How to save your Microsoft Office ribbon settings

Many users customize the ribbons in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook to suit their needs in order to work faster and more efficiently. Over the years these menus can become highly optimized for an individual user. If they lose these configurations, for example if their computer breaks down, it could take them several hours to…

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Hundreds of Chrome extensions create a web-scraping botnet

Browser extensions can be just as dangerous as regular apps, and their integration with the tool everyone’s constantly using can make them seem erroneously innocuous. Case in point: a collection of more than 200 extensions for Chrome and other major browsers are being used to “scrape” website content. This essentially turns browser users into a…

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I liked this $13 ethernet switch so much, I bought 3 of them

We all think of wireless when it comes to smart home and home entertainment—Wi-Fi, Zigbee, Bluetooth, Thread, Z-Wave, and what have you—but a surprising number of smart devices depend on good, old-fashioned wired ethernet for the best performance.  The Philips Hue Bridge? Needs an ethernet cable. Got an Apple TV streaming box? It does Wi-Fi,…

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