One line (or very brief) helpers

[jthompson]

Simple browser-based screen recorder - Google Admin Toolbox: Screen Recorder

No account or browser extension required.

This screen recorder uses Javascript to capture the audio and the screen in your browser.

It doesn't send your captured media to Google infrastructure or any other remote service.

Edited April 25, 2024 by jthompson

[6Foot2]

Thought this should be added here:

 

Just discovered that if I hold down the zero on my iPhone keyboard, I get the degree symbol.

 

Sometimes the simple things please us the most.

 

Same on Android.

 

[WHOAMI3904]

Webcam not working on the new version of Teams?

 

It might be because a media feature pack isn't installed.

 

Open PowerShell as admin and type DISM /Online /Add-Capability /CapabilityName:Media.MediaFeaturePack~~~~0.0.1.0 and press enterThe PC will then install the media feature pack and need a reboot.

[6Foot2]

Update:

 

Unless I'm mistaken, that looks to me like the power of 0 rather than the degrees symbol - Hold any other number key down and you'll see that number in superscript as well.

 

/pedant

 

It looks pretty spot on though!

 

Just checked with other digits, and it works. The numbers are indeed exponents with this method. If it were the degree symbol, it wouldn't 'work' for other digits.

 

To get the degree symbol, on Andriod, press and hold "o" and then select the degree symbol from those offered.

 

[6Foot2]

ChromeOS: Chromebooks lack a dedicated 'Delete' button: Hold down 'Alt' and press 'Backspace'

 

Since my original post, the keyboard shortcut has been changed to search+backspace. CTRL+backspace deletes whole words, or words followed by spaces.

[jthompson]

Long-pressing an Android quick toggle (e.g. Bluetooth, Hotspot, etc.) will take you to the relevant Settings page for that item.

 

Android 13, at any rate.

[jthompson]

Keep you Mac awake by running caffeinate in a Terminal window. This avoids having to adjust system settings or using a third party utility.

 

Various options, such as

caffeinate -t 3600

to specify a number of seconds to keep from sleeping.

[HarryMonkey]

 

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[jthompson]

Add " -ai" to Google searches to not include those ******* AI summaries.

[6Foot2]

My car's grab handles has little flip down tabs to hold the grab handle in the pulled down position. Maybe yours does too?

[HarryMonkey]

Check your wifi signal strength in Powershell

 

(netsh wlan show interfaces) -Match '^\s+Signal' -Replace '^\s+Signal\s+:\s+',''

[robintech]

Tail Windows update log remotely, for when its stuck on that getting things ready screen for ages

 

Invoke-Command laptop-01 {Get-Content -Path $env:WinDir\Logs\CBS\CBS.log -Tail 10 -Wait }

Edited October 11, 2024 by ittech2342323

[Norphy]

Not exactly a one liner, but a series of PowerShell scripts written by someone much cleverer than me that let's you manipulate BIOS Settings on Dell, HP and Lenovo laptops with WMI commands, rather than third party executables like CCTK or HPBCU. And because it's PowerShell, you can set it remotely.

 

This makes life a lot easier, I can use Compliance Objects in MECM to detect whether these settings are set now.

 

https://github.com/ConfigJon/Firmware-Management

[HarryMonkey]

End of life dates for all sorts of things.

 

https://endoflife.date/

[jthompson]

In a PowerShell prompt:

 

Ctrl+R to search your command history. Useful for when you kinda know what you typed earlier but either can't remember or be bothered to type the whole thing again.

 

In this example, Ctrl+R is followed by typing "bde" to surface a previously entered command that includes that string.

 

 

Also:

• "h" will present a numbered history of your commands
  
• "r" will re-run the most recent
  
• "r X" will re-run the Xth command (e.g. "r 13" to re-run command #13 from the history).
  

[mavhc]

In a PowerShell prompt:

 

Ctrl+R to search your command history. Useful for when you kinda know what you typed earlier but either can't remember or be bothered to type the whole thing again.

 

In this example, Ctrl+R is followed by typing "bde" to surface a previously entered command that includes that string.

 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]72664[/ATTACH]

 

Also:

• "h" will present a numbered history of your commands
  
• "r" will re-run the most recent
  
• "r X" will re-run the Xth command (e.g. "r 13" to re-run command #13 from the history).
  

 

Same in Bash. Now powershell just needs to make tab complete work for prefixes without typing *sync as verb-noun is a terrible thing to tab-complete

 

Set-PSReadlineKeyHandler -Key Tab -Function Complete

 

makes it less stupid too

[LeMarchand]

Middle clicking a bookmark folder opens all the bookmarks therein. Items 4 and 5 on this list were also new to me: https://zapier.com/blog/windows-middle-click/

[howartp]

Middle clicking a bookmark folder opens all the bookmarks therein. Items 4 and 5 on this list were also new to me: https://zapier.com/blog/windows-middle-click/

 

Nice!.

[Oaktech]

On the offchance that you are desperate to get something off an application built as a flash projector exe, obviously for legitimate business reasons, definitely not to play flash games or anything like that. You can use the Newgrounds Player https://www.newgrounds.com/flash/player none of the other solutions like Ruffle seem to play nice with exe projector files.

[6Foot2]

1. Enable temporary fast-forward on YouTube videos by clicking and holding over the playing video (not anywhere in the video window) after a short wait, temporary 2x fast forward begins. Release to return to normal speed.
   
2. Incrementally increase play speed with Shift +> (steps up speed in 0.25x steps: [1.25x, 1.5x,...] Reduce play speed with Shift+< [0.75x, 0.5x...]
   
3. Increase or decrease the size of captions/subtitles with Shift +/-

[mavhc]

1. Enable temporary fast-forward on YouTube videos by clicking and holding over the playing video (not anywhere in the video window) after a short wait, temporary 2x fast forward begins. Release to return to normal speed.
   
2. Incrementally increase play speed with Shift +> (steps up speed in 0.25x steps: [1.25x, 1.5x,...] Reduce play speed with Shift+< [0.75x, 0.5x...]
   
3. Increase or decrease the size of captions/subtitles with Shift +/-

 

Great for mandatory training videos

[6Foot2]

YouTube, again: Jump to x% of video playback, where pressing 1 = 10%, 2 = 20%, 3 =30% etc.

[6Foot2]

Add " -ai" to Google searches to not include those ******* AI summaries.

 

Another approach: Try adding an expletive to your search. I've tested it, and it worked for me. I’ll let you figure out which ones might be effective. Could be cathartic?

 

[theeggmaster]

Community-updated list of Microsoft Portals

 

https://msportals.io/?search=

[6Foot2]

[ChromeOS] Glide pad pinch and zoom reset (CTRL+0) wasn't working on my Chromebook after an update. Safety reset fixed it. ✔️