Note: You can print off cards on regular paper if you want, but they won’t look quite as nice – best to grab some greeting card paper from the local office supply store. I’ve always used Avery, but there are lots of brands to choose from. Using Word 2007 You might be surprised, but Word 2007 has a lot of options for making quality holiday cards, and is a fairly easy process....
Internet Explorer was officially retired in June, which was a happy occasion for nearly everyone in the tech industry. Following a long tradition of sending cakes to each other, the Firefox team at Mozilla sent a cake to Microsoft to celebrate the end of Internet Explorer. Microsoft shared a photo earlier today of a cake it received from the Firefox team at Mozilla, complete with a large Internet Explorer logo....
Open the message and then use Shift+Tab, which will select the Message field as shown highlighted below: From here you can use the arrow keys to select the different attachments. If the attachment is an image, it will automatically preview below, as will certain types of office documents. To open the attachment in the default application, just hit the Enter key. You’ll probably get a message similar to this one: And that ends the mystery of the missing attachments hotkey....
Luckily we can easily change this with a small configuration tweak in either browser. Remove from Internet Explorer Simply click on the little arrow next to the printer icon on the toolbar, and then choose Page Setup from the menu. Now you should see a “Headers and Footers” section where you can specify what is printed. The codes, like &w and &b are replaced with the values on the current page, such as the URL....
The solution is a small Windows Sidebar Gadget called Pidglet that interacts with an included plugin for Pidgin. Thanks to our extremely helpful forum member Justin for finding this gadget. Installing Pidglet Before installing the Gadget you’ll need to install the Pidgin plugin… if you don’t install in the right order you’ll get some error messages, but don’t worry because it’s simple. After downloading and extracting the zipfile, you will need to browse down to your Pidgin installation directory, and find the Plugins directory:...
Open up Control Panel and go to the Programs and Features section. Find the link for “Turn Windows features on or off” (or you could just search for it) This dialog is quite self-explanatory… uncheck the things you don’t want, and hit the OK button. Depending on the version of Vista you are running you might not see everything in the list. Guidelines, Not Set In Stone Just to get you started, here’s a few tips on what an average user might want to enable or disable....
There is a registry setting that controls the list of which files you’ve chosen to automatically open, which means if you uncheck this box the default will be to always open the file, which is why you don’t get the option to save the files anymore. Manual Registry Hack To manually make this change, we need to open up regedit.exe through the start menu search box, and then browse down to the following search key:...
Just about everyone wants a cleaner place and to do less work to keep it that way. If you have an entry-level Roomba tidying up after you, the collision detection, carpet boost, and auto-emptying dock of the Roborock Q5+ is the affordable upgrade your floors need. How Clean Are the Specs and Performance? The first thing you do after setting up and running an autonomous vacuum robot is watch it with wonder and judgement....
Samsung announced on Friday, September 2 that the company “recently discovered a cybersecurity incident that affected some of their information.” According to Samsung, “an unauthorized third party” gained access to some of the company’s U.S. systems in late July, and Samsung learned in August that some personal information was affected. The company says the breach “may have affected” names, contact information, demographics, dates of birth, and product registration information, but not Social Security numbers or credit/debit card numbers....
Line Feed vs. Submit If a web form or application defaults to submitting a text field when you hit Enter, then pressing Shift+Enter will usually let you create a line feed (moving the cursor to a new line) without submitting. That way, you can create multiple-line messages. For example, on the Twitter website, you can use Shift+Enter to make a multi-line tweet. When you’re done, press Enter by itself, and your tweet will be sent....
Relatively Speaking, Routers Sip Power If you’re used to electric or electronic products of the past, you might think that they use a lot of power, but most modern appliance-like electronics use a very minimal and reasonable amount of power that’s almost negligible compared to high-current devices like microwaves or air conditioners. For example, according to Synology, the highly-regarded RT2600ac router uses about 10.8 watts of power when in use and about 7....
At Startup When Moo0 File Shredder first starts up, it will be in minimized mode (default). It is recommended to click on “Detailed Description” to keep Moo0 File Shredder in expanded window form and to help you better choose the appropriate level of shredding needed. Moo0 File Shredder has a very convenient drop down menu to allow you to select the level of shredding that best suits your needs. Each shredding level will display exactly what is done with the file while shredding it....
Basically, Car Thing is a smart player designed to create a better in-car listening experience for vehicles that don’t have Apple CarPlay or Android Auto. In a blog post, Spotify described the device. It said, “Car Thing enables listeners to play their favorite music, and podcasts quickly using “Hey Spotify” voice commands, as well as simple taps, turns, and swipes—allowing listeners to start playing that hit song or the latest podcast episode before they pull out of the driveway....
Google released the Chromecast with Google TV near the end of 2020, serving as a new competitor to the best streaming devices. Now it’s on sale for $40, a savings of $10 from the original price. This is a common discount for the Chromecast with Google TV, going back as far as 2021. Still, the player started at a great price, so any discount takes it to the next level....
Nintendo Switch’s approach to voice chat is a bit convoluted. Many of its games require the use of a smartphone app for communication, with only a handful of games offering built-in functionality for group chat. This means not all games will require (or even allow) a headset for communication, and you’ll want to double-check your catalog before investing in a headset for Switch. The last thing you’d want to do is buy a fancy headset only to find out you can’t use it to chat with friends in your favorite game....
Razer describes the new Enki HyperSense Pro, calling it “an advanced gaming chair incorporating high-fidelity haptics, allowing users to experience a new dimension of immersion in gaming.” The Enki Pro is already one of the nicer gaming chairs on the market in terms of comfort and performance, but the HyperSense portion is what makes this stand out. The haptic feedback in the chair is developed with D-BOX, the company responsible for those intense movie theater experiences you can find all over....
The Autoruns tool from Sysinternals lets you see pretty much every single startup item at a glance: applications, services, explorer add-ons, services, drivers, and even scheduled tasks. This tool is phenomenal for managing everything at once, but it also has another interesting use. Overview Here’s the default window that shows up when you launch the application, showing you loads of data. If you right-click on an entry, you can choose to search online to find out what it is, delete it (be careful) or even use the Jump to option to launch regedit focused on that item in the registry....
During installation you might want to make sure you don’t install their toolbar. When you first launch FreeZ TV you are presented with what looks to be the starting button. However, this is just an advertisement that will launch your browser and take you to another online TV service. On the left side of the screen is a menu of the available channels separated into different categories. It uses Windows Media Player where you can control the play with the familiar control bar....
What Does N-Key Rollover Do? If your keyboard features NKRO it means each key you press is registered separately. So, if you press three character keys at once in a text document, all characters will display on your screen. However, there can be limits to the number of keys you can press. This is represented by the “n” in n-key rollover being replaced with a number, e.g. 6-key rollover (6KRO)....
Google Chrome is based on Chromium, an open-source browser project. Anyone can take the Chromium source code and use it to build their own browser, renaming it and changing whatever they like. That’s why there are so many alternative browsers based on Google Chrome—but you don’t necessarily want to use most of them. Many web sites have recommended these browsers in the past—including us, in this very post. We’ve since rewritten this article to discuss the problems with some of these alternative browsers, and why we no longer recommend using them—with a few exceptions....
