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Power Users is a Q&A site for questions about the usage of computer software and hardware. We are still a small site and would like to grow, so please consider joining our community. We are looking forward to your questions and answers; they are the building blocks of a repository of knowledge we are building together.

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Q&A What is the formal terminology to describe the hierarchy from a screen to a window?

There exists to my knowledge no formal terminology. I have no idea where you got those terms from or why you think they are correct. Also, the answer likely depends on whom you ask: an electronics ...

posted 2y ago by Lundin‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Audio book player for macOS 11.5

I'm looking for an application to play my mp3 audio books on macOS 11.5. On an older system, I was using ecoute, but this does not seem to work under macOS 11.5. Required features: resume the...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A How do I temporarily disconnect a Mac from the network without touching cables?

A workaround to a problem I'm having with an application on my Mac (desktop machine) is to disconnect from the network before launching the program. I headed over to the network settings to look f...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A How do I temporarily disconnect a Mac from the network without touching cables?

If your goal is to only disconnect certain apps, you can use tools like https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html (free and open source) TCPBlock (free, for older MacOS) to block ...

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Moved to a new OS version, didn't change project source, and now Datenstrom Yellow project won't build -- how do I debug this?

I have learned (from their forum) that, contrary to my impression, Yellow doesn't support search or the contact form when generating a static site. It does support them if you have Yellow serve yo...

posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Isn't Slug redundant, when Bleed oversteps the page and Bleed < Slug?

First: "actual stock" means the physical paper/wrap/billboard that your work is printed on. If this is an online-only work, there never will be actual stock. Different printing techniques have diff...

posted 2y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A With Datenstrom Yellow SSG, how do I generate lists of tags and recent posts for my blog?

The answer turns out to be to add a sidebar, which is a separate element. First, you have to use the Berlin theme, not the default. This theme adds a line to system/layouts/default.html: <div...

posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A Installing WhatsApp on a desktop computer without having WhatsApp installed on a smartphone

I use Windows 10 Home. I need to install a WhatsApp client on my desktop computer but WhatsApp requires me to have a WhatsApp client installed on my smartphone to do so; Installing WhatsApp on my ...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  edited 2y ago by deleted user

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Q&A What's the pattern for how on/off sliders work?

Relying on my own experience, usually websites do some combination of the below: The current state tells you how it is That is, if it is green, it is on, and if it is red, it is off Filled i...

posted 2y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Microsoft Photos app takes a lot of time to load in Windows 10

One of the default apps on Windows 10 for viewing photos is Microsoft Photos. The app is really nice and have very useful features but one of the worst problems with the app is that it takes a lot...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Kevin M. Mansour‭

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Q&A Remapping backspace with Karabiner Elements

I'm using Karabiner-Elements to remap some keys. I would like remap backspace to forward delete option + backspace to backward delete To do this I tried to write the following rule ...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A How can I, most effortlessly, whiten or white out yellow or brown Tint?

Is Tint the correct term? I'm referring any document, paper, or picture that appears too yellowish or brownish. I'm not merely referring Foxing. I prefer black text on white background. What's th...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Why does Google Search Console shows data two days prior?

Generally, Google Search Console (GSC) shows me data about my website from two days before. I can understand a scenario were data about just one day before is given: The day in which we check the...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user  ·  last activity 2y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Discrepancy between Google search console and Google site: command

In Google search console I have: 883 webpages Discovered - currently not indexed 4 webpages Crawled - currently not indexed But, from a site:example.com command (regarding the same website),...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by deleted user

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Q&A How to add vertical line in the middle of two marks on image

Have This .png image of a plot: Want To add vertcal lines between the groupings: (0, 1, 2) LINE (3, 4, 5) LINE (6, 7, 8) I want to place the lines exactly in the middle of the grouping boun...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A How to add vertical line in the middle of two marks on image

If you have access to the source of the image, fix the code instead of messing with the image. This will be much more accurate and result in a higher quality result. You could add the lines via ...

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A What in the HTML is preventing CutyCapt from capturing Altair output

Question I am using Altair to generate plots using python and pandas. What is preventing CutyCapt from capturing the plot in the html output? CutyCapt writes a blank png. MWE I am outputting ...

0 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by mcp‭  ·  edited 2y ago by mcp‭

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Q&A Move folder one level up on Thunderbird

I accidentally moved folder De under folder Laun in Thunderbird's folder side bar: How can I move De back to the same level as Laun and Archive? If I drag it and release it just between the oth...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Free Windows 10 software for trimming videos (e.g. .mp4) from 2-10 GB?

FFmpeg: ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vcodec libx265 -crf 28 output.mp4 attrib: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/28803/how-can-i-reduce-a-videos-size-with-ffmpeg

posted 1y ago by mcalex‭

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Q&A Windows 11 ─ how to change default UAC shield icon

I want to manage the customization of the small icon in the right of any shortcut started with admin privilegies I already know how to change the arrow in shortcut: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by TOVOT‭

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Q&A Setting a cookie with a userscript

@Canina had the brilliant idea to make my userscript reload the page in case the cookie did not exist previously. Using this idea, my userscript now works like this: Greasemonkey version // ==Us...

posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A How to redraw screen putting specific line at top without moving cursor

MWE 5 4 3 2 1 0 Go to the end of the file: G. Question Using spacemacs, how do I put the line with 3 at the top of the screen without moving the cursor? With moving the cursor that wou...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by mcp‭

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Q&A How to redraw screen putting specific line at top without moving cursor

The best I've come up with since, when the line in question is often returned to, is to go mark the line you want up top with mz and the line you are working on with mw. Returning your workspace t...

posted 1y ago by mcp‭

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Q&A Adding option to pandoc call from RStudio

If ones uses RStudio to convert a rmarkdown file to pdf, RStudio will call pandoc with arguments like this: /opt/homebrew/bin/pandoc +RTS -K512m -RTS Untitled.knit.md --to beamer --from markdown+a...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Adding option to pandoc call from RStudio

I assumed that RStudio would get the path from somewhere, rather than it being hardcoded, and based on the response in a comment thread, that somewhere is RSTUDIO_PANDOC in .Rprofile. So you shoul...

posted 1y ago by Canina‭

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