As mentioned in my other post Date/Time Formatting Can Unite The World, dates and times should be formatted in a very specific way. They are either ordered from general to specific, or you just have a jumbled mess. Sorry, Europe, but your dd-mm-yyyy is ridiculous and completely reversed. When you give...
In AutoHotKey, if you have some typing shortcuts, it can be helpful to know which window you’ll be typing in to. For example, if I’m on my OneNote app, I might have one series of key presses but if I’m in AmpleNote it will be another series of key presses....
Let me start off with a little MS butt-kissing. They deserve it because Microsoft has amazing potential. They obviously have an amazing team of developers and amazing marketers and deal makers. They have their products all over the world and in the overwhelming majority of computers. So what’s my problem?...
I signed up in 2023 around June. During that time, the past year, there have been no improvements to their product. Not one. The releases page plainly shows the updates and the latest update was around June 2023. It is essentially an abandoned app, except for the people sitting by...
Ai is half amazing and half ridiculous. I have caught Bing’s copilot just making up PowerShell functions that don’t actually exist so as to give the appearance of having an answer for my question. Recently, I discovered that DuckDuckGo has an Ai so I tried it out. I was searching...
You know you hate ads. Why do you allow them into your life? They rob your screen space, bandwidth, and mental energy. You have the right to block them, and you should do so. How many hours per month do you think you could have back if you didn’t have...
When working with Microsoft support in an online chat, they have this lame excuse for me to divulge my phone number to them. It’s not new. It’s not just them. I have heard this before from many support reps. “Just in case we get disconnected give me your phone...
Are you sick of searching, clicking a link, going back, clicking another link, going back, again and again? #metoo 😬 Now there’s a better way! 🥳 Searching With Split Screen! If you’re using Microsoft’s Edge browser, there is a split screen feature that will make your search results feel like...
How to reduce the back-and-forth distance when switching between keyboard and mouse: Of course, this is not for everybody, but I do find it to be an easier and shorter motion having the mouse between my wrists and more within my reach. Laptops use this layout, although they probably use...
