Archive for June, 2010
Quickly Rename Ripped or Downloaded TV Series Files
Media center applications, like XMBC and Boxee, often require certain naming conventions to properly pull cover art and metadata for TV episodes. Here’s how you can organize your TV shows by quickly with TVRenamer. Example: If your file has a name like Entourage_S1_E1[DVDRip]-NTSC.xvid.avi, your media center may play it, but likely won’t recognize what it [...]
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Install Linux Mint on Your Windows Computer or Netbook
Would you like to try out the popular Linux Mint OS on your Windows computer or netbook? Here’s how you can do it even without a CD/DVD drive with the Mint4Win installer. Linux Mint Linux Mint is an increasingly popular distribution of Linux, and many users have found it more user friendly and convenient than [...]
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Getting Started with TrueCrypt on Mac OS X
We have covered TrueCrypt for on the fly encryption on other Operating Systems in the past. Now it is time to look at installing and using TrueCrypt on Apple Macintosh OS X (specifically 10.6.4). In previous articles we have looked at getting started with TrueCrypt in Windows and we have also looked at a work [...]
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Add Fun Graphics to Remember The Milk Logo in Firefox or Chrome
Remember The Milk is an extremely useful tool for people who use task lists. If you use Firefox or Chrome you can add some fun graphics to your account with The Remember The Milk Cow user script. Note: Requires the Greasemonkey extension (link provided below). The author also states that this script should work with [...]
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Ask the Readers: Which Email Services Do You Use?
Email is a part of our everyday online lives whether we are at work or at home. This week we would like to know which email services you use at work or at home. We have come to depend on e-mail as an important part of our lives because it lets us stay in contact [...]
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Increase the Speed of the Aero Taskbar Thumbnails in Windows 7
By default you may notice that there is a slight delay when hovering your mouse over a Taskbar Thumbnail. Here is a neat registry hack that will allow you to speed it up. Registry Hack First type regedit into the search box in the Start Menu and hit Enter. Now navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\Advanced and right-click [...]
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Rip Audio CDs in Linux with Sound Juicer
There are a plethora of programs that can rip audio CDs on Linux, but very few are as simple as Sound Juicer. Sound Juicer is a GUI front-end for the command line only tool cdparanoia, but it adds quite features that make it worth a look. Install Sound Juicer Sound Juicer is not installed by [...]
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Use Your Mouse as a Laser Pointer in PowerPoint 2010
Have you ever wished you had a laser pointer to focus attention on a key point in a PowerPoint slideshow? Today, we’ll take a look at how can use use your mouse as a laser pointer in PowerPoint 2010. Getting Started Begin your slideshow by pressing the F5 key, or by selecting From Beginning or [...]
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Add Spell Checking to Internet Explorer
Would you like to add spell checking to Internet Explorer and/or IE-based alternative browsers? With ieSpell you can get access to this missing feature in your browser. About ieSpell While ieSpell may seem like a small simple program, but there is more to it than meets the eye. Such as IE-based alternative browser support and [...]
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Using Wild Card Entries In Access 2010
Carrying out complex operations & applying conditions on tables in Access are not that much easy as in Excel. Some users are still confusing it with Excel which is synonymous to belittling Access capabilities. Editor Note: This Guest Article was written by Office 2010 Club, a forum managed by Office 2010 experts where anyone can [...]
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