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What is Zoom? San Jose, California-based Zoom, is a communications platform that features tools for video and voice meetings. Unlike many of the alternatives on the market, Zoom is available across multiple platforms, including through the web and apps. Each Zoom meeting typically has a host and various invitees. Zoom offers premium packages, including those for small teams, small and medium-sized businesses, and enterprise. There’s also a freebie package that allows anyone to use it....

Using this small windows tweak, you can instantly Click and Print content lists of any folder in Windows 7 or Vista. How To Print An Automatically Generated Directory List Click the Windows Start Menu Orb and Type notepad into the Start Menu. Next Press Enter on your keyboard or Click the Notepad programs link. 2. Copy and Paste the following code into the blank Notepad: @echo off dir %1 /-p /o:gn > “%temp%Listing” start /w notepad /p “%temp%Listing” del “%temp%Listing” exit...

Block Artists on Spotify Launch Spotify on your phone or tablet and head to the “Artist” page of what you never want to hear. Then tap the ellipsis button in the upper-right corner (three dots). Then tap the “Don’t play this artist” option from the dropdown menu. After that, a brief message will pop up confirming that music from the artist won’t play. That’s it. Even if you go directly to a band or artist’s page and try to manually kick off a tune, it won’t play....

Anyway things have been so nuts around the house I’ve not had even three minutes to fix the problem until now. Here’s what I did. Start by launching iTunes and jumping over to your Movies Library. Move to the Home Videos sub-section and Right Click the movie you want to re-categorize. In my example I’ll select Horton Hears A Who! Once the context menu pops, click Get Info. Under the Options Tab, select the Media Kind you want and Click OK....

Roku Remote Chrome Extension After installing the Remoku extension in Chrome, click the “R” icon in the upper left corner. That brings up a virtual remote, and the first thing you’ll need to do is click Settings so you can find the Roku on your network. Note: While this is handy is you need to control Roku from your laptop, you also might want to control Roku from your Phone....

Step One: Change Your Word Document The first thing you need to do to convert a Word Document to a PowerPoint Presentation is to make formatting changes to the former. In the following example, we’ve taken text published in a GroovyPost article about podcasts. When brought to Microsoft Word, this content was divided into two sections for each podcast: the header and the body. To more easily convert this content for PowerPoint use, we’re changing each heading to Heading 1 style while changing the body to Heading 2 style....

Sway is designed for a new era of publishing and communication. An age that focuses on the web and mobile. It’s is also available as a modern application on Windows 10 and mobile platforms such as iOS and Android. Publish Content Using Microsoft Sway If you are running an older version of Windows or an alternative platform such as macOS, you can access the service through a supported web browser to create your Sways....

While this can be a handy UI feature, it can also be annoying. Sometimes you accidentally shake a window and everything disappears from the desktop. Then you have to go and relaunch what you were working on. It doesn’t seem to be as sensitive as it was on previous versions of Windows, but it still can be an annoyance. If you aren’t a fan of the feature, you can turn it off....

Windows 10 Web Search Suggestions Note: This option requires editing the Registry which can cause stability issues if you do something wrong. Playing around in the Registry isn’t for the faint of heart. Before proceeding make sure you back up your system first. Disable Web Search Suggestions To get started open the Registry by hitting Windows Key + R on your keyboard and type: regedit and hit Enter. Next, head to the following path: Now right-click on the Windows key and choose New > Key....

Combined with Box.net’s desktop sync application, it’s quite possibly the best solution for flexible cloud-based online document editing. For my workflow, Box.net + Zoho + Box Sync is perfect, since it gives me a synchronized local copy of each document on all of my computers that I can edit online or with Microsoft Word without having to worry about conflicting changes. The only caveat: The Box Sync client is for Business / Premium users only....

While I was resetting my password (just in case…), I noticed Zapier now supports Two Factor Authentication (2FA). As you know, we’re always talking about how important it is to enable Two Factor auth. online. So, with this in mind, follow along as I enable it to my Zapier account Step 2: Click Security Tab, Click Enable Two Factor Authentication. Step 3: Zapier will now walk you through the registration process....

Reclaim Drive Space After Windows 10 1809 Update To get started, head to Settings > System > Storage and under the Storage Sense section, click the “Free up space now” link. You may need to scroll down a bit if you have multiple drives connected to your machine. Windows will scan your drive and you will see a list of files you can remove and the amount of drive space they are using....

Google+ Custom URL Don’t get me wrong, I like Google+ much more than I like Facebook, especially because privacy is much easier to control. But one thing I am not a fan of is the long URLs for sharing my profile. Every time I wanted to give a friend a link to my profile, I had to return to said profile and copy it, because a random string of numbers is anything but an easy thing to remember....

How to get the free Xbox with purchase More details and some buying advice Of the PC’s available, a few are last year’s models. With that said, if you are going for the lower range on the price scale, there are only 3 laptops worth looking at: Dell Inspiron 17R i17R-6121DBK ($779)ASUS U30SD-XA1 ($799)Lenovo IdeaPad U260 08763BU ($799) Of the 3, the Asus laptop is likely the best offer thanks to its discreet NVIDIA GPU with 1GB of vram; whereas the other notebooks only include integrated Intel HD onboard graphic processing despite using the same i5 CPU....

Increase Windows 10 Start Menu Transparency First, use the keyboard shortcut Windows Key + R and type: regedit and hit Enter or click OK. Next, navigate to the following path: HKEY_CURRENT _USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Themes\Personalize From there, double click on EnableTransparency and change its value from 1 to 0 and click OK. No restart is required. In fact, after changing the value to zero hit the Windows Key and you’ll see the difference. If you’re not a fan of the look just change the EnableTransparency key back to a value of one....

Some people prefer to indent the first line of each paragraph. However, you may also want to indent whole sections of your documents, especially if you’re wrapping text around an image. If you want to indent text in Word, here’s what you’ll need to do. Indenting the First Line of a Paragraph The most common form of indentation used in documents is indent each paragraph’s first line–this is, thankfully, a straightforward process....

Make Adobe Flash Work on Nexus 7 Tablet Flash Player support for Android has been discontinued, but it can still be installed; not from the Google Play Store, though. It’s also possible to install Flash on the Kindle Fire HD and other Jelly Bean devices. There’s a few steps to to make it work on the Nexus 7, but nothing difficult. First, you’ll have to enable installation of apps from unknown sources....

In fact, at the time of this writing, the company had pulled its Windows 10 October 2018 Update due to a file deletion bug. It didn’t re-release a fixed version until six weeks later. Because of these types of issues, you might want to have more control over which updates you install. Sure, you can manually install updates directly from Windows Update Catalog, but that’s a lot of work. Instead, I want to tell you about a free utility that can make the job easier....

Get Rid of Gmail Tabs First of all, if you believe that the new Gmail tabs, which can be used to split your inbox into Primary, Social, Promotions, Updates and Forums, bring nothing useful to your Gmail account — get rid of them. While they are usually easy to manage, the trouble-causing Promotions tab. To get the old feel back, just nix them all. Check out Brian’s article on how to solve the tabs annoyance....

But you can use the built-in settings to help manage your mobile data efficiently. Here is a look at how you can do that. I use a pre-paid plan on my smartphones since it’s less expensive and easier to manage. When I add credit to my phone then activate the plan, I am notified of the amount of data I have on my phone and when it expires. Manage Data Windows Phone 8....