How to Make Scrollbars Easier to See
Windows 10 / Windows 11

By design, Windows 10 and 11 make scrollbars nearly invisible until you hover over them. While this is supposed to be a cool GUI feature, it makes scrollbars harder to see and many find it annoying. You’ll be glad to know it’s easy to make scroll bars more visible in both Windows 10 and Windows 11.

To make your scrollbars visible all the time, and easier to see, do this…

Windows 11

1. Press & hold down the Windows key and tap the U key to open Accessibility.

2. In Windows 11 >Settings > Accessibility look under “Visual effects”. Next to “Always show scrollbars” turn the switch on.

See the screenshot below.

Windows 10

Press & hold down the Windows key and tap the U key to open Ease of Access.

Under Ease of Access, locate the “Simplify and personalize Windows” section and turn the switch next to “Automatically hide scroll bars in Windows” to “Off”. See the screenshot below.

And that’s all there is to making scrollbars easier to see and your Windows a little less “cool” but more functional. 

Listen to Radio Stations from Around the World with Online Radio Box

Online Radio Box makes it easy to access live radio from stations worldwide and makes it easy to find the kinds of music you enjoy. And if you register for an account (optional), you can save a list of your favorite stations so that on future visits you can skip the searching. If talk radio is your thing, you’ll find plenty of talk radio stations to listen to also.

Online Radio Box has an expansive and eclectic selection of radio stations from all over the world, covering just about all genres of music and talk radio. You can listen to the radio in your browser on your Windows PC or download apps for your Android or iOS device.

The player is easy to use — just click the play button next to a station to start the live stream for that station.

You can use the Online Radio Search bar to search for music by genre, station, city, country, language, etc. Click on a station to start playing the music stream. Each station page displays what is currently playing, a list of the top songs on that station, and a playlist. The playlist shows songs that were played in the last 24 hours. Clicking on a song in the playlist will show the YouTube video if one is available.

If you click a link to a music artist, it takes you to a page with a brief description of that artist along with a list of radio stations playing songs that artist and the artist’s most popular songs on those stations.

Here’s some info from the Online Radio Box developers:

About us

We are all used to listening to the radio through a good old receiver on either AM or FM frequencies, twisting the tuning knob and listening to the whispers of the switching radio stations. But times have changed – now, virtually every radio station offers digital broadcasting on the Internet. Indeed, we live in unique times when free Internet radio stations from around the world are just one click away. They offer a variety of programs, news and music in a wide range of styles and trends. Therefore, to help you listen to the radio online for free we endeavored to gather all the stations of the world in one place. Come to our site or install our free application on your smartphone, and we will do our best to make it convenient for you to listen to your favorite radio station.

How to Use

Our fast and convenient online player will open to you the world of the Internet radio broadcasting. There is no need to install special software or pay for the access to our service – with Online Radio Box you can listen to the online radio directly in your browser for free! Use “Search” to find your favorite radio station or simply select something new to your taste! The radio stations that our users consider most popular are located at the top of the list and using “Search by genre or country” you can find something special to your taste. You can also install our free radio application and listen to music from anywhere in the world right in your smartphone. Our app supports Android and iOS and can be downloaded from both Google Play Market and App Store. We would also like to emphasize that you can save your favorite radio stations in the “Favorites” section to make sure they are always at your fingertips.

What to listen to

In our “Genres” section, you can listen to online music of any style you like. No matter what you are looking for: heavy metal, 1960s retro or drum-n-bass – here you will always find your favorite Internet radio! And of course do not forget talk-show formats: news, sports, weather, politics, business, education, and religion – all theme-oriented radio stations are available on our website! In the “Music” section we have collected top-charts of all styles and configurations; here you can select any genre and find out what music is currently playing on popular Internet radio stations from around the world! Moreover, on the page with the list of radio stations we show the names of the tracks that are currently playing on the radio. You can switch from one station to the next simply by clicking the tracks you want to listen to.

No Sign-up is Required but…

You don’t have to sign up for a free account to listen to music on Online Radio Box. However, if you want to create a list of your favorite stations, you’ll need to sign up for a free account. There is no email sign-up, but you can sign up for a free account using your Google, Facebook, Twitter, or Yahoo account.

Online Radio Box has an excellent selection of worldwide radio stations covering just about every genre of music. In many cases, you can listen to radio stations in your area. I was able to find several stations within 50 miles of my home – and I live in the middle of nowhere.

So whether you want to listen to music — or talk radio — from stations right around the corner or on the other side of the world, you’ll want to give Online Radio Box a try. 

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The Man in the Black Suit

One of life’s great blessings is that not one of us knows the exact day we will die. Well, at least I think so. I could not imagine being a teenager and knowing how many years I would live or the date of my death. That would take away the fun and great advantage of being young; the perception of being immortal. We have all experienced that.

Being young means looking down the road that never ends. When you’re young, you can’t even see around the next bend, let alone the end of the road. You certainly don’t know where and when that road will end, but no matter how old you are, you don’t know when or where it will end. You just know the end of the road is a hell of a lot closer than it used to be. Is it better to be young and think the road is infinitely long and death is more like a scientific theory than a matter of fact?

The answer depends on where you are on life's path...

What are Deepfakes?

Deepfakes are artificially created videos or images that use machine learning to realistically replace a person's likeness with someone else's. They are a kind of synthetic media.

Here's a breakdown of what deepfakes are:

• Deepfakes rely on machine learning techniques, especially deep learning, to create the illusion. This is what makes them so convincing compared to older photo editing techniques.
• Deepfakes can be used to make someone appear to be saying or doing things they never did. They can be used to create realistic images of people who don't even exist.
• Deepfakes are so believable they can be used to spread misinformation, damage reputations, or even be used in scams.

Efforts are underway to develop new techniques to detect deepfakes, but it's an ongoing arms race as the technology that creates deepfakes continues to improve. In the meantime, don't believe everything you see!