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Windows 7, Windows 8x and Windows 10
Have
you ever noticed how distracting your mouse pointer can be, especially when you
are typing? Don't you wish there is a way for it to go away so you don't have to
stop every so often just to move the mouse? Here's how to hide the mouse pointer
to make it a little less distracting so you can continue typing with ease.
1.
Click "Start" > "Control Panel" (On Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 right-click the
start menu and choose Control Panel )
2. Make sure your Control Panel is set to
Icon view (top right)
3. Click "Mouse".
4. Click "Pointer Options" tab.
5. Check "Hide pointer while typing" box
under Visibility.
Works on
Windows 7, Windows 8x and Windows 10 proving once again the more things change, the
more they stay the same.
Note
Depending on operating system and type of mouse, the process and result may be
slightly
different.
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4 Indispensable Windows 10 Shortcuts
Windows 10 (some for
Windows 7 and Windows 8x too!)
As we're doing sessions we often see how
useful keyboard shortcuts can be. But we also know they can be hard to remember.
While there are dozens and dozens of keyboard shortcuts, the only ones you're
likely to remember are the ones you use most.
Keeping that in mind, here
are 4 indispensable shortcuts for Windows 10 (some work in earlier versions of
Windows, too).
These are shortcuts you'll use almost every day so you're
sure to remember them:
Windows Key + A
Opens Action Center
Windows Key + X
Opens the right-click start menu. This is the
so-called Power Menu. This also works in Windows 8x.
Windows Key
Opens the start menu (works on Windows 7 and Windows 8 too)
CTRL+SHIFT+ESC
Opens Task Manager (Works in Windows 7 & Windows 8x as
well.)
How to Find Your Wireless Network Password
Windows 7, Windows 8x and
Windows 10
Everyone should be using a WiFi password for their home network. And most of us do. And most of us let Windows remember that password for us, so we don’t have to type it in whenever we boot up and connect. But sometimes, for instance when setting up another computer, a tablet, or a smartphone, you may need to know the network password. And if you don’t remember what it was, you’ll be fumbling around trying to get those other devices connected.
Thankfully, it is really easy to find your network password. All you need to do is enter in a simple command and in just a minute or two you’ll know what your network password is.
Here’s how you do it:
Step one: Open a command prompt with administrator privileges:
On Windows 7, type CMD in the Start menu search, press Enter, – right-click CMD when it appears at the top and choose “Run as administrator”.
On Windows 8, press Windows Key + S, type CMD press enter, right-click when it appears and then choose “Run as administrator”.
On Windows 10, right-click the start button and click on “Command Prompt (Admin)”
Step two: Enter the following command, at the prompt in the Command Prompt windows. Substitute your WiFi network name for my network name OMAHA. Don’t worry: network names are not case sensitive in Windows.
netsh wlan show profile name=OMAHA key=clear
Above: My network password showing in plain text. No! You can’t see it! I
blurred it! I don't want EB using my Wi-Fi. Are you crazy?
If you don’t know the name of your network, you can find it in the Network & Sharing Center. You can find Network & Sharing Center in the Control Panel.
How to Mute Annoying Audio in Web Sites
Windows 7,
Windows 8, Windows 10
Firefox or Chrome browsers
Many sites, especially news sites, have delayed auto-start videos (or audio ads) on their pages. When surfing multiple pages, you may suddenly hear the audio, but finding which page it is coming from meant going through each open tab. But sometimes I have 15 or 20 open tabs!
I was complaining to TC the other day about the blaring sound from videos/ads and how I had to go through several open tabs to find the culprit. He causally says “look for the sound icon” and you can tell which tab it is coming from; as if everyone but I knew this!
Sure enough… I looked a little closer and there it was! Its super tiny, but its visible and while I don’t see it available on Internet Explorer, it is on Chrome Firefox and Microsoft Edge.
Below are screenshots of Chrome, Firefox and Edge browsers with open tabs to show you where the sound icon is located on the tab and what it looks like. Thanks TC! Even old dogs can learn new tricks!
Chrome Browser (on the right side of the tab, next to the “x” below):
Below: Firefox is almost exactly the same as Chrome, see?
Below: Edge Browser (on the left side of the tab):
Sorry, Internet Explorer fans, you’ll never know which tab is annoying you with sound unless you manually check each tab.
A New Walking Place
This summer, I have almost
abandoned my former favorite place to walk. I have found a new walking place,
and I have been walking there almost every singe day this summer - even on days
when the temperature was up there nibbling at 100 degrees (that's about 38
degrees Celsius for those of you in other lands).
Sadly, my old walking
place became too popular. They filled it with soccer fields and vending
machines. They built a beautiful wooden boardwalk where the old dirt trail used
to be. It's nice, that's for sure, but it's not as nice as the days when the
woods were untamed and bordered by farm fields and land grown wild and the trail
was just a dirt trail that got muddy when it rained.
And don't get me
wrong it's nice, and I still walk there sometimes. But the sounds of people
walking dogs and parents cheering their kids on in soccer games, has taken a lot
of the old magic away.
I've found a new quieter place to walk, and I
think like it better.
My new favorite place to walk is about five miles
from my house, so it's not as convenient as the old walking place, which was
right around the corner. But I don't mind driving to get to..
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purchase any of our Emsisoft products listed above. Read Easy. Read Fast. We have 2 picks today, so we were in a pickle about
which to pick. EB wanted to pick a peck of pickled peppers but that didn't help
with the picking pickle I was in trying to pick one or the other of these picks,
neither of which has anything to do with a pickle. We're betting your glad about
that. Now, down to business. Both of today's picks are
related to helping you read faster. One does it by summarizing articles so you
get the gist of them without having to read through the entire thing. And the
other pick will help you read faster. Even speed read if that is your need. So
without further yammering, I know announce our Cloudeight Picks for today. Ta
Da! Pick number one: ExplainToMe
ExplainToMe is a web services that summarizes articles
and lets you choose the number of sentence you want in the summery. Just copy & paste the URL (web address/link) to the
article you want to summarize, then choose the number of sentences you want to
read. And like magic, ExplainToMe summarizes the article in just a few seconds. That's a 221 word summary of a 567-word article
which you can read here. ExplainToMe saved
you from reading a lot of fluff. (Please don't be mean and accuse me of padding
stuff with fluff. You'll only make my life harder; EB is making my life
difficult enough!) If you want to summarize instead of skim,
please visit ExplainToMe
and summarize, summarize, summarize. ----- Pick number two: Spritz A good summery day is good day to lie in the shade and
read. A good summary is a good way to save time when the world is blossoming
with information and you want to read as many articles as you can. Another way
you can cram more information into that brain of yours is learning how to speed
read. There are people out there who can read at over 1000 words per minute -
and comprehend what they read. Let me tell you right up front, I tested EB's
reading speed and
learned that I can type faster than she can read. Too many late nights out
drinking on her yacht and too many winters spent skiing in the Alps have
rendered her a slow reader. That's why I have to read to her now. And why with
her as editor, there are never any mistakes in this newsletter :-) Seriously, we could all benefit from learning to
read faster. And learning to read faster does not have to be a laborious,
agonizing, and frustrating exercise. No, indeed. You can learn to speed read
very easily with a little tool called Spritz. And while there are several ways
to get it, we are recommending the bookmarklet which works with Firefox and
Chrome, but alas, dear IE lovers, it does not work with IE. Here are some words from the developers of Spritz -
and by the length of their description, they apparently think we can all already
speed read. "To understand Spritz, you must understand Rapid Serial
Visual Presentation (RSVP). RSVP is a common speed-reading technique used today.
However, RSVP was originally developed for psychological experiments to measure
human reactions to content being read. When RSVP was created, there wasn’t much
digital content and most people didn’t have access to it anyway. The internet
didn’t even exist yet. With traditional RSVP, words are displayed either
left-aligned or centered. Figure 1 shows an example of a center-aligned RSVP,
with a dashed line on the center axis OK! Do you want to learn to speed read?
Then visit this page, scroll
down to the Spritzlet and follow the instructions below.
Using Firefox or Chrome, drag the Spritzlet button to
your browser's bookmarks bar (see above). Then go to any article, essay, story
etc. and click the Spritzlet bookmarklet in your bookmarks bar. You can adjust
the reading speed up to 450 words per minute.
You can go over 450 words per minute if you register
with Spritz (free). So if you want to learn to read at 1000 words per minute
(good luck) then you'll need to create a free Spritz account. If you are a stickler for details, you can read more
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A Site Pick
and a Browser BookmarkletHow 'Sully' got the Hollywood treatment
10 Sentence Summary
Clint
Eastwood directs and Tom Hanks plays Captain Chesley Sullenberger in the new
movie 'Sully.'
The real Sullenberger helped finesse the specifics in the
retelling of his successful landing of Flight 1549.
Aaron Eckhart, left,
and Tom Hanks star in 'Sully.
Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger gently
corrects a reporter, as he sits sandwiched between Tom Hanks and Clint Eastwood.
Eastwood, who directs, cast Hanks as the pilot of the flight that took off
from LaGuardia, suffered both engines disabled by a flock of birds and made a
successful emergency landing 208 seconds later in the freezing water.
Review: Tom Hanks sticks the landing as 'Sully'
Hanks, no stranger to
playing real men, from astronaut Jim Lovell in Apollo 13 to the hijacked
merchant mariner in Captain Phillips, says when he met Sullenberger to discuss
the role, “I said, 'Look, I’m going to say things you never said and I’m going
to do things you never did and I’ll be places you never were.
Tom Hanks
stars as Chesley Sullenberger, the pilot who safely landed his plane in the
Hudson River, saving the lives of 155 crew and passengers.
The two-time
Oscar winner sat in the pilot's living room going over the script line by line,
which Sullenberger had “dog-eared, notated, highlighted,” Hanks says.
"When you read a word, your eyes
naturally fixate at one point in that word, which visually triggers the brain to
recognize the word and process its meaning. In Figure 1, the preferred fixation
point (character) is indicated in red. In this figure, the Optimal Recognition
Position (ORP) is different for each word. For example, the ORP is only in the
middle of a 3-letter word. As the length of a word increases, the percentage
that the ORP shifts to the left of center also increases. The longer the word,
the farther to the left of center your eyes must move to locate the ORP..."
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What does "cache" mean?
Most places
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larger than $50. If you are sending any cache, particular $100 bills,
please note on the envelope that it is for TC - personal and
confidential! I don't want EB getting putting her fingers in the pie
anymore than she already does. There's a reason we call her Sticky
Fingers Darcy, and it's not because she eats cotton candy with her
fingers - but she does that too. She has to carry Wet Wipes with her ALL
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OK back to cache. If you win big at the casino, you can
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particularly ours, don't have much cache on hand these days. Oh, we're sorry. We
're misspelling cache. No, not really. You know what we're doing. We're talking
about cash. Making a funny. Ha ha!
Really, "cache" pronounced 'cash'...
is a special high-speed storage mechanism. It can be either a reserved section
of main memory or an independent high-speed storage device. Two types of caching
are commonly used in personal computers: memory caching and disk caching.
Everything you view on the Web is not really being seen from the Web, it's being
seen from your browser's cache. That's right. All those pictures and other
things on that Web page you're looking at, are coming from your browser's cache
- where that page's content was downloaded when you opened the Web page. Hence
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