This is the sixth in a series of articles looking back over ‘Geek Facts’. Today’s topic is the Geekiest Year. Each day last year, I posted a Geek Fact for that day. A Geek Fact is something geeky that happened on that day in history. […]
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This tutorial requires you to edit the registry so before you start create a restore point and/or back up your registry. This tip works in both Windows 7 and Windows 8 but I haven’t tested it in earlier versions. When you right click on images
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I’ve made it pretty clear in previous articles that, rather than installing 3rd party software to do the job, I’d much prefer to see users configure and customize Windows 8 via the operating system’s own built-in options and settings. There are two very good reasons
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You should know that if you are using the pattern-matching capability in MS Word, you cannot search from some special characters as you normally do when searching. In the normal search you indicate the start of a special character by using the caret (^) followed
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Apple released iOS 6.1 on January 29th. I haven’t gotten around to updating my iPhone and iPad yet. Usually I wait a couple of days as opposed to weeks after the release date but things have been fairly hectic lately. For reasons explained below, I
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I am a great fan of the Firefox browser but every now and again I find something that niggles me. I usually have quite a few tabs open and when I wanted to close one or more of them found that Firefox was taking a
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Okay, so it’s not exactly a rental system, but Microsoft’s new pay-as-you-go subscription plans for its latest Office iteration are certainly close. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has labeled the sales approach “an entirely new way to think about the productivity experience“, and predicted that the
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One of the things I don’t like about Windows 8 is the messing about just to log off or shut it down. If you think the road to shutting down your Windows 8 system is a little long winded as well then you will know
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Perhaps no component is more influential on the quality of your computer than your motherboard. Sure, components like your processor and memory determine how fast your system runs, however, the quality of your processor and memory (and every other components for that matter) is directly
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Have you been at work or out of town and wondered what the weather was doing at home? Netatmo’s Personal Weather Station might be just what you need to find out. The concept behind it is that there are sensors that you place in
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O&O DiskImage 6 Family Edition includes three O&O DiskImage 6 Professional licenses, for installation on up to 3 PCs. **NOTE: This is NOT the latest version of this software, O&O DiskImage Pro is currently at version 7. However, considering this is the next to current
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This is the fifth in a series about Geek Facts. Today’s topic is the Geekiest Month. Each day last year, I posted a Geek Fact for that day. A Geek Fact is something geeky that happened on that day in history. I have to say
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It doesn’t matter which operating system I have loaded… … I love to use custom icons, and there is no shortage of them available for download… so why not? If you also like to step outside the box and make Windows your own, this is
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Is this good news for the males out there? Maybe not so good news for the ladies? According to a report recently published by networking giant Cisco; malware is more likely to come from advertisements on seemingly legitimate sites than from those sites traditionally considered
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