If you access multiple servers throughout the work day, then being able to tell which one you are working with at a glance based on a color scheme can be very useful. Today’s SuperUser Q&A post helps a reader achieve a colorful nirvana in his work environment. Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites....
Love it or hate it, there’s no denying that pretty much everyone you meet is going to have one opinion or another on the topic of Bitcoin. The digital, decentralized, encrypticized currency that only exists on the Internet and bows to no nation, Bitcoin has been predicted to either become the linchpin that completely revolutionizes how the world economy works, or could just lose the Winklevoss Twins a whole lot of their precious Facebook money when it eventually tanks....
The Run Dialog can serve as an easy and very useful way to open programs on your computer, but just how does it know where those applications are located at on your system? Today’s SuperUser Q&A post has the answer to a curious reader’s question. Today’s Question & Answer session comes to us courtesy of SuperUser—a subdivision of Stack Exchange, a community-driven grouping of Q&A web sites. RELATED: How to Edit Your System PATH for Easy Command Line Access in Windows...
To do basic arithmetic in Word, you normally have to open the Windows calculator to get your answers, then manually insert them into Word. However, there is a third-party add-in for Word that provides a popup calculator that will calculate numbers in your document, and automatically insert the answer. For example, if you’re a teacher creating a worksheet with some basic math problems for your students, you can easily create an answer key for yourself using this popup calculator....
Windows 10 includes “Work Access” options, which you’ll find under Accounts in the Settings app. These are intended for people who need to connect to an employer or school’s infrastructure with their own devices. Work Access provides you access to the organization’s resources and gives the organization some control over your device. These options may seem a bit complicated, but they’re really not. If you need to use Work Access, your organization will give you connection information and explain what you need to do to set things up and gain access to the organization’s resources....
Checking the history of a printer to see what was printed can be somewhat difficult to monitor. As your toner level doesn’t convey how much the accessory has been used, you’ll need to enable logging within Windows 10. Here’s how. Enable Logging for Recently Printed Documents By default, your printed document history will be wiped after each document has finished printing. You can change this setting to enable you to see a list of your recently printed documents from the print queue for your printer....
While it’s easy to share Google Slides using a link or publishing it to the web, you may want a single non-editable file that you can share privately. By converting the slideshow to a video or GIF, your visitors can watch it as you intended. Here are three methods to try. Convert Using PowerPoint Microsoft PowerPoint offers both video and GIF exporting. So, if you have PowerPoint, you can open the Google Slides presentation in it and create the video or GIF from there....
Chromebooks and Chrome OS have a full library of fun, funky themes that you can use to spice up your browsing experience. Not only that, but with features like “Surprise Me”, your background wallpaper will continuously rotate through the Google Image archive to give you a fresh image to look at each and every day. Here’s how to customize your Chromebook’s appearance settings to make these laptops feel like your very own....
If you no longer want to communicate with a person, it’s a good idea to delete their contact from your WhatsApp list. This way they no longer clutter your chat list, and we’ll show you how to do that from your iPhone or Android phone. When you delete a WhatsApp contact, you basically delete the contact from your phone’s address book. This means the contact is entirely gone from your phone, and it will not be available in other apps on your phone....
After opening the Facebook app, tap the hamburger menu button. Here, choose your profile from the top. Tap the three-dot menu button. Select the “Activity Log” option. You’ll now see a list of all actions done on the social network. This will likely be quite a long list. Now, tap the “Manage Activity” icon from the top toolbar. From the pop-up, select the “Your Posts” option. You’ll now see a reverse-chronological list of all your posts....
If you don’t like the automatic capitalization where Microsoft Word corrects what it thinks to be errors with capital letters, you can completely disable that feature or just customize it to meet your needs. To disable the capitalization autocorrect, click the “File” tab. On the backstage screen, click “Options” in the list of items on the left. Click “Proofing” in the list of items on the left side of the Word Options dialog box....
Boot up or restart your Mac and it’ll make the traditional “startup chime” sound”. This lets you know the Mac is starting up properly, but it isn’t appropriate if you’re booting up your Mac in a quiet location like a library, or if someone is sleeping nearby. You can easily silence the sound on your next boot, if you know what to do. But silencing the sound permanently will require a terminal command that changes a hidden setting....
If you’re looking for a cross-platform drawing tool, look no further than the Google Chrome Canvas web app. It links to your Google account, allowing you to save and edit your drawings on multiple devices. Here’s how to use it. The first time you access Google Chrome Canvas, you’ll be asked to sign in to your Google account. Click “Get Started” and use your account credentials to begin. Opening, Creating, or Deleting a Chrome Canvas Drawing When you open Google Chrome Canvas for the first time, a new drawing will appear by default....
Why Do I Want To Do This? If you live in a small apartment this tutorial isn’t really for you as a centrally placed Echo unit will likely meet all your microphone-coverage needs. If you live in a bigger apartment or house, however, you’ve likely found the limitations of the Echo. While it’s great at picking up your voice from an adjoining room, sensitive microphones or not, it’s difficult to issue commands to Alexa when you’re in the basement, upstairs, or elsewhere in your home....
When you create a table in Word, you can have the table automatically resized to fit the contents. However, sometimes you may want to freeze the size of the cells in the rows and columns so they will not change. This is easy to accomplish. Open the Word file containing the table for which you want to freeze the size of the cells and find the table in the document....
There may be times when you want to hide information in certain cells or hide entire rows or columns in an Excel worksheet. Maybe you have some extra data you reference in other cells that does not need to be visible. We will show you how to hide cells and rows and columns in your worksheets and then show them again. RELATED: How to Hide or Unhide Columns in Microsoft Excel...
If you’ve ever wished you could create an MP3 from a favorite video file, then today is your lucky day. With simple, open source software, you can strip the audio and convert it to your favorite format in a matter of minutes! Most people may not realize that video files usually consist of three parts, there’s the video, the audio, and the wrapper. The wrapper is the part that we’re most familiar with and is expressed as something like ....
Accessibility options are built into Windows to help users who may have trouble using their computers normally get a little more functionality out of their favorite OS. Though Windows 10 does innovate on many features we’ve come to expect from older versions of the operating system, for the most part Microsoft has opted to keep much of the core functionality of its accessibility features the same to make it easier both on users and developers to adapt without much trouble in between the old system and the new....
Modern versions of Mac OS X no longer need you to repair disk permissions. However, that’s not the only issue that can occur with a disk or file system. Mac OS X contains a variety of tools for repairing disk, partition, and file system errors. These options work like chkdsk on Windows, checking for disk and file system errors and repairing them. You can perform a check from within Mac OS X, but it may sometimes be necessary to use recovery mode to fix problems....
Microsoft Office applications allow you to customize the ribbon by adding commands to the default tabs on the ribbon and creating your own custom tabs, as well as customizing the Quick Access Toolbar. However, you may want to reset the ribbon to the default settings. NOTE: Resetting all ribbon customizations also resets all Quick Access Toolbar customizations. If you want preserve your customizations before resetting the ribbon and Quick Access Toolbar, you can backup your customizations....
