Firefox can do it, can Chrome? Here’s what I’m looking for: Firefox – always show the tabs in fullscreen mode Solution: I’m using Google Chrome (Version 22.0.1229.79) and fullscreen mode still shows the tabs! You can toggle fullscreen mode using: mac: Shift + Cmd + F windows: F11 and you can toggle the bookmarks bar…
I have just tried to turn my PC on this morning and it won’t stay powered up. It will come on as normal for about 5 seconds, not quite long enough for the monitor to wake up. Then it will power off. After about 2 seconds it will start again, it will continue like this…
I am using Windows 7 Home Premium. When I shut down my computer why does the screen show this: Before shutting down I’m close all programs. Solution: From Windows Seven Forum: 1) This is not a problem. It’s actually a good thing because Windows is waiting for programs to shut down and disk buffers…
Are there any built in command-line tools that I can encrypt and decrypt a text file (and provide it some sort of password). Solution: openssl comes pre-installed on Mac OS X. You can use the following commands: # encrypt file.txt to file.enc using 256-bit AES in CBC modeopenssl enc -aes-256-cbc -salt -in file.txt -out file.enc#…
I’m using a very old keyboard that doesn’t have a physical Windows key — it does have a 5/180° connector and an AT/XT switch on the back — but I don’t want to completely miss out on the functionality of the Windows key. Is there some group of keys in Windows 7 Pro that simulates…
Possible Duplicate: Clone a Hard Disk Content to Another Hard Disk What’s the equivalent of SuperDuper on Windows? I want to replace my current hard drive with a new one so I imagine that I would want a program that does a bit-for-bit copy from one hard drive to another, right? Solution: Clonezilla…
Possible Duplicate: Remote connection to a PC over internet I’m looking for something that would allow me to control their computer and that wouldn’t be very hard to configure. I think I’ll only need Windows-to-Windows support. What do you recommend? Solution: I find TeamViewer to be a great choice. The service is free…
I would like to use a (small) SSD disk as a cache for a large hard disk. I realize there are hardware-based products that do this: HighPoint RocketHybrid HBA, Intel SmartResponse and others. There is only one software-only product that I could find: ExpressCache by Diskeeper: ExpressCache intelligently and automatically combines the best attributes of…
I have several PDFs that are quite large (one is 80+ MB). Is there a free way to compress that PDF to a smaller size? Solution: There is also Free PDF Compressor. It gives you the option of using the Flate or RunLength compression algorithms as well as different compression levels.
I have a blog, and sometimes I’d like to show my readers something specific about computers. I’ve seen a lot of screen recording software, but all seem to save as video files. Do any save as an animated GIF? I know how to transform a small video into a .gif, but I believe that I…
