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Threader Quickly open Threads profile URLs in the Threads app. This shortcut takes a screenshot of the current screen in Mastodon or Twitter, finds Threads URLs in it, and allows you to open one ...

Newer Macs, both portable and desktop, come with keyboards that have shortcut keys on the top row, where the F keys are. These F keys allow you to increase or decrease the brightness of the display, ...

One of the little-known features of Windows 7 is the ability to create custom keyboard shortcuts for any program, file or page. If you use Google Calendar a lot, you can save a lot of time by creating ...

On the Yahoo Search Blog, Don Chennavasin and Lalgudi Kannan have announced a new Yahoo Shortcuts tool which lets Yahoo users construct their own customized Yahoo Shortcuts; Open Shortcuts. The whole ...

How to use Open Shell as your Windows 10 Start menu Your email has been sent The Windows 10 Start menu strives to be versatile by offering you a traditional one ...

Windows 8 significantly changed the Windows interface, which can make it hard to find programs you're used to opening frequently. The Start menu, which used to list Windows accessories like Notepad, ...

Use a batch file to open the URL in IE, or if you want to get "creative", you can always create your own protocol like "iehttp:" as shown in the following. Then, edit the shortcut to use iehttp: ...

You need root access to edit a lot of files in Linux, but Terminal work can get tedious. Here''s a simple way to add a shortcut to your applications menu for a root ...

While Windows 11/10 comes with tons of settings you can change, Microsoft manages things like these via the Windows Registry. Any parameter which you see on Windows has a setting which in turn has a ...