It’s really easy to set the default editor using the update-alternatives command. Open up a terminal window and type in the following command: Here’s an example of what you’ll see: You can select the editor you want by just typing in the number. For example, if I want to change the default editor to vim, I would just hit the number 1. There are 5 alternatives which provide `editor’. Selection Alternative ———————————————– 1 /usr/bin/vim 2 /bin/ed + 3 /bin/nano 4 /usr/bin/vim....

First we’ll show you how to simply power off the monitor, and then how to both lock and power it off. Create a Shortcut to Turn Off the Monitor To create this shortcut, we’ll first need to grab a tiny multi-purpose utility called NirCmd from the great folks over at NirSoft. This Swiss-army knife tool can do an amazing array of tasks, including powering off the monitor. All we really need to do is create a shortcut to it....

What Is Supercooling? Hearing the term supercooling might give you a flashback to a long past science class, but don’t worry: You won’t need to brush up on high school physics or don safety goggles to take advantage of it. In the HVAC industry, supercooling—also called “subcooling” or “precooling”—is the practice of running the air conditioner at optimum times to significantly chill an environment. Then during the non-supercooling period, the AC system is run less or even not at all....

Unfortunately, Microsoft doesn’t give us a good way to completely remove it, so we’ll have to do the next best thing and use system policies to disable it. You’ll still see the icon in Windows Mail even afterwards, however: When you click on the button, you’ll get this error message indicating that we disabled it. At least we can remove it from most everywhere else. Manual Registry Hack To make this change, type in regedit....

Microsoft Excel is used by companies and individuals to keep track of and compute virtually anything that requires numbers. If you are computing financial symbols, did you know there’s a way to have Excel automatically update those values online? You can use smart tags in Excel to keep track of your stock quotes. (Keep in mind you do need an Internet connection for this). With this feature Excel will connect to MSN Money Central to download the information....

Installation If you choose the “Advanced Options Installation”, there are a total of five install windows that will allow you to fine-tune your installation of EditPad Lite. The first three are shown here (the last two are the classic “Agree to License” and “installation Complete” windows). Notice that there is an option for a “No-Questions Asked Installation” and an option to create a Portable Version (a very nice option indeed!...

The issue is that there’s a corruption in the registry, and the specific key is either missing or somehow not correct, and a simple registry hack is required to fix the problem. This problem sometimes occurs when you install applications that integrate themselves into Windows explorer or Internet Explorer, or when the uninstaller for those applications is just a little too excited about deleting things. Registry Hack Info While it’s too much of a pain to hack this manually, if you are curious where in the registry the problem is located, here’s the name of the key assigned to the folder pane band....

sysdef -h The sysdef utility gives you system information, including hardware and system information. Example: hostid The hostid utility is a shortcut command to quickly get the hostid. Example:

The New Law First, though, let’s take a look at the law itself, which was put together by the CERT-In, the Indian Computer Emergency Team. It boils down to a set of KYC (know your customer) protocols that will force VPNs to register the name, email address, physical address, IP address, and phone number of users. VPNs will also have to keep logs; all this information is to be stored for five years (180 days in the case of technical requests)....

By default, Apple devices come set up to protect your privacy, but occasionally, you need to share location data to make certain sites work. Here’s how to keep an eye on who you’re sharing with. Check Which Sites Can Access Your Location on Mac If you’ve left your Mac set up running relatively default settings, Safari shouldn’t automatically share your location with sites without asking you first. From here, you can allow certain sites to access your location data without asking, but this shouldn’t be the default behavior....

First, go to Control Panel, and then click on Programs. You’ll see a link for “Turn Windows features on or off” If you expand the Internet Information Services tree node, you can see that there are a lot of options beneath it. You will probably want to explore these options, because even if you click on IIS, some of the necessary options for doing development aren’t checked. Once you’ve gone ahead and checked the items you want, and clicked OK, you’ll see this dialog for a while…....

If you want to highlight portions of text in your document, you can insert text boxes. But what you might not know is that you can link these boxes in Microsoft Word and have the text within them flow continuously. Maybe you have a brochure that uses text boxes to call out features of a product or service. Or maybe you have a document and use text boxes for helpful tips or pull quotes....

If you need to troubleshoot Google Chrome—or just want a leaner, faster experience—it can be helpful to temporarily run the browser with all of your extensions disabled. There’s an easy way to do it in Windows 10 or Windows 11, but it’s not obvious. We’ll show you how. First, you’ll need to create a desktop shortcut for the Chrome application. The following instructions are the same for Windows 10 and Windows 11....

You can add an emoji in Google Docs to show you’re happy about a statement or angry about the finances on a chart. You can also use animals, nature, food and drink, transportation, and symbols. Let’s look at how to add these handy reactions in your next Google Doc. RELATED: How to Look Up What an Emoji Means Add an Emoji Reaction in Google Docs Highlight the text or object you want to react to....

There are a lot of rumors making the rounds that Microsoft is working on Windows 12. We’re not saying Microsoft isn’t working on Windows 12, but the current crop of rumors are hard to believe. Two rumors started circulating. One, which came from SwiftOnSecurity on Twitter, was ultimately revealed as a joke about the TPM requirements and not an actual claim that Microsoft is working on Windows 12. However, the German-language site Deskmodder....

This is a good example of where Vista’s Compatibility Mode comes to the rescue… we can set Safari to run in compatibility mode for XP and eliminate the majority of the crashing problems. To set the compatibility mode, just right-click on the Safari icon, choose Properties and then the Compatibility tab. Check the box for “run this program in compatibility mode for:”, and set the option to “Windows XP (Service Pack 2)”....

If you ever had a Nextel phone back in the day, you know how useful quickly talking with your friends through the walkie-talkie is. Well, Microsoft is bringing a similar feature, which was already available on Android, to iPhone. It’s also partnering with Zebra to bring devices with a dedicated push-to-talk button. “The collaboration brings Teams’ digital Walkie Talkie functionality with a dedicated push-to-talk (PTT) button on Zebra devices so frontline workers can enjoy clear, instant, and secure communication at their fingertips....

Microsoft has started rolling out an update to Notepad on various Windows Insider builds. The most important change is that Notepad is actually natively-compiled for ARM Windows PCs (on versions 11.2204 and higher), so it will be much faster on ARM-powered laptops like the Surface Pro X. It’s a bit ridiculous that Microsoft has waited over four years since Windows on ARM was released to update a core application like Notepad, but the text editor isn’t alone — the Microsoft Store is also undergoing the same update....

Installing FeedDemon is quick and easy following the installation wizard. In just a few moments you will be ready to use it to manage all of your favorite RSS feeds and if you are new to this application they offer a quick tutorial to get started. After installation there is an option to sign up with NewsGator which is free service which allows access to your feeds from different locations....

It’s a good thing that Firefox is customizable, because we can easily turn them off, or even revert back to the Firefox 1.5 behavior of having a single close tab button on the right of the tab bar. Disabling Close Buttons Without Tab Mix Plus To disable this if you are not running the Tab Mix Plus extension, you can open about:config in the address bar, and then filter by the following:...