TunerFree MCE Note: We are installing this in the US and UK users will have different available channels. Make sure you’re closed out of Media Center and download and install TunerFree MCE plug in (link below). You can install it using the Typical Setup Type. After the install is complete launch Windows 7 Media Center and browse to MillieSoft TunerFree MCE. You can also access it from the Extras menu....
If you use Linux or Unix, you’ll want to read this interview with Brian Kernighan about the origins of Unix, from his book ‘Unix: A History and a Memoir.’ Unix: A History and a Memoir I went to university in 1990, and quickly discovered SunOS Unix in our campus computer lab. I was immediately hooked. Unix had a command line that provided a rich, powerful command line – yet it felt familiar to me, having used MS-DOS for the previous ten years....
As a better solution, we have created a batch script which will automatically update the Sysinternals tools you have on your system. All you have to do is put the batch script file into the folder where your Sysinternals tools are located and the script does the rest, no configuration is needed. Here is how it works: The current list of tools from Sysinternals is downloaded and compared to the files on your system....
The other day we looked at the IE 9 Public Beta and showed that it allows you to search directly from the address bar like in Google Chrome. This is a cool feature, but by default, of course the search engine is Bing. You can easily change it to Google or any other provider that they offer easily and here is how to do it. Change Search Provider to Google Start typing in a search term in the IE 9 address bar and if you have suggested Sites enabled you’ll see the Bing icon at the bottom....
Create Home Computer Restore CD There used to be an ISO stored in the Software folder of WHS that would allow you to create a Restore CD. If you see an image there it’s more than likely outdated. To get the new image head over to the Microsoft site and download restorecd.msi (link below). By default the image is installed to My Documents in the Windows Home Server Home Computer Restore CD (Dual Boot) folder....
Yesterday we took a look at creating panoramic photos in Windows Live Photo Gallery. Today we take a look at a free tool from Microsoft that will give you more advanced features to create your own masterpiece. Getting Started Download Microsoft Image Composite Editor from Microsoft Research (link below), and install as normal. Note that there are separate version for 32 & 64-bit editions of Windows, so make sure to download the correct one for your computer....
goo.gl with Prompt for Copying Bookmarklet In Action To add the bookmarklet to your browser simply drag it to your “Bookmarks Toolbar” and get ready to start creating those shortened URLs. For our example we chose one of the wonderful malware removal articles here at the site. All that you will need to do is click on the bookmarklet to create your shortened URL. The wonderful thing about this bookmarklet is the small pop-up window that provides an easy way for you to copy the shortened URL....
Why Bother with Rear Paddles? Rear paddles are (unsurprisingly) found on the back of the controller and operated with the fingers you usually don’t use while holding a game controller. Instead of simply gripping the controller, you can use your index or pinky finger to hit a paddle, which can be mapped to a different button on the controller. These paddles are usually easy to remap on the fly, which means you can quickly change which input they correspond to depending on the game you are playing....
Download and Install Windows Live Movie Maker. The download link can be found at the end of the article. WLMM is part of Windows Live Essentials, but you can choose to install only the applications you want. You’ll also want to be sure to uncheck any unwanted settings like settings Bing as default search provider or MSN as your browser home page. Add your recorded TV file to WLMM by clicking the Add videos and photos button, or by dragging and dropping it onto the storyboard....
Outlook 2010 If you’re searching for an email you received a few months ago, it can be annoying when you enter a search term, nothing is found, and you have to click Try searching again in All Mail Items. By default Outlook 2010 is set to only search in the current folder. We can change the locations that are searched the first time. Click on the File tab to access Backstage View and click on Options....
AWS logically isolates your resources from everyone else, launching everything you use into your own virtual private cloud. It may run on the same hardware underneath, but AWS has built the systems to virtualize entire networks on their infrastructure. Your Instances Are Private When you first create an EC2 instance, a new VPC is created for you. Every instance you launch is created in this VPC, and is given a random private IP address....
Numeric File Names Usually when we scan a PDF file using some hardware (mobile phone, dedicated PDF scanner), the file name will read something like 2020_11_28_13_43_00.pdf. Many other semi-automated systems produces similar date and time based filenames. Sometimes the file may also contain the name of the application being used, or some other information like for example the applicable DPI (dots per inch) or the scanned paper size. When collecting PDF files together from different sources, file naming conventions may differ significantly and it may be good to standardize on a numeric (or part numeric) file name....
Giant Context Menus! Here’s a screenshot of the actual context menu in the browser on my PC, which is clearly completely out of control—and I don’t even use Internet Explorer on a regular basis. Clean Out the Messy Context Menu The first thing you’ll notice is that there’s an “Accelerators” section of the context menu, and if you don’t use any of them, you can easily get rid of them all....
Here at How-To Geek, we’ve covered many different ways to reset your password for Windows—but what if you can’t reset your password? Or what if you’re using drive encryption that would wipe out your files if you changed the password? It’s time to crack the password instead. To accomplish this, we’ll use a tool called Ophcrack that can crack your password so you can login without having to change it....
Containerising your projects with Docker simplifies the development experience and facilitates straightforward deployment to cloud environments. Let’s look at how we can package a React site as a Docker container. This article focuses on projects that have been bootstrapped using create-react-app (CRA). If you’ve ejected your CRA configuration, or are using a custom build process, you’ll need to adjust the npm run build command accordingly. Docker images are created via a Dockerfile....
The problem is that once you delete hundreds or thousands of posts in WordPress, it’s basically impossible to empty the trash using the interface — it’ll take a few minutes and then time out without successfully emptying the trash. Luckily there is always a better way… and in this case, it’s as simple as running a database script. You can launch a MySQL console by running this command from the terminal, using the values from your wp-config....
What’s actually happening is that I just built this site on a new server, and I was trying to upload a large image for an article that I’m writing. The image is only 1.5mb but on the web that’s very large, so nginx is probably blocking it. Usually you can just upload a smaller image and it’ll be fine, but why let the error keep us down? Most likely the problem is a bad configuration somewhere....
Random Numbers At The Terminal It seems simple to generate a random number in Bash: But is the number truly random? Not really, as we can see. The random number generator in Bash depends on a seed – a value passed to the random number generation function – which, provided the seed is the same, will always generate the same sequence of random numbers as the example output above shows....
The Portable Document Format The Portable Document Format (PDF) solved a problem. When you created a document on a computer and wanted to share it with someone else, sending them the document didn’t always work. Even if they had the same software package you’d used to create your document, they might not have the same fonts installed on their computer that you had on yours. They’d be able to open the document but it would look wrong....
The entr Command You can set commands to run at specific times in Linux, using cron. It’s easy, reliable, and flexible. But what if you need to have commands executed whenever a file changes, or if a new file is added to a directory? That’s possible, too, and there’s more than one way to do it. The entr command is a refreshingly straightforward way to achieve that functionality. Some systems, such as the Hugo static site generator, have a feature that automatically rebuilds your website if a file changes, or if a new file is added to the site....
