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Create Contact Groups Open Outlook and click on New Items \ More Items \ Contact Group. This opens the Contract Group window. Give your group a name, click on Add Members, and select the people you want to add from your Outlook Contacts, Address Book, or Create new ones. If you select from your address book you can scroll through and add the contacts you want. If you have a large amount of contacts you might want to search for them or use Advanced Find....

While Google Sheets provides you with hundreds of functions, it also allows you to create your own. Before, you could only do this using Apps Script. Now, there’s a user-friendly tool in your spreadsheet called Named Functions. Using Named Functions, you title your function, give it a description, add argument placeholders, and enter the definitions. You can then use your custom functions across the sheets in your workbook and import them into other Google Sheets workbooks....

The answer file is just a simple text file, so you can create your own or edit a previous answer file. If you are installing a new Forest at the Server 2008 Functional Level, then the settings below would be correct for you. If you need any different settings, you’ll want to change some of the entries. Right click on the Command Prompt and choose the Run as administrator option....

Rainmeter skins are great—you can use them to display all sorts of system stats on your desktop, but unfortunately they are too easily moveable with an accidental click of the mouse. Thankfully we can easily fix this. This is the second article in our series covering Rainmeter for Beginners, so if you haven’t already, be sure to read the first part, which covers the basics of installing and using Rainmeter, including how to enable skins and work with them....

Installing Software from Optional Repositories There are thousands of Linux programs stored as software archives that are commonly referred to as ‘Repositories’. Ubuntu comes with four predefined repositories: Main – Officially supported software. Restricted – Supported software that is not available under a completely free license. Universe – Community maintained software, i. e. not officially supported software. Multiverse – Software that is not free. Ubuntu’s software repository is fully configurable and we can add new repositories in order to install software from other repositories outside the above predefined repositories....

Note: You will need to have the full (standard) version of Winamp installed on your system. During our tests the skin would not display properly using the lite version. Getting Started You can see the default Bento Skin for Winamp on our test system. While not bad it may not be the theme that you want to use on your system either. Time for a new look… The skin (....

Reset iPod Touch / iPhone If your apps or music aren’t playing correctly, you probably want to start off with a simple Reset of your device. For instance when we showed you how to jailbreak your apple device, we needed to do a Reset for it to work properly. To Reset the device go into Settings \ General \ Reset. Then tap on Reset All Settings… You will then get a warning twice asking if you’re sure you want to Reset....

In the Linux operating system, many applications send logs to syslog, the primary logging mechanism. Best security practices often dictate that it is ideal to send your logs to a separate system, like Loggly, a SaaS solution for log data management. There are many reasons to do this, but the primary ones are: Backup of critical log data Ability to verify log integrity and detect data changes Consolidation of logs across systems...

You can translate emails you receive in just a few clicks. Gmail can even automatically detect the language and translate it into your own. Let’s dive in. Translate Emails You Receive in Gmail Visit the Gmail website, sign in with your Google account, and select the email you want to translate. RELATED: How to Translate Languages in Google Sheets Gmail may recognize that the message is in a language other than your own and provide the option upfront to translate it....

How Wirelessly Electric Vehicle Charging Works Wireless EV charging works in a similar fashion to the way smartphones charge — via magnetic induction. Induction charging works by creating an electromagnetic field in one area, usually via a charged coil of metal, that creates a current in another area close enough to be affected by that field. Because the electromagnetic field creates the current, no cord is necessary to transfer power....

Getting Started To try out the new Live Messenger, you’ll need to install the new Windows Live Essentials beta. Download the Essentials installer (link below), and install as normal. Many users will already have Messenger installed, so it will be updated to the latest version; otherwise, make sure to check it in the installer. We’ve already looked at an overview of the new Live Essentials, so if you’d like more information about the installation process and the other Essentials apps, check out our Screenshot Tour of the New Windows Live Essentials Beta....

You’ve probably experienced the difficulty of conveying emotion in text conversations. Emoji can help with that, but so can the punctuation and formatting you use. One of the most powerful punctuation marks in text messaging is the humble period. The End. Period. Punctuation has a couple of different purposes. The first is for formatting—without periods and commas, we’d have large blocks of text with no starts and stops. The second is for setting the tone—question marks and exclamation points tell us how a sentence sounds....

LockThis! Here is the scenario…you’re working on important docs on your computer and someone needs to borrow it for a few minutes. You probably minimize the documents, but curious eyes might open them up and see your secret plans for world domination. That is where LockThis! comes in. It allows you to lock your apps by holding down the Ctrl key while you minimize the window. After installing LockThis! you’ll probably want to change the default password right away....

Monitoring Temperature on The Pi We will assume that you already have setup your Raspberry Pi, are using Raspbian, and that you are able to access a console prompt – either via SSH or via a desktop based login. If you happen to have a brand new Ubuntu installation on your Pi instead, checkout vcgencmd for Ubuntu 20.04 aarch64 on RPi 4B by Hamid Elaosta. Once you are at the terminal prompt, you will first want to check that the vcgencmd utility is available to you....

To put it simply—they have everything. AWS has so many services that we couldn’t list them all in this article, so there will almost certainly be something to suit your use case. You’ll likely make use of multiple AWS services, rather than renting a large server or two to run everything. This is the major change compared to other providers, but it should make your network much more scalable and fault tolerant....

Lets face it, we’re not the best PHP programmers, or else we’d probably remember how to do this without having to look it up all the time, right? I mean, I’ve looked this one up so many times that I’m actually writing about it in the hopes that I’ll remember next time. Sad! Luckily this one is really easy and our shame will be over quickly. So here’s the syntax:...

Bose is known for making some of the most premium audio products on the planet. This is evidenced by our review team, which pitted a bunch of wireless earbuds against one another in the ultimate product showdown. What they discovered was that the same Bose QuietComfort Earbuds featured in today’s deal consistently had excellent noise cancellation, rich bass, and intuitive touch controls. In fact, these buds were so refined, our team ranked them as the best overall wireless earbuds of 2022....

Evernote 4 for Windows is finally here, bringing with it a much needed UI refresh and an amazing speed boost. Let’s look at how Evernote has improved and now makes it easier than ever to save all of your memories. Evernote is one of the best note programs available, and makes it easy to keep everything you come across synced between your desktop, mobile devices, and the cloud. Unfortunately, though, the Evernote program for Windows was slow, clunky, and ugly....

While Windows systems have options to wake themselves to run scheduled tasks, if users access their systems remotely (i.e. Remote Web Workplace) there is not an easy way for the system to be awakened on demand. The solution is implementing a Wake on LAN system such as the free ASP.NET Wake on LAN Control Panel. Through this, client computers can be brought out of standby with the simple click of a button....

AI art is 2022’s hottest trend, and it’s all thanks to models like DALL-E and Stable Diffusion. Using those, you’re able to generate eerily realistic AI-fueled images. Stable Diffusion 2 has been officially released, bringing several improvements — and apparently being nerfed in other aspects. Stable Diffusion 2’s biggest improvements have been neatly summarized by Stability AI, but basically, you can expect more accurate text prompts and more realistic images....