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In those situations, you can use a free third party utility called RunAs Tool. But if you don’t want to use a third-party tool, here is how you can create your own shortcut of the target program in such a way that it runs with the admin rights without entering any admin password whatsoever. Let Standard Users Run Programs as Admin To let standard users run a program with administrator rights, we are using the built-in Runas command....

What Is a Microcontroller? A microcontroller is a tiny computer on a chip. That computer connects to pins, plugs, and/or other pieces of metal called “peripherals” that give and receive inputs and outputs. Both the Arduino Uno and ESP32 have bits of metal on them that do just that. But the Arduino has female header pins that bite on the metal ends of male header pins. On the other hand, the ESP32 typically has male header pins that do the opposite....

Fantastical is a calendar assistant for Mac that works as if it’s your personal assistant. It understands what you’re trying to say and creates new events accordingly. For example, if you use iCal for Mac, you know that you need to go to the day of the month and the month of the year to add a new event. Fantastical makes this easy for you by allowing you to type in your event in a single sentence, and it extracts the required information to be able to create a new event....

Now, if you have lost the CD case (high chances that you would), the product keys can be extracted from Windows registry. Wouldn’t it be wise to first extract all the product keys of software and keep them at a safe location? This ensures full installation of programs after a system format. This article shows you ways to extract the serial and product keys of application software in Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7....

Here at Make Tech Easier, we have discussed several options to save your favorite internet destinations. Each has their own special feature or niche they service. Some are video related, some are more visual, others are text based. Weloxy lets you organize your link icons into different groupings. Many of you may be thinking: “Why should I use a website to keep my bookmarks since my browser already does that?...

New Interface Firefox 4 has gone through a big design change. The first thing that you will notice is the replacement of the menu bar with a menu button (currently only available in WIndows and Mac version). The new big orange menu button is located on the very top left corner of the browser, and when clicked, will open up a compact menu window. While I don’t really like the orange color and the location that it is situated, I do welcome the idea of replacing the menu bar with the button....

Tiny Tiny RSS is an open source feed reader. What makes it different from the rest of the feed reader is that it provides a self-hosted solution. You install it in your own server and have complete control over your feeds and starred items. No longer do you have to worry about the third party services closing down and your data lost for good. Installation The installation of Tiny Tiny RSS is straightforward....

This is a detailed guide for using Google Photos “For You” tab to organize your pictures, movies, collages, and much more. From creating elegant presentations to editing the photo and video files, you shouldn’t miss out on this dynamic multi-purpose tool. Locating the For You Tab The “For You” tab is very prominently displayed on both the desktop and mobile versions of Google Photos. The AI features include automatic compilation of albums, stylized photos, nostalgia in the form of memories, collages, movies, and much more....

A Little Background Google’s a company that seems to be making everything convenient for its users, giving away most of its services for free in exchange for a few minimally annoying ads. That sounds nice. So, what does this have to do with its pursuits in AI? A lot, actually. For example, much of what the company implements in terms of AI comes in the form of speech recognition and other machine learning features....

I personally do not use the desktop application, so I am going to talk about the web version. Tabbed Windows First off, it has tabbed windows just like most web browsers. This feature alone is a great reason to try it. The tab feature allows for multiple accounts to be monitored with multiple columns per tab. If you are monitoring anything, this is really a time saver. The columns can be a group, search, account timeline or keyword tracking....

Solid-state batteries are smaller, lighter, and provide greater power density than lithium-ion batteries based on liquid electrolytes. The main challenge to their widespread adoption has been the search for a solid electrolyte with sufficient conductive capacity for large batteries, as well as a manufacturing method that allows for economies of scale. How Does a Battery Work? All batteries have three primary parts: the anode, the cathode, and the electrolyte. A battery works because charged ions want to travel from the cathode to the anode through the electrolyte....

If you have a home server set up, it should seem like accessing files on that server should be simple. There is a little bit of a quirk here, in that the iPad is not natively equipped for accessing resources on a local network. Macs are, but iOS devices don’t have that capability out of the box. It’s not too hard to get that capability, though. Not unexpectedly, it comes through an app download....

This means Linux users are currently out of luck, something which, in general, they are already used to. Anyway, if you are on Linux and want to use WhatsApp on your desktop, you are not completely out of options. In this article we will discuss Whatsie a third-party desktop client for WhatsApp. Whatsie Brought to life by Romanian developer Alexandru Rosianu, Whatsie is a third-party desktop client for WhatsApp. It claims to offer “everything you love about WhatsApp” including group chats, photo/video sharing, and more....

Now if you are keen to implement the Facebook comment system in your site, here’s how you can do so: Static site If you are running a static website, adding the Facebook comment system is easy. Replace the “{YOUR_FACEBOOK_USER_ID}” with your own Facebook ID. This will allow you to moderate the comments. That’s it for implementing Facebook comment on static website. WordPress The easiest way to implement Facebook Comment in your WordPress site is via plugin....

With this simple WordPress plugin, you can create clickable WordPress widget titles in just a few easy steps. These title links can really come in handy, such as linking to your social networking profiles, linking to blog posts or pages, linking to other websites, and more. Here’s how to get links in your widget titles. Install and activate the Widget Title Links plugin from the WordPress dashboard (plugins -> add new -> search plugins)....

Explore Pokki Navigate to the Pokki website and sign up for an account. Once you log in, you are free to explore the options available for social shortcuts. Choose from “social sites”, “useful utilities”, “”productivity” (including the popular Pomodoro Timer) and more. When you hover over any of the site icon, it will give you detailed information about the shortcut and the features it offers. The screenshots will help you see how efficient they will be compared to logging into the sites directly....

How to Add a Song to Your TikTok Before we detail how to add more songs to a single TikTok clip, let’s take a look at how to add a single song to your video. How to Find Interesting Sounds on TikTok If you ever stumbled upon a TikTok with a cool audio, know that you can save it to your profile to easily use it later on. Follow these steps:...

Configure Automatic Shutdown To automatically shut down your Windows computer at night, we are going to use the regular “Task Scheduler.” To open the Task Scheduler, press the Start button and search for and click on the option “Task Scheduler.” Once the “Task Scheduler” has been opened, select “Create Basic Task” from the “Actions” panel located on the right side. The above action will open the task creation wizard. Here enter a meaningful name and description of the task you are going to create, then click on the “Next” button....

But YouTube is not all sunshine and silly videos. There are a lot of poorly-rated, bad and even fake videos out there that you don’t realize are a sham until you begin to watch them, wasting your valuable time. Here are a few tweaks for YouTube that will ensure you don’t start watching worthless videos anymore. 1. See Video Ratings Before You Watch Them One of the bigger oversights (or perhaps intentional omissions) on YouTube is the fact that you can’t see the ratings of a video before you actually click through and start watching it....

Using Windows Volume Shadow Copy and Previous Versions Windows Volume Shadow Copy runs as vssvc.exe. In Windows 8, this service is set to manual and does not run on system startup. To access the “Previous Versions” feature in Windows 7 or earlier, right click any file or folder, go to Properties and select the “Previous Versions” tab. In Windows 8, you can access the same tab by going to “Run” and type: If you right click any file or folder, the Previous Versions tab will be visible....