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 Once again clearing your browser history, we may accidentally lose important information, such as a unique resource or a long-wanted picture that we never got around to saving. It's not hard to restore your history if you've signed in to your Chrome account. As a rule, Google saves all user actions and to see them, just visit the "My Google Actions" page, where you'll find your recently deleted browser history. If you use another browser, you can use the command line to view the DNS cache, which stores all visited domains on your local computer. To do this, open "CMD" with the Windows search bar and type the command "ipconfig/displaydns". In this case, you will not get the exact URL, but you can always find out the name of the visited site.

 If your mouse stops working at the most inopportune moment, we can switch the cursor control with the keyboard to complete our work. To activate the function, press the key combination ALT + SHIFT + NUM LOCK. In the dialog box that appears, confirm the activation. The mouse cursor is controlled by an additional number block. In addition to moving left, right, down and up (4, 6, 2, 8), diagonal movement (7, 9, 3, 1) is supported. Clicking is done by pressing the 5 key. By clicking on the mouse icon in the tray, we can adjust the speed and acceleration of the cursor, as well as its acceleration when you press CTRL and deceleration on SHIFT.

 Family and friends of Steve Jobs launched an "archive" in his honor - a website with letters, videos and quotes from the entrepreneur The project was presented by Jobs' widow Lauren Powell at Vox Media's Code conference. For now, the archive works primarily as a library of materials - video fragments of his public speeches and interviews, audio recordings of interviews, and letters. Powell hopes that Jobs' thoughts, views and writings will inspire young people to do their own things. And the latter, in turn, will become a contribution to the common future of humanity.

 SpaceX has hired a 14-year-old American teenager as a software engineer for the Starlink satellite internet department! At the age of 10, Mr. Kairan Quazi was accepted as an intern at Intel, at the age of 11, he became a student at Santa Clara University, and at the age of 14, by graduating in the field of computer science, he became the youngest graduate of this university in its 172-year history, and now in SpaceX, which is not easy to get hired, has been hired. In the IQ test he took at the age of 9, he had an IQ higher than 99.9% of the population, and at that time he asked his parents, "Am I a genius?" And they answered that "genius is a process and needs to solve big problems that have a human impact." And now, by being hired at SpaceX, he plans to be a part of a company that solves big problems and challenges. Source: Los Angeles Times

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  I spent many hours searching for ways on how to connect Notepad++ to XAMPP. Like the way it is connected to a Web Server on the internet. But there seems to be no specific steps to what I'm looking for. After gathering the clues ( consider forums as giving clues when the answer is not close ), trials and errors and analyzing, plus experience in IT, finally got it! Here it is: Run XAMMP Control Panel Start FileZilla Click Admin ( FileZilla ) Connect to Server ( click OK ) Click the User Account icon (one face) or go to Edit Menu then Users Click Add ( assign a name ) Shared folders is: C:\xampp\htdocs ( Shared folders Page ) Check the box beside Files - Write option ( another bonus! I got 550 error code with this one ) Click OK Open Notepad++ Go to Plugins menu, NppFtp, check Show NppFtp Window Go to NppFtp Window, click Settings icon, then Profile settings Create a Profile name, Hostname is: 127.0.0.1  Username is the same with what you assigned in FileZilla Initial remote direct