Why You’re Doing It Wrong First, let’s look at the way most people typically select text on their Windows, Mac, Chromebook, or Linux PC. You position the cursor at the beginning of the text, hold the mouse button down, drag the cursor to the end, then release the button. The text is highlighted letter by letter, as shown below. This works fine, but there’s one problem—and you’ve probably noticed it. When you’re selecting text letter by letter, it’s easy to accidentally only highlight part of a word....

Many of the following films did not shock the world by any means when they came out, and didn’t perform well at the box office, no matter how much popcorn people bought. Still, they’re solid entries in the genre and tend to only get mentioned when idiots like me put them in lists like this. The Arrival (the one with Charlie Sheen) Play Video Sometimes when a movie doesn’t do well with audiences, producers in the future have no issue with releasing another movie of the same name in the same genre....

Containers are a Unix concept that allows applications to be packaged with all their required dependencies into one easy-to-run image. This has resounding benefits for a DevOps workflow, but is it worth the extra hassle? Containers Synchronize Dev and Prod Environments With containers, the whole idea is that they package everything you need to run your code into an easily distributable image. This means all that is required to run the image is to download it and run docker run....

What we’ve done is put together an AutoHotkey script that automates the process of creating a link, and we’ll demonstrate it using the WordPress post editor, though that’s not the only place you could use this technique. Using Our New “Insert Hyperlink” Feature First we’ll assume that you’ve already copied the URL to the clipboard, and then you will simply select some text that you want to turn into a link—assuming you are in the HTML view, of course, since you wouldn’t want to do this in the visual editor....

Whether you’re interested in connecting your laptop to your TV for one night or you want a mini PC connected to your TV 24/7, there are a few accessories that make the experience the best it can be. In fact, depending on your needs, you may already have everything on hand. RELATED: Why You Should Connect a PC to Your TV (Don’t Worry; It’s Easy!) Wireless Casting First, we should mention you may not need to use any accessories at all....

You’ll need to perform the following commands on the user account you are trying to setup:

The holiday season is nearing. Christmas involves a lot of commuting — whether we’re talking about getting gifts for someone or simply visiting family or friends. Google Maps wants to make things easier for you and for those trips, which is why it has just added a bunch of new features. Google Maps has added a handful of new features just in time for the holidays. They’re all minor changes, but they help improve your overall experience using the app and commuting with it in general....

There could be other factors that cause network video streams to stutter, such as the type of hardware you’re using or streaming wirelessly. But before you go out and spend a bunch of money for a full Gigabit network, a simple setting change to the read buffer cache in VLC or WMP can definitely help. Increase Caching in VLC To change the buffer cache size in VLC click on Media \ Open Network Stream....

Let’s Encrypt issues SSL certificates for free, which are used to secure and encrypt traffic on your website, and give you the green padlock in the URL bar. Without one, you’ll be stuck using HTTP, which isn’t very secure. What Is an HTTPS/SSL Certificate? When someone connects to your website, that person’s browser asks your website to identify itself, to make sure that nobody is intruding on your connection. It does this with an SSL certificate, which is given to you by a Certificate Authority (CA)....

At first, running mysqldump only took a few seconds, so it wasn’t a big deal that everything locked up, but over time our backups got so big the entire site would go down for half an hour if we ran a backup. Even with lots of caching that always meant that somebody was getting an error page every single day. The problem is that mysqldump locks the database tables before it exports so that new things aren’t being inserted while you’re in the middle of exporting....

To share something you track in a spreadsheet like company financials, club information, or a team roster, you can use a PDF instead of a spreadsheet. We’ll show you a couple of ways to convert Google Sheets to a PDF. Depending on how you plan to share the file, you can simply download, save, and send it however you like. Alternatively, you can publish a link to the file on your site for others to view the sheet as a PDF....

Bash file naming conventions are very rich, and it is easy to create a script or one-liner which incorrectly parses file names. Learn to parse file names correctly, and thereby ensure your scripts work as intended! The Problem With Correctly Parsing File Names in Bash If you have been using Bash for a while, and have been scripting in it’s rich Bash language, you will likely have run into some file name parsing issues....

The world today has way too much data, but very little information. In today’s article we will show you how to extract information from your spreadsheet’s data and present them in custom charts. Here at How-To Geek we’re always working really hard to produce great articles for our readers, and so we keep an eye on the number of articles and pageviews for each month. For example, here’s a list of the top 10 articles for October:...

Droplets are the fundamental computing unit on DigitalOcean. A droplet is a virtual machine with one or more vCPUs. They have a fixed amount of RAM and a dedicated portion of SSD storage. Over 60 different droplet configurations are available. The configurations are categorized into five different tiers. These are Basic, General Purpose, CPU-Optimized, Memory-Optimized, and Storage-Optimized. You can resize droplets if you need to expand your hardware resources. You’re able to upgrade, downgrade, and switch between droplet tiers....

HAProxy is an open source load balancer, capable of balancing any TCP based service. It’s commonly used for balancing HTTP, and can help solve traffic problems on your web server. Here’s how to set it up. What Is HAProxy? Load balancers like HAProxy allow you to split traffic over multiple servers, making it easier to handle. Instead of pointing your IP at your web server, you’d point it at an HAProxy server, which would decide where to send it from there....

Basic HTTP authentication uses usernames and passwords to secure certain routes of your website. It’s commonly used to lock down admin panels and backend services, and—in conjunction with HTTPS—provides good security for web based resources. How Does HTTP Authentication Work? Basic HTTP authentication protects certain resources or routes with a username and password. When a user attempts to access that resource, their browser pops up a dialog asking for credentials before sending anything over....

In this example we are on a basic home network using Windows 7 Ultimate (64-bit version) and Windows Vista Home Premium SP2 (32-bit version). Set Windows 7 Share Settings On the Windows 7 machine we need to set up a few things in Advanced Sharing Settings. First type network and sharing center into the search box in the Start Menu and hit Enter. Then click on Change advanced sharing settings…...

Why Use a Digital Multimeter? Standalone PSU testers are great and we always have one on hand to get quick results. They can even give you useful values like the Power Good (PG) value that shows you how quickly your PSU comes up to full power—that’s something a multimeter can’t do. But lots of people have digital multimeters on hand already and don’t have a PSU tester lying around. So while it’s nice to have a PSU tester for those little extra features like the PG value, you can get almost all the same data with a more hands-on approach using a multimeter....

Insert Word Count You can use a field code to enter the current word count in a document, and it will continue to update as you add more to the document. To enter a Word count, make sure you have the cursor where you want the count to appear. Then click the Insert tab on the Ribbon. Then in the Text group click on Quick Parts then Field. Now in the Field dialog box browse through the available fields you can add to your document....

Change Themes and Backgrounds Here we take a look at the default theme for Windows 7. It’s actually not that bad looking and some of you may want to keep it. If you want to customize the look and feel of Windows 7, a great place to start is with Themes and Backgrounds. To change the appearance right click an empty area on the desktop and select Personalize. In the screen that opens you can go through and try out different ones from Aero Themes to High Contrast Themes....