Archive for January, 2011
Ask the Readers: Do You Use a Desktop or Online Solution to Manage Your RSS Feeds?
RSS feeds are a wonderful and simple way to keep up with all of your favorite websites on a daily basis. This week we would like to know if you use a desktop client or an online service to manage your RSS feeds Latest Features How-To Geek ETC How to Use and Master the Notoriously [...]
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How To Create Your Own Custom ASCII Art from Any Image
Creating pictures from monospaced ASCII characters may be useless, but it sure is fun! If you’ve got some time to spare and can download some free software, you can automatically create ASCII art and other wordy graphics in no time. You’ve probably seen them in text based FAQs or monospaced email signatures—maybe you’ve wondered how [...]
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Dealing With Computers Should Require Anger Management [Comic]
Sometimes computers just get the best of us. Of course, if computers were easy, nobody would read How-To Geek, so we can’t complain too much! Latest Features How-To Geek ETC How to Use and Master the Notoriously Difficult Pen Tool in Photoshop HTG Explains: What Are the Differences Between All Those Audio Formats? How To [...]
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Jonathan Riddell: 4.6 Release Supper
Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o’ the desktop-race! Aboon them a’ ye tak your place, Coder, tester, or usability expert: 4.6 Release Supper in Edinburgh tonight had haggis, neeps, tatties and finest Burns poetry. Jonathan, Rabbie, Kenny, Thomas, Colin
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Jorge Castro: User Days: Unity Q+A and other sessions
Got nothing better to do this weekend? Well, you could check out Ubuntu User Days. A full day of user-related tutorials this Friday and some sessions on Saturday night too weekend, depending on where you live. At 0300UTC (10pm EST) on Saturday Jason Smith and I will be fielding Unity questions for an hour, followed by [...]
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How To Backup and Copy Data Between iOS Devices
Although iTunes usually does a good enough job backing up your data, the backups are encrypted and inaccessible save for totally restoring your system. What if you want to copy your saved games to a new device? Read on to find out how. When it comes to backing up your entire iOS device, iTunes does [...]
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Boost Your Email Writing Productivity with Microsoft Word Mail Merge
Microsoft Word’s mail merge is an excellent productivity tool. Knowing how to create personalized subject lines and attachments that Word’s mail merge basic feature doesn’t support can be a life saver when you have to write emails in bulk. In today’s article, you’ll learn how to use Word’s 2010 Mail Merge Wizard, write personalized email [...]
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Desktop Fun: Valentine’s Day Fonts
Do you need fonts especially suited for homemade Valentine’s Day cards, invitations, banners, party fliers, and other stationery? Whether it is a card for your special someone or valentines for the kids, our Valentine’s Day Fonts collection is here to help Latest Features How-To Geek ETC How to Use and Master the Notoriously Difficult Pen [...]
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How to Print from Gmail on Your Android or iPhone Using Cloud Print
Google recently launched the ability to print to your local printers from anywhere in the world using Google Cloud Print, but it didn’t work anywhere until today. Here’s how to set it up, get it running, and print from your mobile phone. At the moment, the only desktop way to use Cloud Print is from [...]
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How to Use Linux Commands in Windows with Cygwin
Windows command-line tools have advanced a lot with PowerShell, but Linux has had a much more usable terminal for many years. Here’s how you can get the best of both worlds with Cygwin, a ‘nix-style terminal for Windows PCs. In today’s lesson, we’ll explain how to get Cygwin running, but stay tuned for future articles [...]
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