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After you’ve installed and set up your Windows Home Server, it’s time to start connecting the other computers on your network. Open up Internet Explorer – other browsers work too, but IE provides the best results. Clear the address bar and type: http://[servername]:55000 – replace [servername] with the name of your server. In my example I typed: http://geekserver:55000 then hit Enter. This is connecting to the webpage from your WHS box....

First, click Settings (gear icon) and select More Mail Settings. On the Options screen click Sending / Receiving Email from Other Accounts. Now, click Add an Email Account under You can Receive Mail from These Accounts. On the next screen, before entering in your email address and password, click Advanced Options. Now type in your email address and Password. Then the following Advanced Options: POP 3 User Name – Your full Gmail addressIncoming Mail Server – pop....

Of course you’ll need a FM tuner card. They are typically included with internal or external TV Tuner cards. There is not much to setting it up. Just plug it in, and hang the small antenna wire someplace where you’ll get good reception. Here I am using a Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150MCE PVR. Setup FM Radio and Presets in Windows Media Center Note: This will also work on Windows 8 Consumer Preview....

Adding a Custom URL Upon Page Creation Before we get to your profile page, let’s take a quick look at customizing the URL’s for your Facebook pages. First of go to http://facebook.com/pages. On the upper right side you will see a “+ Create Page” button. Click it to continue with page creation. From here on, you will be asked for the category of your group. Since I created a temporary group for the purpose of this tutorial, I put mine under “Cause or Community”, but think carefully about what your group will really be about and pick your category wisely....

Step 1 Google killed its product Picasa earlier in 2016 Download Picasa 3.8 (or later). See download links above for Mac or Windows. May 1st, 2016, Google retired Picasa. Knowing this, I downloaded the final and latest copy from Google so I could use the app in the future and not break the article below. Windows Download – Mac Download. Step 2 From Picasa, select a batch of photos. You can do this by drawing a box around the photos you want to select, or by Clicking the first photo in the series, holding SHIFT and then Clicking the last photo in the series you want to select....

To change the size of a tile, right click on a large tile and select Smaller from the menu bar at the bottom. To make a small tile large again, right click on it and select Larger from the menu bar. Here’s an example of several tiles that I made smaller. If you create and label tile groups, making them smaller lets you get more in each category. This is especially useful on smaller low resolution screens....

Check Using TPM Management Tool First, use the keyboard shortcut Windows Key + R to bring up the Run dialog. Then type: tpm.msc and hit Enter or click OK. Next, The Trusted Platform Module (TPM) utility will launch. Here you want to look for Status and TPM Manufacturer Information. In my example below, the status is: “The TPM is ready to use.” And the Manufacturer info is version 2.0. That means my CPU is good to go for running Windows 11....

Now Playing History Google Pixel devices are known for packing a lot of features that are unique to them. For example, you can theme the device to your taste or add a background blur effect, even after you’ve taken a picture. Furthermore, the Google Assistant can recognize songs playing around the device, which a Pixel smartphone will then show on the lock screen. But what if you have a Pixel and would like to remember what that song was that you’ve heard on the radio during your lunch break?...

This can be frustrating if you were in the middle of reading a long PDF file and you have to shut down your computer. The next time you open the file, you’ll have to find your place again. Several of the popular PDF readers have a setting that allows you to continue reading where you left off in a file the next time you open it. We’ll show you how to set this up in three free PDF readers....

Most modern Roku devices should already be updated to Roku OS 8.1 or above. If you’ve bought your Roku device in the past six years or so, it should run it. I have an older Roku 3 box that runs it with no issues and my Roku Ultra is already running version 9.0. For my tests, I used the first gen Echo and the Roku Ultra and I also was able to use the Roku 3 and the first gen Echo Dot....

Launch the app you want to customize from the Windows 8 Start screen. Here I’m starting with News. Right click on the screen or if you’re using a tablet, swipe from the top of the screen down. Then select the parts of the app you want to customize. Here I’m choosing My News. Scroll over the right and select Add a Section. Now you can add virtually any topic as a section to the news feed....

You can simply type a search term into the search (address) bar and pick the search engine from a drop-down box. The nice thing about this feature, aside from the convenience, is that you can select which search engines and sites display and in what order. Here’s how to customize these search engines you use in Firefox. Access the Search Settings in Firefox You have a couple of ways to access the search settings in Firefox....

By default, conversation view is enabled for all Gmail accounts. Conversation view organizes related emails that share the same subject and time range into groups. These groups of emails become threaded to see the history of the conversation easily; if you were wondering what inspired Google Wave… this was it! Anyhow, once the conversation view is disabled, your emails will go back to the plain-jane confusing format that everyone was used to in 1998....

Windows 7 Sticky Keys can be useful for people with faulty keyboards, or individuals who don’t like to press more than one key at a time..??? For everyone else, Sticky Keys is hands down one of the biggest annoyances Microsoft has ever implemented IMOP. Along with Sticky Keys comes its ugly cousin, Filter Keys. By default in Windows 7, Sticky Keys and Filter Keys are turned off but the built-in keyboard shortcuts to activate them are not....

Step 1 – Downloading Touchpad Drivers If you haven’t already, download and install the drivers for your touchpad, either from your laptop manufacturer’s website or directly from Synaptics’ Official Driver Page. Never heard of Synaptics? Not surprising; however, their technology basically drives all Touchpads out there. Anyway, even though touchpads can function just fine on built-in Windows drivers, downloading a Synaptics driver will let you get more out of your touchpads, such as multi-touch, pressure sensitivity, advanced settings, and more....

In Chrome visit the Option menu at the top-right and then click Settings. Under the settings screen scroll down to the User section and click Add new user… Select an avatar for the new user and then type in a name. Choose whether or not to add a shortcut to the desktop and then click create. You’ll know which profile you’re logged into by which icon appears at the top-left corner of the browser....

Luckily, Microsoft Excel offers tools such as filters for locating those basic pieces of data like the above-mentioned duplicates. And at the same time, you can use filters to find the opposite, unique values. Plus, if you take advantage of the advanced filter feature, you can display the data you find in a specific spot. Here, we’ll show you two ways to filter those unique values in Excel. So, you can use whichever one will work best for your situation....

How Much Space? Today’s iPhones have as much as 512GB of storage space. Apple Watch, not so much. The Apple Watch Series 5 has a capacity of 32GB by comparison. Previous models had as little as 8GB. Two types of files largely influence storage space on Apple Watch: songs and photos, with apps mostly take up the rest. For the first two, we’re talking about files added to the Watch for offline use....

What’s nice about these date and time features in Google Sheets is that you can format them the way you want. This gives you the flexibility to make your sheet work and look the way you want. One thing to keep in mind is that the functions you’ll use update automatically each time you open your spreadsheet. Insert the Current Date To display the current date without the time, you’ll use the TODAY function....

In Windows 7 and Windows 8, click the Start menu and select Devices and Printers. All of your devices and printers are displayed. Right click on a printer and select Printer Properties. Then click the Advanced tab. Select Available From and put in only the hours you want it to be used from. Then click OK. When a user tries to print when the printer is not available, they’ll see a message that it’s not available....