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Stable Diffusion is open-source software, and it usually requires installing various libraries and frameworks on your PC, then typing prompts into a command-line interface. There are many settings available for tweaking the output, which requires longer and more complex commands. The complexity has led to many front-end interfaces for Stable Diffusion, such as Diffusion Bee for Mac and Stable Diffusion web UI, which provide simple buttons and switches for generating art....

1. Using Vertical Instead of Horizontal Space One excellent reason to use a vertical monitor is that you better use your desk space. While you have the same total amount of screen real estate, the monitor’s footprint is much smaller. You can put several vertical monitors next to each other for a truly massive amount of space. RELATED: Clean Up Your Workspace with These Desk Organizers 2. Better Document Editing If you edit word processor documents or PDFs that use a portrait page orientation, then using your monitor in portrait mode is significantly more comfortable than in landscape mode....

Before Here is the current default “New Tab Page” in Chrome… Sure, you have thumbnails of recently visited sites and a listing of recently closed tabs but it is not very exciting or customizable. What if you could replace it with a little bit of iGoogle-styled functionality? Installation Installation is quick and simple. During the installation process you will need to click on “Install” to finish adding “New Tab Extension | Dashboard” to Chrome....

Changing the Basic Color Scheme in WMC There are a couple of very basic color scheme options built in to Windows 7 Media Center. From the WMC Start Menu, select Settings on the Tasks strip and then select General. On the General settings screen select Visual and Sound Effects. Under Color scheme you’ll find options for Windows Media Center standard, High contrast white, and High contrast black. Simply select a color scheme and click Save before exiting....

There is no ‘one size fits all’ solution for automating the process of deleting expired backup files. Depending on the backup procedure (do you do weekly full and daily incrementals or daily full?) and file naming convention (does your backup file have the date as part of the file name or use the same file name every time?) of your resulting backup files, the applicable method differs. We are going to point out several simple solutions which fit the most common backup scenarios, so odds are one will be right for you....

Several aspects of the user interface have changed from XP to Vista and Windows 7. If your computer is shared by the rest of your family, it is nice to be able to give each person their own account. However, you probably don’t want to give the same functionality to each of them. Let’s take a look at how to add a new user account, an overview of each account type, and assigning the type to each user....

Starting in Chrome 86, Chrome will automatically block autofill on HTTP forms. Even if your site is secured with HTTPS, if your forms aren’t set to be HTTPS, data can still be transferred over HTTP. The Problem, and How To Fix It The problem lies in the fact that HTML forms can sometimes be set to HTTP endpoints, regardless of how the rest of the site is delivered. For example, you may have a perfectly secure HTTPS site, and even redirect HTTP to HTTPS:...

Recently we showed you how you can Customize your Windows 7 taskbar icons for any app manually, but it required changing each of your apps’ icons by hand. Although it’s not too hard, it can take some time if you want to customize a number of apps. Thankfully, there’s now a better way to change out all your icons. 7Conifier is a new free app for Windows 7 that can customize all of your taskbar and start menu icons in only a couple clicks....

What Is GDB? The GDB tool is an old-timer, highly respected, debugging utility in the Linux GNU Toolset. It provides it’s own command line, a broad array of commands and functions, and step-by-step program (computer code) execution and even modification functionality. Development on GDB started somewhere in 1986-1988, and in 1988 the tool became part of the Free Software Foundation. It is completely free and can be installed easily on all major Linux distributions....

Desktop Info in Action Desktop Info comes in a zip file format so you will need to unzip the app, place it into an appropriate “Program Files Folder”, and create a shortcut. Do NOT delete the “Read Me File”…this will be extremely useful to you when you make changes to the “Configuration File”. Once you have everything set up you are ready to start Desktop Info up. This is the default layout and set of listings displayed when you start Desktop Info up for the first time....

Setup Once you install the extension, there are no options for you to have to worry about. Here you can see the default look the first time New Tab Page is displayed. The layout is nice and clean looking with an area for your favorite website links, a Google search box, and quick access to Private Browsing Mode (very nice!). To get started, click on “New Tab Settings”. This is what you will see when you click on “New Tab Settings”....

Firefox and Google Chrome are two of the most used browsers today, and are the browsers of choice for most geeks. Although you may like trying out new features in other browsers, most of us come back to Firefox or Chrome as our default browser. The new Reader feature in Safari makes it very easy to read online articles without all the standard distractions of the web, so we were excited to see a way to add this feature to our other favorite browsers....

Document Sharing Collaboration in one of Google’s apps starts with sharing the document. You can add collaborators and choose their permissions for viewing and editing. RELATED: How to Share Documents on Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides Select “Share” on the top right and then enter the people or groups in the pop-up window. Next to the group on the subsequent screen, select the privilege you want them to have such as Viewer, Commenter, or Editor....

In C#, Attributes are metadata tags assigned to code, including classes, types, methods, and fields. Using reflection, you can examine the tags to change behaviors in your program. We’ll show how to use them, and how to write your own. What Are Attributes? Simply put, attributes are metadata tags that hold some information. The syntax for them is the type name in square brackets above the code being tagged, like so:...

One of the main features of C# 8.0 is the concept of nullable reference types, which represent a major shift in how programmers can deal with null data. We’ll discuss how they work, and how to use them. What Are Nullable Reference Types? There are two main kinds of variables in C#. Value types have fixed sizes, like int, float, and bool. They’re passed between functions by value, and usually stored on the stack—very fast memory that gets cleaned off when going out of scope....

Despite all the fancy features baked into modern programming languages, under the hood, they’re still fairly primitive. Without asynchronous programming, long calls to external services would hault program execution. Async/await fixes that issue. Why Use Async/Await? Most programs use one main thread and execute CPU instructions sequentially, but more importantly, synchronously. If you have to fetch a value from memory, you are stuck in IOWait for a bit, while waiting for your RAM to return a response....

If you’re constantly sending repeated messages to Slack, and want to automate the process, you can do so from your primary Slack account, without adding a new bot user. This will allow scripts and programs to send messages as you. How Does This Work? When you create a new Slack App, their API allows for two types of capabilities. The first type adds a bot user, like Slackbot, that you can interact with separately from your account....

When you clear your app or browser cache, you don’t lose your preferences, files, or logins. Your phone only removes the temporary files created by your apps. RELATED: Should You Clear the System Cache on Your Android Phone? Clear Your App Cache on a Samsung Phone Clearing the cache is the best way to resolve many issues within your apps. It’s like resetting your app without losing any important data....

Not a big fan of Google Drive’s light theme? You can easily toggle on dark mode in Google Drive’s mobile app. You can also turn on dark mode in browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, Edge, and Safari using the system settings or a browser extension. Here’s how. RELATED: How to Enable Dark Mode for Google Chrome Turn on Google Drive’s Dark Mode on Android On an Android phone, use the Google Drive app’s built-in option to turn your entire app dark....

Security Tool is just one of many fake antivirus applications like Antivirus Live, Advanced Virus Remover, Internet Security 2010, and others that hold your computer hostage until you pay their ransom money. They tell you that your PC is infected with fake viruses, and prevent you from doing anything to remove them. This particular virus blocks you from doing most things, like Task Manager… It also gives you loads of error messages that just seem to pop up constantly....