Here I have a shortcut to a folder of batch files boring old shortcut. Now right click the shortcut folder icon and choose Properties. In the Shortcut Properties window select the Shortcut tab and the Change Icon button. You can scroll through the included icons in XP and select the one you want to use. I try to select one that I will remember what it is for. It seems to make navigating through tons of folders easier....
We first learned about the change to Face ID yesterday, but Cult of Mac did a little extra investigating and found that you can only take advantage of unlocking your iPhone while wearing a mask if you have an iPhone 12 or 13. Older models will unlock as they always have, even after updating to iOS 15.4. Additionally, after further testing, it was discovered that you could use Face ID with a mask with Apple Pay, which is a significant upgrade over the way Face ID and Apple Watch work on current iOS versions....
Google announced this week that it is rolling out the ability to live stream a meeting to YouTube, without the use of any additional applications that would usually be required for streaming (like OBS). The feature will be available from the Activities panel, under a new option called Live Streaming. The company said in a blog post, “Live streaming is useful in situations where you want to present information to large audiences outside of your organization, giving them the opportunity to pause and replay as needed, or view the presentation at a later time....
Thankfully there are free tools out there like the previously covered Open DNS that we can use to help keep them safe. Today we will take a look at the Family Safety Filter from Microsoft, part of the Windows Live Essentials Pack. Using Windows Live Family Safe Filter The first thing to do is sign into your Live account. If you don’t have one yet you can always create a new one....
The internet is a scary place with all kinds of exploits that can cause serious harm to your devices. Microsoft knows this, and it has released a new mode for Edge that provides another layer of security to protect you from these issues. To take advantage of the new browsing mode, you’ll need to make sure you’ve updated Edge to version 98.0.1108.43. Once updated, you’ll need to enable a group policy to get it up and running....
Samsung confirmed today that it will hold another ‘Galaxy Unpacked’ event on August 10 at 9 AM Eastern Time (6 AM Pacific), where it will reveal “the next Galaxy devices.” The teaser image (pictured above) depicts a folding phone, and there have been leaks recently about a Galaxy Fold 4 and Galaxy Flip 4. The Galaxy Watch 5 might also make an appearance at the event, which is rumored to drop the spinning bezel that has been available on select Samsung watches for years....
We came soooo close to hitting the 10 million pageviews mark for the year, but fell just slightly short because there was a day of downtime when I was on vacation. I guess that was the hidden cost of all that wine and cheese =) We had a nearly even split between Firefox and Internet Explorer users, with 48% and 46% respectively. Not surprisingly, Windows is the choice of 85% of the readers....
Have you ever wondered why Spotify’s desktop app has a “Hardware Acceleration” feature buried in its settings menu? Here’s what that mysterious option means and whether or not you should turn it on. What Does Hardware Acceleration Do in Spotify? Hardware acceleration is a setting that allows a program to use the computer’s hardware, such as the GPU, to perform functions and processes more efficiently. It essentially offloads the work that would otherwise be left to your CPU and the software itself over to the unallocated processing power of your other parts....
Calculating an average is one of the basic equations you might need in your spreadsheet. Google Sheets offers a few different ways to average numbers or cells. You may use Google Sheets to keep track of grades for your students or sales for your company. When you want to get an average of a group of cells, specific numbers, or a combination of both, you have options to pick the best method for you....
Google Docs is useful for more than just words. You can insert tables to structure data and embed drawings for helpful visuals. So, if you want to add an image, you should know how to crop, rotate, and adjust it. The nice thing about using Google Docs’ image editing features is that you can make the changes you need right within your document. This saves you from opening an external image editor....
Deepfakes in a Nutshell Deepfakes are named after deep learning technology, a specific type of machine learning method that uses artificial neural networks. Deep learning is an important part of how “machine vision” works. That’s the field of artificial intelligence that allows computer systems to, for example, recognize objects. Machine vision technology makes everything from self-driving cars to Snapchat filters possible. A deepfake is when you use this technology to swap the face of one person out for another in a video....
IMPORTANT NOTE: Patching windows isn’t necessarily “safe” and shouldn’t be attempted unless you are willing to troubleshoot problems. There’s also some chance that it would void your warranty, etc etc. The point is that you might encounter problems. First Step – Download the Patched Theme Files This is an incredibly important step, as you don’t want to rename any files in the system32 directory without having the patched versions for the right version of Vista....
The iPhone keyboard has some notorious quirks, but there’s one little “feature” you may have noticed. Every time you type “omw” it is automatically expanded to “On my way!” This can be pretty annoying, so let’s turn it off. Talking over text does not lend itself well to conveying emotion. That’s why every small detail—punctuation, case, and emoji— is so important. There’s a huge difference in how “omw” and “On my way!...
While screen savers may not be as useful on a phone as they are on a PC, Android phones have had them for a very long time. You can use this to turn your phone into a Google Photos digital photo frame. People love the digital photo frame feature on Nest Hubs, but you can do something very similar with any Android device. All you need is the Google Photos app on your device and some albums to display....
Microsoft PowerPoint offers many types of animations. You can add effects to text, images, and shapes. But if you want to create your own, you can select a motion path animation to move your object wherever you like. With motion path animations in PowerPoint, you can make your object zigzag, loop, spiral, or swoosh. Once you select the motion path you want to use, you can customize the points to create the exact path you want your object to take....
Permissions and Attributes In Linux, who can access a file and what they can do with it is controlled by a user-centric set of permissions. Whether you can read the contents of a file, write new data into the file, or execute a file if it is a script or a program, is all governed by that set of permissions. The permissions are applied to the file, but they define the restrictions and capabilities for different categories of user....
If you are using a version prior to 5.5.3, you will want to follow this guide. To install the VMware tools, start by choosing “Install VMware tools” from the menu: You will see a new icon on your desktop, and a File Browser window should be opened immediately. If the file browser doesn’t open, just double-click on the cdrom icon. You will see a file named VMwareTools-5.5.3-xxxxx.tar.gz. Right click it and choose Extract To....
BleepingComputer reports that Microsoft has resumed rolling out a long-awaited change in Microsoft Office, which automatically blocks VBA macros in documents that have been downloaded from the internet. The feature was put on hold in early July, which Microsoft says was due to negative feedback. The company has now “made updates to both our end user and our admin documentation to make clearer what options you have for different scenarios....
Do you absolutely despise the clock in Windows 11? Well, Microsoft has released Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22533 to the Dev channel, and it will let you uninstall the Windows Clock app if that’s something you’re interested in. In the release notes for the build, Microsoft kept it simple with regards to the clock, simply saying, “It is now possible to uninstall the Clock app if you want.” Clock haters can now come together in their hatred of the hands of time by removing it, assuming they’re on the Windows Insider Dev channel....
To put it back into the Quick Launch folder, open up explorer and then type in the following into the address bar: shell:Quick Launch Now just unzip the file and copy it into the folder, and you’ll have the Flip3D shortcut back (the one with the real icon) It seems like many people delete the icons and then don’t know how to get them back, which is an interesting problem, since there’s not necessarily a good way to restore them otherwise....
