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For some people, the real estate available on Windows 10 taskbar is precious. I am one among you, if you too appreciate more available space on the Taskbar.
However, the climate information available on Windows 10 taskbar takes too much place (and sometimes peace) out of what’s available to us.
[Read more…] about Remove Weather from Taskbar Easily – Windows 10If you’re into presentations or teaching something through screen sharing online with others, you know you cannot annotate, highlight nor zoom into the screen while presenting.
This is possible in some presentation software like Microsoft PowerPoint to some extent but not without showing the audience what you are actually doing in front of them.
But here’s what’s possible after you read this guide post / watch this video:
Here’s how to get them done.
Just head on to this website which is from Microsoft and download the ZoomIt software.
Once the zip file gets downloaded click on it to open it – this only contains the exe file and is a portable file – you only need to double-click to use it.
This exe file opens up an options dialog box. Just go through this video demo for a detailed walk-through of how to make use of all these options to suit your situation.
In case you are in the Teaching profession or in any training Department within your company then this is a very useful tool to keep handy.
In this blog post, we will see how to change the Windows 10 default cursor scheme to Apple mac OS cursor sprites set
With this, we can easily change the mouse pointer for Windows to give the look and feel of Mac OS mouse cursor set.
First and before we set to change the default cursor scheme, it’s a best practice to first check and see what DPI (Dots Per Inch) setting does our PC have.
This helps in getting the best-suited mac OS cursor set for our computer because if the DPI is set to 100% then you might need the El Capitan cursors and if the DPI is set to > 100% then you will need the macOS Sierra cursors (just like how I did – you can see a walkthrough demo in the video provided below).
Right click on the Start button and click on Settings.
Search for Display settings in the search bar.
Here, you’ll see the Scale and layout section with the scaling percentage.
Now, depending on the scaling percentage your computer has, choose one of the two links given below.
Download Mac cursor for Windows from these links:
El Capitan cursors for Windows (100% DPI): https://www.deviantart.com/in-dolly/art/Updated-ElCapitan-cursors-593804414
macOS Sierra cursors for Windows (Higher DPI): https://www.deviantart.com/in-dolly/art/macOS-Sierra-Retina-cursors-650823654
That’s how you can change the Windows’ default cursor scheme with the fancy macOS cursor scheme.
Hope this helped you, if so please let me know in the comments below.
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Now that Google input tools for Windows is gone, how do we type in Indic languages in a Word document?
Fortunately, there is a workaround!
We use the Google Input Tools for Chrome extension to do that!
You can even assign keyboard shortcuts to switch between English and other Indic languages. Click on the extension, and click on ‘Keyboard Shortcut Settings’ to map your shortcuts.
Customize your keyboard shortcuts here:
After downloading the file from Word Online, your INDIC texts could be a set of square boxes like this:
In case you see jumbled and funny characters like the ones above, simply select the text and change to any font (preferably to the Indian Language font that you are familiar with).
Hope you now got an idea of how to make use of the Google input tools to continue writing in Indian languages within Word documents!
Sometimes, you might want to know how long your computer has been turned on.
But is there a simple way to find it?
Yes, there is.
In this blog post, we will see how long your computer has been on using our old friend the Task manager.
Simply, open your task manager by either right clicking on taskbar bar and selecting TASK MANAGER or by typing “task mgr” on your RUN command.
Go to the Performance tab and there you will find your system’s UP TIME. So this is how you can find how long the computer has been going on without shutting down.