Make more room on your browser's crowded Bookmarks Bar – Enhance your PC's security by disabling ‘File and Printer Sharing’
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Rick's Daily Tips Tech Update for Sunday, October 10, 2021.
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Today's Quick Tip....
How to make more room on your browser's crowded Bookmarks Bar
Is the Bookmarks Bar in your favorite web browser so full that all of your bookmarks won't fit onto it?
If so, there's a very simple way to make more room for your visible bookmarks, potentially eliminating the overflow items completely.
Chances are at least some of your bookmarks have distinct, easily identifiable icons.
For example, the icons for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and lots of other sites have bookmark icons that are so recognizable that you probably don't need the text in order to identify them.
If you have a ton of bookmarks you can remove the text from some of them and free up a lot of real estate on your Bookmarks Bar.
Here's how to do it:
1 - Right-click on a bookmark with an easily identifiable icon and click Edit.
2 - Delete the text in the Name field and click Save.
3 - Repeat steps 1 and 2 for each of the other bookmarks that can easily be identified just by their icons.
That's all there is to it. If you were able to "shorten" enough of your bookmarks you just might find that they all now fit on the visible part of the Bookmarks Bar.
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The latest from Rick’s Daily Tips...
• How to turn off ‘File and Printer Sharing’ in Windows (and why you might want to)
Having 'File and Printer Sharing' enabled on your Windows PC can potentially be a security risk. This post explains how to turn it off.
• Save time by using these handy keyboard shortcuts
A few well-selected keyboard shortcuts can really save time when you're using your computer. I share several of my favorites in this post.
• How to change the order of your blog posts in WordPress
Did you know you can easily change the order of the posts you have published on your WordPress blog? This post explains how.
• Click here to see today's 'Picture of the Day'.
Every morning I post a new photo that I find inspiring, intriguing, or just plain beautiful to look at. Jumpstart your day by checking it out.
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Today's post from 'My Daily Smile'...
Did you know cows ‘Moo’ with a regional accent?
Cows all sound the same when they 'moo', right? Well, not so fast...
According to language experts that isn't the case at all because their research has found that cows 'moo' with a regional accent.
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Tech news that caught my eye...
• Holiday shopping has started early amid fears over shipping delays
• Read this if you want to use the Apple Watch Series 7’s new fast charging
• Facebook’s outage has people rethinking how they make money online
• Shareholders pressure Microsoft into expanding its right-to-repair efforts
• New York and Texas are winning the war to attract bitcoin miners
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