Layer 1’s Need Help The most decentralized and secure blockchains tend to lack the ability to process large amounts of transactions cheaply without a little help. Sidechains are a type of Layer 2 protocol that helps lighten the load of congested Layer 1 blockchains like Bitcoin and Ethereum. There are other Layer 2 solutions like channels and rollups. Sidechains have risen in popularity compared to the other methods because they are difficult to alter....
Why Is ALT Text Important? Alt attributes exist as a backup form of content; when the main type of content cannot be rendered, its alternate or “alt” attribute is rendered instead. In the case of alt text, if the image cannot be rendered for some reason, you’ll get the alt text description instead. This allows someone, for example, to copy an image “as text.” Or if you save a website without any images, the alt text remains, telling you what the images were meant to show....
Defining the Color Range In order to understand the color gamut, you have to know that devices that capture, display, or print colors can only reproduce or represent a fraction of colors out of the visible spectrum. And even this fraction varies between devices and color spaces. So the color gamut is established to make each device’s range of colors clear. This helps quantify the color capabilities of a device....
A Text-Based Meme When most people think of memes, they think of images, GIFs, or short videos. Memes are instantly recognizable online, with pictures and voice clips that creep into mainstream pop culture. However, aside from images and videos, memes can also take the form of text blocks, which are known as “copypastas.” Copypastas are named after the act of copying and pasting text. People on the internet share these text-based memes by copying and pasting them all over the web, unlike images and videos, which must be uploaded separately....
Normally when you want to access the Disk Cleanup tool, you usually have to either find it through the start menu, or open up the drive properties window. Instead of going through all that, we can use a simple registry hack to add a menu item to the drive right-click menu. Using the Hack After installation, you can simply right-click on a drive and choose “Disk Cleanup” from the menu:...
Description (AWN/Awn) is a dock-like navigation bar for the Linux desktop that positions itself at the bottom of the screen. It can be used to keep track of open windows and behaves like a normal window list. Final Result Installation We are going to install the testing package of AWN via the developer’s PPA (Personal Package Archive). I am using Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope). Adding the PPA Repositories Go to the PPA page (Mentioned at the end of the post) and choose your Ubuntu version (In my case it’s Jaunty (9....
You can either directly hack the registry, or there’s a freeware utility that adds the functionality back… we’ll show you how to do both methods. Using the Registry Hack Method Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search or run box, and then browse down to the following key: Double-click on the (Default) key to open it up, and then replace the path for notepad with the full path for your preferred editor, making sure to leave a space and then the %1 at the end (which inserts the current file name into the path)...
Chromebooks could already handle .ZIP, .TAR, and a few other archive formats, but beyond that, you needed an Android app from the Play Store or a Linux-based utility. 9to5Google reports that Chrome OS 101, which started rolling out last month, includes support for many more types of archive files. Archives created in the .7Z format popularized by 7-Zip can now be opened (unless they are password-protected), along with some ISO files (commonly used for CD and DVD images)....
Note: Video formats are played as audio only. Installation The install process is extremely simple with a total of three windows to sort through. As you can see here Eufony Free Audio Player requires very little disk space (nice!). What Eufony Free Audio Player Looks Like The first time that you start Eufony up, this is how it will look. On our example system it defaulted to the “C Drive” to begin with....
Summarizing your document can be helpful to your readers. You can give a brief overview and call out important points. You don’t have to include this in your content because you can add a document summary in Google Docs. The document summary feature was introduced in early 2022 for Google Docs on the web. It’s coupled with the outline you can create using headings in your document. But the nice thing is, you can use the summary alone if you prefer....
The Best Ways to Find an EV Charging Station Near You Before you look for a charging station, you need to know which type will charge your vehicle. Fortunately, that’s pretty easy. Any electric vehicle (EV) manufactured and sold in North America will be able to use a level 1 or level 2 charging station, which means there are plenty of them around. If your vehicle is compatible with level 3 DC fast charging (DCFC), you’ll often find those stations in the same area as level 2, though there may not be as many available....
A while ago we showed you how to Find A Missing USB Drive which works perfectly, however, it can be quite tedious if you need to do it several times a day. Installing Desk Drive is quick and easy following the install wizard. This utility is simple to use and very effective. After installation any removable drives will be detected and shortcut placed on the desktop. It sits in the taskbar and monitors for any newly added drives....
Sometimes a device just isn’t working like it should, and the easiest solution is usually a good old restart. You can restart a Roku very easily and that will often solve any minor problems you’re experiencing. A restart is a good first thing to try if your Roku is acting slow, the remote is lagging, or apps aren’t opening correctly. Just giving everything a fresh start can be the fix, but it’s not guaranteed....
If your taskbar, system tray, or Start menu acts up, you might be tempted to restart your PC. Instead, you can usually just restart Windows Explorer. Windows makes it pretty easy whether you’re using Windows 11, Windows 10, Windows 8, or Windows 7. Windows Explorer (Explorer.exe) is a program manager process that provides the graphical interface you use to interact with most of Windows—the Start menu, taskbar, notification area, and File Explorer....
When you need to compare values in a spreadsheet, Google Sheets gives you the standard operators to do so. You can use functions if you prefer, but if the regular symbols are for you, here’s how to use them. You might want to see if a value is greater than, less than, or equal to another. This is especially helpful if you change your data often and need to keep track of these types of comparisons....
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Installing Blackbox is a simple process. You will want to make sure that you have selected the alternate install repositories. Open a terminal window and use the following command: Once the install is complete, log out and click on the Options button in the lower left hand corner: You will see a menu listing all of the window managers installed on your system. Select Blackbox from the menu, and continue to log in....
While the single-core peak of 5.5Ghz is impressive, Intel also showed off the processor running at a consistent 5.2GHz across all its performance cores while playing Hitman 3. That’s a more realistic representation of what you can expect when you get one of these chips running inside your PC. Intel didn’t break down the power draw of this new chip, but we’d expect that you’ll need some pretty serious cooling and a large power supply to keep it running smoothly....
Basically you might find your treasure item or supply a treasure to someone else. I have found this is a cool way to network with folks about other things as well. The best part is the items are free and you are certainly not harming the environment by sticking what you consider trash into the landfill. You can locate a Freecycle group near you by clicking the Freecycle image below....
First open up your start menu, and create a new folder called Network Connections, or something similar. Hint: You can get there quickly by pasting this into the address bar: %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\ Now open up your Network Connections list through Control Panel, or you can take the keyboard ninja route and just type in ncpa.cpl into the start menu search. You may want to rename some of your network connections… Wired Network is a lot more simple to remember than Local Area Connection 1....
