Picture it: It’s 1986, and you see a message on your Windows PC saying your computer is infected with a virus. To remedy the situation, you’re instructed to call brothers Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi. At that moment, as you pick up your phone and start to dial, you immediately regret pirating the brothers’ software (as you should). The virus was known as Brain, the first PC virus. It was technically built for the protection of software....
Note: Windows 7 Media Center is only available in Windows Home Premium and above. Getting Started & Watching TV If you are new to Windows 7 Media Center, you’ll want to take a look at our beginner’s guide which shows you how to set up WMC for viewing Live TV, Recording, Streaming Video, Netflix, and more. If your PC has a tuner card it may seem like a daunting task to set up to watch live TV....
JSAUX is a company that has developed a reputation for its Steam Deck accessories, and now, the company is selling an unofficial replacement backplate for the Steam Deck. Its frosted semi-transparent design lets you see the insides of your Steam Deck in full, and it also evokes a similar look and feel as the frosted clear shells for the Game Boy Color and the Game Boy Advance. It makes for a nice nostalgia trip, which also happens to work very well since the Steam Deck is, after all, a handheld console....
Windows Phone 7 Series represents a huge change in the mobile field for Microsoft, bringing the acclaimed Zune HD UI to an innovative phone platform. Windows Mobile has often been criticized for being behind other Smartphone platforms, but Microsoft seeks to regain the lead with this new upcoming release. A platform must have developers behind it to be useful, so they have released a full set of free development tools so anyone can make apps for it today....
What You’ll Need: Windows, Mac, or Linux host computer. (Are steps below are shown in Windows 7) HippoVNC server software installed on your host computer. (Linux users can use included VNC server software) HippoRemote Lite app installed from the App Store. A WiFi router. HippoVNC Server Install Download the HippoVNC Server file. The link can be found at the end of the article. Open the file and select Run....
Setup After installing the extension, you will notice a small “Photobucket Icon” in the lower right corner. For those who are curious, there is no toolbar button to worry with. At this point you are ready to go! Here is a quick look at the Photobucket account being used for our example… You can use the “Status Bar Icon” to login to your Photobucket account and access the settings....
DictionaryTip in Action For our example we left the default settings in place and used the mouse to access DictionaryTip. To use your mouse simply hover the cursor over a word as shown here… Double click and the word is highlighted. Notice that there is also a small icon just below the highlighted word…to open the “Popup Reference Window” move your mouse over the icon. The “Popup Reference Window” will quickly appear and you will be able to move the window to a different location within the browser window if desired....
Visual Tabs in Action As soon as you have installed the extension you are ready to go. To browse through your open tabs simply click on the “Toolbar Button” to open the drop-down window. You will see thumbnails of your open tabs and a “background color chooser option” in the lower left corner. Use your “Middle Mouse Button” to scroll through the tabs and click on the one that you would like to view....
What Does a Thread Border Router Do? If you’ve followed any smart home news over the last few years, even loosely, there’s a good chance you’ve heard chatter about the Matter smart home standard. The appeal of Matter, in brief, is that it breaks the smart home market out of the siloed mess it is currently in and allows for simple cross-platform communication. Instead of buying all-in with a single vendor and getting stuck with just that vendor’s hardware and that vendor’s hub, you can live a hub-free life with all your smart home devices talking to each other through Matter....
What Is Workload Rate? Workload rate is a term used to describe how much data can be transferred to or from a hard drive before its performance begins to deteriorate. Most manufacturers advertise the annual workload rate, giving users an idea of how much data can be transferred in a year before running into issues or (possibly) voiding the warranty. The exact formula for determining annual workload rate varies slightly by manufacturer....
As the basis of nearly every image format worth using, Pixels and Vectors are the broad categories of modern 2D image files. But what are they exactly, and how are they different? While the differences in these two formats may appear obvious on the surface, the explanation is subtle and complicated. Stick around for a little bit of computing history and graphic geekery. Pixels and Raster Images Pixel is a contraction of the words Picture and Element....
PlayStation Plus PlayStation Plus is an optional premium subscription with a range of benefits, depending on how much you want to spend. The “Essential” base tier costs $9.99 per month and offers new monthly games (for as long as you remain subscribed), access to online multiplayer services, discounts in the PlayStation Store, cloud storage for saves, and access to the PlayStation Plus Collection, a curated library of PS4 favorites like Bloodborne, God of War, and Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End....
From the Start Menu Windows Terminal can be launched from the Start Menu, just like any other app. Click the Start button or hit the Windows key, type “terminal” into the search box, then click “Open.” If you want to launch Terminal as administrator, click the small arrow on the right side of the Start Menu to expand the Terminal options, then click “Run as Administrator.” x From the Power User Menu The Power User Menu is probably the most underused menu in Windows....
Before Normally any interaction with your Dropbox account while using Chrome only occurs one way…in a regular tab. But what if you just want to access one of your files quickly without the whole “new tab” hassle? Drop Box in Action If you are not currently signed into your Dropbox account you will need to quickly login. The default opening view for the drop-down window is the “Recent Events Tab”…...
Yep, that’s right. You can add it to the Start Menu… using a silly hack to the Libraries feature and renaming the Recorded TV library to a different name. It’s not a perfect solution, but you can access your Dropbox folder this way and it just seems to belong there. First things first, head into the Customize Start Menu panel by right-clicking on the start menu and using Properties, then make sure that Recorded TV is set to “Display as a link”....
Tumblr includes hundreds of beautiful themes, and a wide majority of them are available for free. Some of the best themes that include stylish touches and features, however, are available in the Premium Themes section. Some of the premium themes can even make your blog a great portfolio or photography site, complete with transition animations and more. Here’s how you can purchase a premium Tumblr theme and make your blog more stylish with very little effort....
Add External Drive Plug the external hard drive into the server. Then open up the Windows Home Server Console from another computer on the network and go to Server Storage. You should see the external drive in the list, where in this example it’s a Western Digital 1TB My Book. You’ll notice the drive status is Not Added yet. To add the new drive as storage space, right-click and select Add....
In this example I’m playing a song from the band Early Day Miners and we can see the album cover in the Now Playing mode and the playback controls are hidden. When I hover the mouse pointer over the window the controls pop backup. To make it so the playback controls are always displayed, switch back to Library view and click Organize then Options. Click on the Player tab then under Player settings uncheck the box next to Allow autohide of playback controls then click Ok....
Right as NVIDIA announced its new GPUs, AMD took the chance to announce the date for its next big GPU event: November 3, 2022. They will be based on the company’s RDNA 3 architecture, and they’ll presumably be sold as the Radeon RX 7000-series if AMD sticks with its current naming scheme. Among the things that we might see in these new graphics cards, we have a new chiplet design and a 5nm TSMC process node, as well as an optimized graphics pipeline, a next-gen version of Infinity Cache, and an improved compute unit design....
First, download and install Virtual Clone Drive. It’s a free application that allows you to mount an ISO file so that it appears as a CD/DVD drive. The install process is very simple and you can just take the defaults. Next, download and install Mikinho Mount Image. This add-in allows for the ISO image files to be displayed and mounted automatically in Windows Media Center. This is also a very basic install and is available in 32 & 64 bit versions....
