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Custom Shortcuts in File Dialog Box Note: Before doing anything, make sure that you have a good backup of your Windows Registry, as we are going to create new keys and values. Any misconfigurations may result in system corruption. As I said before, we are going to deal with the traditional File Dialog box and creating your own shortcuts is fairly simple. First, press “Win + R,” type regedit and press the Enter button to open the Windows Registry Editor....

Note: keep in mind that you can only set a maximum of three email aliases for your iCloud mail account. Follow the steps below to set up email aliases. Using a desktop web browser, visit iCloud.com and sign in with your Apple ID and password. Once logged in, click on Mail. Click on the Settings icon in the bottom-left corner of the window and select “Preferences.” In the Accounts tab click on “Add an alias....

It’s no surprise tracking expenses online is becoming a great way to manage your finances. With the continued decline of paper receipts and the undeniable rise of the digital ones, a tool called Expensify helps you consolidate and manage web receipts in one place. In addition to turning any web page into a receipt, it lets you use them in expense reports or group them into categories. After downloading the extension for Chrome, you’ll notice the Expensify icon on the menu bar (top-right corner of the browser)....

How to Create a “Short” on YouTube for Android and iOS Whether you’re using YouTube on an Android or iOS device, the steps to create a TikTok-like video are basically the same. Open the YouTube app on your Android or iOS device. Tap on the “+” button at the bottom middle of the display. Select the “Create a Short” option, which is currently in beta. The shorts recording screen will appear, asking you to allow access to your camera and microphone....

A Little About RivetTracker RivetTracker is a Bittorrent tracker written in PHP. It’s based on PHPBTTracker and includes detailed statistics, user management, browser-based configuration “wizard”, and plenty more. Since it’s PHP, RivetTracker isn’t necessarily dependent on any specific platform. This is the full list of requirements as stated by the RivetTracker website: A webserver, Apache is a great one. A recent version of PHP. The MySQL Database. In short, it needs a LAMP server to operate (WAMP or MAMP server will also work)....

Enable Custom Keyboard Shortcuts Before you can customize the keyboard shortcuts in Gmail, you have to first enable them. The process is pretty simple. Open Gmail on your browser and sign in with your credentials. Click the “gear” or “Settings” icon on the top right of the interface. From the drop-down menu, select the “See all settings” option. Head over to the “Advanced” tab. Here, find the “Custom keyboard shortcuts” option and select the “Enable” button....

Disable the Touchpad Temporary Touchpad-indicator is an appindicator that allows you to manage the touchpad directly from the system tray. It is simple, lightweight, and it just works. Installation Open a terminal and type the following commands: Usage Once installed, you should see a touchpad icon at your system tray. All you have to do is to right click on it and select “Disable Touchpad” and your touchpad will be instantly disabled....

There are three methods to disable SMBv1 in Windows. The first method is using Windows features, the second method is using the PowerShell and the third is using Windows Registry. This article will show you all three methods; follow the one you are comfortable with. Note: the same procedures are applicable for Windows 7 and 8. Disable SMBv1 via Windows Features You can easily turn off SMBv1 using Windows Features....

There are many ways to find out the weather condition in your city. You can go to weather.com, use weather widget or even set it on your desktop with conky. Here is yet another way that you can obtain weather information quickly: display the weather condition as a wallpaper in your desktop. WeatherPaper is a weather based desktop wallpaper changer for Windows and Linux. It fetches the weather condition at a regular interval and display the information on your desktop as a wallpaper....

Is there a way to avoid such situations? For Ubuntu/Linux, you can use a key lock indicator to display your key lock status on screen. Here we show you two such tools: Lock-Keys and Keyboard Modifiers Status extensions. 1. Lock-Keys Extension The lock-keys tool is basically a Gnome extension tool that is primarily designed for keyboards that do not have the lock key LED lights. It works by simulating the key locks, showing an indicator on the Desktop and a status on Ubuntu top bar....

How to Enable Dark Mode on Facebook for Desktop Now that the feature is out of beta, Facebook’s Dark Mode is available across all desktop browsers. Users on Edge, Chrome, Brave, Safari, etc. will all follow the same steps to enable and disable this feature. Open your browser of choice on either macOS or PC. Navigate to Facebook and click on the downward-facing arrow in the upper-right corner. Select “Display & Accessibility....

What Is Fractional Scaling? Fractional scaling is a way of upscaling your icons, application windows and text so they don’t appear squashed in a high-resolution display. Gnome has always supported HiDPI, though it is limiting, as its upscale factor is only 2: either you double the size of your icons or none. In most cases, a scale factor of 2 makes the icon size too big, which doesn’t provide an optimal user experience....

Unfortunately, one of the downsides to using Quick Look is the lack of text selection for documents. Instead you’re forced to open a document in TextEdit, Pages, Word, etc just to copy the text that you need to paste elsewhere. Luckily, you can quickly enable text selection by pasting a single line in Terminal: Now, when you use Quick Look for a text document, you will be able to select and copy text with ease....

While this might seem a little obvious, the Apple Watch 8 will only utilise its fastest charging speeds when used with a certain cable and plug – so it’s best to make sure you’re doing it right. There are also no visual cues as to how fast your Watch will charge when you plug it in, but following this guide will make sure that you do it properly. In terms of how quickly you can get from 0-100%, in our review we got a full charge in an hour, and 20% (enough for a night’s sleep) in 10 minutes....

Unfortunately, there’s no “default IP” that all routers use. As such, if you forget or lose the IP address of your router, it can be very annoying when you want to change its settings. If you’re stuck for a router’s IP address, there are several ways you can find it on Windows 10. Checking the Manual and Device First, if you have the router’s manual and/or the router itself on hand, check them for a mention of a local IP address....

Despite this, they’ll struggle to justify just how big 500GB is. What can you store on 500GB of space? Will it allow you to install software and download media to your heart’s content? Is it too small? Given there’s no physical reference as to just how big 500GB is, it can be hard to visualise its size. SSD or HDD? The question of whether you get an SSD (Solid State Drive) or an older-style HDD (Hard Disk Drive) may sound like a separate topic, but really it’s inextricably tied into your storage capacity....

The fix for this is very simple. Simply run the following commands in the terminal: What the above commands did is to remove all the package lists in your system and re-fetch them with the system update command. Note: Make sure all other package managers are closed before you run the above commands, or else it won’t work.

Due to each game’s varying hardware, software and bandwidth requirements, it’s not always easy to diagnose why a specific game isn’t working on a specific computer. Here you’ll learn how to fix all of these issues. 1. Steam Game Not Downloading? Try this Trick The first step to running a Steam game is actually downloading it in the first place. But if you run into problems with downloading games (or updates for your games), then there are a few things you can try....

If you install extensions through your distributions’ package manager, updates will be passed on when you update the system. However, for those who install extensions through the GNOME Extensions website, there is no built-in way to get notified when there are updates for the extensions you have installed. This problem is solved by installing another extension, Extension Update Notifier, which simply informs you when an update is available for any of your installed extensions....

Trello is available for web, mobile (App Store and Google Play), and desktop (Mac and Windows). It supports most platforms. However, there isn’t a Linux desktop version from the creators, which is too bad for the Linux users. Luckily, there’s a fix, thanks to generous Daniel Chatfield. Remember, this is not an official desktop client. It was only built by a generous person for Linux users who love Trello. The program is hosted on this GitHub page....