Blank Urls in Internet Explorer 7 Favorites
A colleague was asking me if I knew of a problem that he experienced after he setup his new computer.
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Weekend Fun A Tale of Two Kingdoms
A Tale of Two Kingdoms is a graphic adventure for Windows PCs and Linux that reminds me a lot of old classic Sierra adventures such as Kings Quest or Leisure Su
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Delete misspelled text in Firefox
Firefox remembers what you write which can lead to some troubles if you misspelled a domain name, login name or other information in the past.
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Check Sign up Availability of Private Torrent Sites
Many private torrent websites have a user limit in place which makes it impossible for new users to sign up unless an old user gets kicked out of the system, de
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How to remove browser toolbars
Toolbars are a plague; Every other software, especially free software asks the user if he wants to install a toolbar on his system.
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Use your Printer and Scanner as a Copier
A copier machine is basically a scanner and printer in one device.
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Holiday Tip: Store your DVDs on your Notebook
I always take my notebook with me when I go on holidays with my family or friends to make sure that I can update and administrate my websites during that time.
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Goodbye iPhone - here comes Nalu !
Nalu is practically three devices in one with a very intuitive interface.
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Control Power State of a local or remote PC
Power Off is a freeware for Microsoft Windows that makes it easy to control the power state - that is on, off, standby and so on - on a local or remote computer.
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Search Google Anonymously
Privacy should be a major concern for everyone on the Internet these days.
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Declutter your desk
P5chin who is a regular reader of my blog send me a tip which I immediately had to write about.
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Synchronize Outlook with FolderShare
If you have to use Microsoft Outlook on more than one computer you might want to keep the data synchronized to be able to work with the latest emails.
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Download 'Watch Now' Movies from Netflix
Netflix, a online movie rentals company, is offering a so called 'Watch Now' service since the beginning of 2007 which allows subscribed users to watch streamin
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How to remove the Linux bootloader
A friend of mine installed Linux next to Windows XP a few weeks ago and did not like it that much and decided to get rid of it.
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Gran Paradiso rocks the web
Firefox 3 codename Gran Paradiso will most likely leave alpha phase in September.
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35+ Extensions for Thunderbird Users
Thunderbird, the email client from the Mozilla team, was in the news just a few days ago with the announcement that a separate Thunderbird will receive an indep
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Reveal Serial Numbers and Windows keys
Would you be able to write down the serial number of your Windows operating system if I would ask you to do it ? Or of Microsoft Office ? This is normally not a
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Windows 7 Wallpaper
Windows 7, the new Microsoft operating system, is still at least three years away but that fact did not seem to bother Deviant Art member Long Z who created an
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Slickr a Flickr Screensaver
Slickr is a Open Source screensaver for Flickr which gives the user a multitude of possibilities to display images which are pulled from Flickr in realtime.
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Monitor your PC with WinPatrol
What happens if your antivirus or antispyware software does not detect a malicious application ? One of the things that will most likely happen is that the mali
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Weekend Fun Fighting Fantasy Project
I read several Fighting Fantasy books when I was younger and it was always pure excitement because it was possible to direct the story in a certain way.
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Scan, Fax and Copy with your mobile phone
I always thought it would be nice to put the camera that most mobile phones are equipped with to got use and have a software that would make it possible to take
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Video Game Systems Modchip Hysteria
Modchips are evil and are the main reason that the game developers are making less money than they should.
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NOKIA N73 AND THE CASE OF THE BLINKING BLUE LIGHT
I really like my new mobile phone which is a Nokia N73 Music Edition.
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Secure WordPress with the first WordPress Worm
Did you know that the latest version of Wordpress contains at least seven security vulnerabilities that could compromise your blog ? If you use Wordpress you sh
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Off-Topic: Antigravity engines becoming reality?
Yes, this article is a little out of the box but I'm pretty sure that most of tech geeks (and sci-fi fans ;) would be interested in this matter, that's why I wa
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What is the name of this song?
I can't rememeber the name of the song but it goes something like this.
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How to setup Hotlink Protection
Hotlinking is a technique that is frowned upon on the Internet.
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Firefox Image Toolbar
There are not many features that the Internet Explorer posses that Firefox users have to be jealous about.
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Remove Driver leftovers with Driver Sweeper
Drivers that have not been removed from the system after uninstalling the device and software can have a serious impact on system stability.
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Five Free Games for Geeks
I'm sometimes surprised by the release of an excellent game created by independent developers.
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Outlook Desktop
Several of my friends rely heavily on the excellent Calendar function in Microsoft Outlook to organize their work routine.
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Vista Performance and Reliability Pack
Microsoft released a preview of an upcoming Vista Performance and Reliability Pack to its beta testers while everyone else will have to wait until August, the 1
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AIM Ad Hack
AIM, which is short for AOL Instant Messenger, is one of the popular Instant Messengers with more than 53 million active users.
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Some Fun on Sunday
I'm in the mood for some funny pictures and thought that it could be nice to create a series of threads every Sunday from now on.
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Extract Now: unpack multiple archives at once on Windows
The article about working with multiple rar files at once was highly productive if you consider that I was able to write two more articles from links that have
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Drag and Drop Robot
I love it when someone mentions a great software or tip in the comments of one of my articles.
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How to extract multiple independent rar files
Extracting multiple independent rar files did take some time in the past until I found out how to do this with just a few clicks of the mouse.
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Why 2 is better than 1
In case you are wondering; I'm talking about computer RAM.
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Get Free iPhone Ringtones from iTunes
This is probably not the best hack in life but it is still valid and working.
