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The Mechanism The way a “throwaway card” works is very simple: You input your card number into an application that guarantees its safety, and the application spits out another number. This way you can make a payment using your debit card without revealing its real number to the company on the receiving end of the transaction. In theory by masking your number, you have more control over your financial data. This also makes it easy to cancel a number without having to go through the hassle of getting a new card from your issuer....

The Apple store itself might not be advertising massive price cuts for either Black Monday or Cyber Monday, instead offering merely a gift card alongside some purchases, but that is typical from the tech giant in this sales period. Apple stands out from the pack in many ways, and this is just one other example. But don’t lose hope, because plenty of Apple tech is still subject to discounts over the course of this shopping season at various retailers....

Even if you aren’t buying a mouse today, we hope this article proves educational on the high-end mouse market. If you aren’t shopping high-end, you can check out this more general mouse buying guide. Features to Look for in High-End Mice What kind of features are you getting when you opt for a high-end mouse? Let’s talk about a few that are most useful to you. One big feature in high-end mice is low-latency wireless connectivity....

Introduction It turns out the Bowers & Wilkins Px7 S2 headphones were just the starter to the main course – with the main being an elegant dish in the form of the Px8. The Px8 is B&W’s flagship pair the brand believes will set the reference standard for performance and design for noise-cancelling headphones. Heady words and a lofty claim for sure, but the Px7 S2 impressed, and the Px8 is seen as a step up in performance, noise cancellation and price (£599)....

So the Brazen Panther gaming chair is right up my alley. Designed for gamepad-wielding console or PC gamers rather than keyboard-and-mouse, it’s a real kicker-backer. It’s easy to assemble, doesn’t have a thousand knobs and dials to adjust (except for sound and vibration), and lets you easily get lost in hours-long sessions in front of your screen. Also read: Check out some of the best gaming chairs on the market Size-wise, this is very much a chair for adults, with a deep mesh-centred seat that nestles you into that happy place between sitting and reclining....

This Isn’t Always the Case Anymore Since the earlier days of computing, when customers were often satisfied with their systems, and were so for several years, Microsoft has made immense progress in making its operating system adaptable to the needs of various niches of consumers. The growth of the enthusiast market helped this along, but it wasn’t until Windows 10 that things really became easier. For the most part, if you plan to switch motherboards for a system running Windows 10, you usually don’t have to do anything....

Why do we need captchas? CAPTCHA stands for “Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart,” which, aside from being a truly elegant acronym, tells you most of what you need to know. The idea is, as Google’s reCAPTCHA motto goes, to create a task that is “Easy for people, hard for bots.” “Bot” generally refers to any program that is set to automatically complete some process, whether it’s posting news on Twitter or leaving spam in website comment sections....

As a general guideline, you usually can’t charge any device through your laptop’s USB ports if you computer is in sleep mode, but the good news is that you can easily change this by unchecking a small box that is preventing you from doing this. It’s that simple. Enabling this feature is also very useful if you are out and about and don’t have access to a wall socket to charge your device....

1. CentOS CentOS is a community built distro based on the source code of RedHat Enterprise Linux (REHL). It is also the most popular distro for web server as of now. The benefit of using CentOS is that it is stable and seldom crashes. If you have some packages that only work with REHL, chances are you can get them to work in CentOS as well. Being the most popular distro, it also has the benefit of great support, either from their community forum, or anywhere on the Web....

Create A Site Navigate to Google Sites and enter your Gmail account information to begin. Click Create to start a new web page leaving the tab on Blank Template. Name your site and the Site Location will auto-fill. The name will need to be unique so if you have trouble getting a name to be accepted, just add an ending title that is unique to your Tab and it will process....

To get started, you have to login with Twitter or Facebook (sadly that’s the only way to sign up). Once you are in, you can choose to start a new infographic or create a new chart or enter the library. Click on the choice and a array of templates will open up to choose from. Select the one that fits your data best and start building on it. The data can be imported from any CSV file that can then be added to the infographic in the form of interactive charts....

Defragmenting is the process of reading all the bits on the file system and re-arranging them to be contiguous. This is a pretty time intensive process and is quite complex for an operating system to handle. Imagine, you’re trying to access a file that you know resides on particular place and the next time you go to access the same file, the file’s position has changed, since the user ran a defragmenting utility over the file system....

Introduction If your router isn’t providing a strong wireless signal throughout your home, this Wi-Fi 6 extender could be the answer. It works like a relay transmitter, broadcasting a network of its own that connects back to the router; if you install it a few rooms away from the router, it can provide a strong signal in areas where the existing coverage is weak and patchy. The Devolo WiFi 6 Repeater 3000 is fairly speedy too: the name represents a total bandwidth of 600Mbits/sec on the 2....

Disabling Auto Loading of Images in Google Chrome If you happen to use Chrome and wish to turn off the automatic loading of the images, you can do so using the following steps. Launch Chrome and click on three horizontal lines in the top-right corner. The menu should appear for you to choose the option that says “Settings.” When the Settings panel appears, scroll all the way down and click on “Show advanced settings…”...

Our Opinion Derrik actually just authored an article that inspired this question, 3 of the Best Encrypted Messenger Apps for Android. While he would love to use one of the ones he mentioned in his article and does use an encrypted SMS/MMS program, only a handful of the people he knows use those apps, so he finds himself just using Hangouts and Facebook Messenger that are not secure. That was the same opinion of other writers as well....

Our Opinion Robert admits that he’ll sometimes opt for beta software, especially for his GPU, if a stable release he is using starts experiencing issues with the hopes that the beta release will solve the problems. That said, he appreciates those who do use beta versions as it’s through their work that final releases improve. “It’s great that there are people who enjoy being part of the testing process of a given piece of software, but I’m not one of them for the most part....

The distro has all the components you need to run a gateway server, an office server and a communication server. It’s got the Apache web server, OpenLDAP directory server, Bind DNS server, Jabbered2 IM Server, Zarafa groupware, Asterisk VoIP and DansGuardian for content-control management and a lot more. The USP of the distro are its host of custom management tools to monitor and control the various components of the server....

A program called Easy Context Menu is aiming to simplify everything. The little utility wishes to solve a lot of problems and fill some gaps present in today’s computing environment. Let’s get started and see how it fares with these lofty goals. Download and Install Download the app from the Sordum website and install the file – these days this can be a minefield of drive-by add-ons like toolbars and search assistants....

If you’re interested in writing with cursive instead of keys, just follow these instructions to set up handwriting input in Windows 10. Activating the Handwriting Tool To do this, make sure you have the touch keyboard enabled on Windows 10. You’ll know you have it if you see an icon in your toolbar that looks like the following image. If you don’t, you’ll need to enable it first. Right-click the taskbar and click “Show touch keyboard button” to make it visible....

Note: by default, Windows allows you to use the TAB key as the control character to cycle through (auto-complete) the folder and file names in the command prompt, but if you are not able to do so, follow the instructions below. Enable Auto-Complete Feature Temporarily You can enable the auto-complete feature temporarily in the command prompt by invoking a simple command. To do that, press “Win + R,” type cmd and press the Enter button to open the command prompt....