You Can Use Your Nose to Control Your Phone? If you’ve never tried it, you might be a little surprised to realize you can use your nose to control your phone. In fact, you can use any part of your body to interact with your phone. That’s because your smartphone screen (as well as the screen of your smartwatch) is a capacitive screen that responds to the changes in the electrical current created by your finger or any other electrically conductive portion of your body brought into close proximity to the screen....

The URL Shortening services officially supported at this time are: bit.ly, cli.gs, ff.im, goo.gl, is.gd, nyti.ms, ow.ly, post.ly, su.pr, & tinyurl.com. Before When you encounter a shortened URL you are pretty much on your own in deciding whether to trust that link or not. It would really be nice if you could just hover your mouse over those links and know where they will lead ahead of time. After...

It’s hard to believe, but 2022 is the first time in 10 years that there were no new streaming services launched. And we’re not just talking about major streaming services—no service under one million subscribers launched either. What happened? RELATED: Which Streaming Service Has the Best Movies, By the Numbers How We Got Here For a while, Netflix and Hulu were basically the two services you would use to find something to watch....

The AWS IAM Management Console lists over 500 assignable permissions-based policies you can give to enable your IAM users to access different services. What do they all do, and how can you configure your own? You Should Always Fine Tune Your Permissions First off, it’s a terrible idea to use your root credentials for everything. AWS recommends that you create an administrator IAM user with console access (that you can log in with) to manage your account, and only use your root credentials for account maintenance....

As we all try to do more with less with automation, we sometimes get to a point where we’ve got a new problem. We’re now running so many scripts and processes that, in the end, we’re not sure what “done” looks like If we’re running a user provisioning script that creates an AD (Active Directory) user, an Exchange mailbox, or a home folder, how do we truly know that script did everything it was supposed to?...

PowerShell 7.1 may not look like it has huge changes at first glance, but there is a lot more going on under the hood than one may expect. There are also a number of very useful features and tools that can enhance your scripting and help you develop even better scripts. PowerShell 7.1 was released on 11/11/2020 and is quickly becoming adopted by many in the IT community. This article goes into a number of improvements and enhancements but is by no means a comprehensive collection of all the improvements....

Learn About Energy Vampires The easiest way to successfully cut back on energy vampires and the wasteful phantom loads they introduce to your home’s power consumption is to know more about them in general. We can’t possibly tell you about every energy vampire in your home, but we can educate you about them—and in doing so, help you hunt them down. Over the course of a year, energy vampires can cost you hundreds of dollars in wasted electricity so it really does pay off to find them and make adjustments to how you use devices around your home to save on your electric bill....

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is designed to reduce the load on your primary web servers by caching your static assets on a network of servers. These servers will be closer to users, which can speed up your load times. How Do CDNs Work? Without a CDN, a user would make a request to your web server, which would send over the corresponding HTML, images, JavaScript files, and any other assets your site needs....

Installation You will see a confirmation message window during the installation process…simply click “Install” to finish adding Chrome Page to your browser. Once installation is complete you will see your new “Toolbar Button” and a quick message about managing your extensions. As you can see there are no options that you have to bother with for the extension… Nothing but click-and-go goodness. Chrome Page in Action To get started viewing any of Chrome’s special pages simply click on the “Toolbar Button” and select the desired page from the list....

Note: In this example we’re using Windows Home Server with PowerPack 3, and Ubuntu 10.04 running on a home network. Access WHS from Ubuntu To access files on your home server from Ubuntu, click on Places then select Network. You should now see your home server listed in the Network folder as well as other Windows machines…double-click the server to access it. If you don’t see your server listed, you might need to go into Windows Network \ Workgroup and find it there....

Installation Once you have started the installation process, you will see the following message window. Click on “Install” to finish adding the extension to Chrome. Once installation has completed you will see your new “Shortcuts Toolbar Button” and this message. First Look & Setup Clicking on the “Shortcuts Toolbar Button” will display the following drop-down menu. This is the quickest and easiest way to access the options for the extension (as opposed to using the “Chrome Extensions Page”)....

Installation & Settings Installation is quick and easy… All that you will need to do is click “Install” when the confirmation window appears. Once the extension has finished installing you will see the following post-installation message dropping down from your address bar. Notice the top part of the message concerning access to IE Tab Classic. While you could start using IE Tab Classic immediately you will probably want to take a quick look through the settings before-hand....

Copy Files from Vista Note: In this example we are using 32-bit versions of Vista and Windows 7. Make sure you are logged in with Administrator credentials. If you have a Vista machine running, we can copy the Windows Sidebar files over to the Windows 7 machine. On the Vista machine navigate to C:\Program Files and copy the Windows Sidebar folder and all of its contents over to a flash drive or network location....

It’s not exactly the meeting of Smith & Wesson, but AMC and Zoom are converting a handful of movie theaters into cinematic videoconferencing spaces, which shall be known as Zoom Rooms. Companies will be able to book multiple auditoriums across the country for a three-hour block to virtually host their event, and workers will have access to food and beverage offerings (for an added cost), so their laptops can become as sticky as the floor....

Have you ever wanted to delegate a task, but found that the permissions needed can be too risky to hand out? Or, have you wanted to lock down things like group creation in AD to enforce naming conventions of groups? JEA can help you with just that and a lot more. In this article, we’re going to walk through how you can delegate your already created scripts with PowerShell 5....

If you’re still using Outlook 2003 you’re probably familiar with the Reminder Bell icon. Enable Reminder Bell in Outlook 2010 To enable the bell in Outlook 2010 click on the File tab, then Options. When the Outlook Options screen comes up, select Calendar and scroll down to Calendar options and check Show bell icon on the calendar for appointments and meetings with Reminders…click OK. Now when you look at your appointments and meetings you have the Reminder Bell icon back....

In this article we will cover two simple tracking systems: ReturnMyPants to keep track of your personal inventory and IOWEYou to keep track of money. Tracking Your Personal Inventory with ReturnMyPants ReturnMyPants is a dead simple personal inventory tracking system that help you keep track of items that you lend or borrow. ReturnMyPants uses a simple form to let you record the details of the items you lent or borrowed from your friend....

Compared to C++, C#’s garbage collector seems like magic, and you can very easily write code without worrying about the underlying memory. But if you care about performance, knowing how the .NET runtime manages its RAM can help you write better code. Value Types vs. Reference Types There are two kinds of types in .NET, which directly affect how the underlying memory is handled. Value types are primitive types with fixed sizes like int, bool, float, double, etc....

In case you haven’t heard, CCleaner is a well-established PC maintenance tool that’s known for helping desktops and laptops run more smoothly by clearing out useless clutter. The service has evolved so much further beyond its roots, however, expanding to include a robust suite of features, like the brand new Performance Optimizer available on CCleaner Professional 6. When enabled, CCleaner Professional’s Performance Optimizer hunts down unnecessary background tasks and puts them to sleep, thus freeing up vital resources to help your machine run smoother and more efficiently....

XSplash XSplash is a software project in the Ubuntu community that uses the X Window System to replace the scrolling-text screens that appear while booting a Linux-based computer with a graphical splash screen. Previous versions of Ubuntu, (before Karmic Koala) used USplash which now is history. The default XSplash screen in Karmic Koala looks something like the one below…which is actually not too bad. However, you don’t have to live with the default XSplash if you don’t like it....