Archive for August, 2010
Other Ways to Use Your PC When Your Internet Dies
Nothing is more annoying than getting your Internet connection shut down, due to weather, or perhaps forgetting to pay your bill. Let’s take a look at some ways you can be productive and entertained without the Internet. While a lot of people rely on the Internet daily for their work, like we do here at [...]
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Three Potentially Risky Ways to Save a Lot on Textbooks
Photo by Sultry You can always save money on textbooks by buying online, going ebook, or renting what you need. But there are riskier ways to save a buck that just may yield even greater payoff, such as getting the international or earlier edition of the text, or avoiding the purchase altogether. You already know [...]
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Change the Actions for File Types in Opera
Opera is a solid, well built browser that is easy to customize once you become familiar with it. If you want to tweak how Opera handles actions such as viewing images or pdf files without saving them to your computer then here is how to do it. Before For our first example we chose to [...]
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Enable Context Menu Search for Any Search Engine in Google Chrome
Firefox users have long had access to many useful context menu search extensions that allow you to select text on the page, and then search using any number of search engines via the context menu—and now you can do the same in Google Chrome. Once you’ve installed the Context Menu Search extension, you can start [...]
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Ask the Readers: What Desktop Music Player Do You Use?
We all love to listen to music on our computers whether at work or at home. This week we want to know which desktop music player you use for listening to music. There are a multitude of desktop music players available to choose from. Some come pre-installed on our computers and others we specifically download [...]
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Add Opening and Closing Animation to Firefox Tabs
Are you wanting to add a bit of eye candy to Firefox while browsing? Now you can enjoy animation and fading effects while opening and closing tabs using the Liquid Tabs extension. Note: The extension creator has noted that animation may appear jerky or fail to work on some extension-heavy Firefox profiles. Blank Tabs and [...]
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Build Your Own Personal Wiki Accessible from Any PC
A personal wiki is an amazing place to store all of your notes, to-do lists, projects, and links. Traditional wikis are no easy task to set up and typically cost money for web hosting and software licensing. With TiddlyWiki and Dropbox you can set up your own wiki that is easy to use and available [...]
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Stupid Geek Tricks: Use Both Laptop Mouse Buttons to Simulate Middle-Click
Most people know that you can use the middle mouse button to click on links in any browser to open the page in a new tab, but sadly not all laptops come with a middle mouse button—but you can simulate it on most laptops by using both buttons at the same time. Note: You can [...]
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Create Keyboard-Friendly Contacts for Easier Mobile Emailing
Typing email addresses into your mobile phone’s tiny little keyboard isn’t always the easiest task, but with a simple trick, you can make your most frequently used contacts a lot easier to deal with. Note: When you rename a contact, that name goes out in the email. You probably shouldn’t use this trick for emails [...]
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Conduct Easy to Manage Online Testing with ZohoChallenge
Are you looking for an easier way to conduct online testing at your workplace or school? Then you may want to have a look at ZohoChallenge’s online test services. Getting Started You can get started by signing in with an existing Zoho account, creating a new account, or using your Google, Google Apps, Yahoo, or [...]
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