How To Set Up An Elasticsearch Analytics And Monitoring Panel For Your Business

Analytics are important for any business that deal with lots of data. Elasticsearch is a log and index management tool that can be used to monitor the health of your server deployments and to glean useful insights from customer access logs. Why Is Data Collection Useful? Data is big business—most of the internet is free to access because companies make money from data collected from users, which is often used by marketing companies to tailor more targeted ads....

November 17, 2022 · 9 min · 1834 words · Justin Whitman

How To Setup An Openvpn Server To Secure Your Network

Why Would I Need a VPN Server? A traditional VPN like TunnelBear will secure your personal computer’s internet connection by routing your data through a middleman server. But what this is really doing under the hood is connecting you to a Virtual Private Network, allowing you to access anything that the middleman server can access, including devices on the same network. This is very useful for accessing servers behind firewalls. For the best security, you shouldn’t leave a lot of ports open on your servers....

November 17, 2022 · 5 min · 937 words · Cecilia Hawthorne

How To Time Your Powerpoint Slides For More Effective Presentations

Delivering a presentation is not just about giving good slides, it is also about making sure that our presentation finishes by the time our audience wants to have their tea break—so practicing how long to speak for each slide is essential for a proper presentation. Rehearsing our Slides Before we rehearse, make sure that we select our first slide. Now open the ‘Slide Show’ tab and click the ‘Rehearse Timings’ button....

November 17, 2022 · 2 min · 378 words · Ernest Kennedy

How To Use Digitalocean Backups And Snapshots

How’s your backup strategy? You can protect your cloud assets from disaster by making regular backups. Here’s how to use DigitalOcean’s two imaging systems, Backups and Snapshots. What’s The Difference? Backups and Snapshots both produce a complete disk image of your droplet at a particular point in time. You can restore the droplet’s state using the image. DigitalOcean also lets you spin up a new droplet with the backup or snapshot image as its base....

November 17, 2022 · 5 min · 948 words · Marylou Morgan

How To Use Parental Controls In Windows 7

Parental Controls To access Parental Controls open the Start Menu and type parental controls into the Search box and hit Enter. Alternatively you can open Control Panel and click on Parental Controls. When you open Parental Controls, click on the child’s account you want to set up. Make sure to password protect your Administrator account…otherwise anyone can turn off Parental Controls and use the computer with no restrictions. If you see a password hasn’t been set when you go into Parental Controls, click on the message and you’ll be prompted and Ensure Administrator Passwords....

November 17, 2022 · 3 min · 433 words · Hector Nethercutt

Make Browsing Safer For Children In Google Chrome

Kid Safe – LinkExtend in Action Before going any further you may want to have a quick look at the options. Everything is enabled by default but it is recommended that you disable the “Allow entering unsafe sites Option”. For our first example we visited “chatroulette.com”. As you can see in the screenshot WOT and McAfee SiteAdvisor gave the website a “green rating” but when it came specifically to its’ level of appropriateness for children LinkExtend gave it a “yellow rating”....

November 17, 2022 · 2 min · 305 words · Elsie Kwiecien

Move Firefox S Tab Bar To The Top

Note: Tabs On Top extension supports multi-row feature in TabMixPlus. Before You can see the “Tab Bar” in its’ default location here in our test browser…not bad but what if you prefer having it located at the top of the browser? After As soon as you have installed the extension and restarted Firefox the “Tab Bar” will have automatically moved to the top of the browser. You will most likely notice a slight decrease in tab height as well (which occurred during our tests)....

November 17, 2022 · 1 min · 190 words · Joanie Seedorff

Night Lights Are Good For Adults Too

You may have seen them at a friend’s house in a hallway or bathroom or bedroom, and they may seem pretty advanced with their delicate glow and automatic adjustment to natural light, but don’t kid yourself, these are night-lights. It doesn’t matter if they’re called hallway illuminators or glow boxes. They’re just the adult version of a childish thing, like those upscale cupcake stores. This isn’t to disparage the usefulness of night-lights to both kids and adults....

November 17, 2022 · 2 min · 405 words · Jerry Collins

No Time To Read Turn Web Articles Into Podcast Episodes

The internet is full of great written content, but it can be challenging to find time to read it all. What if you could turn every article you wanted to read into an episode in your own personal podcast feed? This problem has primarily been approached with apps like Pocket, which give you a place to “save for later.” That works pretty well, but you do still need to find time to actually read the articles....

November 17, 2022 · 2 min · 418 words · Robert Goins

Print Only What You Want With Printliminator

Setup To add Printliminator to your browser of choice go to the Printliminator homepage. Once there drag the bookmarklet to the position that best suits your personal needs in the “Bookmarks Toolbar”. Now you are ready to sort those webpages out for printing… Printliminator in Action For our example we decided to try Printliminator on one of the articles from our website. You will see the following “Printliminator Toolbar” once you click on the bookmarklet....

November 17, 2022 · 2 min · 280 words · Naomi Ashworth

Screenshot Tour Microsoft Security Essentials 2.0 Beta

We have already given Microsoft Security Essentials our stamp of approval. Now there is a new beta version that we’ll take a look at today. It was released through Microsoft Connect and is available on a first come – first serve basis. it’s not available in all countries either, so depending on your location you might not have access to it. It is available in both 32 & 64-bit versions....

November 17, 2022 · 4 min · 743 words · Katherine Hatfield

See Where Shortened Urls Link To In Your Favorite Browser

A few days ago we looked at some different URL shortening services and Extensions. But sometimes you need to know where the links are actually pointing to, as some can lead you to unsafe sites. Note: There is a Firefox extension available for those who would prefer to use it in place of the bookmarklet. Get the Bookmarklet Here is a list of the “URL Shortening Services” that the bookmarklet will work for....

November 17, 2022 · 2 min · 236 words · Lori Day

Smart Lights Are The Easiest Holiday Decorations

What Is a “Smart” Light? When we talk about “smart” lighting, we simply mean any switches or lights that can be controlled remotely. That typically works through an app on your phone and Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or a hub with Z-Wave/Zigbee. For the purposes of holiday decorating, we’ll be focusing on smart lights, which can include bulbs or string lights. RELATED: Smart Light Switches vs. Smart Light Bulbs: Which One Should You Buy?...

November 17, 2022 · 3 min · 461 words · Crystal Bailey

The Best Aws Feature You Probably Aren T Using Object Tagging

Tags are pretty simple—they store a single key-value pair, and are used as metadata for AWS resources to help you stay organized. We’ll show you how to use them, and how to set effective tagging policies for your organization. What Is Tagging Used for? In a shared account with many AWS resources, it can be hard to sort through everything. You can physically separate environments by creating new AWS accounts, and link them under the same billing using AWS Organizations, but that’s mostly meant for dev, testing, staging, and prod environments, and as such, is limited to four accounts....

November 17, 2022 · 4 min · 770 words · Joan Karel

Upgrade To Wi Fi 6 With Eero 6 Mesh Routers For 35 Off

This sale is a significant 35% discount from the original $299 MSRP, and still lower than the usual cost of around $239. It’s not the lowest price ever — it was $191 for a while at the end of August and start of September 2022 — but this is still a great deal for full-home fast Wi-Fi. RELATED: How Many Wi-Fi Mesh Nodes Do You Need?

November 17, 2022 · 1 min · 66 words · Ada Gruis

We Wanted A Star Trek Replicator And All We Got Was Keurig Machines

Your deliriously hungry brain gets ahead of itself and starts dreaming about how wonderful it would be to press a button and have literally any food tadaaa’d within seconds. This is the area where sci-fi plagues us: You look around and go, “How come I don’t have that? Where’s my food replicator?” And then your Keurig looks back at you as if to say, “This is the best we could do....

November 17, 2022 · 3 min · 429 words · Jennifer Burkhart

Wean Yourself From Compulsive Email Checking With Positive Reward

Email is not always productive There are three major reasons why email is not always productive. Email takes time away from other things: It may be easy to justify compulsive email checking because it feels like you are getting something done. After all, reading through messages, replying to some, and emptying out your inbox should be a good thing. But it’s only productive when it’s done intentionally — not during time that’s reversed for other, more important tasks....

November 17, 2022 · 9 min · 1737 words · Patricia Greene

What Can Analytics Do For Your Website

“Analytics” is just a fancy term for data collection. Good analytics can directly influence your business’s revenue, as knowing how users behave while using your website helps you to build a site that funnels them towards your goals. What to Look for in Analytics Website analytics collect data on three major things: how users are interacting with your site, how your site is performing, and how your site is faring in the ocean of the internet....

November 17, 2022 · 6 min · 1147 words · Cara Rose

Windows Steadystate Returns Your Pc To Normal

Windows SteadyState Not only does SteadyState return the PC back to its original state, but you can set it up to restrict what the user can access. You can lock down virtually every aspect of the computer from programs to websites and more. Of course you’ll need to be the administrator, and the first thing to do is install current drivers and Windows Updates. Then install programs and configure settings you want to how you want the machine to be every time it’s restored....

November 17, 2022 · 3 min · 604 words · Iris Horgan

Xobni Free Powers Up Outlook S Search And Contacts

Email is one of the most important communications mediums today, but even with all of the advances in Outlook over the years it can still be difficult to keep track of conversations, files, and contacts. Xobni makes it easy by indexing your emails and organizing them by sender. You can use its powerful search to quickly find any email, find related messages, and then view more information about that contact with information from social networks....

November 17, 2022 · 5 min · 944 words · Gary Benson