11/3/2017 Don’t Use Ctrl+Alt+Del!!  Launch Task Manager Directly! How to Access Paywall sites  Some like washingtonpost.com allow you a certain number of free stories per month before you hit a paywall.  Delete the cookies from the site – it will reset your count  Or browse in incognito mode Reverse Image Search  Hold S and right click an image to do reverse image search in Chrome. Browser Notepad  Need a notepad in Chrome or ? Type this into the address bar. You’ll open a new tab that you can write in and even save.

data:text/HTML,%20 Disable Facebook’s Autoplay Videos  Navigate to facebook/settings. On the left side you’ll see ‘video’ – click on it and you’ll see the option to turn off auto-play. GodMode  Create a folder on your desktop and access EVERY option on your computer in one place.  Paste the following into a new folder that you make on your desktop: GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C} Safety  Check if a website is safe to visit or not by checking with Google’s safebrowsing diagnostic tool: http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=[suspiciousweb site.com] Disposable Email  Use a disposable temporary email service when you don’t want to input your regular email into a website: o MailDrop o Spamgourmet o 10 Minute Mail o Fake Mail Generator o Guerrilla Mail o ThrowawayMail o Mailinator Permanent Account Deletion  Use this website to permanently delete your account from famous websites (Facebook) Have You Been Hacked?  Use this website to check if your email was part of a large scale hacking leak Convert YouTube Videos to Gifs  Convert a Youtube Video to a Gif by adding the word “Gif” before “Youtube” in the URL Accidently Closing Tabs in Chrome  If you closed a tab accidently, undo it by hitting Ctrl+Shift+T  Or avoid an accidental closing of a tab by pinning it. Edit an Image  You can edit an image in MS Paint by pasting the URL of where the image is located when you open a file in MS Paint QUICK TIP  You can access the address bar directly by hitting the F6 button or by hitting Ctrl+L. OUTLOOK TIP  For those emails you send often, such as requests for info or reminders, use email templates so you never write the same email twice. o Save the email as a template via File > Save As… > Outlook Template o Then, to use the template, got to New Items > Choose Form… and look in your “User Templates in File System” to browse for the template you saved. SEARCH TIP  It’s common knowledge you can refine searches by using “+” or “–” but you can also refine it even further by using AROUND:  You can find separate phrases, not just mentioned in the same article or page, but inside of a specific amount of words apart. For example, if you wanted to find writings about ‘NEIWPCC’ and ‘pizza’ within 12 words of each other, your search would look like this: “NEIWPCC” AROUND (12) “Pizza”  Having the terms you’re searching in quotation marks, the word AROUND written in ALL CAPS and the number in parenthesis are all necessary for this to work. TEXTBOOK TIP  You can find a lot of textbooks on Google if you enter their title, then the desired file type. So an example would look like this: [Book Title] filetype:PDF OUTLOOK SEARCH FOLDERS TIP  Save a search for your most frequently accessed emails o Click on Search Folders in the left navigation menu. o Select “New Search Folder” and either use the wizards or manually customize the search to your specifications. Online Shopping Savings!  You can sign up with JoinHoney.com to automatically apply coupon codes for you to save while shopping online. I’ve been using it and it works! Airport Wi-fi Hack  Hack and start using airport wi-fi by adding “?.jpg” at the end of any URL. Use PowerPoint to Edit Images Part 1  PowerPoint is a good source for editing images. To crop any image to a shape: first insert the image in the slide and go to Format and from Crop select Shape and select the desired shape. That’s it, your image gets cropped in the desired shape. To save it, right click the image and select Save as Image. Use PowerPoint to Edit Images Part 2  When the background of a image is plain, it can easily be changed or removed using PowerPoint. Insert the image on the slide, then go to FORMAT tab > Remove Background option and using the available tools you can select the borders of the image. Use PowerPoint to Record Screen  You can record your computer screen without any external software in HD format just using PowerPoint. To do that Open PowerPoint > Click Insert (on top menu bar) > Screen Recording. Then you’ll be shown to select area for recording. Just record, edit (if needed) and save. Mouse Hack  Sometimes you lose track of where you cursor is. You can tweak the settings so that it appears when you press the CTRL key. Right click on Desktop > Personalization > in the sidebar click on “Change mouse pointers“. Select “Pointer Options” tab and check “Show location of pointer when I press CTRL key” then apply and click OK. File Protection Hack  To make any of the file on your PC inaccessible, just change the extension of the file. To make a notepad file inaccessible just change “.txt” to something else, like “.tt” - that’s it only you can know the actual format of the file. Anybody can see that file on your Desktop but cannot do anything unless they knew the original file format. Use Natural Language  Don’t waste time scrolling thru the monthly date picker when you make an appointment or meeting in Outlook. In the date field, type naturally “Independence Day” or “7 days from now”, etc. Outlook Time Tracker  This is for Outlook 2010 or earlier: you can use the Journal to automatically log your tasks, time, Office documents usage and so on. You have to click on the left navigation pane's "More" button to find the Journal icon and then enable the Journal to track messages from specific contacts, meeting requests, and time spend in other office programs. Research Hack  You can create a book with cool index pages and a table of contents from Articles Boredom Hack  Next time you have time to spare (at home, of course!), go to Google Images and search “Atari Breakout”  Also, from Google, search the following terms: o Do a barrel roll o Tilt google o Google in 1998 o Zerg rush o Pacman o Blink html