Category: Guides
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Manage a Music Playlist and More with GMote for Android
So its time to plan a party. The chips and dip are out, the chilled beverages are chilling, the mood lighting is set to “groovy,” and the music is…wait. You forgot to consider the music, didn’t you? That is a big mistake. Music can make or break a party; everyone knows that. So what do…
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Gmail Improves Undo Send Feature, Saving Careers and Relationships
I’m probably a little over-paranoid, but I always get a slight wave of anxiety before I send an important email. Questions like “Did I say the right things?”, “Did I address it to the correct person?”, and “Did I refrain from speaking like a pirate?” all rush through my head before I click that ominous…
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EasyTether Lets You Access the Internet Anywhere with an Android Phone
As I write this article, rain falls from the sky, the earth rotates around the sun, and I’m sitting in the passenger seat of a Jeep making its way out of city traffic. Using my Android phone and the free-with-limitations EasyTether application, I can browse the internet on my netbook anywhere that I have a data…
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Tag Your Friends’ Faces in Picasa for Easy Photo Organization
Picasa is a free application from Google that lets you easily edit and manage your entire photo collection. Picasa offers many useful features like geotagging, web albums, and powerful-yet-simple photo editing (I love the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button). One problem with large photo collections is that it can become extremely difficult to find pictures of…
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Windows XP Tip: How to Rearrange Applications in the Windows Taskbar
If you have several applications open simultaneously in Windows XP, you may find yourself wishing you could rearrange their order like tabs in your browser. This feature isn’t included in Windows XP by default, but you can easily add it with Taskbar Shuffle. Taskbar Shuffle is a tiny application that quietly sits in your system…
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Perseids Meteor Shower Peaks Soon, Find the Best Time to Watch Where You Live
Depending on where you live, the Perseids meteor shower will be reaching its peak sometime during the night of August 12th and the morning of August 13th. Since many factors can impact the visibility of astronomical events like meteor showers, NASA provides a great Java applet called the Fluxtimator that can show you the best…
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Window 7 Tip: Enable the Preview Pane for Quick File Viewing
Navigating through your personal files can sometimes be a nightmare, and it can often times be easier to open individual documents to find exactly what you’re looking for. After awhile, you can find yourself with multiple open documents, but none of them were the one you were looking for. By default, you documents will appear…
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Create your own Apache, MySQL, and PHP testing server with WAMP
PHP, MySQL, and Apache have become prominent ingredients in small and large website alike. After all, they are free, robust, and they each have a large community of supporters from which to troubleshoot. However, unless you have a server on which to develop your application, you won’t be able to enjoy these platforms or the,…
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Stream Music, Create Playlists, and Save the Party for Free with Grooveshark
Here is the situation: You’re at a party – the girls want to dance and your buddy wants to fist pump like a champ – but no one has any music. You spot an iPod in the corner and take a look at the selection, but all you see are 90’s boy bands and a…