How to Enable Opera Turbo in the New Version of Opera

Opera Turbo is a feature that serves to compress web pages, load them more quickly and preserve traffic if you have metered of slow connection. Some people loved to use it to change IP address (not working anymore on desktop browser, but today you can use the built-in VPN feature for that purpose). Since Opera version 46 there is no “Opera Turbo” item in the main menu and the feature appears to be hidden from your eyes. But here is how to enable the Turbo mode and continue using it in 2017. 

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How To Hide Your Skype Profile From Search And Prevent From Being Found

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You can hide your phone, your email, not to show your profile picture in Skype if you wish. But people who are concerned about privacy have long been asking the question on forums: “how can I hide my Skype profile from search?” Today we will explain how you can entirely hide yourself if you don’t want your account to be suggested in the Skype search. And vice versa – how to allow displaying your profile in search results, so anyone will be able to find you using your name and username (for old accounts created before being acquired by Microsoft and merging with LiveID).

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How to Remove Frames From App Icons on Galaxy Devices

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If you dislike icons with frames (squircle or another shape), you can switch back to old-school design without frames (works on older devices – Android 6, 7). I don’t know whether it is possible on LG, HTC, Asus, Huawei, etc, but you can do this on many modern Samsung Galaxy phones and tablets. The screenshots taken on Samsung Galaxy S10, S7 and Tab A6 (2016) SM-T585. Note, that this setting affect only a part of icons, because some of them already have drawn frames and don’t change no matter which option you choose.

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How To Sign Out From Skype 8.0 On Android

In Skype app version 7 you could completely sign out from Skype but save credentials and you could sign in again without entering your login and password. Since the update of the Android app to Skype 8.0.0 there is no such option any more. So there is only one way to log out and make sure your contacts see you are really offline

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