Archive for November, 2010
How to Lock the Screen Orientation on Your iPad (with iOS 4.2)
If you upgraded to the latest iOS release on your iPad, only to figure out that the screen orientation lock doesn’t work anymore, here’s how to lock the screen using the new, annoying method. We’re definitely irritated with Apple for making this change—the hardware screen lock was one of the best features of the iPad, [...]
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The How-To Geek Guide to Learning Photoshop, Part 7: Design and Typography
Programs like Photoshop have allowed new generations of would-be designers jump in and create with greater ease than ever before. See just how easy it is by learning the Type Character Panel, and applying it to some basic design work. Having covered the text tool briefly in Part 1, The Toolbox, and creation of text [...]
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How to Check Your Facebook Messages Spam / Junk Email Folder
Normally when you don’t get an inbound email message that you were expecting, you’re supposed to check your Spam or Junk Email folder—in the new Facebook “Email” (Messages) system, it’s not quite as obvious how to check that folder. So here’s how. Note: If you don’t have the new Facebook Messages, you can head over [...]
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Desktop Fun: Popular Movie and TV Show Icon Packs
It is a lot of fun to find those perfect sets of icons from our favorite movies or TV shows to customize our desktops with. This week we have a nice mixture of icon packs for you to look through with our first Popular Movie and TV Show Icon Packs collection. Note: To customize the [...]
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How to Pause an iPad / iPhone App Install (to Let Another One Finish First)
At some point between my two hour Angry Birds marathon today, I happened to be installing some updates when I noticed something interesting—you can pause an application update or install. Here’s how it works. Note: Since this is something I’ve never noticed before, it might have worked this way all along and I’m the last [...]
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How to Quickly Create New Google Documents with a Shortcut or Hotkey
If you’ve switched over from Microsoft Office to Google Docs, you’ve probably noticed there’s just one problem: creating a new document takes far too many steps. Here’s how to create new documents with single click—or even a shortcut key. Note: you can use these shortcuts to create Documents, Spreadsheets, and Presentations, but we’ve not yet [...]
22Nov2010 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
How to Install Evernote 4.0 in Ubuntu Using Wine
Evernote is a great application for taking notes and having them available virtually anywhere—except for Linux, sadly. Here’s how to get the Windows client working in Ubuntu using Wine. There are a couple of things that we need to have before we can install Evernote in an Ubuntu box: the latest Evernote installer for Windows [...]
22Nov2010 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
How to Choose What to Back Up on Your Linux Home Server
If you have a home server powered by Linux, you’ll probably be upgrading your OS every so often. Here are some important files to back up and some alternative utilities that will help you get up and running quickly. Of course, every home server is going to be a little different, and you should adjust [...]
22Nov2010 | Admin | 0 comments | Continued
How to Display a Quote On Your Desktop Using Rainmeter
I’ve never really been a desktop gadgets and widgets type of person, but I often put an inspirational quote on my desktop wallpaper. Today we’ll show you how to do this using Rainmeter, no matter what wallpaper you switch to. The great thing about using Rainmeter is that you can switch your wallpaper, or rotate [...]
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How To Harmonize Your Dual-Boot Setup for Windows and Ubuntu
Looking for some harmony between Windows 7 and Ubuntu in your dual-boot setup? Here are a few ways you can make the tense OS situation a little more unified and copacetic. Background When we covered How to Choose a Partition Scheme for Your Linux PC, we noticed that some people were wondering how to use [...]
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