You can just Disable or Enable ClearType. (Note that if you are still using a CRT monitor, you should not be using ClearType anyway. ) Install Microsoft’s ClearType Tuner PowerToy for XP (which works in Vista, even if it says it doesn’t) Once you download the setup program and start the install, you’ll get an error message, which you can ignore. You might want to create a restore point if you are really worried....

Here’s the two versions side by side. To set the transparent background on the icons, we’ll need to open System Properties in Control Panel (or right-click on My Computer and select Properties). In this dialog, click the Advanced tab, and then the Settings button under the Performance section. Now scroll down to the button where you’ll find a checkbox for “Use drop shadows for icon labels on the desktop”. Make sure you check this box if you want transparent backgrounds on the icons....

Nearby Share can be helpful, much like AirDrop on Apple devices and Android’s Nearby Share, but it requires each PC to have Bluetooth 4.0 or later with Bluetooth Low Energy (LE) support for discovery. Many computers don’t have Bluetooth, and even if they do, your PCs could be out of Bluetooth’s limited range or have Bluetooth turned off in the settings. Windows 11 Preview Build 22621.436 is now rolling out to Windows Insiders, which updates Nearby Share to detect computers on your local network using UDP, in addition to Bluetooth....

Roku announced on Monday that an Apple Music app is now available on all Roku devices, including the company’s numerous streaming players and sticks, Roku TVs, and the Roku Streambar Pro. The app works just as you’d expect — you can stream any songs, albums, or playlists you want, and your TV will display song lyrics synchronized with music playback. Apple Music also has some video content, such as music videos, original shows, and concerts, which are all available on Roku....

Sometimes when you import data or work with others on a spreadsheet, data can get messy. You may have duplicates, inconsistent data, or extra spaces. Google Sheets offers a few features to help you clean up your data. 1. Cleanup Suggestions One feature to help you find and correct data is the suggestions. This tool shows you inconsistencies in your data along with duplicates or cells with leading or trailing spaces....

This will give you a scrolling view of the logfile. As new lines are added to the end, they will show up in your console screen. For Ruby on Rails, for instance, you can view the development logfile by running the command from your project directory: As with all linux apps, Ctrl+C will stop it.

All shortcuts in Windows since Vista have a special property that you can set that will allow the application to run as Administrator. This works perfectly for creating a batch file to restart a service, for instance. To set this property, just right-click on any shortcut, and click the Advanced button on the Shortcut page to get to the Advanced Properties dialog. You’ll see a dialog with a checkbox for “Run as administrator”....

First you’ll want to load up gconf-editor by typing it into the Alt+F2 Run dialog. Once in the application, navigate to the following key. If you are familiar with regedit on Windows, this is very similar. You’ll notice a bunch of values on the right. These are the available commands that you can create for assigning to shortcut keys in the next step. Double-click on command_1 and enter in the full path to your script or executable that you are trying to run....

Blip.fm is a music discovery and social network which could be described as a cross between Twitter, Last.fm, and the late Muxtape as it contains elements of elements of all three. A “blip” on Blip.fm is a way to share a song and accompany a short message under 150 characters, like a tweet in Twitter. You can also create your own playlist and listen to other user’s playlists as well....

For whatever reason, I couldn’t find a place in plesk to do this, and I just despise everything about plesk anyway… so I took the manual approach. First, look in your /etc/xinetd.d/ directory and see if there’s a file named psa_ftp in there. If not, you might have to make this change in your /etc/xinetd.conf file. Open up the file as root, and look for the following section: Change the disable = no line to disable = yes as shown above....

What Is High-Performance Mode? High-Performance Mode is sort of a vague feature on the Android phones that support it. In general, the idea is it pumps up the CPU and GPU performance to their highest potential. You might think your phone is always running at peak performance, but that’s often not the case in order to save on battery life. Back when custom ROMs were more popular and Android devices had more performance issues, it was common to “overclock” the CPU....

RELATED: What Is DuckDuckGo? Meet the Google Alternative for Privacy Let’s say you want to get more handy with shortcuts and hotkeys when you’re browsing the web. On either desktop or mobile, just search for chrome cheatsheet in DuckDuckGo, and you’ll get a snippet of useful keyboard shortcuts for Chrome. You can click “Show More” to get a more extensive list, or “More at Chrome Help” for a complete guide....

Click on the “Start” button and go to Internet \ Krfb Desktop Sharing From this screen, you can create “Invitations” to allow another user to view your desktop. You can even send the invitations out via email, and manage invitations that you’ve already created. For the purposes of this article, we want to enable remote desktop control of the system. Click the Configure button and you will see a screen with these options:...

Facebook is starting to roll out a new ‘Feeds’ tab in the mobile apps, located at the bottom of the screen on iPhone, and the top of the screen on Android. Feeds is a purely chronological list of recent posts, so newest posts always show up at the top, and there are no ‘Suggested For You’ items or advertisements. The normal starting page in the Facebook app will be renamed to ‘Home’ to differentiate it from Feeds....

The System.Diagnostics.Process object gives you access to functionality enabling you to manage system processes. We will use this object to get a list of running processes. Add this line to your using list: Now you can get a list of the processes with the Process.GetProcesses() method, as seen in this example: Some interesting properties of the Process object: foreach(Process theprocess in processlist){ Console.WriteLine(“Process: {0} ID: {1}”, theprocess.ProcessName, theprocess.Id); }...

Google revealed this week that subscribers for Google One Premium, which costs $9.99 per month (or $99.99 per year), can now use a few account features that used to only be accessible to paid Google Workspace accounts. Group calls in Google Meet can now last up to 24 hours, instead of the one-hour limit currently enforced on free Google accounts. Background noise cancellation and recording calls to Google Drive are also now unlocked....

Google revealed in a blog post today, “starting next week for English users globally, we’re rolling out a series of improvements to Search to make it easier for people to find helpful content made by, and for, people.” The company used a search for a new movie as an example, which can often include pages that are simply “aggregated reviews from other sites without adding perspectives beyond what’s available elsewhere....

“In an industry first, the innovative temperature measuring capability of the HONOR Earbuds 3 Pro creates new possibilities for users to closely monitor their health,” said Honor in a press release. You can have the earbuds monitor your temperature all the time so they can alert you whenever your body temperature gets too high. You can also tap on the earbuds three times to turn on temperature monitoring if you want to check when you feel a little off....

It’s easy to improve the appearance of your Microsoft PowerPoint slideshow by including an attractive background. You might use a color, gradient, or pattern, or insert an image. Another way to make your background appealing is by animating it. If you use Microsoft PowerPoint on Mac, you have the option to animate a still slide background. This adds subtle movement to the image, so it doesn’t distract from your slideshow or its message....

An easy way to make numbers stand out in Google Sheets is with conditional formatting. You can automatically apply formatting like a bold font or cell color when certain values meet your criteria. One thing that makes conditional formatting a great option is that when you make edits to your sheet, that formatting automatically applies. So as your values change, you can see those numbers pop without any extra work....