Instant RSS Search is an online search engine specifically designed to locate RSS feeds for sites which include material of particular interest to an individual. It’s simple, quick, and effective: Just type a search term into the search dialogue box and away you go. Let’s […]
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There have been times when I have had to search for comment marks in a Word document. For instance, a client once sent me her large document that had been copied and pasted from another document and she was getting strange strings of text throughout
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The Windows Registry Today we’re going to be talking about the very complex and necessary Windows Registry, and whether you should Clean, Defragment or otherwise manipulate it. The first thing I want to make very clear at the outset of this discussion is that I
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Are you an OpenDNS user?Did you know that OpenDNS released a free program for both Windows and Mac which adds an extra layer of security to your online activities? It’s called DNSCrypt… and OpenDNS describes it thus: DNSCrypt is a piece of lightweight software that
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Here are two video clip excerpts from the ‘Just for Laughs Gags’ TV show. Personally, I find some of the show’s gags a tad underwhelming but these two I think are quite funny. Drunk Helicopter Pilot – See what happens when a helicopter pilot turns
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For the uninitiated; SourceForge is the primary repository for open source software, hosting more than 300,00 projects. By extension, this means that SourceForge has also become the primary download source for open source software. Apparently, SourceForge has now decided to offer developers the opportunity to
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I guess I was one of many who recently accessed their Gmail only to see incoming emails automatically sorted under a new tabs system. This may be fine if emails were categorized properly but it seemed to me they had been randomly sorted under different
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Once you have your ribbon customized perfectly and want everyone else to have the same, it’s a very easy task to share with your colleagues. Follow the steps below to learn how: Right-click your Ribbon and select Customize the Ribbon. Just below the the list
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Getting the most out of your ISP Getting the most out of your ISP connection can be a daunting business if you choose to do it manually. There is a much better way and today I am going to show you how. The first thing
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Every time I run into this problem I can’t for the life of me remember how to fix it; Create a Word document – end the document with a table – if the table is exactly at the bottom of the document, Word automatically inserts
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Well known security company Sophos has compiled a list of the top worst countries for spamming. As Sophos blogger Paul Ducklin points out, this is one competition nobody really wants to win. Paul has published a nice article on the Sophos Naked Security blog cleverly
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Many of my clients, whose machines I deal with from time to time, have little or no idea about many of the programs they have installed or what they actually do. These programs are accumulated over a period of time and many are superfluous or
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Malware removal tools, or scanner/removers, have become an almost integral part of a home user’s security arsenal and we are fortunate that there are several very good freeware offerings to choose from. For some time I, among many others, have been recommending Malwarebytes Anti-Malware as
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My family and I recently returned home from two wonderful weeks in Florida on the Gulf Coast. I found myself using apps on my iPhone or iPad quite frequently. Below is a list of apps that I found to be pretty indispensable. While I live
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