Default Skins & Adding New Ones When you install VLC Media Player it has a basic, native look to it. If you are just interested in functionality then it is not a problem, but if you like something with a bit more attitude then a few minutes work will terminate the problem. The first step is to navigate to VLC’s Program Files folder and access the skins subfolder. You will see the ....

Note: Requires .NET Framework 3.5+ (link provided at bottom of article). Setup Windows Utilities Launcher is wonderfully simple to set up…just unzip the exe file, place it in a “Program Files” folder, and create a shortcut. Get ready for instant access goodness! This is what you will see as soon as you start Windows Utilities Launcher… In the “Utilities Tab Area” you can quickly access the utilities shown with a single click of the button beneath each listing....

Note: This extension will not function if you have the NoScript extension installed/enabled unless JavaScript has permission to be active on that page. Before You can see the available “Context Menu” options for working with images here. Not bad but it would be nice if some other convenient options were available as well. Image Toolbar in Action Once you have installed the extension you will be able to view the toolbar whenever you hover your mouse over an image....

Note: For this tutorial we’re using Office 2010, but the steps are nearly identical in 2007. Centering a Picture in Word First let’s insert a picture into our document. Click the Insert tab, and then click Picture. Once you select the picture you want, it will be added to your document. Usually, pictures are added wherever your curser was in the document, so in a blank document it will be added at the top left....

Before Here you can see our example browser with the “Progress Bar” displaying as normal in the “Status Bar” and the “Throbber” spinning. We can do better than that though, right? Options Once you have installed the extension, you might want to take a quick look at Fission’s options. You can easily change the color that displays in the address bar or even use an image (which makes for a truly unique look)....

We like to use RIP for creating a printer friendly page or removing advertisements from web pages. We can click on any elements on a web page and remove the elements by selecting the appropriate command from the UI. The second method is by specifying the XPath to the HTML elements that we want to block. Let us take a look at how we can block HTML elements by selecting them and remove it from the UI....

Installation Once you have started the installation process you will see a confirmation message window. You will need to click on “Install” in order to finish adding BoogleMarks to Chrome. After the extension has finished installing you will see your new “BoogleMarks Toolbar Icon” and a quick message regarding managing the options for the extension. The only method for accessing the options for BoogleMarks is through the “Chrome Extensions Page”…...

If you’re running Google Dev channel version of Chrome, you might have noticed that the latest update really broke—the problem is the GPU accelerated canvas option, but you can’t get in there to change it since it keeps crashing. Here’s how to fix it. This problem isn’t affecting everybody, but hopefully there’s enough other people having the same problem that it’ll help somebody. And it’ll probably help out in the future if any other bugs crop up....

Depending on where you are, your phone’s constant scanning for a Wi-Fi network can eat up battery, which is why some people turn it off away from home. We’ll show you a simple setting that can automatically turn Wi-Fi back on when you’re near your common networks. Turn Wi-Fi On Automatically on Samsung Galaxy To turn on Wi-Fi automatically on a Samsung Galaxy phone, swipe down one from the top of the screen and tap the gear icon....

Rootkits compromise a network in a way that lets the threat actors get back in whenever they like. They may exfiltrate information, delete files, or plant other malware. Here’s how to stay safe. Rootkits Rootkits are a particularly pernicious form of malware. They are very difficult to detect and even harder to get rid of. On top of that, they give the threat actor tremendous power over your system including the ability to come and go as they please....

Go to the start menu search box, type in gpedit.msc, and hit enter. You could also go to Start | Run and do the same, but the search box is faster and cooler. Next the Local Group Policy Editor pops up. Under Computer Configuration in the left pane, expand the Administrative Templates, then click on System. Now in the right pane, scroll down till you see Display Shutdown Event Tracker, and double-click on that....

Like any other piece of software, Microsoft SQL Server needs to be kept up to date. Microsoft routinely releases service packs for SQL Server that must be installed. To install a service pack, you can either connect to a remote console of the SQL Server, run the installer, and click through the wizard, or you can do it the easy way. Every service pack installer for SQL Server supports silent installations....

Desktop Files Desktop files contain information about the application or script they belong to. They’re most often used with binary executables, but you can use them with a script too, should you wish. For brevity, we’re just going to say “application.” A desktop file contains metadata that your desktop environment can reference when it is dealing with that application. The desktop file will specify where the application binary or script is, what icon it uses, and so on....

Docker is a way of packaging applications and all of their required dependencies and configuration into a single image. Essentially, this turns your server configuration into something that can be managed with git and synchronized across every machine. What Is Docker, and Why Is It Useful? Docker makes it much easier to manage your production server configuration. Rather than setting up servers manually, you can automate the whole process to be ran when you build your container image....

All I’m trying to do is search and replace across my WordPress database with a simple query — for instance, when we switched HTG over to HTTPS, we had a ton of old links and images pointing to the HTTP version. So we had to update all links to be , and with nearly 20,000 post records in our database, that would require hiring a hundred interns. Or… a single SQL statement....

Wubi makes it easy to install Ubuntu from your Windows computer and keeps you from messing up your Windows Boot Loader. It simply adds an Ubuntu entry to your Windows boot loader, and you can manage it directly from Windows. However, several different things can mess up this boot screen. If you ever install a different boot loader, restore your Windows Setup from a boot disk, or reinstall Windows, your Ubuntu link will disappear....

Note: This method uses Local Group Policy Editor which is not available on home versions of Windows 7 or Vista First type gpedit.msc in the search box of the Start Menu and hit Enter. Now navigate to User Configuration \ Administrative Templates \ Windows Components \ Windows Explorer. Then on the right side under Setting, double click on Prevent access to drives from My Computer. Select Enable then under Options from the drop down menu you can restrict a certain drive, a combination of drives, or restrict them all....

Note: This extension currently only works for Windows, but it probably won’t be long until it’s ported to Mac and Linux. If you’re a Google Chrome user and you’ve been wondering why there isn’t an option to set an image as wallpaper directly from the browser, there’s now an extension that can do this for you. Install the Extension Head over to the Set image as wallpaper download page, click the Install button, and then simply right-click directly on any image file on the web—making sure that you’re clicking on the large size of the wallpaper and not a little preview....

Hosting your website using S3 is fairly common practice on AWS. It’s cheap, requires no servers, and even supports client-side web apps with frameworks like React. To make things easier, we’ll set up a deployment pipeline to handle updates. How Does This Work? For an S3 site, you can make updates by running aws s3 sync, or by adding new objects to the bucket manually. However, this is a very manual process, and it can be automated pretty easily....

When you make a graph in Excel, you may want to include the source data with it. By adding a data table, which takes just a few steps, you can provide extra details or further explain your visual. A data table is a grid of the data you use to create your chart that sits beneath the graph itself. Once you add a data table, you can format and customize it to your liking....