Tip of the Day

Microsoft PowerToys

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A 1950s retro pin-up watercolor of a black-haired woman with vintage curls, red lipstick, and pearl earrings, wearing a black off-the-shoulder top and a red pencil skirt, seated at a wooden desk and looking back over her shoulder with her hand on a computer mouse, beside a beige CRT monitor displaying red, yellow, green, and blue color blocks, a vintage desk lamp, and a metal cup of pens and pencils.

John Okay, I got a dynamite tip from one of the producers.

Adam Ooh, producer tip.

John And I’d like to get the producers in.

Adam Yes.

John Okay. Power Toys from Microsoft.

Have you ever even heard of this?

Adam Uh, Power Toys. What’s the website?

John Well, the website, I’m going to tell you how people should find it the following way. You go to Google. You type in Power Toys. Power Toys from Microsoft. Otherwise, you have to type in a URL that’s ridiculous. I’m going to tell you what it is. Learn.Microsoft.com slash en-us slash windows slash powertoys.

Adam I think I have seen this. This is funny.

John So it’s a bunch of utilities. Free. They’re free. Free. Free.

Adam Mouse without borders. Woo.

John Including advanced cut and paste, color pickers, crop and lock.

Adam You know what this reminds me of? This reminds me of the Mac days when you could install extensions. And then your Mac would take an hour to start up because all those extensions were loading.

John Grab and move. Host file editor, that’s a pretty good idea to have. Image resizer, keyboard managing, this easy way to remap a keyboard, this is the easiest way to do it, is use this utility. It comes in handy.

*Adam** Light switch — check this out, people, automatically switch between light and dark themes based on time of day.

John Power Toys Run. There’s a ton of stuff here.

Adam If you’re still using Windows, you deserve this. That’s a pretty funny tip of the day. Especially for those of us who use Linux. I mean, I’m sorry.

John Yeah, well, you should use Windows in some way, shape, or form.

Adam I don’t. I have no more Windows in my life.

John Really?

Adam None whatsoever.

John Well, good for you. Good for you.

Adam I overwrote every single drive that had Windows, and I put Omarchy on it. I’m sorry, GNU Linux. GNU Linux. GNU.

Power Toys. There you go. It’s not the same as a great wine, but it could help you in a pinch.

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