Category: Tools
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How To Change Default Font and Document Settings In Microsoft Word
The release of Microsoft Office 2007 brought some major changes to the popular office suite. Many did not care for these changes at first, but users soon started to enjoy the newest features of Word, Excel, and other Office 2007 programs. One feature in Office 2007 still seen in Office 2010 is a change in…
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How To Use A Router as a Wireless Adapter Without NAT
In a previous article I showed you how it is possible to use a wireless router and 3rd party firmware as a wireless adapter. While the information in that guide is still relevant to most users, the steps provided create a limitation for more advanced users. In the previous guide, any devices connected as clients…
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How to Prevent Facebook and Google from Tracking You Online
These days it’s impossible to casually surf the web and avoid sites that use tools from Facebook, Twitter, Google, and others that make the experience more social and immersive. Still, with privacy issues at the forefront of technology news, it is worth noting that many of these social media tools make your e-life more convenient…
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“Catch” the New Way to Organize Notes with Smartphones and Browsers
We’ve all done it; emailed yourself a note or reminder while at work or on the go, then weeding through your bursting inbox trying to find it. There is the option of a mailbox search with keywords, but it’s pretty much a bust if you can’t find something in 10 seconds. With the birth of…
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Easily Share Photos this Holiday Season with Min.us
It’s very likely you will be surrounded by loved ones with itchy camera trigger fingers this Christmas. The amount of picture-taking will be incalculable, as everyone is locked and loaded with gigabytes to spare on their cameras. But after the party is over, and the ‘awkward smile’ pictures are removed, you will be left with…
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How to Close Pidgin Chat Windows with the Escape Key
Pidgin (formerly known as Gaim) is a free, multi-protocol instant messaging application for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Pidgin is highly customizable and supports popular instant messaging networks like Google Talk, MSN/Windows Live Messenger, AIM, Yahoo! Chat, and can connect to services like Facebook Chat through plugins (or directly through the XMPP messaging protocol). In recent…
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How to Scale Images While Retaining Aspect Ratio in Paint.NET
Paint.NET is one of the best applications for editing images in Windows, and can do almost every standard task you’d do in the infinitely-more-expensive Photoshop. The best part? It is completely free. The only downside is that it’s a little trickier to do standard tasks, so in this guide I’ll show you how to resize images…
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Stay connected & save: 6 tips for padding your bank account in the New Year
With the New Year just around the corner, saving money seems to be on the minds of many people. Being a graduate student, I am not among these people, because Academia pays huge sums of money for almost zero work. Let’s be serious, I’m broke, and I need to save some dough. New Years is…
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Recover Lost Files with Disk Drill for Mac
Have you ever been looking for a file and then realize you trashed it? If this has happened to you recently, you may be in luck. You can download Disk Drill from Cleverfiles Software for the Mac. Disk Drill can scan your hard drive drive for recently deleted files and can restore the lost files or…