Windows and Internet tricks

Jun 5, 2015 9:35 PM

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You Can Search Google Timer In Google For A Timer With Alarm

https://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&q=google+timer

Use Your Chrome Browser As Notepad Quickly

View Hidden Password In Browser

In Your PC Just Create A Folder With The Name Given Below And Access Everything

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

Just Google Food Vs Food For Comparative Analysis

Delete Your Account Permanently From Famous Websites

Check If Your Email Is A Part Of The Famous Hacking Leaks

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Convert YouTube Videos To Gif By Adding Gif Before Yotube In Url

JoinHoney.Com Automatically Apply Coupon Codes For You To Save While Shopping Online

www.joinhoney.com

Delete one word at a time

You Can Create A Book With Cool Index Page And Contents From A Wikipedia Article

Use You Calculator For EMI Calculation And Many More Stuff

To Share Your Wi-Fi Access With Your Friends Coming To Your House : Generate A QR Code With The Access Details. Print It And Sti

http://blog.qr4.nl/QR-Code-WiFi.aspx

Loop a Youtube video by changing the "youtube" in the url to "listenonrepeat"

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Oooohhh ouch, WEP. :( Good tips though.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Alright, time to check the comments to see what actually works, as per usual.

10 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

Thanks! Helps a bunch. :)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Is this better or the same as yesterday?

10 years ago | Likes 52 Dislikes 2

Same

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Comment

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

this again?

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 2

"Use Your Chrome Browser As Notepad Quickly" Or you could skip the copy-paste and just open Word like a normal person. That works too.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Or even open notepad.

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Repost, but the original didn't work on my phone. So +1, now I understand the calculator one.

10 years ago | Likes 187 Dislikes 2

Can you link me to that other one that had how to find mp3 songs? I can't find it now. Please.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Mobile app? I feel your troubles.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Me too...I'm not on my phone now so I get it :)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I was very confused first time, and irritated at the calculator one!

10 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

Postmark

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Tf

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

TIL 100 Grams of bread has 10G of protein.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And Ctrl+Del will delete the word to the right. There are lots of keyboard shortcuts in word processors. Go look 'em up.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

You literally just reversed the order of the pictures.

10 years ago | Likes 218 Dislikes 2

10 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

This one the gifs work tho.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Yeah the last one gifs didn't work and I was like "what am I looking at"

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

This was Highest scoring post yesterday.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

If you're being deployed, I highly recommend downloading all of Wikipedia. You know, just in case you get Final Countdowned / Axis of Timed.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

#5 My search for "bacon vs human flesh" didn't turn up anything.

10 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

windows key + r type notepad enter. Personally it's faster for me that way and much better editing and saving options. to each their own tho

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I set the shortcut key to N on my notepad shortcut in the start menu. a quick ctrl-alt-N and done.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That's actually a really good idea!

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

About "GodMode": It's leveraging a documented feature of the shell that enables you to create virtual folders that function as namespace-

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

junctions. The format is <{CLSID}> (yes, the wonderful world of COM). You can't do anything more than you already could.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

well fuck +1 to you my friend, thanks for the tips

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

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10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

for the notepad...you can just press the windows key and type notepad then enter...(10x faster than whatever it is in this repost)

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

Or if you're like me; map one of your extended keyboard buttons to it.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I set the shortcut key to N on my notepad shortcut in the start menu. a quick ctrl-alt-N and done.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Uhm, repost... I see you.

10 years ago | Likes 66 Dislikes 4

@Repoststatistics

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Shh FP doesnt know FP doesn't care

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 1

agree. I had never seen this before.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Plot twist: you enter your email to see if you've been hacked but it actually sends your email to all of the scammers with one click.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

WEP

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Holy shit something useful in usersub someone pinch me

10 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 6

Language.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 4

This is a repost of someones oc from last week :(

10 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

Must've been a fast week.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Everything is a repost, so what? Now people who missed it can see it.

10 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

oh my god that QR code thing is beyond useful

10 years ago | Likes 15 Dislikes 0

2/2: people just don't make use of them, phones fuck them up constantly, etc. Kind of a shame. This^ would just make things harder for you.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

but this IS a use for them.. and how could it make it harder? worst case you have to type the wifi password like you would have anyway

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

As a teacher, I'm going to be using QR codes in my classroom for various things next year. It'll save a TON of paper.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

and everyone who has ever had to print a lot of shit out for a lot of people at once says "Amen"

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

We have to do our own copies, so it saves ME time.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

1/2: Yeah, and it wraps right around to not useful at all. As in, nobody ever uses QR codes. You can do lots of cool stuff w/ them but

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

If nobody ever uses QR codes, how come I see them so often?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

B/c effort to incorporate them into ads etc. is considered negligible. People in commercial design know they don't work and resent it though

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Odd, I have never had an issue.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hah, I remember seeing that years ago. Glad to see they're still diligently documenting QR's influence.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Where are my Linux masterrace friends?

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

Everything works equally on Linux, except for the calculator (we use a spreadsheet) and the GodMode folder (we call it "sudo").

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Lol I literally just use Python for adding

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Heh. Ever heard of 'bc'? http://enwp.org/Bc_%28programming_language%29

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Holy shit you just blew my mind.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Heh, 'bc' is the shizz and 'dc' is older than C but uses RPN. They come preinstalled in every Unix I know.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Fuck! One of my e-mail accounts got pwned... Thanks, but now I'm sad :(

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

3 of mine due to adobe and gawker

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Ouch.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

mine too, is there a way to fix this or I just have to accept it? I read the whole thing on the site but those words don't make sense to me.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Thankfully I didn't use the same password for any of the accounts I used as a login Just in case I changed all my passwords for everything.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

My main one did on Adobe. Now what??

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Change your pword to something really secure and hope for the best. If you are using that email as a login change the pword to those as well

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Thankfully I change the password frequently. Thank you!

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

That's probably the most secure thing you can do honestly. I should be doing that, but I'm a lazy guy in his underwear.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You can actually download ALL of Wikipedia for whatever reason. We did it for when we were deployed on a submarine with no internet service.

10 years ago | Likes 809 Dislikes 0

Gmod server whole Wikipedia plus other dictionary sites even that stupid fake words one

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I mean, if you're ever without internet. It'd be handy to have the worlds most comprehensive encyclopaedia. Esp during a zombie apocalypse.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Which boat did you serve on?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

SSBN-743, USS Louisiana.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Holy shit, a submarine? Please do one those job stories posts!

10 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

O-Gang did that on our boat last deployment.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I ran a local mirror of it a third world school I worked at, even when our internet connection was up, it was painfully slow.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I did that 20 years ago on a Pocket PC

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download for those interested.

10 years ago | Likes 12 Dislikes 0

Saving

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Commenting for future deployments

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Saving

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I did this for my English exam. It worked perfectly! The only problem was that every source was dated a year earlier...

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

You wouldn't download a Wikipedia!

10 years ago | Likes 61 Dislikes 1

My company mirrors all of Wikipedia every quarter or so because we work on computer systems without access to the "outside" world 1/2

10 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Really all we end up using it for is resolving office arguments 2/2

10 years ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

How big was the boat?

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

560 ft tip to tail, about 390 ft on the inside I think.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

How large was the download? Please don't use OP's mom as a unit of measurement.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes -1

It's 10GB via torrent and that's the compressed version. It expands to 40GB.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

That's outrageous. I imagine html documents don't take up that much space at all though

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

there is more than 4,853,000 articles that's about 8.2KB per article.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

for curiosity's sake... how big was it ?

10 years ago | Likes 104 Dislikes 0

Depends on whether you include the media and talk pages. Just the articles runs around 10GB, compressed.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

10 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 2

ಠ_ಠ

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

like <---------------> that big (maybe a bit smaller)

10 years ago | Likes 65 Dislikes 2

It's this big *spreads arms* only bigger

10 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

I don't know, but something tells me it's about 10 GB compressed, and 40 uncompressed.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Recently downloaded it, uncompressed it's 11.1 GB, unpacked it's 49.2 GB.

10 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

neat

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I could fit all of Wikipedia on my phone?! When you think about what wiki represents, that's fucking mind blowing!

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

How do you download it?

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Thanks for the quick reply! Have some upvoted ;)

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

pages-articles.xml.bz2 – this is probably what you want, and is approximately 10 GB compressed (expands to over 40 GB when uncompressed).

10 years ago | Likes 99 Dislikes 0

The crazy part is wikipedia is most text with a few images.

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

In other words 40gb of mainly text is A LOT of fucking information.

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

I expected a way bigger number. Then again, text files are really tiny

10 years ago | Likes 40 Dislikes 0

Text compresses well. Binary formats - not so much. That hasn't stopped people from trying though.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

My prof once required we make a video rehearsing a presentation and then email it to him. Yeah. It didn't work.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Thats actually not that bad

10 years ago | Likes 74 Dislikes 0

Until you realize that it is all just text...which is fucking massive.

10 years ago | Likes 36 Dislikes 1

Still, I expected multiple terabytes. Wikipedia is fucking huge. I imagine it will get to that size one day, though.

10 years ago | Likes 19 Dislikes 0

neat, thanks for the info :)

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Saving for later

10 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Hmm, I expected more.

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It was about 25GB when we did it (back in 2009).

10 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

Probably depends on whether you download the edits or just the original page.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

would have been kinda awesome if you guys had downloaded some pages that had been falsely edited before they got fixed.

10 years ago | Likes 238 Dislikes 0

Considering there's CONSTANT fixes to wikipedia articles, I wouldn't hesitate to believe some of the ones they had been false edited.

10 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Also, the hidden wiki *shudders*

10 years ago | Likes 72 Dislikes 2

What's scary about the hidden wiki?

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

what... what is this hidden wiki you speak of?

10 years ago | Likes 41 Dislikes 1

i thought you were going to link to the underbelly of wikipedia, where the uncyclopedia-like articles are

10 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

Do I want to know?

10 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

No

10 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

You have to use TOR to get to it. It's... interesting.

10 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1