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How to Change IP Address & GeoLocation for Web Browsing with Epic

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Ever wanted to change your IP address or geolocation when using the web? Whether for privacy reasons, or to access certain regions web content, with Epic Browser, you can easily do either.

While the privacy use-case is fairly obvious (maybe you just want to be a bit of anonymity while you browse the web), the region restriction scenario is a bit different. Sometimes when browsing the web you may occasionally run into region restricted, and thus your home IP address (or even your entire country) can not access a particular website, web content, some web video, or some similar web service. For web browsing specific purposes, an easy option to get around those region restrictions is by using the free Epic Browser, which includes a built-in encrypted proxy that allows you to not only change your IP address but also change the IP geolocation. With Epic Browser, you can pick a new IP geolocation for browsing the web that is located in the USA west coast, USA east coast, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, India, or Singapore.


Epic Browser is available for Mac OS, Windows, and Linux. We’re obviously focusing on the Mac here, but everything would be the same on Windows or Linux.

Note this only applies to changing the IP address and IP location for web traffic and web activity contained within the Epic Browser, similar to using a TOR browser. If you’re trying to completely hide your IP address for all internet activity and other apps on a computer, you’d want to use a VPN to route of your internet traffic through, and that’s another topic entirely.

How to Change IP Location for Web Browsing with Epic

  1. Get EpicBrowser here for Mac, Windows, or Linux
  2. Install it as usual by dragging the Epic Browser app into the /Applications folder
  3. Launch Epic Browser, then click the little cable connection button in the upper right corner to pull down the Proxy list
  4. Change the IP geolocation and IP address in Epic

  5. Make sure the Epic proxy is turned ON, then select the location you’d like to be your new IP geolocation (current options are: USA west coast, USA east coast, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Netherlands, India, Singapore)
  6. Choose the IP location in Epic

  7. Wait a moment for the proxy connection has established, you can confirm your IP address and IP location has changed by going to a website like “https://whatismyipaddress.com” or “whatismyip.com”
  8. Browse the web with Epic as usual, or access the region restricted web content you were originally aiming for

There are quite a few websites that are region restricted. For example, a fair amount of US news and US media websites are not viewable in Europe, and many movies are also specific to US audiences. And there are other sites on the web that are only visible to Europeans or other countries, and not the USA. Using the Epic browser proxy, you can access most of those, assuming you pick the proper geolocation.

You’ll find that Epic Browser looks like Chrome, that’s because it’s built on Chromium. It also defaults to storing no activity or history, so after you quit the app no cookies or anything of that nature will be stored. Thus this is not a practical web browser for daily use, nor is it practical to be your default web browser on the Mac, it’s really generally best used for specific circumstances where you want to mask your IP address and access a region restricted website or service.

If you’re wondering how it works, Epic describes the proxy as follows:

“Epic’s encrypted proxy hides your IP address and location. You will appear to be in the country you select. Encryption and IP masking protects your browsing from hackers, trackers, your ISP and the government.

Since you will appear to be in a new location, sites such as Facebook, Gmail and others may require additional authentication. Don’t worry that’s actually a good sign and more secure.

Your browsing speeds may be slightly slower. If a site doesn’t load, try turning the proxy off (some sites block proxies).

Plugins can still leak your IP address. For maximum privacy, set plugins to click-to-play or disable them in Epic’s Settings (under Privacy click on Content Settings).“

You can read more at the Epic Browser home page if interested.

At the moment, Epic is available for desktop, but there are other similar services out there, including TOR for the desktop, and the TOR Onion Browser for iOS.

If you know of any other similar services, web browsers, or features aimed at accessing region restricted content, enhancing privacy or security, or otherwise, share with us in the comments!

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How to Disable Chrome Automatic Sign-In to Google Services

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The latest versions of Google Chrome have a feature called Chrome sign-in that causes the Chrome web browser to login to itself when you login to another Google web service like Gmail or YouTube. In practice this means you’ll have your Google profile picture tucked into the upper right corner of every Chrome window which is linked to your Google account.

Some Chrome users find Chrome sign-in to be great, while others may not like it. If you fall into the latter camp and don’t like automatic Chrome Google sign-in, then fortunately the latest versions of Chrome make it easier to disable the Chrome automatic sign-in feature. We’ll show you how to turn this capability off.

How to Disable Chrome Automatic Google Sign-In

  1. Open Chrome and update to a newer version if you have not done so already
  2. Enter in the URL address bar the following Chrome settings link *:
  3. chrome://settings/privacy

  4. Locate ‘Allow Chrome sign-in’ and toggle this feature OFF
  5. How to disable Chrome sign-in to Google

  6. Quit and relaunch Chrome for the change to take effect

That’s it, now you can use Chrome web browser to login to sites like Gmail or YouTube, without logging into the Chrome web browser itself automatically.

* You can also access the same Chrome sign-in settings toggle by going to Chrome Settings then to “Advanced” and finding it under the “Privacy and Security” section.

This trick should work to disable Chrome automatic sign-in to Google web services on every Chrome web browser on every platform that Chrome is available on, including Mac OS, Windows, Linux, and Chrome OS.

This is just one of a variety of more recent changes to the Chrome browser which have been somewhat polarizing to longtime Chrome users, a few others include hiding the full URL and subdomains of some website links, the redesigned UI theme, and some curiously persistent Chrome autofill suggestions with certain entries that weren’t intended to be saved. Fortunately all of these issues are relatively simple to adjust.

If you know of any other methods to disable the automatic Google / Chrome login feature, share with us in the comments below! Otherwise, feel free to browse around other Chrome browser tips here.

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How to Show Full URL & Subdomains in Google Chrome 69

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The latest versions of Google Chrome web browser default to not showing the full URL of a website, stripping away any subdomains, including the “www” subdomain prefix, and URL schemes, which are labeled as ‘trivial’ by Chrome. This is controversial given that many websites use subdomains and “www” to host completely different websites, but nonetheless the setting is the new default in the Chrome browser.

If you’re a Google Chrome browser user and you want to always show the full URL including “www” or any subdomain, you can re-enable the display of full URL schemes in Chrome 69 or newer.


The setting adjustment applies to all new versions of Chrome, and while the screenshots demonstrated here are for Google Chrome on a Mac, the setting is the exact same on Google Chrome for Windows, Chrome for Linux, Chrome for Chrome OS, and Chrome for Android too. Thus, regardless of what operating system you’re using Chrome on, if you’d like to you can adjust the setting to show the complete URL and subdomains.

How to Make Chrome Show Subdomains & Full URL Again

  1. Open Chrome if you haven’t done so already
  2. In the URL bar of chrome, enter the following link to access the Chrome URL subdomain setting:
  3. chrome://flags/#omnibox-ui-hide-steady-state-url-scheme-and-subdomains

  4. Locate the setting named “Omnibox UI Hide Steady-State URL Scheme for Trivial Subdomains”
  5. Pull down the menu next to “Omnibox UI Hide Steady-State URL Scheme for Trivial Subdomains” and choose “Disabled” from the dropdown menu list
  6. Show the full URL and subdomain in Chrome

  7. Restart the Chrome browser (you can click ‘Relaunch Now’ once it appears, or manually quit and relaunch Chrome) for changes to take effect in Chrome

When you relaunch Chrome with “Omnibox UI Hide Steady-State URL Scheme for Trivial Subdomains” set to ‘Disabled’ you’ll see the full URL and any or all subdomains for any domain or link again.

This URL and subdomain setting applies to Chrome in MacOS, Windows, Linux, ChromeOS, and Android.

Why this change was made in Chrome isn’t entirely clear, but a somewhat similar URL obfuscating default setting exists in Safari on the Mac, which defaults to showing only the domain (including the subdomain however) while stripping away the rest of the URL. Many Safari users also want to see the full link however, in which case users can toggle a setting to show the full website URL in Safari for Mac as instructed here. It’s uncertain why many popular modern web browsers are going out of there way to hide portions of website URLs is not entirely clear, but many web users do like to see the complete URL of a website, and web developers in particular are generally highly attuned to full website URLs.

Another notable change in the latest versions of Chrome browser is the redesigned interface, and while that’s much more of a visual preference some users may like to remove and disable the new Chrome theme UI and return to the classic appearance of the browser.

If you have any tips, thoughts, or suggestions about Chrome showing or hiding subdomains of a URL, URL schemes, or otherwise, share with us in the comments below!

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How to Disable Google Chrome UI Theme Redesign and Return to Classic UI

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If you have updated Google Chrome web browser recently you likely noticed there is a new themed visual overhaul called Material Design that comes along for the ride. The new themed Chrome appears to come as the default in Chrome version 69 or later. While some users may be pleased with the new theme look in Chrome and the different user interface, others may prefer Chrome to respect the operating systems default visual appearance instead of using a unique theme.

If you’d like to disable the newly redesigned Chrome browser themed interface, you can do so by toggling a vaguely named setting in the Chrome app.


Disabling the theme is demonstrated here on Chrome for a Mac, but the flag and setting to disable the new theme should be the same on Chrome for Windows and Linux too.

How to Disable Chrome UI Redesign in Chrome 69+

Want to return Chrome to the regular classic interface rather than the new themed appearance defaulted in Chrome 69 or later? Here is how to do that:

  1. In the URL bar of chrome, enter the following link:
  2. chrome://flags/#top-chrome-md

  3. Search for “UI Layout for the browser’s top chrome” *
  4. Pull down the submenu next to “UI Layout for the browser’s top chrome” and select “Normal” from the dropdown list of options
  5. How to disable Chrome interface theme redesign

  6. Restart the Chrome browser (quit and relaunch) for the visual change to take effect

Once Chrome relaunches, Chrome will no longer feature the redesigned rounded interface that differs from the rest of the operating system, and instead it should have the regular classic interface again.

Here’s the regular Chrome interface UI renabled:

Chrome back to normal interface UI

And here’s what the newly redesigned Chrome UI looked like before:

Chrome UI theme redesign

While this is demonstrated on Chrome for Mac, the setting should be the exact same in Chrome for Windows and Chrome for Linux too, because each uses the same settings://flags system, and each now features the redesigned interface for the latest versions.

That’s all there is to it. You can always change the interface back again if you’d like, or choose one of the other drop-down settings from “UI Layout for the browser’s top chrome” and see what it looks like or if it suits your visual preferences.

* The curiously labeled “UI Layout for the browser’s top chrome” and the associated paragraph attempting to explain the setting is a bit of a nondescript word salad, but believe it or not changing that setting to “Normal” will remove the new theme interface in Chrome and return Chrome to the default classic user interface of the operating system.

If you enjoyed this tip, you may appreciate some of our other Chrome tips here too.

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How to Find Windows Product Key via Command in Windows or Linux

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Have you ever needed to find a Windows product key? Maybe you’re troubleshooting a Windows PC, planning on re-installing Windows 10 in a virtual machine, installing on a PC, or installing into Boot Camp on a Mac, or maybe you have a PC computer running Windows that needs the Windows product key for some reason or another.

This article will show you three different ways for how to find a Windows product key directly from Windows itself on the computer, without having to rely on tracking down the Windows product key card from a box, email, or COA. So if you lost or misplaced any of those, don’t worry, the methods covered will work to retrieve the Windows product key directly from Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, or even Linux. And yes if you’re running Windows in Boot Camp on a Mac or in a VM, these tricks work there too.


This article is obviously aimed at users who need their Windows product key for whatever reason. Nonetheless, it’s worth remembering that you can download the Windows 10 ISO directly from Microsoft for free, and you can then use that ISO to create a Windows 10 installer drive for Boot Camp, install Windows 10 into VirtualBox (also free), into Parallels or VMWare, or even for installing on PC hardware. And no, you do not need to activate in order to install Windows 10 from the ISO, nor do you need a product key, but of course there are some limitations with running Windows without activation, of which you can always activate later if needed. Anyway, assuming you have an authorized version of Windows running somewhere and you need the product key, read on to discover three ways to retrieve it.

How to Get the Windows Product Key via cmd in Windows

The simplest way to find the Windows Product Key license is to turn to a privileged command prompt in Windows and execute a command that retrieves the software license product key.

From Windows, open a new Administrator Command Prompt window and then enter the following syntax:

wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey

Hit Enter / Return for the Windows product key to be displayed, it is a 25 character alphanumeric string in the format of the following:

XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX

That’s it. You can get the Windows product key on nearly any Windows installation using this method.

How to Find Windows Product License Key via Powershell

You can also retrieve a Windows product key from Windows Power Shell with the following command string, entered into a privileged command prompt:

powershell "(Get-WmiObject -query ‘select * from SoftwareLicensingService’).OA3xOriginalProductKey"

Regardless of which method you use, the product key will be the same (assuming it’s being run on the same installation of Windows anyway).

How to Get Windows Product Key via Linux

You can also get the Windows Product Key from Linux by entering the following privileged command:

sudo cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/MSDM | tail -c 32 | xargs -0 echo

Executed correctly with the proper syntax and you’ll find your Windows product key immediately reported back.

This handy linux trick was found on Twitter by @brandonprry and is perfect for users who dual boot Windows and Linux on a computer. And no, in case you were wondering, the linux specific trick does not seem to work from a Mac running Windows in Boot Camp, but if you do know of a method to retrieve a Windows product key used in Boot Camp from Mac OS, share it with us in the comments below.

You can use any of the three methods outlined above to find the Windows product key, obviously two are specific to Windows while the third applies to Linux. There are other options available as well, including using Windows specific utilities like ProduKey which can reveal a Windows product key as well as a Microsoft Office product key, which is quite helpful if you’ve misplaced those as well.

Where can I find the Windows product key usually?

Aside from using the above methods to find a Windows Product Key, the typical places you’d find the 25 digit license key code are; on the COA sticker, in the physical software box, or in an email if you bought Windows digitally.

As you may already know, the most typical place for the Windows product key to be found is on the shiny COA (Certificate of Authenticity) sticker adhered to the enclosure of a Windows PC, whether it’s a laptop or desktop, but maybe that sticker was lost, peeled off, damaged, or never included at all.

If you bought a physical copy of Windows, the product key is typically included in the box itself on a piece of paper, but of course that can be lost or misplaced.

And if you bought Windows digitally, you typically get the product key in an email instead.

But if you’re running Windows in a virtual machine, or on a Mac in Boot Camp, or on a home-built PC or even some laptops, the Certificate of Authenticity sticker for Windows that includes the product key will not be available, and perhaps you long ago lost the email or box containing the product key itself. Or maybe you’re on the road and just don’t have the materials with you, or access to the email or other methods of obtaining the license key. This happens fairly often, regardless of how, where, and why you’re using Windows, which is why it can be so helpful to retrieve the product key directly from software.

Obviously if you don’t use Windows then this will be of no use to you, but Windows remains the most common operating system in corporate, government, and educational environments, and that’s unlikely to change anytime soon. So even if you’re a heavy Mac user or Linux user, you may still be working with Windows from time-to-time, and this can apply to you as well.

If you know of any other tips, tricks, or methods to obtain the Windows product key license number from Windows, Linux, or Mac OS, share them with us in the comments below!

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How to Disable Website “Show Notification” Requests in Chrome

written by applenws

Do you enjoy being pestered with annoying “Show Notification” requests from the many websites you visit from Chrome? Maybe you do, or maybe you don’t.

You’re likely familiar with the Chrome message that pops up intrusively on so may web pages, reading like “someURL .com wants to Show Notifications – Block / Allow”. Since these Show Notification requests are so pervasive, you’re probably quite skilled at clicking on “Block” by now in Chrome, but perhaps you’re tired of repeatedly doing so.

Fortunately you can completely disable the ability for websites to hassle you to show notifications in Chrome. Once you turn this feature off, you won’t see anymore of the annoying “blahblah wants to show notifications” requests popping up relentlessly across the web when using the Google Chrome web browser.

How to Stop Websites from Asking to Show Notifications in Chrome

This demonstrates how to disable Show Notifications in Chrome on a Mac, but this applies the same to Windows and Linux as well.

  1. Open the Chrome browser if you haven’t done so already
  2. Enter the following in the URL bar then hit Return / Enter:
  3. chrome://settings/content/notifications 

  4. Flip the switch next to “Ask before sending (recommended)” to OFF
  5. Toggle this switch OFF to block show notification requests in Chrome

  6. That text under Notifications should now read as “Blocked”, signifying that Notification requests have been disabled in Chrome

With Notification Requests disabled you can use Chrome without being pestered to show website notifications

Now you can browse the web with Chrome and not be continuously hassled to receive and show notifications for so many websites.

This obviously applies to Chrome browser, but you can also disable web notification requests in Safari on the Mac too, where the haranguing requests are just as annoying. Better yet, apply it to both browsers, that way you whichever you use as your default won’t bother you with unwanted notification requests.

Obviously if you like the website notifications feature or you’re fond of the requests in Chrome, then you won’t want to disable this capability, but that’s up to you. You can always reverse the action as well.

How to Re-Enable Website Notification Requests in Chrome

Want to get website notification requests in Chrome again? Just re-enable the feature:

  1. Open Chrome and visit:
  2. chrome://settings/content/notifications

  3. Find the “Blocked” option and toggle it back on again, where it will read “Ask before sending (recommended)”

Example of Show Notification request from a website in Chrome

By re-enabling the feature you can browse the web as usual, and you’ll be back to having notification requests all over the place again. Yippy.

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How to Count Lines of a File by Command Line

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Need to get the line count of a text file or document? Counting lines of any file is easy at the command line, and the command for line counting is the same in all modern Unix based operating systems, meaning this line counting trick will work the same on Mac OS and Mac OS X, Linux, BSD, and even Windows with Bash shell.

For our purposes here we will use the most direct line counting tool available at the command line, wc. The wc utility is able to display line count, as well as reveal word count and character count. Our focus here is of course on the former, so we’ll be showing how to use wc for counting lines of any text file provided as input.


wc defines a line as “a string of characters delimited by a newline character”, meaning only unique new lines will be counted as a line. So if there are no newline characters in a file, and the file is just one enormous sentence or single command string, it would be reported as one line.

How to Count Lines of Files from the Terminal with wc

  1. Open a Terminal window if you have not done so already (in Mac OS the Terminal application is found in /Applications/Utilities/)
  2. At the command prompt enter the following command syntax, replacing “filename” with the file you want to count lines for
  3. wc -l filename

  4. Hit Return, you will see the line count of the file printed before the file name

How to count lines of a file or text document by command line

As you likely guessed, the -l flag (lower case L) is for “line”.

For example, running the wc -l command on a file located on the desktop called “exampleFileToCountLines.txt ” would look like the following:

% wc -l ~/Desktop/exampleFileToCountLines.txt
1213 /Users/Paul/Desktop/exampleFileToCountLines.txt

As you can see in this example, the line count of the text file given is 1213, meaning the file is 1,213 lines long.

The wc command works the same on any modern Unix based operating system, including Mac OS, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows with Bash, and more.

Using wc to Count Lines, Words, and Character Counts of a File

You can also run the wc command without the -l flag, which will then reveal the line count, the word count, and the character count, in that order. Like:

wc /etc/hosts
9 32 214 /etc/hosts

Contrast that command output to the same command with wc -l flag only:

wc -l /etc/hosts
9 /etc/hosts

This is only counting the lines of a text file as input and it does not modify the file at all. If you do wish to modify the file you can manually add line numbers to a text file via command line.

How to count lines of piped output data with wc

You can also use wc to count lines of any data piped into it, for example from cat or ls:

cat /etc/hosts | wc -l

The output in that scenario will simply be the number of lines in the file, like “9”.

The wc command is pretty neat, you can read the manual page for wc to get even more ideas and tricks for usage.

wc line count tool command line

This is obviously all geared for the command line, but there are other ways of getting line and character counts of files as well.

You can manually count them out for short files, third party Mac apps like BBEdit show line number by default, and if you get the little cousin to BBEdit known as TextWrangler then you can go about showing line numbers in TextWrangler too. You can also make a DIY Word and character counter tool for the Mac as a Service. And if you happen to already know the line number of a file you want to access, you can jump directly to a specific line number in TextEdit, though unfortunately TextEdit doesn’t show line numbers, which seems like an oversight.

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How to Stop Autoplay Video in Chrome

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Have you ever wondered how to stop autoplay video in Chrome? You’re not alone, since most users consider autoplaying video and autoplaying audio on the web to be annoying. The good news is that with a little secret settings adjustment you can easily disable autoplay video and autoplay audio on Chrome for Mac, Windows, Linux, Chrome OS, and Android.

The walkthrough below will show you exactly how to disable autoplay video and audio in the Google Chrome web browser. This goes beyond muting a tab or browser window in Chrome that is playing audio or video, as it actively prevents any Chrome browser tab or window from starting the media playing in the first place. Once activated, you must manually start playing audio or video in Google Chrome, all autoplay events will end.

How to Stop All Autoplay Video & Audio in Chrome

This works the same to end autoplay video and audio with Google Chrome for every operating system the browser works on, and perhaps the best thing about it is you won’t need to install a plugin or extension because the capability is native in Chrome. Here’s what you’ll need to do:

  1. Open Chrome or Chrome Canary if you have not done so already
  2. Go to “chrome://flags” in the URL bar and hit Return/Enter
  3. In the search box at the top, type in “autoplay”
  4. Look for “Autoplay policy” and pull down the submenu, then choose “Document user activation is required”
  5. Stopping autoplay video and audio in Chrome

  6. Relaunch Chrome for the setting to take effect
  7. How to stop Autoplay video and audio in Chrome

You can immediately test it out by going to any webpage that autoplays video or audio, like a Bloomberg video article or Youtube.

All video or audio now requires you to click on it before it will play (hence, user activation being required), nothing will autoplay without you allowing it to play in the first place.

Speaking of YouTube, you can also simply disable autoplay on Youtube videos if you’d prefer to do that exclusively, rather than turning off all autoplay in the entire web browser.

How do I re-enable Chrome Autoplay Video and Audio?

If you decide you miss those autoplaying sounds and videos, and now want autoplay video and autoplay audio back again in Chrome, that’s just as simple:

  • Back in the Chrome browser, go to chrome://flags/#autoplay-policy
  • Choose “Default” as the option from the submenu pulldown
  • Relaunch Chrome

Once the app relaunches, autoplay will be back again for web video and web audio.

This obviously applies to only the Chrome web browser, though not just on the Mac or Windows PC, but on all Chrome platforms. It’s worth remembering that you can also stop autoplay video in Safari on the Mac if you’re a Safari user as well.

Autoplay video and audio is often maligned and rarely appreciated, we have covered this topic many times for many different apps, including how to stop autoplaying music over car Bluetooth from an iPhone, stop autoplay in the App Store, Facebook, Twitter, and more. Another approach for iOS Safari users is to use a content ad blocker on iPhone and iPad which will stop autoplaying media as well as advertisements if you use an extra aggressive blocker, but if you go that route then please remember to whitelist sites that you like and want to support, like ours.

One perk of blocking autoplay video on Chrome is that you’ll find the web browser may use less system resources, and you won’t have to hunt down tabs making noise and mute background tabs or windows that are making sounds from a video or sound embed.

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How to Get iMessage Access on PC in Windows or Linux

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iMessage is the wonderful messaging platform for iPhone, iPad, and Mac users that allows for free and easy messaging between other iMessage users. One common question regarding iMessage is if there is a way to run iMessage on a Windows PC or in Linux.

The answer is a big complicated, but in short, yes you can technically get iMessages accessed on a PC, but how it is accomplished is probably not quite what you expect.


For this to work, you will need a Mac. Yes, even if you’re aiming to get and use iMessages on the PC itself. This is very much a workaround, but it does work to send, receive, and have complete iMessage functionality from a Windows or Linux environment, as long as you have a Mac to begin with.

Before getting into the details about having iMessage access in a Windows or Linux environment, let’s backup a bit: First, and this may be obvious to most Apple users, but there is no native iMessage client for Windows (or Android for that matter), as Apple allows imessages only in Apple products like a Mac, iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch. Second, it’s very difficult and complex to get iMessage working on a PC even with Mac OS installed via Hackintosh methods, thus we’re ruling out that option.

So what works to get iMessage on a PC then? The answer resides with having a Mac with a stable internet connection that is logged into the iMessage account you want to use and get access to from the PC, and then using the built-in screen sharing feature in Mac OS to remotely access that computer and it’s messaging client via Windows PC (or linux).

The basics of how this approach works to gain access to iMessage on Windows or a Linux PC is as as so: you enable Screen Sharing on the Mac with iMessage. Then, on the Windows PC you want to access and get iMessages on, you screen share into that aforementioned Mac. That might sound complicated but it is actually pretty easy to setup.

How to Get iMessage on a PC

  1. On the Mac with iMessage, you will need to enable Screen Sharing on the Mac via the Sharing Preference Panel
  2. Enable Screen sharing on the Mac

  3. Next on the PC to get and use iMessages from, you will need a VNC client app (RealVNC or TightVNC are two common options for Windows users, TigerVNC and RealVNC are options for Linux )
  4. Open the VNC client in Windows and connect to the Mac with Screen Sharing enabled, do this by pointing the VNC client at the IP address and then logging into the Mac with a valid user login
  5. Connect to the Mac via Screen Sharing VNC in Windows to get access to iMessages on Mac

  6. Now from the Windows PC you are remotely logged into the Mac and have full screen access to that Mac, including access to iMessages via the Mac Messages app
  7. iMessage on PC via Screen Sharing of a Mac

Remember screen sharing allows for full remote control of a computer over the internet or LAN, so this is really only appropriate for using your own iMessages from your very own Apple ID from your own Mac.

You’ll notice this does not depend on any Hackintosh method, nor any virtualization of Mac OS or any other tweaks, mods, or third party apps. In fact there are no third party iMessage apps for Windows or for PC currently, and at the moment Apple does not offer an iMessage client on Windows or PC either.

For what it’s worth, this same screen sharing feature in Mac OS can also be used from Mac to Mac very easily via the iMessage app itself, but since the Mac has Messages app and direct iMessage access there is less need to do so for this purpose anyway.

What about using iMessages on PC via iCloud?

iMessages in iCloud is a new feature with High Sierra and iOS 11, but (currently anyway) this does not allow iMessages to be accessed from iCloud.com.

It is possible that one day Apple will build a web based iMessage client for icloud.com like they have iCloud apps for Pages, Keynote, Reminders, Mail, and similar iOS apps, but at the moment there is no Messages app for iCloud.com or iMessage ability on icloud.com.

Do you know of another way to get iMessages on a PC through Windows, Linux, Chrome OS or even Android? Perhaps a trick that doesn’t involve using a PC with VNC to remotely access a Mac with the Messages app running? Then let us know in the comments below!

Source: OSX Daily

How to Get iMessage Access on PC in Windows or Linux was last modified: July 23rd, 2017 by applenws
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How to Exit the MAN Command and Quit Man Pages Properly

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The “man” command is short for manual, and with it you can summon detailed manual page and information on nearly any other command or command line utility that is available, including using an extensive man document search to find related manual pages. While man pages are frequently used and referenced, many users don’t know how to properly exit our quit out of the man command. That may sound a little silly or newbie-ish, but even longtime unix users may not know how to quit out of man (let alone quitting VIM for that matter – both are more common than you’d think).

We get this question often, and not to worry; exiting the man command is extremely easy and it’s universal, meaning you can quit man the same on any unix OS that includes the feature, whether that is Mac OS, Mac OS X, linux, BSD, or otherwise.

The Trick to Exiting man Command: q

Just press “q” key to quit out of a man page. Yes it is that easy, simply pressing “q” will exit out of the man command properly.

This should be easy for Mac users to remember because the Command + Q keyboard shortcut quits an application, so it’s already fairly similar – just drop the Command key and press “Q” alone and you will quit out of any open man page.

If you want to try this out yourself, go ahead and launch the Terminal application and then open any man page by typing “man (command)” for example “man ipconfig” (you can quick launch man pages through the Terminal Help menu by the way, or right-click on a command and launch one from there).

Of course what not to do is the button mash: a common theme is for many command line users to mash Control+C, Control+Z or Control+X to try and suspend or exit MAN, I have seen this many times (and ages ago when first exploring the command line did the same thing myself) but all that will do is suspend man which then must be terminated separately. That’s not the right approach, and it’s actually harder than just pressing “q” anyway – so if you have that habit, try to remember to just press ‘q’ instead, it’s a lot easier.

Do you know of any other tricks or easy ways to remember exiting manual pages or to better work with man command? Let us know in the comments.

Source: OSX Daily

How to Exit the MAN Command and Quit Man Pages Properly was last modified: June 4th, 2017 by applenws
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