Previously we showed you how to install WHS Vail on VMware Workstation. Today we’ll take a look at how to install it completely free using VMware Server 2 and the free Vail Beta ISO. Getting Started You’ll need the following items to get started. VMware Server 2 – Registration required WHS Vail Beta ISO – Via Microsoft Connect Computer Capable of Hardware Virtualization running a 64-bit version of Windows Enough Hard Drive space on the Host computer to create a 160GB virtual hard drive which is the minimum system requirement At least 2GB of RAM or more on the Host computer – The minimum amount of RAM to allocate for Vail is 1GB...

Open the Spreadsheet with the data you need and hold down the Ctrl key while highlighting the area of the document you want to print out. Click the Page Layout tab on the Ribbon, then the Print Area button and Set Print Area… While still under Page Layout click on Print Titles… The Page Setup screen opens up and you’ll want to select the Sheet tab. From here type in the Columns and Rows that you want to repeat (if any) then click on Print Preview....

While tools like the Magic Eraser can sometimes remove your backgrounds, the fact is you’re going to have to get your hands dirty with the eraser if you have images with complex backgrounds that need removing. While this can be time consuming, you can save yourself a lot of time with a little Photoshop wizardry. Let’s take a look. Right click your Background Layer in your Layers Palette, and choose “Layer from Background…” It automatically renames as Layer 0....

Spoon is an application virtualization service that lets you run many browsers, apps, and games on your PC without installing them. It streams the app from their server to your PC, letting you try a mirage of programs from outdated browsers to indie games without installing them. Let’s see how this works. First, you’ll need to install the Spoon browser plugin. Head to their website (link below), and click Install Spoon plugin....

Download and install VLC player. You’ll find the download link below. Open VLC and select Tools > Preferences. On the Preferences windows, select the Video button on the left. Under Video Settings, select DirectX video output from the Output dropdown list. Click Save before exiting and then restart VLC. Next, select a video and begin playing it with VLC. Right-click on the screen, select Video, then DirectX Wallpaper. You can achieve the same result by selecting Video from the Menu and clicking DirectX Wallpaper....

How Early Access Works Early Access lets game makers put their games up for sale while they’re still under development. Steam itself doesn’t put a lot of restrictions or rules on Early Access—you could, theoretically, put a broken mess online and try to get a few suckers to pay for it. That said, Steam expressly states in its documentation that Early Access isn’t a place to showcase tech demos; the game needs to be playable....

How Does Business Email Work? Business email works in largely the same way traditional free email works. You have a mail server that collects your emails, usually managed for you “in the cloud” by a mail provider like Gmail. You connect to this server with a mail client, which usually comes in the form of a web dashboard, though you can also use a downloadable app like Outlook, Thunderbird, or the Mail app for macOS....

One of the best features of Photoshop is one of the worst, as well: you are overwhelmed with options. Have a quick look through the default panels and learn more of what Photoshop can do in your hands. Adjusting Panels The default panels are snapped to the right side of your PS window. They are a fine set to begin with in Photoshop, and you can always adjust them, hide them, show them, or whatever makes the most sense to you....

As one of the hallmark features of Photoshop, Layers are the foundation of learning good photo editing techniques. In this article, we’ll go through their basic usage, as well as cover some basic types of layers. Your layer panel is one of the most important within Photoshop. Whenever you use Photoshop, you’ll work spend a lot of time working in it. If you’ve lost your layers panel, you can retrieve it by going to Window > Layers....

Note: This article is geared towards those who may not have used this accelerator before or declined to “add it” when setting up IE 8. Using Bing Translator Once you have clicked on Add to Internet Explorer and confirmed the installation your new accelerator is ready to use. For our example we chose a Norwegian news article. Right-click within the webpage to access the context menu entry for translating. Depending on the originating language, you may want to go ahead and set it manually before beginning the translation....

Update: Our readers have let us know that the NoScript extension interferes with and will stop GReader Popup from working correctly. Before Viewing your RSS Feeds usually requires either having a separate tab/window open or using an external software. It would certainly be nicer (and a lot more convenient) if you could accomplish the same thing with a “there when you need it and gone when you do not” popup window....

If you haven’t already done so, please read the first VLOOKUP article – this article will assume that many of the concepts explained in that article are already known to the reader. When working with databases, VLOOKUP is passed a “unique identifier” that serves to identify which data record we wish to find in the database (e.g. a product code or customer ID). This unique identifier must exist in the database, otherwise VLOOKUP returns us an error....

Perhaps the worst security mistake you can make is leaving highly confidential secret access keys on a web-facing server. So, when it comes time to install and authenticate the AWS CLI on a remote EC2 instance, how do you configure it? You Should Be Using IAM Users The answer is definitely not using your root access keys—these are the most important tokens in your account, and they can bypass any multi-factor authentication device you have set up....

In Linux, file permissions determine the levels of privilege for file owners and everyone else. It’s important to make sure any web-facing files have their permissions set correctly, so that a compromised process can’t write to places it shouldn’t. What Are File Permissions? File permissions track the permissions for three different groups. Each group is represented by three bits: r: The “Read” permission allows a process to read the contents of that file into memory....

What Is a 3D Desktop? If you think about the typical computer desktop, it’s a 2D image where you move 2D images around to accomplish tasks such as copying files or running software. This 2D picture is just a representation of the data, so it doesn’t represent what’s happening inside the computer. This is a big step over using a text-based interface since such a GUI (Graphical User Interface) is much more intuitive for people....

A Strange Origin While the click of death is associated with mechanical hard drives by most people, its origin is actually from a different technology: Iomega Zip and Jaz drives. These cartridge-based removable storage devices offered oodles of space at a time when writable CD or DVD drives or external hard drives weren’t a thing. Some models developed a catastrophic fault with a loud clicking as the main symptom. The click of death lives on today as the first symptom of a drive that shouldn’t be making any long-term plans....

Mosh, or “Mobile Shell,” is designed to be a replacement for SSH, specifically for mobile devices or laptops on slow connections. Mosh works over UDP, and will keep your connection alive, even if you change WiFi networks or experience fluctuating cell signal. What Is Mosh? Mosh’s UDP-based transfer system makes it more stable than traditional SSH, as it handles packet loss much more effectively. If your connection drops out for a bit, Mosh will reconnect you as soon as it comes back, leaving your commands in place as you were typing....

86-DOS to PC-DOS Seattle Computer Products had previously developed QDOS, or the “Quick and Dirty Operating System,” but renamed it to “86-DOS” in 1980 when the company wanted to sell the software to others. No one wants to buy a product that’s “Quick and Dirty.” Soon after, Microsoft purchased 86-DOS and then turned around to license 86-DOS to IBM as PC-DOS, the operating system for the forthcoming IBM Personal Computer....

COVID-19 Exploited By Cybercriminals Cybercriminals are extremely agile. Not in a gymnastic way, but in the way they can react rapidly to a newsworthy event and use that as the cover story for a new set of threats. Or more accurately, to redecorate old threats and give them a new lease of life. They only need to reword their phishing emails so they refer to the news story, rebrand the email in the appropriate corporate livery, and send them out....

Note: The desktop application is still in beta phase so you may experience a few bugs, but overall in our tests, it was stable. Yoono Installation is straight forward, quick and easy. After installation you’ll have a list of different social network and IM services to choose from. A second screen is displayed where you sign into your account, in this example it’s Facebook. Each service will give you different messages letting you know you’re connected through Yoono....