I’ve been getting a tad tired of the sales notifications that show up whenever I start Steam on one of my systems. I had disabled this ages ago on my main computer but couldn’t remember where the setting was. Here it is: head over to Steam – Settings – Interface (that’s at the top left … Read more
Sometimes I need access to my YouTube thumbnails, either because I’d like to update them or because I no longer have a local copy. Here are a few ways to achieve this. Thumbnails you’ve uploaded yourself If you have already uploaded a thumbnail to a video, you can download it again in YouTube Studio. Head … Read more
Firefox acknowledges the operating system theme changes by default. This may not always be what you want. There’s a whole host of themes we can use, and this feature is right built in to Firefox. It’s so un-obvious that no ordinary user would ever come across it though, so I thought I’d let you know … Read more
Steam has so many exciting hidden features, like native PS4 Controller / Dualshock 4 integration. I’ve been playing with its Big Picture Mode from the couch, and I’m loving it. Sometimes I’d like to take a screenshot and was wondering if there’s a way to do this with just the controller – and it turns … Read more
Sometimes you google something, and all you get is a huge list of YouTube videos. In many situations, that’s just not what I want. Thankfully there’s an easy way to exclude YouTube videos from your Google Search Results! All we need to do is add ” -youtube” to our search query! That’s without the quotes, … Read more
I’ve been sent a new PayPal US Business Debit Card. I’ve been using it for many years, and this one was a replacement for the previous one that had expired. PayPal conveniently give you the option to activate it via the web browser (on desktop), and in previous years this was a very easy process. … Read more
I had a whole folder that I didn’t want to include in my project. Although I like the desktop client, I did not like the idea of having to select several files and have the app add them all to my .gitignore file. There had to be an easier way, like there is from the … Read more
I really like the how Amazon let you add new channel subscriptions to the existing Prime Video library. Julia and I are having great fun channel hopping through various British catalogues and catch up on UK telly. So far we’ve had Acorn TV, PBS and Britbox. What we don’t particularly like is that certain shows … Read more
