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Today we will learn how to enable usb tethering from your Android device to macbook.  In this case I'm using a macbook pro mid 2010 model. It is running mac os 10.10 Yosemite.  There isn't any out of the box Android usb support for Mac os running Yosemite, although iphone might work but I've not tried as I don't have an iPhone. The wifi on this device is busted and the usb wifi gives crappy internet speed for larger downloads. So my best bet is to use internet via USB tethering.  Upon research I came to know about a software called ho rndis. Don't download it's latest version as it won't support Yosemite. Download it's version from 2013. I'll leave a link which worked for me here 1) Download https://github.com/jwise/HoRNDIS/releases/download/rel2/HoRNDIS-rel2.pkg 2) Once downloaded open the package it will tell mac os doesn't allow untrusted apps. It's okay. 3) Go to mac os system preferences ---> security & privacy ---> general ---

Today we will learn how to make your Android smartphone as a wifi repeater for free. Why make your Android smartphone as a repeater? Let me explain. I have a phone which gets no internet when my tv is connected to the same wifi. I don't know what is the issue is but I've observed that whenever my tv is turned on, the wifi on my phone becomes useless.  So my phone is there only to receive or do phone calls nothing else. Upon research I came to know that we can use a second phone as a wifi repeater. Follow the following steps 1) Download the net share app from the play store on the Android phone which you want to use as a wifi repeater https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kha.prog.mikrotik 2) Open app and press on setup wifi hotspot. 3) In the below drop-down option it will show proxy settings such as ip address and port number, keep a note of it. 4) On another phone, put the wifi credentials and connect. 5) After connecting you will have to go to that wifi options and i

 Today we will learn how to install a free vpn in our linux system. The vpn I'm talking here is proton free vpn.  Although it's free you need to sign up with proton vpn to access the VPN. This tutorial is applicable only for debian based distributions, so proceed with caution if you have arch based os, windows or macos. 1) Go to  https://protonvpn.com/free-vpn and then click on get proton free vpn and then click on continue with free. 2) Sign in or sign up if you don't have an account, after that sign in. 3) On the left menu click on downloads and download for GNU/Linux. If you want it for your operating system do that here. This is direct download link for linux  https://protonvpn.com/download-linux .   After going to that link click on install proton vpn. here if you are confused  https://protonvpn.com/support/linux-vpn-setup/ 4) click on debian  https://protonvpn.com/support/official-linux-vpn-debian/ and follow the onscreen commands from steps 1 to 3. 5) now that you

Hello there, Today we will learn how to get the Matrix code as a screensaver in linux. If you have watched the Matrix movie or like the screen text of the Matrix you can now enjoy it as screensaver. There are two methods to install this screensaver. One is a GUI and another terminal based. Let's start with gui first as many people freakout for terminal method. GUI METHOD 1) If you are already on Ubuntu based distribution like linux mint or mx linux. Then you need to open it's software center like the one in Android called play store.  What's a linux distribution? Linux is broadly categorised into flavours of different types of window managers. Linux was earlier only terminal based but with time we got different versions of linux as it was open sourced. We now have cinnamon, xfce, kde, gnome, openbox based flavours. So for beginners I would recommend trying linuxmint cinnamon edition if you are coming from windows and pop os if you are coming from Mac os. Although they are n

Nowadays everyone has Google messages installed in their phones right? Excluding some OEMs like samsung or some off brand that does not ship Google messages as default. You can enable rcs chats on samsung phones which will be covered in the later part of this post. Follow on! I've been wanting to write this blog post for quite some time now, so letting all out of my mind in this post in any manner. So, please read carefully. You can now text anyone in your friend circle with just internet but it must have a sim card in it. Internet can be via Wi-Fi or mobile data, it doesn't matter. There's something called as RCS chats which stands for rich communication system. A protocol made by Google for texting which they say is sms 2.0 for the internet. Every phone has the RCS chats feature enabled by default if you bright your phone after the year 2021. If it is not turned on you need to enable it by going into Google messages app's settings. Enable rcs chats. You might need to

While I have cut from cable connection at the wake of expenses in our household. I’m looking for free alternatives to watch content online as we have a wifi connection. Let’s see what I can find this quest of research for online content, Although don’t quote me on the legality of the websites, these are something I found doing research and development. Officially a Cordcutter now. All the options shown below requires a computer with internet connection, a mouse, keyboard. Youtube is free but has some popular movies behind a paywall like rent or buy. So, I stick to free content on youtube and watch news channels and youtube channels which I like in my Subscriptions. free serials and movie shows https://www.desi-serials.cc/ this website had tv channels, webseries and hindi movies. If you live india today news channels like TimesNow, zoom, MirrorNow, ET Now visit here https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/live-tv . This is an Official website. For Anime lover’s I found something which can

  Today we will learn how to read blocked/ restricted content on the internet. Remember when you find a good article and you try to read it. You are welcomed by a only half an article or a pop-up to buy a subscription to read the whole article.  What if I say, that you can now read that exact article, for free.  There is a way but you should only follow this method if you don't have the means to support the particular organisation or you must be Jobless like me .  Before that if you want to try something you could try clearing your cookies on the browser and you might get to read the complete article. You can also try incognito mode to view that article it works for some websites. If all these methods are not working for you then let's get to the real deal. It requires enabling the developer mode of your browser and installing an extension. So let's begin.... 1) Download the extension from GitHub. It is not available in the official google extension repositories. https://gi