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You have probably noticed different services on the Internet which automatically know roughly where you are in the world. From music and video stream services to online stores, these services use a technique, called IP geolocation, which matches your approximate physical location with the IP address you are using. Whenever you connect to the Internet, your device is assigned an IP address from a pool of addresses which are allocated to the different telecommunication companies....

While Instagram is a popular platform for you to share images or videos, it does not provide you with options to download your stories and highlights. An Instagram story is an uploaded video or photo that is available for view for only 24 hours. A highlight remains at the top of your page, right below the profile details, until you decide to delete it. Downloading Instagram stories on your PC is possible, but to do it on your Android is not possible with the official Instagram app....

Shiny Charmander evolves into one of the coolest shiny Pokemon in Pokemon GO. And that Pokemon is a Shiny Charizard. But as you might expect, shiny Pokemon aren’t easy to catch because of their low spawn rate. That doesn’t mean you can’t catch one at all. In fact, if your timing is right you can catch multiple of them quite easily. So in this guide let us take a look at how to find and catch a Shiny Charmander in Pokemon GO....

There are a lot of rewards and loot you can find in the different locations in this game and Dungeons like Troll Caves and Burial Chambers in Valheim are some of them. You will come across some tough enemies and loads of loot here. But where to find them? What should you be looking for during exploration? Here’s everything you need to know about the Valheim Dungeons location. Where to Find Dungeons in Valheim?...

Mint is an essential ingredient to cook certain recipes in the game. New players who are exploring and trying new recipes often encounter new ingredients while completing Quests in Disney Dreamlight Valley, such as the 4-star ingredient Mint Chocolate, which requires Mint as the main ingredient. If you want to prepare a recipe that requires Mint and if you are curious to know how to get Mint in Disney Dreamlight Valley, then this guide is all that you need to get started....

This article will tell you how to figure out which Kindle you have. Once you know the model, you can easily find every last detail about your Kindle. What to Know The quick version: Settings > Device Options > Device Info.The Device Info box has most important information about your Kindle, including model, generation, and serial number. How Do I Find My Kindle’s Model? Once you know which exact device you have, you’ll know what features and performance to expect....

As you work with various Linux distributions, you will need to install software repositories, including third-party repositories such as Ubuntu PPAs. In most cases, the installations will work out okay. However, you may encounter the “repository does not have a release file” error as you install some software. This tutorial details what the “repository does not have a release file” error means and shows you how to solve this oft-frustrating error....

A blank, blue screen on a computer is never a welcome sight. It means something has crashed the computer so badly that immediate steps must be taken to recover the system. What Is The Blue Screen of Death? What Causes It? A Blue Screen of Death (BSOD), aka a STOP Error, appears when an issue is so serious that Windows must stop loading. It’s usually hardware or driver related; most will show a STOP code to help you figure out the root cause....

Modern Warfare 2 is the recent addition to the Call of Duty franchise and its reception is quite mixed. While it has been praised for its unique gameplay, several players are also running into different issues and crashes. Some of the players have been encountering screen tearing and flickering issues in MW2. Having said that, you cannot afford a single frame drop, screen tear, or flickering issues during the match. We have compiled some potential methods to resolve the flickering problem....

Being an online multiplayer game, COD Modern Warfare 2 has plenty of bugs, issues, and errors. One of these errors includes Dev Error 5479. You will be prompted with an error message “Application has unexpectedly stopped working in Modern Warfare 2“. You will get this error as you join or connect in a multiplayer match. Now, this can be annoying and frustrating to encounter such an error. Not to worry, we have compiled some potential workarounds to resolve this error....

Have any of your systems ever popped up with an error message concerning your IP address conflict? What internally happens is when you link your system, smart-phones, or any such devices to a local network; they all get a unique IP address. The main purpose of this is to grant a significant addressing technique for the network & its elements. This helps in distinguishing each device on the same network and converse to each other digitally....

Dropped calls are nothing new, but iOS 13 introduced a bug that made the issue measurably worse. Here’s how to stop your iPhone from dropping calls (or at least dropping them as often.) Causes for iPhone Dropping Calls Dropped calls happen for several reasons, many of which are often outside your control, including: Out of range: If you move out of range of a tower, your call might drop during the ‘handoff’ from one tower to another....

Minecraft is a sandbox game with an amazing look & colors. It is a unique choice as most games would stray away from the blocky pixel look. But couple that with the game’s sound design and you are in for a grand experience. Speaking of sound design, the game has a lot of ambient sounds and song tracks which makes every playthrough immersive. From the pleasant meadows where Bees buzz and fields to the horrifying depths of the caves, there is always something to be heard....

Connecting to a Wi-Fi network with your iPhone is easy and achievable with just a couple of taps on your screen. Once you’ve connected, you can choose to automatically join whenever you’re in range. But what happens if, for one reason or another, you need to forget a network? Fortunately, it’s just as easy to forget a network as it is to join. This article runs through the steps to forget a Wi-Fi network on your device....

To format a hard drive means to erase any information on the drive and to set up a file system so your operating system can read data from the drive and write data to the drive. You need to format a hard drive if you plan on using it in Windows. What to Know Open Disk Management, right-click the disk, choose Format. Enter a name for the drive.Under File system, choose NTFS....

The Lantern Rites Festival Event is back in Genshin Impact. The Genshin Impact’s 2.4 Live Stream has revealed that the Latern Rite Event will be returning to the game. Along with the update, a lot of things are added like new characters, new banners, and a lot of rewards throughout the event. Those are not the only things the players will be getting this update. Every player will be able to get a Free 4 Star Liyue Character in Genshin Impact through this event....

Casual Mac users don’t really care to join OS X’s Developer program, which can set you back $99 a year. Neither are they interested in Beta versions or have that kind of money to spend on something they know they won’t be using. However, Apple has now introduced a new OS X Beta Seed Program, in which users can download and test new beta versions of OS X, by simply signing up with an Apple ID....

As the holiday season comes closer, Dawning event has arrived in Destiny 2 again. Dawning is a winter event in Destiny 2 that starts in December and will ends by January. In this event, Eva Levante returns to the game to introduce several challenges, activities, and rewards. You will be in charge of getting all the ingredients to bake cookies for the characters in Destiny and obtain rewards in exchange of the cookies....

Site-specific browsers or, for some, single-site browsers, or SSBs for short, arrived on the scene, became a fad, and then almost disappeared. The term refers to “packages” that contain the bare essentials from a regular browser, bound to a URL from a specific site or, even better, a web-app. The combination can, theoretically, act and feel almost like a local application. And yet, SSBs failed because they initially didn’t “act and feel like local applications....

KMail is a feature-rich desktop email client for KDE that is part of the Kontact suite of PIM (Personal Information Management) applications. Last week, we covered email template creation in KMail, and this week, we will continue the series with a look at KMail’s sophisticated filtering system. An email filter allows you to categorize incoming emails based on a plethora of criteria and then assign them attributes, move them, or even reply to them based on those attributes....