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Schedule Reminder Emails, Texts and Phone Calls

kjackson_ott — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 11:35:46 +0000

If you have ever forgotten your mother or significant other’s birthday, you know the value of keeping a good calendar. Outlook and Google Calendar are good methods for remembering important dates—so long as we use our computers on the important date. Many smartphones have reminder apps, but not everyone has a smartphone. ReminderGuru is another [...]

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Mac vs. PC Pros and Cons List

nmcgrory_ott — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 11:09:11 +0000

Previously, we posted about some of the differences between Apple and Microsoft in terms of OS X and Windows, but also some of the programs and applications that each company develops. In today’s post, we will continue with our guide to Mac vs. PC by listing some pros and cons of each operating system. Mac [...]

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Mac vs. PC Pros and Cons List

How to Use Windows Live Mail 2011 with Hotmail

byirka — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:21:40 +0000

Over the past several years, Microsoft has been developing a web or “cloud” based computing strategy whose purpose is to allow users to use Microsoft products anywhere, anytime; and one of those product types is centered around e-mail and the web, and it involves using both Hotmail… … and Windows Live Mail: This is because [...]

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How to Use Windows Live Mail 2011 with Hotmail

Hide One Friend From Another on Facebook

akishore — Sat, 10 Dec 2011 11:29:45 +0000

So it would be nice if there was a way to create little groups of friends in Facebook and not allow those groups to interact or to even know about each other. Unfortunately, that’s not how it works in Facebook. Once you friend someone, they normally can see all of your friends by default. This [...]

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Remove Skin Blemishes from Photos using GIMP the Easy Way

byirka — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:19:43 +0000

One of the most needed things in a photo editor is the ability to remove blemishes from skin, usually the face area, so that people won’t feel embarrassed putting up a picture of themselves on their Facebook page, etc. Luckily, since commercial software costs a ton, there is a free, open source program called GIMP, [...]

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Remove Skin Blemishes from Photos using GIMP the Easy Way

Spot and Magnify Image Parts with Snagit Editor

mgabriel — Mon, 28 Nov 2011 12:09:08 +0000

If you’re presenting images, graphs, and charts in a conference or meeting, it’s always an excellent idea if you can highlight the most important and useful portions of the image. This way, you’ll instantly get the attention of your audience. Giving more weight to integral information is also useful when you’re giving several instructions or [...]

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Spot and Magnify Image Parts with Snagit Editor

How to Get Windows Live to Send You E-mail Reminders

byirka — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 11:39:17 +0000

We all forget stuff, that’s a fact of life; and we all have different ways of having people (or machines) remind us to do the things we should do so we don’t fall behind on our rent, or find an angry wife when we get home after forgetting her birthday. One almost surefire way to [...]

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How to Get Windows Live to Send You E-mail Reminders

Your Folder Can’t Be Shared Error Message in Windows 7

akishore — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:42:03 +0000

One of my clients recently ran into a problem where they could no longer share folders on their machine! They had created shared folders on the same machine many time before, but for some reason now got the following error: You folder can’t be shared. They would get this message when right-clicking on a folder [...]

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Your Folder Can’t Be Shared Error Message in Windows 7

Connect iPhone or iPad to Your TV

akishore — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 12:12:27 +0000

Previously, I’ve written about how to connect your laptop to your TV, which was very relevant a couple of years ago. However, with the proliferation of iPhones and iPads, a lot of people want to connect their Apple device to their HDTV instead of their bulky laptop. In this post, I’ll go through the various [...]

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Windows 7 Wants to Format Your USB Drive, iPod, and SD Card?

akishore — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 12:23:52 +0000

So here’s a really annoying problem: you connect a USB drive, iPod or camera SD card to your PC and Windows tells you it needs to format it in order to use it properly! The only problem is that you didn’t have this problem two days ago and everything connected just fine! So what’s the [...]

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Windows 7 Wants to Format Your USB Drive, iPod, and SD Card?

How to Find IP Address of Another Computer

akishore — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 19:05:02 +0000

So let’s say you are connected to your local network at home or at work and you need to figure out the IP address of another computer on the network. How do you do it? Well there are a couple of ways you can determine the IP address of a different computer on the network. [...]

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How to Find IP Address of Another Computer

Fix Microsoft Security Essentials Install Error Code 0×80070645

akishore — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:42:06 +0000

Ever since Microsoft has released their Microsoft Security Essentials anti-virus and anti-spyware program, I’ve used it exclusively on all my Windows machines. It does a great job and has a fairly high detection rate as compared to other free anti-virus programs. However, I recently ran into a strange issue that caused me some grief. Everything [...]

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Fix Microsoft Security Essentials Install Error Code 0×80070645

How to Send Text Messages From Your Computer

akishore — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:33:15 +0000

Recently I wanted to figure out an easy and reliable way to send text messages from my computer to a mobile phone. I wanted to do this for no other reason than to just see if it works and what it out there right now! After playing around with all kinds of shady websites, software [...]

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How to Send Text Messages From Your Computer

Top Plugins for Windows Media Center

jclaerr — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:30:00 +0000

There are many free plugins that give extra features to Windows Media Center. Using these plugins, you can watch videos, listen to music and view other media that isn’t typically available in Windows Media Center. There are also plugins that help you to organize your media library in Windows Media Center. These are some of [...]

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Top Plugins for Windows Media Center

Using the OpenOffice Writer Thesaurus

dcrowder — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 11:47:32 +0000

For those who used Microsoft Office Word to create their documents, the thesaurus was a life saver when trying to find the right word. When switching to OpenOffice Writer, the thesaurus isn’t exactly the easiest feature to find. For quite a while, I assumed this was just one of the features Writer didn’t have. However, [...]

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Using the OpenOffice Writer Thesaurus