6 useful Windows Vista sidebar gadgets
Posted on June 23, 2008 at 5:31 am
I think it is fair to say that the Windows Vista Sidebar was never as fully embraced as Microsoft hoped, yet with time it has slowly matured and built up a significant number of gadgets and resources.
They key complaint with Widgets is the system resources drain. I don’t so much find it an issue during normal computer usage, but it does add noticeable loading delay to logging in for the first time.
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How to remove spyware using HijackThis
Posted on June 23, 2008 at 5:05 am
Are you getting unusual system slowdown? Have you tried scanning your computer with an antivirus and cleaned up your hard disk but still no effect? Is your browser too crowded with silly add-ons that your favorite niece mercilessly installed on your home computer?
Stop pulling you hair. Your computer could be infested by malware, adware or just plain annoying but hard to remove software that your antivirus or personal firewall software failed to detect. Nowadays it is easy to be infected with these sort of software because they come in with legitimate software installers like a hardware device driver or a media player.
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Creating picture collages using Google Picasa
Posted on June 22, 2008 at 5:19 am
Google’s free Picasa picture management software has a lot of add-on functionality than just sorting pictures. One of the cool features of Picasa is that you can create collages that make your pictures look more sentimental. One effect that I like is the picture pile that works like randomly scattering your pictures in a table and taking a snap shot of them:
To create your own collage choose the pictures that you want to include in the collage by control-clicking the pictures:
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Basic WordPress SEO
Posted on June 22, 2008 at 5:02 am
Today I am going to look at some very basic first steps in making sure that your band new shiny WordPress installation is search engine friendly. I am going to talk about just two things, but these are very important things, the most fundamental and arguably the most valuable from an SEO viewpoint.
Firstly we are going to talk about permalinks. When you first install WordPress, your permalink structure will create a page URL for your posts and pages that looks something like this:
http://www.yoursite.com/?p=123
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Monitor hard drive space usage
Posted on June 21, 2008 at 5:26 am
Some people may recall that not too terribly long ago, a good deal of what one did on their computer was restricted by their hard drive space. I do not know how many times I would spot check my hard drive space, on my Windows 95 computer, to make certain that I had enough free space from programs, images, and the like.
Fast forward a few years, and the average personal computer’s hard drive is 120 or 160 gigabytes, compared with the meager 6 gigabytes hard drive in the aforementioned Windows 95 computer.
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Skype 4.0 Beta - Upgraded for videos
Posted on June 21, 2008 at 5:09 am
Communicating over the Internet with family members and friends is one of the best ways to save money. Instead of having to pay large amounts of cash for only a few minutes of long distance, you can choose to spend hours speaking to loved ones.
Skype is one of the most well known VOIP applications. Tons of users put it to great use on a daily basis. It can be easily used for personal phone calls and small business calls as well. Connecting a video camera to your computer system and then taking advantage of the built in video calling capability makes it even more useful.
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