Do you keep forgetting the syntax for obscure hardware commands you hardly use? The osquery application lets you interrogate the hardware, users, and performance of your Linux computer with standard SQL commands. The osquery Application The osquery application is a free and open-source program from the osquery Foundation. It gathers a tremendous amount of information about your Linux computer and makes it accessible as a pseudo-database. The database contains many tables holding different categories of information....

An arrow function in JavaScript is a terser alternative to a traditional function. The syntax enables quick creation of inline anonymous functions. Arrow functions were added with ES6 in 2015. They’re now supported by all major browsers. You can use them with older browsers, such as Internet Explorer, via a transpiler like Babel. Creating Arrow Functions The main advantage of arrow functions is how concise they make your code....

What Is the Dead Zone? The dead zone (or sometimes “deadzone”) of a controller is the distance the stick can move from the neutral position before it starts registering as an input in games and applications. A controller with a large dead zone takes longer to register inputs than one with a small dead zone. However, if the dead zone is too small, the controller may become too sensitive. It may even exhibit false inputs when the stick is untouched....

Gift cards have a bad reputation for being boring, thoughtless gifts. However, when buying a gift for a techy person, some free money to spend in Apple App Store or Google Play Store may just be the perfect thing. Permission to Spend Money There’s a weird thing that happens to a lot of us when it comes to making purchases in app stores. Many people won’t think twice about buying a $5 coffee every morning, but they can’t justify $0....

“Who’s that man?” a chorus of background singers swoon with every lowercase letter that’s supposed to be capitalized. “There he goes.” At least that’s how they want us to react, but the other stuck-up kind of reaction is equally ridiculous. “Sweet molasses! Those letters and words are all lowercase. This is an affront to the Queen’s English, and I demand satisfaction!” Perhaps I’m exaggerating both those reactions just a little....

Securing Your Server and Protecting Valuable Data Protecting user and work data is a never-ending job. With hackers becoming more advanced and new exploits being found every day, securing sensitive information is becoming both harder, and more important, than ever. Whether your important data lives in a database on your server, within a website’s server-side code, or in a file somewhere on your server, protecting this information is important to you as a business and as a user....

Before & After For our example we have placed the “before & after shots” together for better comparison. First off we started with the How-To Geek logo. Note: Does not display the original URL behind shortened URLs. Next we moved on to a permanently linked article title. The “Reviews Tab” in the How-To Geek website toolbar. The article tags listing just beneath the HTG website toolbar. And the link for subscribing to our RSS Feed....

Getting the Latest Version of Safari Several weeks ago we looked at how to install extensions in the new Safari 5, but it required a rather complicated process to get everything working. Now Apple has updated Safari and made it very simple to install extensions from their official Extension Gallery. First, though, you’ll need to make sure you have Safari 5.0.1 or later installed. If you’ve already installed Safari or other Apple programs, open the Apple Software Update tool to get the latest version of Safari....

If you try to add a video file to Windows Live MovieMaker from a network network location, where in this example we’re trying to add a file from our home server… You’ll get an error message indicating files can’t be added directly from a network folder, and it advises to copy the file to your local machine first. Well, you may not have the space on your machine or the time to transfer it first....

Installation and Setup Download and install Media Player Plus! (link below). You’ll need to close out of Windows Media Player before you begin or you’ll receive the message below. The next time you open Media Player you’ll be presented with the Media Player Plus settings window. Some of the settings will be enabled by default, such as the Find as you type feature. Using Media Player Plus! Find as you type allows you to start typing a search term from anywhere in Media Player without having to be in the Search box....

Add or Remove Features in Office 2007 By default, all of the features of the Office version will be installed. To uninstall some of them, pop in the Office 2007 disc and select Add or Remove Features then Continue. Now go through the list of apps you no longer need and from the drop down select “Not Available” then click Continue. If you want to add a particular feature, select Run From My Computer....

Greasemonkey is one of the most-love extensions on Firefox, so you may have been disappointed to leave behind your favorite website customizations when you switched to Google Chrome. Now you can have the best of both worlds, as Chrome now natively supports user scripts. You don’t have to install an extra extension to use them; in fact, Chrome treats each user script as an individual addon so you can easily manage and remove them....

Why Use Mounting Tape? To be sure, drilling a hole, setting an anchor, and mounting your video doorbell or other gear directly into the structure of your home is by far the most secure way to mount it—both in terms of actual stability and in terms of anti-theft security. But there are plenty of reasons why you might want to avoid doing so. Perhaps you’re renting, and drilling holes into the door frame or siding is out of the question....

Get the Bookmarklet To install Clippable just go to the website, grab the bookmarklet, and drag it to your “Bookmarks Toolbar”. Now you are ready for instant one-click “webpage cleaning”. Using Clippable For our example we decided to visit the Microsoft webpage with information about customizing Windows 7. Notice all the items at the top of the page and on the sides… Just one click and all the excess items are gone leaving just the article and pictures related to it....

Close All Windows Close All Windows from NTWind Software is an easy to use utility that doesn’t require installation, and will terminate all programs with a single click. Simply download and extract the zip file, and when you open it you’ll see the files that run it. You can put this folder into a handy directory like C:\Users then pin the executable to the Taskbar for easy access in Windows 7....

On any Excel worksheet, click on the cell with the formatting you’d like to copy. You will see dashed lines around the selected cell. Then select the Home tab and click on the Format Painter. You’ll see your cursor now includes a paintbrush graphic. Move to the cell where you’d like to apply the formatting and click on it. Your target cell will now have the new formatting. If you double-clicking on Format Painter you can then click on multiple individual files to which to apply the format....

When toothbrushes transitioned from folk to electric, the change was widely accepted by those looking to expend less effort with more results while brushing their teeth. Now they’re getting the smart treatment. It’s a process that imbues your standard electric toothbrush with AI, data tracking, wireless, unsolicited advice, and all the minty analytics that help make sure you’re brushing correctly. Because we didn’t listen to our dentists when they told us to brush slowly in concentric circles for about the length of the White Stripes’ “Fell in Love With a Girl,” the toothbrush feels the need to chime in as well....

How it Works Both the setup and mirror process are very simple and goes like this: Create and share a folder on your network where you would like the user files stored. Users will need read and write access to this folder. Place the backup script in the network share. Schedule a task on each user’s computer to run the backup script from the network share. The script mirrors the documents stored on the local machine to the network share....

You would think upgrading from the Office 2010 Beta to the final release would be an easy process. Unfortunately, it’s not always that simple. In fact, we ran into three different scenarios where the install wasn’t smooth whatsoever. If you currently have the 2010 Beta installed, you have to remove it before you can install the RTM. Here we’ll take a look at three different troublesome install scenarios we ran into, and how we fixed each one....

How Does Product Placement Work? First of all, let’s talk about product placement. You’ve probably noticed product placement in a lot of things. Sometimes it’s fairly subtle in the background, other times it’s embarrassingly obvious. Product placement is simply when a company pays to have their products and logos appear in media. Basically, if you see a brand’s logo, there’s a good chance the company paid for it. The opposite can be true too....