Have you ever tried to sort data in Excel, only to receive an error about merged cells? It can be a pain to try and locate all of those merged cells manually. Luckily, there’s a simple way to find them. Find Merged Cells in Excel on Windows Microsoft Excel on Windows offers a Find tool that offers extra options. This allows you to locate cells with specific formatting. RELATED: How to Find and Replace Text and Numbers in Excel...
Evernote is a great application for taking notes and having them available virtually anywhere—except for Linux, sadly. Here’s how to get the Windows client working in Ubuntu using Wine. There are a couple of things that we need to have before we can install Evernote in an Ubuntu box: the latest Evernote installer for Windows and Wine 1.3 or better. Installing Evernote Wine is an open source software for running Windows applications on other operating systems, which means we can get our hands on many good Windows applications even while running Ubuntu on our PC....
Copying the Perl Binaries Before any IIS setup can be done, the Perl binary files must be extracted to your system. Download the ActiveState Perl distribution package (get the AS zip file and not the installer) and extract them to a folder on your server (i.e. ‘C:perl’). We will map IIS to use the files located in this directory. Configuring IIS 6 to Run Perl Scripts Open Internet Information Services Manager to the Web Service Extensions and select the option to add a new extension....
If you’ve switched over from Microsoft Office to Google Docs, you’ve probably noticed there’s just one problem: creating a new document takes far too many steps. Here’s how to create new documents with single click—or even a shortcut key. Note: you can use these shortcuts to create Documents, Spreadsheets, and Presentations, but we’ve not yet figured out how to make a shortcut for a new Drawing. If you figure that out, please let us know....
An innovation in edge computing has been taking place over the past few years. CloudFlare (CF) Workers enable server-side JavaScript applications to be run directly on the edge, closest to a consumer. Whether it is a simple or complex application, a CloudFlare Worker unlocks amazing performance, with no cold-starts, for a fraction of the price that traditional serverless computing offers. Along with the concept of CF Workers, a feature named Workers KV (key-value) data store enables saving and serving data directly to a worker....
How Quest Hand Tracking Works The Quest and Quest 2 headsets have exterior onboard cameras that track the headset’s motion relative to the environment. This is known as “inside-out” tracking and is becoming the standard way for VR motion tracking, replacing systems that use external cameras around the user. Meta has found other interesting uses for those cameras, including the ability to blend objects from the real world with the VR world....
Satellite Internet Has Never Been Great Putting all the cards on the table, satellite internet has never been anyone’s first choice regarding internet connectivity. In general, these services have offered a small amount of bandwidth and a large amount of latency. It’s usually a last-resort option for connecting off-grid or extremely rural clients, especially since it’s historically expensive to install and operate. The rise of fast cellular data services and long-range Wi-Fi transmission makes satellite internet even more niche, so it’s no wonder it’s not really on the average person’s radar....
Windows Vista made doing the same thing really difficult… you had to use a command line hack to force Vista to stop using so much space. Windows 7 makes it really easy. Tweak System Restore Disk Usage Start by right-clicking on the Computer icon, and going to Properties, which will take you into the System panel. Then click on the link on the left-hand side for System protection. Now you should be looking at the System Protection tab, where you can create a restore point, use System Restore, or configure your settings....
Note: we’re assuming that you already use Disk Cleanup on a regular basis, or maybe you’ve already setup CCleaner to clean your PC on a schedule. Still slow? Keep reading. Make the Start Menu Only Search Applications The first thing you can do is change the Start Menu search box to only search through your applications in the Start Menu, rather than finding documents, pictures, emails, and going through your internet history....
Install Virtualbox The first thing you need to do is install Virtualbox from Oracle’s website. It is different than Virtualbox OSE which is included in the Ubuntu repositories because the Virtualbox from Oracle includes proprietary software which allows you to mount USB devices inside you VM among other things. If you already have Virtualbox OSE installed from the Ubuntu repositories, uninstall it before installing the .deb file from Oracle’s website....
Before Whether it is saving a file from a link… An image from a website… Or a whole webpage you always have to go through the whole “Save As Routine” just to get the file saved to the desired location. What if you could cut out the whole “Save As Routine” and just send those files where you wanted them? Well you can. After For our example we added two custom folders on the desktop…...
Get the Bookmarklet To install Bookmaplet visit the website, grab the bookmarklet with your mouse, and drag it onto your “Bookmarks Toolbar”. Now you are ready to view the maps and images for street addresses that you may find while browsing. Bookmaplet in Action Time to try our new bookmarklet. For our first test we wanted to view the map for Microsoft in Redmond, WA. When you find an address that you would like to see a map of highlight the address only, not any of the other information....
Xiaomi has begun teasing its Civi 2 smartphone, a follow-up to the original Xiaomi Civi and Civi 1s, on China’s Sina Weibo. But its most notable design feature is the inclusion of a pill-shaped front camera cutout, like what the iPhone 14 Pro has with its Dynamic Island, rather than the circle-shaped cutout in its two predecessors. The cutout itself doesn’t have any fancy face-scanning hardware, but rather, it’s just two cameras: a 32MP main sensor and a 32MP ultra-wide....
If you have an update to an extension, a change to the settings, or an about:config modification make a mess of your regular Firefox install, then you always have “Safe Mode” to fall back on to help fix the problem. But what about portable installs? If your portable install becomes a mess you usually just have to replace it. This shortcut modification will give you back that “Safe Mode” goodness and let you work on fixing (and saving) your portable install....
You might not be ready to accept Linux as your desktop yet, but you can still use it to save your Windows PC—whether you need to reset passwords, recover deleted files, or scan for viruses, here’s how to do it. What we’ll do today is walk you through some of the most useful ways that you can repair your Windows PC using an Ubuntu Live CD, but keep in mind that most of these tasks can be performed with any version of Linux....
Photoshop is one of the most intimidating programs for any beginner, but has powerful image editing ability for any skill level. Look through a fresh install of CS5, and learn the basic tools and info to help you get started. Out of the box, this is what your default CS5 installation will look like. It looks even more intimidating than older versions, so let’s spend a few minutes taking a basic look around the program, demystify it, and get you editing your photographs, painting, or whatever you might want to do with your fresh install....
Note: Remote Desktop is not a client and host feature available in Home version of Windows. Enable Remote Desktop in Vista and Windows 7 The first thing we need to do is enable Remote Desktop on a Windows 7 or Vista machine. Right-click on the Computer icon on the desktop or from the Start menu and select Properties. Now click on the Advanced system settings link. Click on the Remote tab and under Remote Desktop select the bottom radio button… Allow connections only from computers running Remote Desktop with Network Level Authentication (more secure)....
To access the Character Map in Vista or Windows 7, click on Start and enter character map into the search box and hit Enter. Now choose the font which matches what you’re working in, select the special character you want to use. Then just paste the character into your document, online form, or whatever app you need to use it in. If you want to navigate to it via the Start Menu, go to Start \ All Programs \ Accessories \ System Tools \ Character Map....
VLC Remco One free app that does a pretty good job is VLC Remco from HexBeerium. It’s cross-platform and works on Windows, Mac, and Linux. Although it appears this app hasn’t been worked on for a while, it did a good job with VLC on our Windows machines. Just install it from the iTunes App Store or directly from your device. After you launch it, it scans your network for computers that have VLC installed and which one(s) have it running....
Getting Started As soon as the Forecastfox Weather extension has finished installing you will automatically be presented with the “Customize Forecastfox Page”. The default setting is for New York with English measurement units. Enter your location into the blank and hit “Enter” to display the listing for your city/area. If you are presented multiple options to choose from simply click on the appropriate listing. Once you have your city/area displayed you will notice that it is possible to have access to weather forecasts for multiple locations....
