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s computer so that only the desktop is showing. Take a screen capture of the desktop and save it as the desktop wallpaper. Then delete all the icons on the desktop (or move them to a special folder so the victim can recover the icons after you’ve enjoyed your prank). The user will...
More screen shots are needed for the Digibarn cyber collection, let us know if you have some we are missing! Graphs and Trees Bushy Tree of Evolution of Visual Computing Systems (thanks John Redant) Gordon Bell's Nomograph of computer users and the systems they first encountered Mother To...
The way a computer virus acts depends on how it’s coded. It could be something as simple as a prank that doesn’t cause any damage, or it could be sophisticated, leading to criminal activity and fraud. Many viruses only affect a local device, but others spread across a network environme...
Scroll, scroll-bar To scroll something is to move it up or down the screen, so you can see what is above or below the current position, for example at a website. A scroll-bar is a bar on the right-hand side (usually) of a window which allows you to move the text etc up and ...
Visit the Official Potatoware Website for more. Electric Love Potato is a really interesting concept to me for how it really took off and became a little viral thing for a while. It’s a potato that will sit in the corner of your screen and cheer you on. It’s...
I find myself spending more and more time glued to my screen, whether it's scrolling through social media or watching videos on YouTube. It makes me wonder if we're losing touch with the real world in favor of the virtual one.\n\nParagraph 3:\nThen there's the issue of privacy ...
record-breaking, and may not even be necessary to capture brain signals needed for the applications Neuralink is looking at. Recordingjust 30 neuronsin the motor cortex of a volunteer’s brain as they imagine moving their arm is enough to allow them to control a computer cursor on a...
Your web browser home page changes, and you did not change it. Outbound emails to your contact list or people on your contact list alert you to strange messages sent by your account. The computer crashes often, runs out of memory with few active programs or displays the blue screen of dea...
The websiteFakeUpdateis perfect for this. Click the update screen design you want to use and pressF11to set it full screen. For added effect, their cursor won't appear either. When the prank is over, pressEscto exit. 3. Change Their Desktop Wallpaper ...