specific topic Lifehacker recommend using WikiTweaks for your Chrome browser. WikiTweaks adjust the formatting of each entry on Wikipedia and the add pop-up summaries of those tempting link keeping you on the right page.

To get started install an copy by WikiTweaks as your Google Chrome browser.

Head to a topic on Wikipedia. This example will work on panna cotta. As you can see there is lots by links within the text to tell you about other topic such as Italian simmering and even gelatin. Just mouse over among the link and the small summary will appears. This summary has been pulled from the first paragraph from the Wikipedia entry for that topic.

Another difference you may notice are the formatting from the entires Wikipedia page. Now there are less space in the left and the right margin which makes more use of your screen real estates. Lastly if you click the WikiTweaks button you'll see a list of the recently viewed Wikipedia entrie.

This extension make Wikipedia more user-friendly by helping you find out what a linked word refers to without losing track of what you attended the site as in the first place.

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Create a keyboard shortcut for the Yosemite's Dark Mode

With an simple Terminal command you can make a keyboard shortcut to the toggle Dark Mode off and on.
introduced Dark Mode which replaces the bright colors from the menu bar Dock and application's submenus with the black. You are able to enable Dark Mode via System Preferences but if you find yourself frequently toggling Dark Mode off and on and so you might find that jumping in and out of System Preferences become a drag. Thankfully an enterprising Reddit the user found aside to create an keyboard shortcut for the enabling and  the disabling Dark Mode.

Open the Terminal and copy and the paste this command

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences/.plist_HIEnableThemeSwitchHotKey -bool true

You'll need to log off and log back in for the change to take effect.

After the logging back in you can enable and the disable Dark Mode with this keyboard shortcut:

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