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In this example I put a simple divider line between two paragraphs in my document. Just type 3 dashes — and hit ‘Enter’ immediately after. You can also change the type of horizontal line you are inputting by changing up the characters you use for this short cut. In the following Word screen shot the green highlighted area shows the various horizontal line breaks possible. Three asterisks***, three underscores___, three equal signs ===, three pound signs ###, and three tildes ~~~...

I went to the Creative Autoupdate site to see if there were new drivers for my sound card. I was created by the following message. No problem right? I will just click on the Emulate IE 7 button … Then IE told me I needed to restart the browser, which I did … unlike Firefox IE did not automatically restart … it just sat there. I then closed out of IE 8 Beta 1 and went back in … eh … then you have to browse back to the page that did not work....

Go to their site and create an account which is free and easy. After you sign up for an account you will receive a verification email and start using the service right away. The first thing to do is create a list of the subject or courses you’re currently studying. Scheduling assignments is a simple process as well. Just type in the assignment name, pick a course, date due, then how you want to be reminded....

Save $200 on a 2021 Apple MacBook Pro 14″ While they may no longer be the newest MacBooks on the market, the 2021 Apple MacBooks Pro 14″ are some of the best laptops of 2022, and you can get one today for $200 off. These models feature Apple Silicon M1 Pro chips, 16 GB of RAM, and your choice of either 512 GB or 1 TB of storage. Both Silver and Space Gray color options are on sale with the lower storage models going for $1,799 ($200 off) and the higher storage versions clocking in at $2,299 ($200 off)....

If you don’t have a keyword bookmark for Google Search yet, you can start by making a bookmark to this link (right-click and choose bookmark this link), and name it something useful. Now right-click the new link and choose Properties. Here’s where you’ll want to add the keyword ? into the keyword box, to make it look like this. (If you already have a keyword bookmark for Google Search, then add in the URL above into the location box here....

For the Beta Download Center you will need to install Microsoft Silverlight. After all of this it sure seemed to take far to long for the beta page to load. Once everything was finally rendered I noticed the cosmetic changes to the center. Here is a shot of a menu box where it allows for easy navigation of the various downloads. The main page has lists of popular and new downloads....

“We would love for you to participate. Start by creating and sharing lists with your work colleagues, partners, your soccer team, or your neighborhood volunteer groups. We’ve designed the app off the core of Microsoft Lists, plus introduce new experiences like tabbed views, sharing from within a Person column, add images inline, and more,” said Microsoft in a blog post announcing the Lists preview. To sign up, you’ll need to have a Microsoft account, and you’ll need to get in before Microsoft closes the registration....

Start Windows Easy Transfer Start with the new Windows 7 machine and go to Start \ Getting Started \ Transfer your files. Click through the Welcome screen and select “An external hard disk or USB flash drive”. Next choose “this is my new computer”. Answer this screen as No. Select “I need to install it now” to install Windows Easy Share now so you get the latest updated version. At this point you want to make sure the external drive you want to use is plugged into the Windows 7 machine....

Starting with the Windows 7 machine open the Start menu and go to Getting Started and under Tasks click “Transfer your files”. Click through the welcome screen and choose the method for transferring the data…in this demo we’ll use a network connection. Next select that this is the new computer. The next screen click on “I need to install it now”. Choose a network or external drive to install the latest version of Easy Transfer....

Tom’s Hardware first spotted the price decrease. The website has been charting graphics card prices through retailers and eBay, and it found that prices have dropped from every NVIDIA and AMD GPU in recent days. According to the data, an NVIDIA RTX 3080 10GB sold for around $1,773 two months ago. Now, the very same card is selling for $1,600, which is a drop of approximately 11%. That’s still a gigantic increase over the original launch price of the Founder’s Edition, which NVIDIA sold for $699....

That’s about all you need to do. You could also put the list of files into an array if you felt like it, or use this as the beginning for a thumbnail page, which is what I used it for.

Installation & Setup Installation is quick and simple with only four install windows to go through. After you have finished installing Printee for IE, you will need to add the toolbar button to the toolbar. Right Click on one of your browser’s toolbars, navigate to “Customize”, and select “Add or Remove Commands…”. Once you have selected “Add or Remove Commands…”, you will see the following window. Click in the right window area to choose the new location for the Printee Button (button will be placed in position directly above your selection)....

Snapdragon W5 and W5+ Qualcomm has two new chipsets for smartwatches, the Snapdragon W5 and W5+, intended as successors to the Snapdragon Wear 4100 and 4100+ (found in watches like the Fossil Gen 6), respectively. Both chips are built with a 4nm process (down from 12nm on the 4100+), which should improve power efficiency and performance, and the physical size is 30% smaller. Bluetooth 5.3 is also standard across both chips....

Once you receive and email with a bunch of individual attachments in Outlook 2007 click on Other Actions in the Actions section on the Ribbon and scroll down to Save Attachments. This will open the Save All Attachments dialog box where you can choose them all or only certain ones by holding down the Shift or Ctrl keys to highlight them. When you have selected the ones you want just click OK....

This add-on is called DzSoft Favorites Search, and it’s completely free, although it does have one glaring flaw: You can’t open up your bookmarks in a new tab, which is something I do all the time. It also seems to be slightly clunky, but since it was originally written for IE 5.0, I guess that’s not surprising. Using the Search Panel After installation, you’ll have access to a new search panel on the left-hand side, which seemed to work well… you can search for a single keyword, multiple, or even the URL....

As with other online storage services you need to set up a free account on the site and download the desktop software. When you first launch IDrive you will be prompted to log in. After signing in you will get a window to set up the encryption storage password. I set my own password as recommended. Make sure you do not forget this password as you cannot retrieve it if lost....

If you are always using the Run Line and get sick of navigating the Start menu to access it; SlickRun is a cool little floating command line application always at the ready on your desktop. SlickRun takes up very little real estate on your desktop! Simply type in the command you wish to execute as you would in the Window’s Run Line and hit Enter. Right click in the text area to find the SlickRun menu....

Here’s how Spotify describes its new interactive ad in a blog post: Essentially, when a podcast presenter is telling you about a product through an ad, they can create a card with a clickable link to go along with the ad. If you want to support the show you’re listening to, you can click the ad and redeem the offer. This prevents you from remembering complicated URLs or promo codes, as the offer is embedded in the link....

Using the mklink Command The command that you need to use is mklink, which you’ll use from the command line. Just type it on the command line to see the options: For instance, if you wanted to make the folder C:\Users\Geek\TestFolder available from C:\TestFolder as well, you could use the following command. Now if you look in C:\TestFolder directory, you’ll see whatever files were in the other directory. Understanding the Options....

The game is called Fantastic Contraption, and it’s a physics-based flash game where you have to build a “contraption” that can get the red object over to the goal, usually through some type of obstacle course. Building a Fantastic Contraption After going through a brief tutorial level, you’ll get to play the game and make your own contraptions using a number of different objects, seen at the top of the screen....