Real life cheat codes or life hacks are the equivalent of entering the Konami code in Contra. From Wikipedia: Today, anything that solves an everyday problem in a clever or non-obvious way might be called a life hack. The term became popularized in the blogosphere and is primarily used by geeks who suffer from information…
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People are always amazed at how fast I can move around a computer, and are convinced that this must be because I have spent years with computers combined with lightning speed typing speeds (125 wpm). The key is simply to know your way around the keyboard: If you want to become a truly skilled computer…
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I was inspired by this XKCD comic to recreate the cheat sheet in HTML, with the functionality to translate it and edit the text. Dear various parents, grandparents, co-workers, and other “not computer people”. We don’t magically know how to do everything in every program. When we help you, we’re usually just doing this. You…
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If you’re an avid anime fansub’s watcher like me you may have come across this problem. You enqueued a couple of episodes to watch, audio on Japanese with English subtitles, but as soon as you get to the next episode the audio has reverted back to English and the subtitles are gone. You can fix…
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Sometimes when your connection drops a bad DNS entry will be cached and you will need to either flush the DNS cache to get rid of it, or wait up to 24 hours for it to be dropped from the cache automatically. You can run this small batch file I put together every time your…
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