Web and Computer Help

Create Add to Calendar links for emails and websites and let users quickly save your events on their own Google Calendar, Outlook or Yahoo Calendar. You are organizing an online event - maybe a meeting on Zoom or a training session hosted on Google Meet - and you would like the attendees to add the event to their own calendars. Once added to their calendar, the event will act as an automatic reminder and attendees will get a notification when the conference is about to start. There are two way to go about this: You can create a new meeting in your online calendar (Google, Outlook or any other calendar) and add the individual attendees as guests so the event automatically gets added to their calendar as well. You can include an “Add to Calendar” link or button in your email messages,  forms  and website pages. Anyone can click the link to quickly save your event on to their calendars - see  live demo . Create Add to Calendar Links for Emails and Websites The  Add to C...

Learn about useful networking commands that are pre-installed on your computer and will help you know everything about a website. What is my IP address? Who is the host of this website? Which mail service is this domain using? There exist  web tools  that can uncover these details but this sort of research can also be done using the command line on your computer. Let’s explore a few essential networking commands that will help you know everything about a website from the terminal itself. What is my IP address curl https://checkip.amazonaws.com Make a curl or  wget  request to the  checkip.amazonaws.com  and it prints the public IP address of your computer. You can also connect to Akamai’s  whatismyip.akamai.com  domain get your external IP address. What is my Private IP address ifconfig en0 | grep inet Your computer has a private IP address that only work within the local network. For older Macs with a wired Ethernet port, use en0 for Ethernet...

This step-by-step guide explains how you can record streaming audio from music stations on the Internet using free software. Would you like to record streaming music from Internet radio stations like Pandora or iTunes? Are you looking for a simple way to save the audio from a live webinar that’s playing on your computer? Or maybe you are trying to capture the background sounds of your favorite  video game . Recording “What You Hear” - Step by Step Here’s an extremely easy and inexpensive method that will let you record any sound coming from your computer speakers. There’s no complex configuration required and all you need is Audacity, a popular audio editing software (freeware) and some common  computer cables . The steps are similar for both Windows and Mac computers. Step 1. Get the Software Cables You’ll need a pair of headphones that you already have, a  stereo audio cable  (3.5mm male to male) and a  jack splitter  (3.5mm male to two 3.5mm female split...

Introducing  Email Spreadsheets , a Google Sheets add-on that lets you automate the reporting of spreadsheet data and dashboards by email. If you are an office worker who has been emailing spreadsheets to colleagues manually, this add-on will save you a ton of time. And because it runs on the Google Cloud, your spreadsheet reports will be delivered even while you are offline or on vacation. With Email Spreadsheets, you can schedule reports and it will automatically send them by email on a recurring schedule. You can email entire workbooks, specific sheets inside a workbook or even range of cells. Watch the  video   tutorial  to get started. Email Google Sheets Automatically Go to the Google add-on store and install  Email Google Sheets . Next, open any Google Spreadsheet in your Google Drive, go to the Add-ons menu inside the sheet, choose Email Spreadsheets from the dropdown and then choose Rules to create your first scheduled email report. You are presented wi...