Tips, Tricks, and How-To's
The Tips and Tricks section includes quick tips, how-to guides, and introductions to interesting apps and websites. A special emphasis is placed on productivity tips and applications. These are generally posted every Tuesday and Friday.
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How to Easily Identify a Font Being Used on a Webpage
Have you ever been browsing a webpage that used a font that you wanted to use for yourself? Is digging through CSS or using the browser’s developer tools too complicated for you because, as the name implies, they’re for developers? If so, then here’s a way to easily find out the name of the font being used on a webpage in a second without having to know any code.
How to Easily Remove Empty Directories in Windows
Are you tired of having empty folders scattered throughout your hard drive? While these folders don’t do much harm as they don’t take up much space at all, they can become very annoying as they clutter up the parent directory and make it harder to find other files and folders.
However, finding them on your hard drive and then manually deleting them can be pretty difficult and time consuming. A free utility, RED, can help.
How to Monitor Your Personal Computer Activity
Do you find yourself on the computer all night trying to do work, but even when the sun is out, your work is still not done? Perhaps you are getting too distracted, but how can you figure out which programs are wasting the most of your time?
A free little utility called Personal Activity Monitor …
How to Split Your Google Chrome Content Area into Multiple Tabs
Have you found an interesting website that you want to keep track of or constantly refer back to while browsing the web? Yesterday, we showed you how to split your content area into multiple tabs in Firefox so you can browse multiple sites at once. Today, let’s do the same, but in Google Chrome.
An extension called ChromeSplits should be able to do the job.
How to Split Your Firefox Content Area into Multiple Tabs
Have you ever found an interesting website that you want to keep track of while you browse for other things on the web? Or perhaps you want to always see your online calendar without having to open another app? How about comparing multiple websites?
If you’re running Firefox, an add-on called Tile Tabs can help with that.
How to Get Alerts When Your CPU Usage is High on Windows
Is your PC using too much CPU? Are you background processes randomly hogging up CPU, often at the worst times? Do you need something that will alert you when your CPU usage is high so you know before you start another CPU intensive application? Or perhaps you need to limit the CPU to save battery power?
A free utility called ResLoad Notifier from Sharp Mind Projects might be able to help with that.
How to Easily Bypass the New York Times Paywall
Are you reading the New York Times online? Are you now getting a message saying that you reached your monthly free article limit? A week ago, we explained the various loopholes in the paywall system that the New York Times has announced. Today is March 28th and that means the system is live today.
But …
How to View Threaded Comments on YouTube
Have you ever found a comment on YouTube that had the @ tag and then you tried to search for the original comment, but never found it? Comments on YouTube are sorted by time, which in some ways, makes sense, but when users start replying to other comments using the @ tag, it can become quite chaotic and keeping up with a conversation is just impossible.