Archive for November, 2010
Get the Complete Android Guide eBook for Only 99 Cents (Today Only)
The Complete Android Guide is a 280-page book chock full of every menu option, hidden settings, and secrets that Google’s Android has to offer, and today they’ve got a promotion where you can get the downloadable eBook for only 99 cents. That’s a great deal! It’s at this point that we should mention that the [...]
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Desktop Fun: Pirates Customization Set
Are you looking for some “treasure” to add adventure to your computer? Then hoist the sails and batten down the hatches because our Pirates Customization Set is coming to plunder your desktop! Wallpapers Note: Click on the picture to see the full-size image—these wallpapers vary in size so you may need to crop, stretch, or [...]
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The How-To Geek Guide to Learning Photoshop, Part 8: Filters
One of everyone’s favorite parts of Photoshop is the filters menu—it’s a big box of weird, fun effects. Read on and learn what filters are,and what they can’t do, and effective ways to use them. This is part 8 of the How-To Geek Guide to Learning Photoshop. If you’ve missed any part, you can start [...]
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Breathe New Life Into Your Aging Windows Mobile 6.x Device
With all the buzz about Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7, there’s one group that may feel left in the cold: those with older Windows Mobile 6.x devices. Here’s some ways you can keep your now-obsolete device a little more viable and useful today. Windows Mobile devices can’t do as much as many newer smartphones, but [...]
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How to Use the BitDefender Rescue CD to Clean Your Infected PC
When you’ve got a PC completely infected with viruses, sometimes it’s best to reboot into a rescue disc and run a full virus scan from there. Here’s how to use the BitDefender Rescue CD to clean an infected PC. We’ve already shown you how to use the Kaspersky rescue disk, and this method works similarly, [...]
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9 Alternatives for Windows Home Server’s Drive Extender
Now that Microsoft has officially killed off the best part about Windows Home Server what can you do? Here are some alternatives for drive extender that you can use if you want to build a WHS of your own. So What Is Drive Extender? The idea of drive extender for Windows Home Server is you [...]
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How to Add Google Documents to the Windows Explorer “New” Menu
We’ve already shown you how to create shortcuts to create new Google Docs easily, but what if you want total Windows integration? Here’s how to add them to the Windows Explorer “New” menu for easier access. This should work for all versions of Windows, and you can modify it to work with Google Apps for [...]
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How to Create a Software RAID Array in Windows 7
Instead of having a bunch of separate drives to deal with, why not put them together into one big drive? You can use software RAID to accomplish this, and here’s how to do it. Windows has built in functionality to set up a software RAID (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks) without any additional tools. This [...]
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Week in Geek: U.S Government Seizes Website Domains Edition
This week we learned how to disable scan and fix for removable drives in Windows, quickly create new Google documents with a shortcut or hotkey, lock the screen orientation on an iPad with iOS 4.2, have fun cleaning up after a snow storm with Friday Fun, and see the tech that the writers at How-To [...]
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Stupid Geek Tricks: How to Make Mac OS X Get Weird
Here’s a really stupid geek trick for you Mac users out there: You can make OS X lose its mind when minimizing a window with some quick timing and a terminal command. This trick was first shown to me a few days ago by our very own Mac guru writer, Alex Layne, but I just [...]
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