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When you’re building a presentation in Google Slides, you may want precise control of your objects and images‘ position. You can easily line up your slide items by using guides. Because you can customize these guides, you can position items perfectly. You might have a slide with several types of objects like text boxes, images, shapes, or videos. To arrange them evenly, you can not only line them up using the guides, but also snap items to the lines of the guides for simpler positioning....

How to Stream UFC 277 Live in the United States Play Video The UFC 277 main card is available exclusively on ESPN+ in the United States. Existing subscribers to ESPN+ ($6.99 per month or $69.99 per year) or the Disney Bundle (which includes ESPN+, Disney+, and Hulu’s ad-supported tier for $13.99 per month) can order the fight for an additional $74.99. New subscribers can get a year of ESPN+ along with UFC 277 for $99....

Deal of the Day: Save Up To 60% On Western Digital Drives and SanDisk Memory Cards Today only, Western Digital and SanDisk are holding a huge sale on hard drives, flash drives, SSDs, and memory cards. There are simply too many items to list all at once, but there’s truly something for everybody here — external hard drives, internal SSDs, swappable memory cards, and more. Click the box below to see everything the sale has to offer....

First, we’ll need to make a copy of your current WordPress blog. I’m going to assume you have access to the console at your hosting provider, or they at least have some type of backup provided for you. If you get your backup files a different way you can skip that step. For a blog, we’ve got both the WordPress installation as well as the database, where the text of all your posts are actually stored....

Last month, a software package indicated Microsoft was working on a Windows 10 22H2 update, presumably arriving alongside the Windows 11 22H2 update later this year. Now the update has been confirmed, but it’s not clear what will actually be new. Microsoft rolled out the first preview build of Windows 10 version 22H2 to Windows Insiders on Thursday. The update is identified as Build 19045.1865 (KB5015878), and it marks the first time Microsoft has officially acknowledged that Windows 10 will receive a 22H2 update later this year....

Open up a new Calc Spreadsheet and enter =GAME(“StarWars”) into any of the cells and hit enter. Make sure and type in the capital letters as shown to get it to work. The easiest would be to copy the text above and paste it into a cell. This opens up the Star-Wars Galaxy game which is a Space Invaders clone. The instructions are in German but you don’t need to know a single word to be able to start playing....

The reason this happens is because Gmail’s IMAP shows the same item in multiple folders, for instance when you’ve labeled an email it will show up in the label folder as well as All Mail and the Inbox, even though it’s the same email. Outlook can’t tell the difference. The fix is to tell the To-Do bar to ignore any tasks that are in other folders other than All Mail....

Always Opt for More Ports Although it seems like, paradoxically, the answer to how many HDMI ports you need is always “one more than you have,” there is a way to approach the question systematically. We’ve done exactly that, digging into how to determine how many HDMI ports you need on a TV. In general, a simple “number of devices you have + one” calculation is a safe bet. But that assumes you know how many devices you’ll want to plug in down the road....

New Search Tab with Hotkey Just search using Alt+Enter instead of hitting the normal Enter key. This will work even if the default is still the current tab. New Search Tab by Default Type about:config into the address bar, and then put the following into the filter box: Double-click the value to change it to true. New Search Tab with Tab Mix Plus Installed Open Tab Mix Plus Options through the Tools menu....

SmarterFox adds the same functionality as the IE Accelerator to everyone’s favourite browser. Install the extension by clicking Add to Firefox. Then simply follow the prompts. Once this is complete you’ll need to restart your browser. Then you’ll want to get some text on screen and highlight it to see the difference. Note the extra buttons. You get a few options for search engines, but unfortunately it’s not open ended....

Installation & Initial Startup The nice thing about Emesene is that it is an open source messenger that works on Windows and Linux (cross-platform is always a good thing!). One point of interest during the install is that Emesene states that it will require 51.4 MB of disk space…but this messenger is more than worth it! Once you have finished the installation process and started Emesene for the first time, you will see the initial login window....

Requirements: Mono development environment. ASP.NET 1.0 This will install the development environment along with some sample applications. To run the sample applications, you will launch the XSP process and point it at the samples. You’d simply modify the path to run an application that you’ve created. sudo apt-get install asp.net-examples ASP.NET 2.0 Listening on port: 8080 (non-secure) Listening on address: 0.0.0.0 Root directory: /usr/share/asp.net-demos Hit Return to stop the server....

You can easily search and replace all bolded or italicized text in a document, for instance. Or you could remove that ugly Heading 2 style they used… what were they thinking using bright red? Open up the Find and Replace dialog from the menus, or just use the Ctrl+H keyboard shortcut. Click in the blank Find box, and then you can use the regular keyboard shortcuts to specify specific formatting....

Just go to System \ Preferences \ Preferred Applications Under Mail Reader, select Custom, and then put this into the Command window, changing “geek” to your username. Next, you’ll need to save this shell script into your user directory ( /home/username ). For the curious, here’s the contents of the script: If you’d like to make the script open a new tab in an existing Firefox window, you can replace the firefox line in the script with the following:...

So I went searching for the best method to disable these videos from playing automatically, and came up with three different options that I’ve listed for you here. Method 1: Using the StopAutoPlayingAlready Extension I’ve created an extension for Firefox that will prevent YouTube videos from automatically playing by converting the default player to the embedded one that doesn’t auto-play. Note: I can’t really take any credit for this, because all of the logic is from the greasemonkey script below....

It would be pretty easy to make a long list of ugly phones, but I wanted to narrow it down a bit. For this list, I stuck with smartphones, though there are a lot of ugly feature phones. None of the iPhone models have really been ugly, so that means we’re looking at Android phones. Sorry, diehards. It should be noted that design is extremely subjective. What I find ugly may not be ugly to you....

The Rise of Flash What eventually became Adobe Flash started out as an application called ‘SmartSketch,’ developed by FutureWave Software. SmartSketch was just a vector drawing application for pen computers, released in 1993. Frame-by-frame animation abilities were eventually added, and the app became FutureSplash Animator for Mac and PC. Macromedia acquired FutureSplash in 1996, and the application was split into two products. Macromedia Flash would be used for creating animations, while Flash Player would allow anyone to play those animations without paying for any software....

Vivaldi is one of the most popular alternative web browsers, aimed at people who want a feature-packed experience. Now the browser is rolling out the ability to fully customize its toolbars. Firefox has allowed people to customize the main toolbar for years, including adding, removing, or moving buttons and search boxes. However, Chrome only allows you to move around extension buttons, and most Chromium-based browsers can’t do much better. Vivaldi 5....

Common Monitor Hardware Issues It can be hard to let go of an old monitor that’s been around for so long. But at a certain point, you need to move on. You’re better off replacing a monitor that has terrible image quality or dead pixels, is ghosting (where moving objects have blurry trails following them), has a red line running down the middle of the screen, or shuts off randomly....

How Does This Even Work? To make a computer that’s cooled by mineral oil, you need a few things on your shopping list: A leakproof container, such as an aquarium tank. Special non-conductive mineral oil. An (optional) pump that circulates oil in the system. An (optional) radiator, although you’ll want one on a system that’s always-on. All of the solid-state components of the computer are submerged in mineral oil and their heat is dissipated into it directly....