Post-it Notes are the stuff of passive-aggressive dreams, sprawled out on work whiteboards as part of some overly elaborate plan, or a reminder to do something you don’t want to do, which is why you wrote it on a Post-it Note. Microsoft has now incorporated the curly, sticky squares into its Teams app. The new partnership allows users to take those handwritten notes you could once escape by leaving the office, and digitize them onto Teams where they’re much harder to avoid....

The Surface Pro 9 doesn’t look much different from earlier models, with a slim form factor, 13.3-inch 120Hz touchscreen with pen support, and built-in kickstand. However, it is available in four colors, two of which are new — Platinum, Sapphire, Forest, and Graphite. The tablet can be configured with 8, 16, or 32 GB of RAM, and 128, 256, or 512 GB of storage. The front camera supports Windows Hello, and a Center Stage-like feature Microsoft calls “Automatic framing....

Here we look at an example of the annoyance, notice the tacky highlight over programs that were recently installed. Disable in Vista & Windows 7 To disable it in Vista and Windows 7 right-click on the Start Menu and select Properties. The Taskbar and Start Menu Properties screen open and you want to click on Customize. In the Customize Start Menu screen scroll down and uncheck Highlight newly installed programs, then click Ok....

Before For our example we had four individual apps open…any of the four could easily be on top at the moment. OnTop in Action The exe file for the app comes in a zip file. Simply unzip the file, place it in a Program Files Folder, create a shortcut and you are ready to go. Once you start OnTop you will see a new System Tray Icon…right click to access the Context Menu with a list of currently open apps....

Accessing Visitation Cloud As soon as you install the extension you can get started using it. Depending on how your browser’s UI is set up there are three methods for accessing Visitation Cloud: a “Visitation Cloud Button” inserted at the end of your “Bookmarks Toolbar”, a menu listing in the “Tools Menu”, and a “Toolbar Button” (not shown here). Visitation Cloud in Action As soon as you activate Visitation Cloud a new window will appear with your top domains displayed in a cloud format....

Microsoft’s new Mathematics Add-in for Word 2007 and 2010 is a great tool to work with math in Office. It lets you create beautiful graphs and solve equations without purchasing an expensive math program. To get started, download the Microsoft Mathematics Add-in (link below), and install as normal. Make sure you’ve exited Word and OneNote before you begin the setup. The Math add-in generates beautiful 3D graphs powered by DirectX, so you’ll be prompted to install the latest version of DirectX at the end of the installation....

The Apple Watch Ultra is a newcomer to Apple’s watch range, and according to the company, it’s been “years in the making.” It’s Apple’s most premium smartwatch, as well as the toughest one by far. The watch itself is made from aerospace-grade titanium, and the front display’s crystal is made from sapphire. It can be used with gloves, with a larger Digital Control and protruding side buttons for easier usage....

Being the most popular front-end JavaScript framework, the React ecosystem is lively and full of useful tools and packages that you can integrate into your app. We’ll discuss some of the most useful ones here, and show you how to use them. React DevTools React Devtools is a Chrome and Firefox extension that is extremely useful when debugging React applications. You can think of it like Chrome’s Element inspector—it allows you to navigate down your application tree, but rather than viewing HTML and CSS, you’re viewing props and state....

Just like earlier iterations, the Echo Dot is a small speaker with the Alexa virtual assistant, so you can use voice commands to play music, control smart home devices, and perform other tasks. The new Echo Dot has a “redesigned audio architecture,” with higher quality speakers that aim to deliver clear vocals and twice the bass of the previous model. It’s still shaped like a sphere — if you were hoping for a return to the more compact disc shape of the original Echo Dots, you’ll have to look elsewhere....

Hiding on the Dark Web If you know where to look you can find a hacker-for-hire who’ll happily take your money in exchange for committing cybercrimes for you. There are many places on the dark web where hackers advertise their dubious services. These hacking forums and dark web market places have existed for many years. They’re hardly new. What is new is the sudden increase in postings from people looking for hackers to do their dirty work for them....

Save Up to 50% On Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office If you’ve been waiting for this year’s seasonal sales to shop for an all-in-one data protection solution, you’re in luck. Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office is offering its services for up to half off in honor of Cyber Monday, with prices as low as $34.99 ($15 off) for an annual subscription. Acronis Cyber Protect Home Office, previously known as Acronis True Image, provides advanced cyber protection for all of your important data....

Introduction Starting with Windows 7, Microsoft has made an effort to support more advanced font features across their products. Windows 7 includes support for advanced OpenType font features and laid the groundwork for advanced font support in programs with the new DirectWrite subsystem. It also includes the new font Gabriola, which includes an incredible number of beautiful stylistic sets and ligatures. Now, with the upcoming release of Office 2010, Microsoft is bringing advanced typographical features to the Office programs we love....

A flash card is a simple card with that has on one side a new word in a language that you’re learning and on the other side a word in your mother tongue. Flash card is really easy to make, all you need is a pen and a paper and just start writing the the word that you’re learning on one side of the paper and the word in your mother tongue on the side of the paper....

Cloudflare Workers have shown themselves to be a unique and powerful solution to serverless computing. With the new addition of CRON jobs, you can now run Cloudflare Workers on a schedule without relying on an external trigger. In this article, we explore how to set up a new script, deploy that script to Cloudflare, and ultimately trigger that script with a CRON job. Getting Started with Wrangler Before we can deploy a new script to Cloudflare, we need to get the Wrangler command-line tool installed and configured to deploy our new worker script....

Google Calendar Log into the Google Calendar and under My Calendars click on Settings. Now click on the calendar you want to view in Outlook. Scroll down the page and click on the ICAL button from the Private Address section, or Calendar Address if it’s a public calendar…then copy the address to your clipboard. Outlook 2010 Open up your Outlook calendar, click the Home tab on the Ribbon, and under Manage Calendars click on Open Calendar \ From Internet…...

How Are LiFePO4 Batteries Different? Strictly speaking, LiFePO4 batteries are also lithium-ion batteries. There are several different variations in lithium battery chemistries, and LiFePO4 batteries use lithium iron phosphate as the cathode material (the negative side) and a graphite carbon electrode as the anode (the positive side). LiFePO4 batteries have the lowest energy density of current lithium-ion battery types, so they aren’t desirable for space-constrained devices like smartphones. However, this energy density tradeoff comes with a few neat advantages....

Applying critical security updates is important to keeping your Linux server safe from potential attackers, but it can cause downtime, which isn’t good either. Live kernel patching can apply important kernel updates without taking your server offline. What Is Live Kernel Patching? Before live kernel patching, system administrators needed to choose between keeping their server on or applying security updates. This is obviously not ideal, so in 2008 Jeff Arnold at MIT created KSplice, a tool that could apply updates by taking a binary diff and applying patches to the running kernel in memory....

It must appear to your coworkers as if you’re busy pooping all day or in the witness protection program or have a face that’s been mangled like Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky after taking a left off a bridge. At the very least, it seems anti-social. Out of all the tech inventions of the past 30 years, the webcam is perhaps the most irksome. Our laptops are incredibly personal devices, and perched right at the top of them is a camera always pointed at your face, like it’s an ATM or self-checkout camera making sure you’re not stealing....

Computers Pull Themselves Up by Their Bootstraps The word “boot” is a shortened form of the word “bootstrap,” whose noun form refers to the strap on a pair of boots that you can grab and pull to help you get the piece of footwear onto your trotter. The verb form, “bootstrapping,” refers to the English idiom “pull oneself up by one’s bootstraps.” Picture a person lifting themselves into the air by simply reaching down and tugging on their waders—a miraculous sight for sure....

Have an iPhone or Android phone and a music collection too large to sync to it? Want to share your library with friends? Here’s how to sync your library with your smartphone over the internet, or stream it in any browser. How We’ll Accomplish This Subsonic is a powerful little cross-platform solution to these problems and more—it’s an open source media streamer that is based on both Java and donations, so it’s a cross-platform solution that is free for basic usage utilizing the web interface....