Shawn Keene
@cmdrkeene.com
IT Systems Engineer, Power Platform dev, Power User. 14x Microsoft MVP. Blog and more at cmdrkeene.com
All this work in Notepad.exe and they still have nonsense like this. The Ctrl-F find box covers your first row of text and you can't move it.
Just a giant middle finger to usability.
Just a giant middle finger to usability.
August 19, 2025 at 8:59 PM
All this work in Notepad.exe and they still have nonsense like this. The Ctrl-F find box covers your first row of text and you can't move it.
Just a giant middle finger to usability.
Just a giant middle finger to usability.
Wow did Texas PD really just blow phones hundreds of miles away AGAIN because someone shot at cop 300 miles away? This is not what "EXTREME EMERGENCY ALERTS" are for. I'm sorry for the LEO involved but it would take me 4 hours to drive to where the emergency is. This makes people turn off alerts.
July 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Wow did Texas PD really just blow phones hundreds of miles away AGAIN because someone shot at cop 300 miles away? This is not what "EXTREME EMERGENCY ALERTS" are for. I'm sorry for the LEO involved but it would take me 4 hours to drive to where the emergency is. This makes people turn off alerts.
Dell built an update wrapper that offers to reboot afterwards. But that same program doesn't respond to the system shutdown message and causes a hang if you press that very button it provides.
June 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Dell built an update wrapper that offers to reboot afterwards. But that same program doesn't respond to the system shutdown message and causes a hang if you press that very button it provides.
Ooo I new coat of lipstick. Many Office, er... um, Copilot 365 apps now show branded dialog boxes. Excel keeps the legacy title bar though, I wonder if that's for backcompat.
May 20, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Ooo I new coat of lipstick. Many Office, er... um, Copilot 365 apps now show branded dialog boxes. Excel keeps the legacy title bar though, I wonder if that's for backcompat.
How does the Pixel 9 Screenshots app take up 4 GB of space for user data before it even has a single screenshot to process?
I guess that's the data model it uses to look at pictures, but I really don't need this. I'm clearly not the kind of person who hoards screenshots.
I guess that's the data model it uses to look at pictures, but I really don't need this. I'm clearly not the kind of person who hoards screenshots.
April 16, 2025 at 1:10 AM
How does the Pixel 9 Screenshots app take up 4 GB of space for user data before it even has a single screenshot to process?
I guess that's the data model it uses to look at pictures, but I really don't need this. I'm clearly not the kind of person who hoards screenshots.
I guess that's the data model it uses to look at pictures, but I really don't need this. I'm clearly not the kind of person who hoards screenshots.
Today's xkcd is the best thing I have seen in a very long time. It is currently entertaining me to no end.
I wish the site was mobile friendly but seriously, xkcd.com/3074
I wish the site was mobile friendly but seriously, xkcd.com/3074
April 9, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Today's xkcd is the best thing I have seen in a very long time. It is currently entertaining me to no end.
I wish the site was mobile friendly but seriously, xkcd.com/3074
I wish the site was mobile friendly but seriously, xkcd.com/3074
So, I run some small e-stores, and they by default give customers a "notes field" at checkout. I can't overstate how useless that field is. It's never really seen and shoppers seem to think it ends up on the envelope with their address or something. I finally just hid the field entirely.
March 7, 2025 at 1:45 AM
So, I run some small e-stores, and they by default give customers a "notes field" at checkout. I can't overstate how useless that field is. It's never really seen and shoppers seem to think it ends up on the envelope with their address or something. I finally just hid the field entirely.
Service Oklahoma really keeps up with technology. 🙄
February 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Service Oklahoma really keeps up with technology. 🙄
Waiting 20+ minutes to fetch a few thousand records from a list. I have the fix to make it instant, I even blogged about it at cmdrkeene.com/a-faster-way... but I hadn't deployed it here yet... And now I'm paying for it while I watch this circle spin.
February 7, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Waiting 20+ minutes to fetch a few thousand records from a list. I have the fix to make it instant, I even blogged about it at cmdrkeene.com/a-faster-way... but I hadn't deployed it here yet... And now I'm paying for it while I watch this circle spin.
Dark theme everywhere on Chrome Mobile easily. I have no idea why they hide this setting under the flags.
1️⃣ Go to and enable 👉
chrome://flags/#darken-websites-checkbox-in-themes-setting
2️⃣ Relaunch to see new Dark Theme toggle on the menu (see pics)
1️⃣ Go to and enable 👉
chrome://flags/#darken-websites-checkbox-in-themes-setting
2️⃣ Relaunch to see new Dark Theme toggle on the menu (see pics)
January 31, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Dark theme everywhere on Chrome Mobile easily. I have no idea why they hide this setting under the flags.
1️⃣ Go to and enable 👉
chrome://flags/#darken-websites-checkbox-in-themes-setting
2️⃣ Relaunch to see new Dark Theme toggle on the menu (see pics)
1️⃣ Go to and enable 👉
chrome://flags/#darken-websites-checkbox-in-themes-setting
2️⃣ Relaunch to see new Dark Theme toggle on the menu (see pics)
Did you know if you surround your filename in quotes, it will force it to save with the extension you type, without needing to change the type box underneath.
November 19, 2024 at 7:07 PM
Did you know if you surround your filename in quotes, it will force it to save with the extension you type, without needing to change the type box underneath.