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Cameron Kaiser, perhaps best known as the software developer for the Classilla and TenFourFox web browsers, has released a new program for the Commodore 64 that turns it into a two-factor authenticator app. TOTP-C64 can generate real-time codes that should be compatible with any service that supports app-based 2FA, like Google, Facebook, Discord, Mastodon, and others. RELATED: The Best-Selling PC of All Time: Commodore 64 Turns 40 Kaiser wrote in a blog post about the project, “Some of you are asking already if this idea is totally nuts or just mostly....

The electric toothbrush is a whole new way to make your dentist happy, complete with a 2-minute timer that delivers 30-second pulses. Each pulse of the soft-bristle brush head works wonders on your teeth, helping to reduce the build-up of food and plaque to promote a healthier mouth. Feel more confident about your smile by using the free Quip app (available in iOS and Android) to keep up with your brushing schedule, receive oral health coaching, and maximize your time in the bathroom....

Note: Nexflix requires Microsoft Silverlight which unfortunately means Boxee users running Linux out of luck. What You’ll Need A Netflix account Authorize your Netflix account with Boxee Install Microsoft Silverlight Authorize Your Netflix Account First, we need to authorize our Netflix account with Boxee. (See link below). Type in your Boxee username and password and click “Login.” When prompted, click “Authorize.” Click “Yes, Link This Account.” Install Silverlight If you don’t already have Silverlight installed, you’ll need to do so....

RELATED: What is the HEIF (or HEIC) Image Format? What Is an HEIC File? HEIC stands for High Efficiency Image Container, and it’s a container format that Apple uses on its modern iPhone and iPad models. It’s part of the HEIF standard, and this format allows you to capture high-quality photos and videos on your devices while saving on storage space. HEIC uses modern compression methods to keep your photo file size smaller....

Having SSL encryption in the first place is a prerequisite for HSTS, because otherwise enabling HSTS will just make your site inaccessible. You can read our guide on setting up free SSL certificates with LetsEncrypt to enable HTTPS across your website. How Does HSTS Work? HSTS stands for HTTP Strict Transport Security, and governs how a user’s browser should connect to your website. Here’s how the connection to your site usually works....

What Are You Talking About? The Web of Trust (WOT) add-on for Firefox and IE checks links on the current page and warns you when you are about to head towards something suspicious—and unfortunately it was incorrectly tagging the links in the How-To Geek Newsletter. But It Wasn’t Us! If you actually check the How-To Geek scorecard page over on Web of Trust, you’ll see that we’ve got wonderful green ratings, and even a congratulations… so where’s the confusion?...

Google introduced a new look and feel for the Gmail web app earlier this year, complete with a new sidebar, larger buttons, and other tweaks. You could still opt out and stick to the old design, but that is now changing. Google has confirmed the new Gmail design “will become the standard experience for Gmail,” with no option to revert back to the old design (also called “original view”). The new design will be enabled for everyone starting November 8, but the change won’t kick in for some accounts until late November 2022 or early December....

Setup & Options Once you have installed the extension the best place to start is with the options. Choose which menu items that you would like to have displayed In the “Tab Context Menu Tab Area”. You may also choose to have the “Tab Bar” not always show. In the “Main Context Menu Tab Area” select the items that you would like to have displayed. Notice that the default setting for the items here are for them to show only if the “Tab Bar” is hidden....

Adding Events to your Live Calendar To add the accelerator click on Add to Internet Explorer and then confirm the installation when the secondary window appears. For our example we chose the “estimated” availability date of Microsoft Office 2010 to the public. At the bottom of the pre-order page we found the date we were looking for. To add an event highlight the desired text (will become event description) and select the Add an Event to Windows Live Calendar listing in the context menu....

Note: Requires the Greasemonkey extension (link provided below). The author also states that this script should work with Google Chrome. Before No matter how many tasks you have due today things pretty much look the same in your online Remember The Milk account. If you want to add a little fun to your account all you need is a user script. Installing the User Script The Remember The Milk Cow user script is not hosted at userscripts....

Download, extract, and run the installer file. When the install is finished, go to Start \ All Programs \ My Channel Logos to open the application. As you run My Channel Logos for the first time, it will proceed to download your regional logos to your PC. After the Logo download is complete, the My Channel Logos windows will open. Click the Auto Populate Logos button to automatically assign logos to your channel listings....

It must be a bit odd for a young child growing up with an AI assistant like Siri or Alexa or Cortana. There’s essentially another authority figure in your house that has no face and is never too tired to help with homework or play games. Even with parental controls, a child can’t begin to understand this humanoid robot servant that seems to both know everything and nothing at the same time....

ASUS announced the ExpertCenter today, even though it has been on sale since August, as a slim PC tower aimed at businesses. That might explain the strange mix of connectivity options — there are 11 USB ports in total, PS/2 connectors for legacy keyboards and accessories (no adapter needed for that Model M), HDMI, VGA, DisplayPort, and Ethernet. The front has easy access to SD card slots, USB devices, and headphones — take that, 24-inch iMac....

Getting OneNote 2010 If you’re just getting started with Office 2010, you’ll get OneNote when you install Office. OneNote is installed by default with all editions of Office 2010 except for the basic Starter edition, so whether you’re using Office at home or in a corporate environment you’ll have it. You could purchase OneNote on its own, but we recommend getting it with an Office suite as this is usually the most economical route if you use 2 or more Office programs regularly....

Microsoft Word has spoiled us with grammar, syntax, and spell checking, but the default spell check in Firefox and Chrome still only does basic checks. Even webapps like Google Docs don’t check more than basic spelling errors. However, WordPress.com is an exception; it offers advanced spelling, grammar, and syntax checking with its After the Deadline proofing system. This helps you keep from making embarrassing mistakes on your blog posts, and now, thanks to a couple free browser plugins, it can help you keep from making these mistakes in any website or webapp....

Recently we looked at the new Office Web Apps on SkyDrive, and were excited over the features it had but wished it could do more. One major problem with the standard Office Web Apps is that few people use Windows Live SkyDrive on a daily basis. This means that if you want to share a document online with a friend, they would have to signup for a new account and figure out how to use it....

Note: A bookmarklet version is available at the TidyRead Homepage for use in Firefox & non-Firefox browsers. Before As an example we chose one of the webpages here at the site to show what can be done using TidyRead. The “Before Look”… After As soon as you have installed the extension you will see a vast difference in the appearance of online articles. Here is the article shown above with the default settings for TidyRead in effect....

Data migration can be an slow and arduous process. Even over a gigabit link, it can take months to move huge datasets. AWS Snowball provides a physical device you can fill up on-site and ship back to AWS for import into S3. It’s Pretty Much a Box of Hard Drives It’s not uncommon to see gigantic datasets, as successful startups usually collect a lot of data. While 100 TB of data might not be that unwieldy to actually store on your servers, you’ll reach a point where you just don’t have the compute capacity required to actually work with such a large dataset....

Docker container registries like the Docker Hub are platforms for hosting and sharing Docker containers. While the default Docker Hub is focused on public containers, most cloud providers like AWS and GCP will run their own private container registries. What Are Docker Registries? Container registries are an online storage and distribution system for named Docker images. It’s pretty similar to a package manager like NPM, since it can store different versions of images as well....

Backup Locally and then Copy to the Network Share The preferred and most direct way to accomplish this task is simply to create a local backup of a database and then copy the respective backup file to a network share. You can do this by creating a batch script which looks like this: This script does the following (line by line): Sets a variable to the local SQL backup directory. Creates a SQL backup of MyDB (using Windows Authentication) to the local SQL backup directory....