Of the different ergonomic keyboard designs on the market, the Q8’s Alice layout is among the least intimidating appearances. Its design favors the natural angle of our wrists when typing without completely rearranging the standard QWERTY configuration, and its 65% layout removes the increasingly unnecessary function row in favor of a smaller, more convenient build. For users switching from a standard 100% layout, the Q8 is a clean and smooth transition that takes little time to get used to....

There’s a simple registry hack you can do that will enable “Open Command Window Here” item without holding down the shift key: You can either manually edit the registry, or use the downloadable registry hack files to do it. Manual Registry Hack Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search or run box, and then browse down to the following key to add the right-click menu to drive icons:...

If you have a ton of feeds, this could also theoretically speed up Outlook—at the very least it makes your system a little cleaner. Note: If you aren’t using Internet Explorer or Outlook as a feed reader, you could simply delete all of the RSS feeds. Disable Outlook Common Feed RSS Sync To turn this off, go to Tools –> Options from the menu and click the Advanced Options button on the Other tab....

Overview Microsoft Web Apps is a new service that will coincide with the launch of Office 2010. With Web Apps you can share, read, edit and create documents through your browser. This will allow easy collaboration with other friends and colleagues to get important project results much quicker. It’s similar to the way Zoho or Google Docs allows collaboration, but this will let you keep the exact look of the desktop document and lets you edit using the familiar Office tools....

Proof of What? This process of verifying transactions and adding them to a blockchain is known as a consensus mechanism. In essence, blockchains are interconnected databases constantly trying to stay in communication with each other. To maintain accuracy all blockchains try to achieve consensus. Achieving consensus ensures that transactions on the network are all matching and therefore legitimate. Different blockchains use different methods to achieve this consensus. However, there are two in particular that are most used, proof of work (PoW) and proof of stake (PoS)....

In case you are wondering what the panel is, it’s the process that handles everything you see on the screen here. (and all the rest of the toolbars and buttons too) Gnome / Ubuntu Under the Gnome environment that Ubuntu uses, the “start” menu and other panels are all contained in a process called gnome-panel. The quickest way to restart that process is to just kill it and let it restart automatically....

There’s a tiny utility called Sizer that helps me accomplish this task with ease, and hopefully can help somebody else. After you download, install and run the application you’ll notice a tooltip anytime you resize a window that tells you the current dimensions. If you right-click on the corner of the window, you can easily choose an option to resize a window to a pre-defined size. If the window is currently maximized, you can right-click on the maximize/restore button to pop up the same menu:...

It’s much better to have a separate account that you regularly use and simply sudo to root when necessary. Before we begin, you should make sure that you have a regular user account and that you can su or sudo to root from it. To fix this problem, we’ll need to edit the sshd_config file, which is the main configuration file for the sshd service. The location will sometimes be different, but it’s usually in /etc/ssh/....

For example we can use Autofill to enter in the days of the week. Simply start by entering Sunday in a cell left click and drag down or across the cells you want to populate and release. Following that basic guideline we can make a quick schedule. Here I am making a simple delivery schedule. I want it to be for the next two weeks. Using the method above I create two weeks worth of weekdays and am also associating the date of the month as well....

Enable Outlook’s Web View With Outlook open, click on View Toolbars and then check Web on the menu. This will display the Web address bar which you can move to wherever you want in the toolbar area. Now, just enter any Web address into the bar and the view pane will show the webpage within Outlook using the Internet Explorer engine. If you’re just looking at the one page just click the Back button and it will return you to the Outlook view....

One example of an application that only has the standard color picker is the pathetic Paint application included in Windows: Find the HTML Hex Color Code If you are looking at the standard Windows color picker dialog, you’ll see the Red, Green, Blue on the right-hand side, which is always in decimal. The first thing you’ll want to do is open up Calculator, and then put it into Scientific mode using the View menu....

Open Thunderbird and go to Tools Account Settings. Click on the Add Account button. The Account Wizard will open up. Here select RSS News and Blogs and click Next. Create a name for the RSS feed that you are subscribing to and click Finish. Ok now the first part is complete. Next we need to select the RSS account we just created and choose basic settings on how Thunderbird will handle the feeds....

Complete PC Backup and Restore should not be confused with Automatic Backup which only backup up files and settings. Auto backup is available on all versions of Vista except for Home Basic. Today we will look at one option to create an image of a hard drive with Vista Home Premium using the free utility DriveImage XML. These Screenshots were taken on an XP machine … the application works the same for both Vista and XP...

My favorite feature of Outlook 2007 is the new To-Do Bar, which shows you everything on your plate at a glance. There are a lot of features packed into a tiny space, so we’ll go through some of them with you. To-Do Bar Display Options To turn on the To-Do bar, just click on View \ To-Do Bar, and then choose from Normal or Minimized to open the bar....

RELATED: If You Can Hack ExpressVPN, They’ll Give You $100,000 What Are Bug Bounty Programs? The software and services we use every day are written by human beings often under pressure to get their code up and running so that the business can make money. While modern software development methods result in software with remarkably few serious problems, there’s no way for a small group of developers to foresee every possibility or see every single mistake....

Newest Flavor of 5G Wireless carriers use radio waves to provide cellular services. Different cellular technologies, including the various forms of 5G, use different portions of the radio wave frequency range, called bands. For example, the mmWave or millimetre-wave 5G uses high bands (24GHz-40GHz). Similarly, C-band is also a portion of the radio wave frequency range. In February 2020, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) determined that the 3.7GHz-4.2GHz frequency range will be known as the C-Band....

How Traditional Rumble Works The rumble effect we all know and love uses a simple yet ingenious method to create vibrations in the controller. There are usually two electric motors, one in each grip, that spin an unbalanced weight. They are known as eccentric rotors and the principle is the same as having an unbalanced washing machine. As the unbalanced weight spins around it wobbles, making the controller rumble. By varying the speed of the motor, the intensity and vibration frequency can be varied....

Installation Installation for PhotoFiltre is nice and quick. Once you have finished the installation and started PhotoFiltre, this is what you will see. All regular toolbars are displayed by default. PhotoFiltre has a nice layout and provides two ways (toolbars and menus) for you to access many of the functions and effects available based on your working style. Note: A special customizable Plugins Toolbar can be displayed later once plugins have been added....

Open the Customize Quick Access Toolbar and from here place a check next to the functions you want to include on the bar. To add additional functions just click on More Commands. Under More Commands simply select All Commands and add what you want to the Quick Access Toolbar. Now once we have the items we need select the option to minimize The Ribbon. This makes for a cleaner interface providing more room to work on the document....

You can not only make text stand out in your presentations but make it pop right off the screen. Using animations to highlight text is a great way to add some pizzazz to your Microsoft PowerPoint slideshow. You can add color, bold, or underline to the font or color to the background behind the text. Then, add an animation that emphasizes the addition of that formatting making your words shine!...