Vim is an extremely powerful editor, but only if you know how to use it. When you first start out, it’s like getting dumped into Minecraft survival mode — you’re gonna have to punch some trees. In this case we can easily enable line numbers by simply typing the : character and using the following: Well that was easy. You’ll start seeing line numbers right away. The only problem is that the next time you open vim the line numbers will be gone and you’ll have to google how to do this again and then type the command every time....

It’s not enabled by default, but adding it as a field for all future emails is a simple process. Launch Outlook and under the Home tab click on the New E-mail button. When the new mail window opens click on the Options tab and in the Show Fields column select Bcc. The Bcc field will appear and you can then put the contacts in there who you want to receive the mail secretly or don’t want to show a certain email address....

What Is a Color Picker? A color picker, or color selection tool, allows you to easily discover what color a given pixel on your screen is. Perhaps you are working on a webpage and would like to match the background with that of another site but you do not know what the hex (hexadecimal) color number is. Or perhaps you’re editing an illustration and would like to match the background to the overall color used in the profit graph you just inserted....

At Apple’s September 2022 iPhone event, there was a distinct lack of iPhone mini, leading many to speculate (us included) that the small form factor iPhone is well and truly dead. So why did Apple skip the mini this year, and are we forever stuck with bigger iPhones? iPhone 14 Plus Replaces iPhone 13 mini In September 2021, Apple announced the iPhone 13 mini alongside the standard iPhone 13, 13 Pro, and 13 Pro Max....

The initial rollout was only available for the Ring Pro 2 and Ring Elite, but Ring said in a blog post today, “we’re excited to announce that we’ve expanded support for video End-to-End Encryption to battery-powered devices. This brings an advanced encryption option to some of our most popular and affordable products, worldwide.” End-to-end encryption should now include the most popular Ring 4 and Ring Video doorbells, but Ring didn’t explicitly mention which models are now included....

The Problem Big 2022 hardware launches by NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel are absurdly powerful. However, that speed comes at a cost—and it’s the continuation of a problem that’s been slowly developing over the last few years. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 graphics card runs circles around its predecessor, the RTX 3090. But it gulps down 450W from your power supply in order to function. That’s 100W more than the RTX 3090 and the same as the RTX 3090 Ti....

Have you ever wanted to print something from your iPhone, or needed to print something on your office printer from your netbook at home? Here’s how you can make Dropbox into a quasi virtual print server. Syncing files between your own computers or sharing them halfway around the world is simple and quick with Dropbox. The only problem is, these files are digital. Even today, sometimes we all need printouts of our documents on paper....

Note: There are two versions currently available…a regular zip file setup and a portable apps version. For our article we are using the portable. Setup The great thing about the newest version of KidSafe is that it comes in that wonderful portableapps.com format so that it can go where you go. The “Program Folder” has the usual contents…just place the folder in an appropriate or convenient location, create your shortcut and you are ready to go....

The image above is very ideal for this technique. Yours may not be, but you can still use this technique to remove your background. You can download this image on Wikipedia to try it yourself before you dive in and use your own photos, which are probably more complicated. If they are, you may want to check out my more advanced tutorial on Removing Complex Backgrounds from Images. If not, this How-To will help you remove those simpler backgrounds....

We’ve mentioned before how Wubi is a great way to run Ubuntu on your Windows PC or netbook, and in general it works great. However, sometimes your system may receive updates to GRUB, and if you choose the wrong option, the next time you reboot your computer you may find that it think there’s only Ubuntu and no Windows installed on your computer. Or, perhaps, even more ominously, you boot your computer to see that it thinks it has no operating system....

WEMAX is a subsidiary of Appotronics, an international tech group known for its work with Advanced Laser Phosphor Display (ALPD), which uses a blue fluorescent laser to extract more vivid images from standard projections. WEMAX implements the same ALPD technology in its Nova 4K UHD model to help display vibrant, full-color imagery that’s sharp and immersive. The Nova 4K projects a crystal clear picture at an ultra-short throw ratio of 0....

GmailThis! in Action To get set up all that you need to do is visit the webpage (link provided below) and drag the bookmarklet to your “Bookmarks Toolbar”. For our example we decided to go with the “personal note” approach. As you can see here we selected/highlighted a portion of the text and then clicked on our new bookmarklet. The bookmarklet will automatically copy and paste the name of the webpage, the URL, and any text that you selected/highlighted into the new e-mail....

What Are Containers, and How Can I Use Them? Containers are a Unix concept that allows applications to run in isolated virtualized environments, free of the performance degradation that comes with running virtual machines. You can think of them like CDs that contain everything your app needs to run. You can send this CD to AWS, and they will handle creating copies of it and distributing it to multiple worker servers....

Photoshop is named “Photoshop” for a reason; it’s for editing photographs. Take a look through some basic photo-editing techniques and learn how you can improve your own family photographs. This is part 5 of a multi-part series. If you need a primer on the tools and skills covered in part 5, you can start at part 1, and learn about the toolbox. But, if you’re ready, we can cover four techniques that can help you create better memories....

Today is 10/10/10, but it’s even more than that. Today is the answer to life, the universe, and everything. How? Keep reading. How Does 10/10/10 Equal 42? If you pop open your calculator, put it into Programmer mode, click the Binary button, and then type in 101010, you’ll see that flipping to Decimal mode shows you 42 instead. And of course, if you actually learn how the Binary numeral system works, you’ll earn some geek points....

Here we’re transferring our data from the iPod Touch 3rd generation to the latest 4th generation model using iTunes 10.0.0.1 on a Windows 7 computer. Here we have our iPod Touch 32GB 3rd generation device. Notice we have most everything in folders using the new iOS 4 feature. Since we don’t want to waste time setting up the new device with all the folders, apps, and music…we’ll use the backup feature in iTunes 10…yes iTunes…as it actually works well and you can register the device too....

Ready to breathe new life into your netbook? Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 includes an innovative new look and feel and support for most netbooks without any extra configuration. Let’s take a look at the newest features. New Unity Interface Linux has been a stable and useful OS for many years, but has often been lacking in innovative UI touches. Ubuntu has always been focused at making Linux more consistent and easy to use, and we found their netbook edition to be very polished and easy to use in our previous look at Ubuntu Netbook Remix 10....

Download and install TwitterMCE application. (See download link below) When you start Windows Media Center, you’ll find the TwitterMCE icon listed in the Extras. When you open the plug-in you’ll be prompted for a Paypal donation and have to wait out the 15 second timer. Next, you’ll need to log in to your Twitter account. Enter your Twitter account username and password. You can do this with the keyboard or by entering letters and numbers with a Media Center remote....

What Makes an ARN? ARNs have a predefined format, so even if the console doesn’t list the ARN for a specific resource, you can probably construct it manually. The general format for them is partition: AWS is split into three physically separated regions: Public (aws), GovCloud (aws-us-gov), and China (aws-cn). You’re almost certainly using the public partition, so this value will always be “aws. ” service: The name of the service the resource belongs to (s3, ec2, etc....

What Is Voltage? Before getting into the nitty-gritty of the topic, it’s important to understand voltage, the very unit AVR is built upon. Voltage or Electromotive Force (EMF) is measured in Volts (V). It’s the pressure from a power source in an electrical circuit that pushes charged electrons (current) through a conducting loop. In simpler terms, voltage signifies the work or energy needed to move a unit of charge between the two points....