How do I keep emoji colors when printing them from Google Docs/Drive? [SOLVED]

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It is well documented that printing from Google Docs (Google’s online Word equivalent) will result in black and white emojis. This happens despite the face that the emoji appear in full color on your screen before printing. Likewise, adjusting printer settings does not make any difference. Thankfully, here is a workaround so you can print color emojis in Google Docs! Save the Google Drive document as a PDF before printing Print the resulting PDF with full color emojis Voila, you

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Mass Delete Multiple Downloaded Quicken Transactions

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Sometimes  you may need to delete Quicken downloaded transactions. However, on face value, it appears that Quicken makes it very time consuming to delete downloaded transactions. 🙁  Thankfully, there is a way to delete more than one transaction at a time! This cuts down on the number of clicks required and will hopefully save you some time. 🙂 UPDATE: I finally figured out a way to delete ALL downloaded transactions in a Quicken account. I am making this Tip 1

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Increasing the PHP file upload limit for phpMyAdmin on IIS/FastCGI [SOLVED]

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Recently I encountered a somewhat unusual web host. They were running FastCGI/PHP on MS IIS and they needed their PHP file upload limits increased. This is trivial on a normal PHP installation, but it took a bit more sleuthing to determine the proper location(s) for php.ini on this IIS install. For reference, here are the locations: C:\Program Files\PHP\v7.4\php.ini C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\v5.3\php.ini The changes needed were: upload_max_filesize = 200M post_max_size =200M A few tips: Make the changes to the proper php.ini

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youtube Api Could not be loaded ! Please Check and Renew SSL Certificate ! [SOLVED]

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Recently I encountered the following error message on a client’s site: This error is fairly glaring as it covers the video that was meant to be playing. After some research, I was able to narrow the issue to a slider plugin and specifically the following javascript libary: jquery.themepunch.revolution.min.js and another more recent site had the same code in the file: rs6.min.js on both sites, the file was located in: \wp-content\plugins\revslider\public\assets\js\ After reviewing the code, it is evident that the javascript

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LIST: Father’s day gifts that are Made in the USA!

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This is a list of made in the USA products that I have personally used and would recommend for any dad. 🙂 I am starting with kayaks and will be adding more items in the future, I hope you this list is useful to you! Lifetime Kayaks – Made in the USA! Product pages and prices: Full listing of Lifetime kayaks Why I recommend Lifetime kayaks: My family is a big fan of American made products and we try to

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Comparisons of various laptops and PCs

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Random PCs and laptops I have used in the past for work: HP Pavilion TP01-0066 Desktop PC Specs screenshot: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 3.6GHz (up to 4.4GHz with Boost) 8-Core, 16-Thread L2 4MB cache L3 32MB cache RAM: 32GB DDR4 RAM (upgraded from 8GB DDR4 RAM) SSD: 256GB PCIe SSD Video card: AMD Radeon RX 550/2GB (Renewed) ASUS Laptop Asus – FX705DT 17.3″ Gaming Laptop – AMD Ryzen 7 – 8GB Memory – Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 – 512GB

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When do I get my stimulus / economic impact check? [ANSWERED]

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Question: I just updated my banking info with the IRS website, how can I find out when I will get my stimulus (economic impact) deposit? -Christopher Answer as of May 1st, 2020:As best I can determine, if you enter your bank account information any day until noon on a Tuesday, your payment date will become available the Saturday after that Tuesday. In other words, if you enter the info before Tuesday then the following Saturday you can log back in

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