Unfortunately, there’s no perfect option that works across all browsers like Xmarks did, but there’s still plenty of options. Google Chrome Sync If you’re using Google Chrome, you’re in luck, because most of the Xmarks features are built right in without any extra add-ons necessary—in fact, you can even sync extensions, apps, preferences, themes, and autofill settings from one machine to another. In our experience, this sync works really, really well—and it’s almost instant....

Welcome to Linux, Here Be Dragons Using Linux is much simpler than it used to be, but it can still confound new users. It has long held a reputation as being difficult to set up and work with, but that’s no longer the case. Gone are the days when you had to struggle to tell your newly-booted installation what keyboard layout you had, using your misidentified and incorrectly-mapped keyboard. Modern installation routines such as Calamares and Ubiquity make installing the common Linux distributions as simple as it can be....

Note: This extension only works on the latest Dev Channel builds for Windows & Linux (4.0+). Setting Up “Things To Do” Once you have browsed to the extension homepage click on the “Add to Chrome Button” to start the install process. Once you have clicked on “Add to Chrome” you will be presented with the following message in the “Downloads Toolbar”. Click “Continue”. Clicking on “Continue” will bring up the following message window…click on “Install” to add the extension to Chrome....

What is AutoKey? Let’s say you often type your email address, or your postal address. It can be a bit frustrating to have to type it out every time. Let AutoKey do it for you! All you have to do is to associate a keyboard shortcut – a set of keystroke events – with a particular blurb of text. Another easy to setup function is keyboard automation. AutoKey supports various key events like a left or right cursor press (the left and right arrow on your keyboard)....

CodeDeploy is one piece of AWS’s automated CI/CD pipeline called CodePipeline. CodeDeploy handles the deployment part of the pipeline, getting the latest code updates onto your fleet of servers without requiring you to update them manually. How Does CodeDeploy Work? CodeDeploy supports automated deployments to EC2, Lambda, and ECS. For each application type, you create a “Deployment Group” that tells CodeBuild which servers to update and how. CodeDeploy can update servers one at a time, connecting to your load balancer and automatically routing traffic away from servers being updated....

By default in Internet Explorer 9, you’ll see a list of your most popular sites when you open a new tab. These sites will be listed by how frequently you visit them, and let you quickly access the sites you already access most. The new tab is an easy way to access and interact with your favorite sites. Simply click one of the links to open that site. Or, if you want to pin one of the sites to your Windows 7 taskbar or your Vista Quick Launch bar, simply click and drag one of the links to add it without even visiting the site....

How to edit text in a webpage IE8’s developer tools make it easy to make changes to a webpage and view them directly. Simply browse to the webpage of your choice, and press the F12 key on your keyboard. Alternately, you can click the Tools button, and select Developer tools from the list. This opens the developer tools. To do our editing, we want to select the mouse button on the toolbar “Select Element by Click” tool....

“The Merge” is happening today (September 14), and it will transition Ethereum’s consensus mechanism from its current proof-of-work scheme to proof-of-stake. It’s not happening at a specific time, but rather, it’s scheduled to happen whenever the blockchain reaches a specific Terminal Total Difficulty (TTD) number. That’s a value that represents the cumulative difficulty of all Ethereum blocks ever mined, and it’s set at 58750000 P. That value should be reached either tonight or very early tomorrow....

When this problem happens, you’ll notice that moving the arrow keys around just moves the cursor around the page. Annoying! The problem is because you tripped the Caret Browsing feature at some point, and accidentally hit Yes. To fix this, you can just hit the F7 key again. Or, if you want to do it the about:config way, filter by accessibility.browsewithcaret and make sure it’s set to false. Remember, you can double-click on any boolean value to toggle between true and false....

When you’re playing a YouTube video, it can be very annoying waiting for it to load so you can get to the point you want. Use Number Keyboard Shortcuts For this trick to work, you need to click on the Play button first, and make sure the progress bar is showing,then hit any number key on the top row to skip through the video (the number pad didn’t seem to work)....

What Affects the Score? The total base score is ranked 0 to 10, and is composed of three subscores—exploitability, impact, and scope. A lower exploitability score is worse, as is a higher impact score. An exploit that can be easily exploited over the network by anyone and has a high impact would be critical, and an exploit that requires physical access or user interaction and doesn’t do much would be very low impact....

While Azure provides many tools, it doesn’t have everything. We will take a look at how you can configure a functional Let’s Encrypt SSL for any Azure Web App, in order to provide it with the necessary level of security for all standard online operations. What Is Let’s Encrypt? First things first, let’s get Let’s Encrypt out of the way. So, what is it? It’s an automated, free, open Certificate Authority....

Setting Up Your Drop-Down Terminal You will first need to install SIMBL in order to install Visor, which is the application we’ll use to actually setup the drop-down terminal. SIMBL, which is short for “SIMple Bundle Loader”, is a program used to hack or patch existing apps to add more functionality and flexibility. Once you have downloaded SIMBL, install it by just opening up the zip file, which includes the installer and uninstaller—you also might want to hang onto it in case you need to uninstall later....

Say you just ran some script that was supposed to move files around or download stuff, or anything else that involves files, and then you realize that you need to figure out what files just got created and where. And maybe you need to delete them. First you’ll want to use the find command to figure out what files were created, and then using the mmin argument to specify files less than x minutes....

If you want to encourage greater participation in your Google Meet calls, consider allowing participants to respond anonymously. You can do this for Q&A sessions and polls. You might be holding a Google Meet with a large number of participants, a public meeting, or a call across your various company regions. By allowing anonymity, attendees may feel more apt to participate when asking questions and responding to polls. Allow Anonymous Responses for Questions When you set up a Q&A session in Google Meet, you can choose to allow anonymity....

Privatize Your Profile Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with friends, family and other contacts online. It’s also a great place to spread personal information, pictures, and other data to everyone if you don’t use the proper settings. The first thing you want to do is change default settings under the Privacy Settings. Take the time to go through each of the privacy sections and make the appropriate choices for your profile....

Getting Started There are a few things to keep in mind when installing IE 9 Beta with a 64-bit version of Windows 7. First of all it installs both 32 & 64 – bit versions. Just like you had both versions of IE 8 with a 64-bit version of Windows 7. It replaces both the 32 & 64-bit version of IE 8 with IE 9. On a 64-bit Windows 7 system, the icon on your Quick Launch bar or Taskbar will default to the 32-Bit version of IE....

Reduce the Load One of the main reasons your laptop gets hot is that it’s working hard. So if you want it to chill out, reduce its workload in some way. For example, you could: Close those browser tabs! Limit frame rates in video games. Close applications running in the background. Use less intense settings in video games. Of course, if you need every ounce of performance your laptop has available, reducing the load on the computer isn’t really an option....

RELATED: How to Check Battery Health on Android Make a Samsung Phone Display the Battery Percentage On a Samsung phone running Android 11 or 12, first, launch the Settings app. Then, navigate to Notifications > Advanced Settings. If you’re on Android 10 (learn how to check your Android version), you’ll head into Settings > Notifications > Status Bar. Then, toggle on the “Show Battery Percentage” option. You now have your current battery levels shown in your screen’s top-right corner....

Yesterday we showed you one method to install XP Mode in VirtualBox, unfortunately in that situation you lose XP’s activation, and it isn’t possible to reactivate it. Today we show you a tried and true method for running XP mode in VirtualBox and integrating it seamlessly with Windows 7. Note: You need to have Windows 7 Professional or above to use XP Mode in this manner. Install XP Mode...