What You Get With Zoho You get access to a wonderful set of productivity/collaboration apps and the business apps. With a free account there is a limitation on numbers (users, etc.) for the business apps but for the regular everyday person this can still be very useful. Signing Up For Zoho Signing up for an account is easy to do…you only need to provide a user name, e-mail address, and password....

You can add any number of folders to your Media Center Libraries. Even if you have videos or movies stored in a variety of locations, including other Windows 7 computers on your network, they can be added to your Media Center Movie Library. Supported Video Files Windows Media Center supports the viewing of the following file formats by default. Adding Folders to the Library Open WMC and click on Tasks \ Settings…...

Note: For this article we are transferring Foobar2000 settings from on Windows 7 machine to another over a network running Windows Home Server. Foobar2000 Foobar2000 is an awesome music player which is highly customizable and we’ve previously covered. Here we take a look at how it’s set up on the current machine. It’s a nothing flashy, but is set up for our needs and includes a lot of components and playlists....

Wi-Fi Is Backwards Compatible Your new router supports Wi-Fi 6, a bunch of your smart home gear, older tablets, and maybe even your smartphone if it’s a bit long in the tooth, don’t. Fortunately for you, that doesn’t matter. Unlike upgrading from one generation of a console to another or similar upgrades, upgrading Wi-Fi doesn’t require you to buy all new accessories. Current generation Wi-Fi routers are backward compatible with prior generations of Wi-Fi client hardware....

Microsoft Word was designed around paper documents, but today, most of us share more documents electronically than we print. While Word files can still work great for sharing with others and distributing online, often it can be better to save your files in an eReader friendly format. PDF files are a great way to share documents, but they often don’t look very good on eReader devices such as the Kindle, Nook, and Sony Reader, and can take up valuable space on other devices such as a netbook or iPad....

Corsair has now released its K100 Air Wireless mechanical keyboard, but if we weren’t telling you that it’s mechanical, you probably wouldn’t be able to guess so. That’s because this new keyboard uses Cherry MX Ultra Low Profile switches, which are just a mere 3.5mm tall compared to the 18.5mm regular Cherry switches. This makes them look more like a laptop’s scissor keys than to a regular mechanical keyboard....

7 Taskbar Tweaker This small lightweight utility doesn’t require installation and does exactly what its name says. After launching the app you can go through and apply the various tweaks it has to offer. Set Right-click to Standard window menu and instead of getting a Jumplist when right-clicking an icon, you’ll have the standard menu. Change Dropping to Open With …which allows you to drag a file to an application and open it instead of getting the default Pin to option....

Usually the message says something like “Windows Mail has stopped working. Windows can check online for a solution to the problem. Check online for a solution and close the program.” It’s extremely annoying because you usually just want the program to close. Note: Error Reporting can be valuable if Windows isn’t working correctly and shouldn’t be disabled unless you’re a system admin or power user. This is not recommended for the average home user....

The Maxifier is an application that allows you to open Media Center in full screen mode without restricting the mouse. It relieves the annoyance of WMC capturing your mouse on a dual monitor setup. Note: If you don’t have two monitors attached, most of The Maxifier’s functions won’t work. Installation and Use Download, extract, and install The Maxifier. (See the download link below) The Maxifier runs minimized in the system tray and you access the options by right-clicking on the icon....

When you click OK, iTunes still launches normally, and we were able to play and import CDs just fine…but the error is quite annoying. How to Fix It To fix it, head over to the Gear Software website and download the latest version of the Gear drivers for 32 & 64-bit iTunes. Make sure you’re closed out of iTunes and install it as administrator. Then run through the quick wizard accepting the defaults....

Windows Home Server is definitely easy to use – even for the beginning computer geek. One thing they do though, is hide advanced server functions as a way to protect the end user from messing with the wrong thing. Advanced Admin Console is meant for those of us who want an easy way to access the advanced server features and utilities. It gives easy access to controls that are otherwise hidden deep in the server menus, right from the WHS Console, from any computer on the network....

While Facebook and other social networks are often considered a great time waster, they can also be useful tools for staying in touch with family and friends and knowing what’s going on in their lives. Plus, it’s one of the best ways to find out more about someone; who hasn’t looked up someone who emailed you on Facebook to see who they really are? The new Outlook Social Connector integrates your favorite social networks seamlessly into Outlook, so you can see your contacts picture and recent status updates without leaving Outlook....

Punctuation plays a very big role in text conversations. The way you end a sentence (or capitalize it) can say a lot about how you’re feeling. A hard period at the end—while grammatically correct—is often interpreted as “I’m upset” or “this is serious.” I think that’s why some people turn to the classic ellipses (…). RELATED: Why Is Texting in no caps So Trendy? Are you okay… Ellipsis are an informal type of punctuation, which lends itself well to texting’s informal nature....

SSL certificates are a crucial component of the modern web, as they are required for secure HTTPS traffic, protecting your users from attackers in the middle sniffing packets. We’ll show how to request and configure them for Microsoft’s IIS web server. What is an SSL Certificate and What Does it Do? SSL certificates, which stands for Secure Socket Layer, protect and secure websites all over the world. You can tell when a website has an SSL certificate configured because the URL in the browser shows https:// instead of just http://....

GitLab has an integrated Dependency Proxy which caches upstream Docker images. Formerly a premium feature, Dependency Proxy was open-sourced and made available to all GitLab versions in November 2020 as part of GitLab 13.6. The Dependency Proxy behaves as a pull-through cache for Docker images stored on Docker Hub. Setting up the Dependency Proxy can accelerate your pipelines and helps you stay within Docker’s rate limits. Enabling The Dependency Proxy Dependency Proxy’s availability is controlled by an instance-level setting....

Configuring PHP In order for Windows to run PHP code, the PHP binary files need to be copied to your system. No installation is required, however some configuration must be done in order for it to properly run. The first step is to download the PHP Windows Binaries and extract them (i.e. ‘C:PHP’). For IIS 7, the non thread safe binaries should be used. Copy the ‘php.ini-production’ file from the extracted files paste it into the Windows directory....

First, Is Your ISP Ready? You’ll need backup power for your home internet connection, but there’s no point if your ISP (Internet Service Provider) isn’t doing the same thing. It’s a good idea to contact your ISP and ask them whether their service stays up during power outages. If not, you may want to consider a different ISP. Once you’ve confirmed that your ISP does have backup power, you can start the process of planning your blackout strategy....

There’s actually a couple of ways to solve the problem, but we’ll show you two ways to solve the problem—one that makes sense, and the other that will only really work for people with a hardware keyboard. Create a Shortcut to Toggle Auto-Rotate This is by far the best option, since it will work regardless of the type of phone you have—just hit the AutoRotate Switch icon anytime you want the phone to stop rotating on you, and then hit the icon again when you want to enable the feature....

It’s pretty common to make certain items in your S3 bucket are public to the internet, so that anyone can access and download them. However, there a few ways to go about this, which come with their own security concerns. Should You Make an S3 Bucket Public? The short answer is: probably not, and definitely not if you have any sensitive data. In most cases, it’s better to have something in front of the bucket, like an API server, that can respond to requests and handle authentication rather than just having all the objects public....

In all other editions of Windows 7, you can easily personalize your computer by simply right-clicking on the desktop and selecting Personalize. This gives you a wide range of options to change, including themes, background, sounds, screensaver, mouse pointers, and desktop icons. This Personalization panel not available Windows 7 Starter, however. If you right-click on the desktop, all you will see are options to change your resolution and add Desktop Gadgets....