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Note: SE-Tray Menu comes in exe file and portable versions. Initial Look & Setting SE-TrayMenu Up Installing SE-TrayMenu is quick and easy…once you have finished you will see a small “Light Bulb Icon” in the “System Tray Area”. Simply hold your mouse over it to see the default layout, theme, and apps available. To keep it visible at all times you should open the “Notification Area Icons Window” and change the setting to “Show icon and notifications”....

Installation & Tweaking Before you can complete the install process you will need to confirm the installation…click “Install” to finish adding the extension to Chrome. Note: Even though the extension page states that your account’s language setting must be U.S. English we had no problems whatsoever with a British English setting. Once the extension has been added to your browser you will see a brief extension management message. There are no “in-browser” options for you to worry with on the “Chrome Extensions Page”....

In Windows 10 it’s called Quick Access instead of Favorites, but it works exactly the same way Remove Folders from Favorites or Quick Access By default Microsoft has included some favorite locations for you that you may not want. The default locations are Desktop, Downloads, Recent Places, and Recorded TV if you’ve set up Live TV in Windows Media Center. To delete the locations from Favorites, simply right-click on the location and select Remove from the context menu....

You’ll need to download Media Center Studio and the Zune Desktop player software. (See download links below) Also, make sure you have Media Center closed. Some of the actions in Media Center Studio cannot be performed while WMC is open. Open Media Center Studio and click on the Start Menu tab at the top of the application. Click the Application button. Here we will create an Entry Point for the Zune player so that we can add it to Media Center....

They’ll be, in a way, ads disguised as answers, and they would presumably be shown only when someone asks something relevant to that brand. Whenever an answer to a question is coming from a brand, it’ll be clarified and the answer will be attributed to that specific brand. All answers will go through content moderation and quality checks, and brands will not be able to pay for answers, so theoretically, those two things should keep brands from abusing the system....

AMD has announced the first two Radeon graphics cards belonging to the RDNA 3 range — the RX 7900 XTX, and the RX 7900 XT. One will cost you $1,000, and the other will cost you $900, so they’re much more reasonably priced than the $1,600 GeForce RTX 4090, taking a similar approach to Intel except with actually powerful GPUs, and will be even better if the new AMD GPUs are actually able to stack up....

Besides convenience, USB Type-C cables can charge modern iPhones more quickly than older USB Type-A cords, thanks to the magic of USB Power Delivery. For example, the iPhone 14 series can charge at 20W with a USB Type-C-to-Lightning cable, if you have one of the best phone chargers that can deliver at least 20W. The new cable is a great choice if you’ve been using older Type-A cables with your Apple devices, or if you just need a replacement cord for whatever reason....

Backup Messages Open up Windows Mail and go to File \ Export \ Messages. Select “Microsoft Windows Mail” and hit next. Browse to a location to store the messages and label it something that will let you know what it is. Next you can choose to backup all folders, or hold the Ctrl key and click each folder you want to backup. That’s all there is to it, click finish to close out of Windows Mail Export....

The rate at which computers are improving these days, you buy a machine and in 2-3 years it’s already considered old or obsolete. As prices come down on more advanced and faster hardware, it can be easy to just buy a new machine to get “the latest greatest”. But what about the older machine? You could sell it, but probably won’t get a whole lot for it. Here we take a look at several ways you can breathe new life into those older machines you have laying around....

To download new Themes right-click on the Desktop and select Personalize. Then under My Themes click on Get more themes online. That takes you to Microsoft’s site where you can select from a variety of New and Featured themes from the Personalization Gallery. Now you can open and apply the theme right away, or save a bunch of them for use later. Here are examples of the Avatar and Gears of War Themes....

eType is currently in Beta by invite only and we have 1,000 to give away for our readers using the link below. After it leaves beta it will continue to be free. The company explains their revenue model as the following: “With the privilege of having strong financial backing, eType is completely free because it is truly focused on building a strong community of users, improving its predictive algorithm and releasing new features that will continue to enhance users’ writing skills....

Naturally, this isn’t the type of article that most people will need to use, hopefully ever—but if you do need to know how to do it, the solution isn’t really obvious at first. Exporting Excel Files as Pipe Delimited For the purposes of this example, we’ll use this silly little Excel file. To save the file as Delimited, you’ll need to click the Office button and choose Save As –> Other Formats....

Halo 2600 This is a free online flash game based on the popular FPS Halo, but designed for as though it came out on the Atari 2600. To start the game press any key on your keyboard. Then use the arrow keys to navigate through your journey. At first you don’t have a weapon so make sure you grab it before trying to deal with the aliens. Then avoid the enemy shooting at you and press the spacebar to shoot back....

Download and Install First we need to download the SecondRunTV zip file (link below) and extract it to a convenient location on your machine. Make sure you’re closed out of WMC and run setup.msi. Go through the installation process as normal accepting the defaults. Using SecondRunTV After you have it installed, launch WMC and you’ll find it in the Extras Library…click on the SecondRunTV icon. Now you’ll have a bunch of new channels listed in alphabetical order to choose from including Hulu and YouTube....

Microsoft Project 2010 is the latest version of Project, a companion project management application for Microsoft Office. This version includes a wide range of changes, including the new ribbon interface. Microsoft Project integrates with all the other Office application you regularly use, Setting Up Project 2010 First, you’ll need to install Project 2010 on your computer. If you haven’t purchased Project, you can try out a free 60 day trial from the link below....

Activate Background Sounds on Your Mac You’ll find the Background Sounds feature under the System Settings > Accessibility > Audio menu. Flick the “Background sounds” toggle on to start playing audio out of your Mac’s built-in speakers or headphones if you’re currently using them. You can choose from six sounds in the 13.0 release of macOS Ventura. Hopefully, Apple will add some more in later releases. You can choose from the following:...

PowerShell, like Command Prompt before it, is an incredibly useful tool. We don’t usually think about it, but things like PowerShell do get bug fixes and new features over time. Here is how you can check your PowerShell version on Windows 11. How to Check Your PowerShell Version You only need a single command to check your PowerShell version. Open up a new Terminal window and make sure that you have a PowerShell tab open....

If you find yourself fishing through your spam folder to find emails from non-spammers, there’s a solution. You can create an allow list in Gmail that contains your safe senders. You can stop legitimate senders from going to spam one at a time which is convenient for the current email you’re viewing. But by creating a filter, you can add safe senders to a list ahead of time to prevent their emails from going to spam moving forward....

They partially repented of their ways, making things a bit more transparent—and we’re happy to have pushed them towards the light… but their installer still leaves crapware checked by default, so users that don’t know any better are installing worthless toolbars and allowing Digsby to use their PC for research projects. First, during the install there’s a screen where you’ll need to uncheck BOTH boxes to keep from installing the absolutely pointless Ask Toolbar....

SSH, which stands for Secure Shell, isn’t very secure by default, opting for basic password authentication with no other limits. If you really want to lock down your server, you’ll need to do more configuring. Don’t Allow Password Logins—Use SSH Keys The first thing to do is get rid of password authentication completely and switch to using SSH keys. SSH keys are a form of public key encryption; you have a public key that acts like your username, and a private key that acts like your password (except this password is 2,048 characters long)....