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“I’ll just see myself out,” I usually mutter, accidentally walking into a closet. We all have those movies we watch over and over, to the point that we begin developing a deep knowledge about them where we can answer obscure trivia questions no one’s asking, and could probably recite the entire script if somehow a casting agent asked us to. I’ve probably seen Goodfellas more than the amount of Baskin-Robbins flavors, The Assassination of Jesse James more than the amount of provinces in Canada, and can likely recite every line of dialogue from Glengarry Glen Ross, while annoyingly mentioning the differences between the original play and the script....

Using Clipboard Manager The program comes in a portable format…simply unzip the zip file and add the ClipMan folder to Program Files. Create a shortcut and you are ready to go (link below). The context menu for Clipboard Manager is short and easy to work with. You can access the clipboard list by clicking on the system tray icon or using the keyboard shortcut (Ctrl + S). Note: You will need to set the system tray icon to always show if you prefer clicking on the icon for access....

What Is a File Manager? If you are used to using Microsoft Windows operating systems, you likely know about explorer.exe, that process which sometimes crashes and then most of your desktop icons, toolbar etc. are gone until you restart the process or restart your computer. Explorer.exe is the default file manager/explorer in Windows, and changing it is fairly challenging and best reserved to professional users only. On Linux, there is much more freedom....

Facebook and Instagram currently each have their own login screen — after all, even though accounts between both platforms can be connected to some degree, they’re still different logins across different platforms. The new update doesn’t change that, but it does bring a unified login experience for both apps. The new Account Center features a unified UI across both apps and doubles down on the integration that currently exists. If both accounts are linked, you can sign into Facebook using your Instagram login, and vice versa....

The original photo from 1995 depicted trunks of interstellar gas in the Eagle nebula, roughly 6,500-7,000 light-years from Earth. It was dubbed the Pillars of Creation because the gas was helping create new stars, and the trunks look a bit like pillars. The same region was photographed again by the Heschel Space Observatory in 2011, and again by Hubble in 2014 with a newer camera. NASA has now released a photo of the same region that was recently captured by the new James Webb Space Telescope....

High Availability – Including Threat Actors One of the major benefits of the cloud is the high-availability it offers to your hosted resources. They are accessible from anywhere. And that’s great. But it also means your cloud-infrastructure is—inevitably!—internet-facing. That makes it easy for any threat actor to try to connect to your servers and services, to do port scanning, dictionary attacks, and reconnaissance activities. Some of the security issues that need addressing for cloud infrastructure are the same as those for on-premise, traditional infrastructure....

The Problem: Many Homes Have Underwhelming Lighting Many homes have really cruddy lighting design and placement. In fact, if you have an older home that hasn’t been extensively remodeled at some point in the past, then there’s a good chance the number of light fixtures and the placement thereof is abysmal. I happen to live in a lovely nearly hundred-year-old home that is, as old homeowners like to say, full of charm and character....

By default, Windows Media Player will pull metadata, such as the title, artist, album, and cover art from the Internet. If you did not accept that default option during setup, we’ll need to turn the feature on first. Select Tools > Options from the top Menu bar. On the Library tab, ensure that Retrieve additional information form the Internet is checked. Click OK. Editing Metadata Now we’re ready to update some files....

Using Local Drives Within the ‘new’ computer everything will be as it normally is when you log in at school/work. So, in My Computer, the drives will all be the same as you would find normally. However, it only shows the drives on the remote computer as a default, but you may want it to your own drives on your computer – local drives. This is quite a simple process, but for some reason it is hidden away within the Remote Desktop options, but here’s how you do it:...

HTTP: The Short Version HTTP is an acronym and stands for hypertext transfer protocol. Let’s break that down a bit, starting with the “protocol” part. In tech, a protocol is the set of rules machines need to abide by to “talk” to each other. For example, VPN protocols determine how VPNs interact with servers. HTTP is a lot less specific than that, and instead sets the rules for how the internet works....

The Task Manager is how you can see what’s running on a PC, and Microsoft gave it a much-needed overhaul in the recent Windows 11 22H2 update. Now, there are even more improvements on the way. This year’s major Windows 11 update included an all-new Task Manager, with a more modern appearance (matching other Windows 11 applications), an optional dark mode, and an “Efficiency mode” for limiting background processes. Microsoft has rolled out Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 22621....

YouTube has announced that now, when you tune into a video from the TV app, you’ll now see a three-second clip with a sound. According to Google, it lets you “know that something’s about to pop up on YouTube” as soon as you hear it. The company went all-in with this sound, enlisting the help of an audio studio called Antfood to make a sound that’s “human, connected, expressive, and story-driven....

The Golden Rule of Leaving Things Plugged In Every home is different, and you might have particular devices that we don’t mention here. So a good golden rule to follow regarding unplugging something to save money is to ask: what’s the worst outcome of this device being unplugged? If the worst outcome is that you’ll have to manually plug it in or some convenience feature like remote control access will be turned off, it’s probably a good candidate for unplugging....

Google’s productivity apps, including Google Meet, are chock full of useful features. For example, did you know you can easily record a meeting inside the app? To make the most of your meetings and calls, here are several Google Meet features you may have missed. 1. Live Captions for Seeing and Hearing Live captions are helpful for attendees with hearing impairments. They’re also useful in noisy environments or to ensure everyone hears the speaker correctly....

Before Here is our browser with the default “History Menu” displayed. There is not a lot that we can look at in detail is there? We need to be able to see more than just some of today’s browsing history… But to do that means opening the “Library Window”. Not good…not good at all. Time to make all of that browser history easy to access from the “History Menu” itself!...

It’s the week of AWS’s annual reInvent 2020 Conference, and today EC2 and EBS are getting some major upgrades, with faster storage for all instances as well as 6 new EC2 instance types. EBS Upgrades – gp3 and io2 Block Express The underlying storage of EC2 has gotten a lot faster: both SSD based EBS volumes, general purpose and provisioned IOPS, are getting upgrades. These are likely both powered by the relatively new PCIe 4....

Before If you have ever wanted to link to something great that you have found on the web you have to go through a lot of hassle to do it. Copy the text part, copy the webpage address, then start pasting everything into the new link you are formatting/creating. Once in a while is not bad but it can be frustrating if you have to do that a lot every day while writing your blog or articles....

The full error message is this: Run this command to edit the interfaces file, and then change eth0 to eth1. After you run this command to restart networking, everything should likely start working again: You should be able to run a ping command, or use ifconfig -a and everything will be working.

foobar2000 Foobar2000 is a great music player for the geek who wants a light player that they can tweak the heck out of to their liking. The installer is only a 1.6 MB download but packs a lot of power. Features include gapless playback, ReplayGain support, ripping CDs, customizable interface, open component architecture and a lot more. It supports FLAC, MP3, MP4, OGG, WAV, WMA, AIFF, and other music formats....

What is SSL/TLS? SSL, which stands for Secure Sockets Layer, is a protocol used to encrypt traffic between two computers. Interestingly enough, we still commonly refer to SSL but in reality TLS (Transport Layer Security) is now, and has been, the standard protocol for securing traffic between websites and users since SSL was deprecated in 1999. That being said, when we talk about SSL and SSL certificates, we are most likely talking about the same encryption technology....