How to Move or Transfer Email Accounts from One ISP to Another
Posted on November 12, 2007 - Filed Under Computer Tips | 35 Comments
Are you looking for a way to move your email account from Outlook to Yahoo or maybe from AOL to Hotmail? If you’re not familiar with the tech details, it can be quite an arduous task to move from one email ISP account to another, if not impossible. So if you want to transfer your account info, emails, tasks, calendar items, address book and contacts, etc to a new email provider, there’s a cool web service you should check out.
How to Fix Internet Explorer has Encountered a Problem and Needs to Close
Posted on November 10, 2007 - Filed Under Internet Explorer Tips | 91 Comments
Have you ever been browsing the Internet using IE happily until all of a sudden you get this horrid “Internet Explorer has encountered a problem and needs to close” error message, after which IE completely shuts down and you lose all of your tabs along with any forms you might have been filling out? Now that I use Firefox religiously, this has not happened to be even once, but it happened all the time with Internet Explorer.
7 Great Firefox about:config Tweaks
Posted on November 9, 2007 - Filed Under Computer Tips | 7 Comments
After using Internet Explorer for many years, I have to say that I really wish I would have switched to Firefox a lot earlier than I did! Firefox is by far the most customizable browser out there, with thousands of extensions and addons that you can download and plug in. Not only are there many third-party extensions to enhance Firefox, there are also tons of configuration settings that can be tweaked in Firefox itself.
How to Search for Text Inside Multiple PDF Files at Once
Posted on November 9, 2007 - Filed Under Computer Tips | 34 Comments
PDF documents are probably the most commonly used set of documents in most offices today because of it’s ability to avoid accidental changes or modifications by unauthorized users. However, it’s a lot easier to find something you’re looking for in a Word document than it is for a PDF document because by default Windows search indexes all of the text inside of a Word document, thus making it easy to search all documents quickly.
How to View Lyrics for Songs in Your Favorite Media Player
Posted on November 8, 2007 - Filed Under Free Software Downloads | 3 Comments
If you’re a big time music listener, then you’ve probably run across your share of songs where you did not know all of the lyrics. Most of us eventually perform a search on Google to find the lyrics for a particular song. That’s fine most of the time, but with everyone having an iPod all the time, it would be nice if you could read the lyrics on your iPod while listening to the song.
Another Way to Hide Files and Folders in Windows XP
Posted on November 7, 2007 - Filed Under Computer Tips | 39 Comments
It seems like people just can’t get enough of how to create hidden folders or locked folders, etc in Windows. I’ve already written two guides on how to hide a folder, one using a very simple built-in feature of Windows and another by using some Windows scripts. In the latter article, I also mentioned a free program that you can use called Folder Hide to completely remove a folder from visibility.