A Duel in Space What is a video game? Does it need a TV set and video signal for a display, or a digital computer to handle game conditions and rules? Should the display be real-time and interactive, or is periodic output from a teletype acceptable? All these questions and more have stymied technology historians in defining the “first video game” as they’ve looked back at the art form’s earliest and most influential works....

The User Interface is very easy to navigate which allows you to easily search, save and organize your shows. The Miro sidebar will come with preinstalled channels created of various subjects. You can customize them to your choices. Miro also has a neat feature that allows you to search and download content from some of the major video websites. As of this writing Miro boasts 5,163 channels. You can search them by keyword, category, most popular, etc....

How Does an Inkjet Printer Work? The fact that Inkjet printers are so common hides the fact that they’re a pretty marvelous work of engineering. All the magic happens in the nozzle but is more than what it seems; in reality, it isn’t one large nozzle but rather hundreds if not thousands of microscopic nozzles. These can often be as small as 10 micrometers in diameter, which is about a tenth the size of a human hair....

Access Permissions All directories and files have flags called mode bits that decide whether they can be read, written to, or executed. Executing a file means running it like a program or a script. For a directory, you must be able to “execute” a directory to cd into it. Collectively the bit mode settings are called the permissions of the directory or file. There are three sets of permissions. One set is for the owner of the directory or file....

There’s not a single streaming TV service that hasn’t raised its prices at least once. At the time of writing in January 2022, Netflix is the latest service to do it. Not long ago, YouTube TV made waves for raising prices too. Is there a reason for all this beyond corporate greed? Let’s find out. RELATED: Your Netflix Subscription Is Going Up in Price Again Streaming TV in the Beginning Let’s go back to the beginning of streaming TV services....

Gaming became an expensive hobby after the pandemic began and silicon shortages worsened. While you might not be able to build your dream gaming PC right now, you might be able to get your hands on an Xbox Series X instead. Value for Money Consoles should offer good value for money, but that’s not always the case from the outset. Events like a price drop or a hardware revision can affect the value proposition, but in the current climate (writing in January 2022) even a Series X is good value for money at launch price....

Microsoft is making a change to the process required to get Windows 11 Pro up and running. Now, you’ll need to be connected to the internet and signed in with a Microsoft account. That means you can no longer use Windows 11 Pro to dodge using an account. You already needed a Microsoft account to install Windows 11 Home, so this change brings the Pro version of the operating system to the same spot....

RELATED: All Microsoft’s PowerToys for Windows 10 and 11, Explained What’s great about PowerToys is that it’s a one-stop shop for all kinds of improvements, from how you manage window tiling to preventing your PC from going to sleep for a set time to quickly resizing an image without opening a photo editing program. A lot of the features you can find in PowerToys have Linux alternatives, of course. The various Linux distributions are the ultimate in operating system customizability....

Android TV powers many different smart TVs, cable boxes, and some of the best streaming devices, and a customized version called Google TV has appeared on some devices. Google has now shared more information about the next major update, Android TV 13. Google already released an initial beta of Android TV 13 earlier this month, but it wasn’t clear at the time what was actually new. Now we have a better idea of what’s coming to Android on TVs, as part of the Google I/O event happening this week....

If you are unfamiliar with how this works, you can enter in howtogeek into the address bar, and use Ctrl+Enter instead of just hitting enter and Firefox will automatically complete it to www.howtogeek.com. About:Config Tweak To adjust the built-in Ctrl+Enter setting, you can just set some values in the Firefox configuration to change the default from .com to whatever else you want. If you want to change Shift+Ctrl+Enter then you’ll have to skip down to the next section....

The new Windows 7 taskbar does take some getting used to for sure. However, if you need to get things done on your new OS quickly, you don’t have time to learn how it works. To get the Vista style taskbar back Right-click an open area on the Taskbar and select Properties. The Taskbar and Start Menu Properties windows opens up where you will want to click the box next to “Use small icons” and select “Combine when taskbar is full” from the drop down next to Taskbar buttons....

The only problem is that the Beagle search had a huge cache of data left behind after removing the package, in this hidden directory: On my test system, that directory is /home/geek/.beagle/ and it turned out to have 141mb wasting space. I suppose it could have been worse… my main system has 1GB of data sitting there. Note: This article assumes that you’ve already removed Beagle, and that you don’t want the search cache to remain....

Using a little registry hacking and the clip.exe utility built into Windows 7 and Vista, we can do just that, and we can even hide it behind the Shift + Right-Click menu so that it won’t waste space on the menu unless you hold down the shift key. Using the Copy to Clipboard Hack Simply hold down the Shift key and right-click on a text file, and you’ll see a new item for “Copy to Clipboard”:...

And of course you can, with the built-in clip.exe utility in Windows 7 or Vista. It’s not really meant for clearing the clipboard, but with a little command line magic in a shortcut, we can make it do just that. Note: This is also useful if you copied a very large amount of data to the clipboard and you don’t want it wasting memory anymore. Create a Shortcut Icon to Clear the Clipboard...

If you are really, really new to Windows 7, the gadgets are accessible via the desktop context menu, and can be dropped anywhere on the desktop you’d like. Note: If you are running Windows Vista, you can disable the sidebar there as well. Disabling Sidebar/Desktop Gadgets in Windows 7 To disable them, simply open up Control Panel and type “features” into the search box. Find the link for “Turn Windows features on or off” and open it....

To subscribe to your Google Calendar, you’ll first need to get the iCal link to your calendar. In Google Calendar, go to Settings \ Calendars and then click on your calendar in the list. You should see a “Private Address” section: Right click on the ICAL link, and choose Copy Shortcut to copy the link to the clipboard. Now open Windows Calendar, and click the Subscribe buttton on the toolbar:...

Memory Usage Linux gives you many ways to check what’s happening with your computer’s RAM. The problem is, memory management is a complicated challenge for your operating system. It has to juggle physical RAM, virtual RAM in the form of swap space, and the demands of the different types of processes that are running at any one time. Processes consume RAM as they load themselves into memory. They then request more RAM so that they have space to perform whatever tasks it is they’re designed to do....

To enable this option, you need to edit the .fonts.conf file in your home directory. To create and open the file, run this command and paste in the xml data below it. Paste in this text: You’ll have to log out and back in to see the difference. Here’s an image of the before: And here’s an image of the after: Definitely looks smoother, and is much more readable on my laptop screen....

Often you will wonder if your navigational changes have caused visitors to click links more often. You may add related links at the bottom of the page, or put a link right in the middle of the content. Figuring out what links a visitor clicks from the category pages is also helpful. Thankfully Google Analytics gives you an easy, visual way to do this. First, select a time range via the calendar in the lower left hand corner....

which To find the path of the application, you can use the which command, followed by the executable that you would have run. Example: which php/usr/local/bin/php