Track Games for eShop Deals The Switch eShop has a thousand or more games on sale at any one time, which means there are plenty of bargains to be had. Trawling your way through these titles to separate the wheat from the chaff can be time-consuming and often feels like more hassle than it’s worth. You can add games to your Switch wishlist by tapping on the “heart” icon on the game’s store page....

To cut a video, you basically record the part of the video that you wish to keep. VLC then saves this part as an independent video file in the default recording director. We’ll also show you how to find and change this directory if you want. RELATED: 10 Useful Features Hidden in VLC, The Swiss Army Knife of Media Players Cut a Video in VLC Media Player To start video trimming, first, launch your video with the free VLC Media Player app....

Internal Batteries Medical implants that are already inside patients today generally use internal batteries. Lithium batteries are common, but not the sort you’d find in your phone. These batteries have a risk of exploding, you don’t want to be anywhere near them when that happens, much less have one inside you! Cardiac pacemakers have been using lithium/iodine-polyvinylpyridine batteries for decades. A technology that was first patented in 1972! This is an early practical example of a solid-state battery since it has a solid rather than liquid electrolyte....

You might be thinking… isn’t it working already? What you don’t realize is that Adobe Reader also installs an IFilter that helps Windows index your documents. Installation Since our goal is to banish Adobe reader from our system, we’ll need to fix download the IFilter and install it. Before it will work we’ll need to rebuild the index. Type in Indexing into the start menu search box to launch Indexing Options....

Why Are Default Wi-Fi Names a Security Risk? Every component of your home network can be a security risk if that component is poorly managed. Overall, your Wi-Fi network name (or SSID) is less of a security risk than, say, using really outdated encryption or a very old router that no longer receives security updates. Nonetheless, there are some very good reasons to change your SSID away from the default one that came with your router....

What I’ve done is throw together a very simple application that runs in the background and assigns the hotkey Win+H to toggle hidden files. There’s no user interface to keep it from wasting memory, but you can always customize it using the AutoHotkey script provided below instead. Note: This application was based on an AutoHotkey script created by Lifehacker commenter turnersd, fully credited below. Toggle Hidden Files Once you’ve downloaded and run the application, all you have to do is hit the Win+H shortcut key while you have any folder open:...

To install this application, you’ll have to run the setup application as well as the Visual C++ redistributable package, unless you have visual studio installed, which you probably don’t. My Expose Download: http://blogs.labo-dotnet.com/simon/archive/2006/11/08/11485.aspx Visual C++ 2005 Redist package http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=32BC1BEE-A3F9-4C13-9C99-220B62A191EE&displaylang=en Once you have it installed, you can just press the F9 key, and you’ll immediately be presented with a tiled view. If you have a video playing, it will continue to play in the tiled view....

Luckily this is a very simple tweak, and you don’t even have to reboot Firefox. Type about:config into the address bar, and then filter by the following key: Double-click on the item in the list and change the value to 0. The change should be immediate – you can hit the backspace key to go right back to whatever you were doing (probably reading this) This tip should work on any platform… I’m not sure if all versions of Linux have the same annoyance, but at least Ubuntu does....

You will first need to download the skin named Winamp5 from the skins page. This skin looks a lot like Winamp 5. It’s not exact, but it’s a pretty good skin. Unfortunately, it only has the minimized mode as you can see here: To install on Ubuntu Linux: Hit Alt+F2 to bring up the run dialog, and type in this: This will bring up the player in the right mode to let you install new skins....

Using Libraries To access your Libraries click on Start then your user name to open up your personal folder. Now in the left pane click on Libraries to view the four default Libraries which are Music, Pictures, Videos, and Documents. Libraries show files that are stored in different locations on your computer as in this example of a Music Library. You don’t have to limit yourself to just the four default Libraries by creating your own....

Having switched to using MySQL on a frequent basis, this was one of the first things I wanted to figure out how to do. How else can you see the actual SQL code generated by WordPress or phpBB? The first thing we’ll need to do is turn on logging of queries in MySQL. Be warned that this should only be done in development… it really slows things down to log every single query to a file....

To remove this message, just open up the following folder, making sure you adjust the path if you installed to a different location: You should see a file called Accessibility.api in that folder. Remove the file… you can delete it or just move it somewhere else. Now the next time you use Adobe Reader, you might get this one-time message. Just make sure you check the box, and it will go away forever....

Luckily there’s a simple about:config tweak that will restore it, requiring almost no work at all. In case you aren’t sure what we’re talking about, here’s the default Smart Bookmarks folder, which dynamically shows you the “Most Visited”, “Recently Bookmarked” and “Recent Tags” bookmarks: Type about:config into the address bar, accept the warning message, and then filter by the following: You should see a single entry in the list with a default value of true....

Startpage Startpage (formerly known as Ixquick) has a nice simple layout for the search homepage with relevant links more information, adding Startpage to your browser, and settings. It is recommended to have a quick look at the Settings Page to see if you want to make any refinements to the search parameters or how your results will be displayed. Startpage Settings Here is what the settings page looks like. You can quickly change how your results will display, the filtering level that you desire, video filtering if desired, enable secure https connections (very nice!...

Here is a list of programs and processes that start up when I log into Vista using the MSCONFIG command in the run line. As you can see I uncheck them all which does improve boot time which I explained in a previous how to. This does list quite a few programs but hardly all of them. Now, when I launch Autoruns look what is pulled up. What is all of that you ask?...

Why Manually Change Your Mac’s Fan Settings? Your Mac generates heat when in use, and this heat output increases considerably when the computer is under load. This is probably harder to notice if you have a desktop model like the Mac Studio. If you use a laptop like a MacBook Pro, you’ll feel the heat through the keyboard and on your lap. If you feel like your machine is getting too hot, increasing the fan speeds will help disperse heat faster and keep your Mac cooler....

What Is a Hackintosh? A Hackintosh is simply a non-Apple computer that runs Apple’s macOS operating system and the applications associated with it. It allows anyone with the right third-party computer to access everything that macOS brings to the table without paying Apple anything for their computers. While Apple did briefly license its operating system to third-party computer makers during the period Steve Jobs wasn’t at the company, today macOS is only legally available on Apple’s own computer hardware....

A common frustration of non-programmers is that you don’t often get to inspire new software programs that work the way you want them to, you simply have to wait and hope that somebody comes up with something… until now. We’re looking to solve this problem by introducing the How-To Geek Bounty Program – we’ll help connect you the reader with the brilliant programmers that can accomplish the actual task of writing the software that we want....

Understanding What Movement Is Without thinking about it, it might sound obvious what movement in first-person shooters is. You’d think it’s just how you move in the game, but there’s a lot more to it. A player’s movement is the decision-making that gets them from one point to another. It’s how a player positions themselves to have the upper hand. In most first-person shooters, having good movement differentiates professionals from good and bad players....

Yahoo’s Babel Fish Babel Fish has been around for a while now (1994) and seems to do a decent job of translating. You can copy and past text into the box at the website or you can translate an entire page by entering in the URL. Then select which way to translate the information. The resulting translation side by side using Babel Fish. Yahoo offers Babel Fish in its Toolbar and for website owners you can easily add this translation tool to your site....