Tag: Windows

It’s often useful, if not essential, when developing a project or website on a local development to be able to use an SSL certificate. You can then test things out with https,  and get the little lock in your browser address bar. However, with the made-up domain  and local IP address of your local development machine, you can’t simply use something like LetsEncrypt. This is where mkcert comes in very useful. This article explains how to add SSL for local addresses on a machine with WSL2.

If you’re fed up with all of those little icons staring back at you from the Windows Taskbar, eyeing your every move, or if maybe you want an extra half-inch of screen real-estate, then it’s really simple to just hide the Windows taskbar, and then have it appear as you need it. You can do this is in about five seconds or less. I’ll show you how.

If you’re one of the masses who craves for a weather-widget-free taskbar in Windows 10, then help is at hand. Here I’m going to show you how you can quickly turn off that annoying weather widget/gadget in the Windows 10 taskbar. I’m not quite sure why this weather thingy (widget? gadget? feature?) bothers me so much, but I really don’t care for it being there, taking up space and smirking at me all day long!

Is your Windows screen upside down, or did it get rotated somehow, and now it’s in portrait mode? If you’ve been playing around with attaching other monitors, or accidentally hit the right/wrong combination of keys on your keyboard, sometimes your screen display can become rotated upside down, or displayed in portrait mode.