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Add Resource Monitors to your Windows Taskbar
Windows 10 includes a system built-in resource monitor you can pin to your desktop as a graphical or text display.
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Now Streaming NOAA Weather Radio
Somehow, Oklahoma out of all places has little to no online availability of NOAA “All Hazards” Weather Radio, so I’ve decided to provide some redundancy.
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Delay Windows Screen Lock
Have you ever been at your device when the screen goes to sleep, only to be asked for your password even though you woke it up just a second later? Or have you ever wished you could have a separate timer for the screen sleeping and a longer delay for actually locking your device?
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Pinning Edge Profiles to the Taskbar
One of the more useful features of the new Edge built on Chromium is the profiles feature, which allows you to have separate browser user profiles that are entirely self contained. But it can be a pain to launch the profile you need.
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Custom Cursor Colors in Windows
Windows 10 now includes the option of using vector-drawn cursors of any color and size you choose. Here’s how to set it up.
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Simple Android Tricks: Quickly Adding Widgets
If you’ve ever added a widget to your Android home screen, you’ve probably seen the frustrating experience of scrolling through hundreds of unrelated options to find the one you want. There’s a faster way.
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Simple Android Tricks: Tear-away Shortcuts
For more than a few versions now, Android has had what essentially amounts to a “right click” menu on app icons. But did you know you can also tear-off those comments to make more direct shortcuts for next time?
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4K@60Hz with Surface Dock
Although the Surface Dock doesn’t have standard DisplayPorts or HDMI, it does have two Mini-DisplayPorts, and ostensibly supports a single 4K-resolution display at a 60 Hz refresh rate. Actually achieving that frame rate can be frustrating and difficult. Here’s how I did it.
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Automating IE With PowerShell to Capture Screenshots
My, browsers come and go so quickly these days. Microsoft’s replacement for Internet Explorer is already shuttered now that they’ve joined the Chromium open-source project to produce Edge using that codebase. And as much as I’m all here for that, it can still be handy to have Internet Explorer–especially when you can control it programatically […]
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Setting and Emergency Contact Info in Android
Android now makes setting Emergency Contact Info a breeze, no need to dig deep into Settings anymore.