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[MODIFIED] Cell Phone – Six Battery Conservation Tips

07 May

Six ways to keep your cell phone’s battery running as long as possible.

Is your cell phone battery losing power constantly? Have you ever had to stop using your cell phone in the middle of a call because the battery died? Here are a few tips you can use to conserve your cell phone battery’s power:

* If you know you’re traveling to an area without coverage or with only spotty roaming coverage, consider turning off your cell phone. Your phone can use a lot of power trying to find a suitable network, although some phones may stop polling after a while to try to reduce this battery hoggishness. One other option if you need to use your calendar, notes, play Angry Birds, etc. is to put the phone in “airplane mode” where all communications are stopped yet local apps should still be usable….

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Mozilla Firefox – Misc – Missing the Title Bar? Menu Bar?

01 May

Two quick tips to add the title and menu bar back to Firefox.

Those who have upgraded to Mozilla Firefox v29 may be in for a surprise with the new Australis interface, making the browser look more and more like other browsers such as Google Chrome.

If you don’t like the changes, the following two tips can bring back the menu bar as well as a title bar to the application:…

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Google Search Engine – What is My IP Address?

01 May

Need to find your public IP address? It’s just a Google search away.

For playing online games or accessing particular Internet services, it might prove useful to know your public IP address (the address that other computers / devices on the Internet can use to contact your machine and the address given out when contacting other computers / devices). If you are using an ISP (Internet Service Provider) that provides dynamic IP addresses, this may change every time you go online. And, if you use a proxy server or VPN (virtual private network), displaying your “public” IP address can help ensure you are actually accessing the Internet via the connected service.

Instead of going through computer settings to display your public IP address, finding this information is just a Google search away:…

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[MODIFIED] Disk Usage Utility – Display a Directory Tree Representation of What is Taking Up Hard Drive Space

29 Apr

Find out why your hard drive is running out of space by scanning it with TreeSize Free.

TreeSize Free for Windows can help you determine what is taking all your hard drive space by displaying a directory tree. After selecting a drive or folder for scanning by running the application or selecting TreeSize Free from a folder’s right-click menu, you can change options such as displaying a folder’s size, allocated space, usage percent, or file count. File size can be reported in gigabytes, megabytes, kilobytes, or a combination (“automatic units”).

Other features include sorting files and folders by name or size, showing details of each subdirectory inside a directory tree, and performing filters so only certain paths or files are visible. A report can be printed from the results. Options include forcing the application to only use one thread (if you are performing other CPU-intensive tasks simultaneously), displaying or not displaying compressed files and folders in blue, and choosing the gradient colors used in the background of each folder to represent disk usage….

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Windows 8 – Bring Back the Mouse Pointer Drop Shadow

29 Apr

Make the Windows 8.1 mouse pointer stand out by adding a drop shadow.

As Windows 8.1 has adopted a flatter interface, gradients and drop shadows have been removed from a variety of places including the mouse pointer. If you feel that the mouse pointer drop shadow helps make it easier to spot on the Desktop, do the following:

1. Access the “Mouse” Control Panel. One way to do this is by pressing Windows + R, entering main.cpl and pressing Enter….

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Sites to Browse – Humor – Pranks – When Online Reviews get Ridiculous

25 Apr

UHPinions provides “real – ridiculous – reviews” found on sites such as Amazon and Yelp for your enjoyment.

Do you want to enjoy loose-leaf tea that is the “best thing since the invention of fire”? Looking to buy a beard wash for a beard that has people thinking “that dude probably builds radical decks and sturdy fences to keep wolves and bears out”? Or are you looking for a new laptop that “can be used as [a] homeplate for a local little league baseball game provided the umpire has completed the proper training”?

Reviews for these and other products are available at UHPinions, a website that grabs reviews from sites such as Amazon and Yelp, displaying them for your amusement. Reviews are divided into categories such as “cars and motorsports”, “electronics”, and “hotels and travel”, plus you can browse “best”, “favorite”, or random reviews. And if you find an interesting review not already online, you’re free (and encouraged) to submit it….

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Windows 8 – Make Two More Time Zones a Mouse Hover Away

25 Apr

Communicate with people across time zones? Make two additional clocks available with a mouse hover over the Windows 8.1 Taskbar clock.

Do you often need to communicate with co-workers, extended family, or friends that live across the country or world? Stop waking them up at odd hours of the night or sending them an electronic mail or Skype request by not knowing their local time zone.

Two additional time zones can be added to the Windows 8.1 Desktop Taskbar, accessible by hovering over the clock. Clicking on the clock can display larger clocks of each configured time zone….

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Google Chrome – Easily Share Content on Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter, More

24 Apr

The “AddThis” extension for Google Chrome lets you easily share content on a variety of services.

Do you frequently share content on a variety of blogs, bookmarking services, and social networks, as well as via web-based e-mail, using sites such as Facebook, Gmail, Pinterest, Reddit, StumbleUpon, and Twitter? Tired of installing extensions for each individual service to share content or relying on website share buttons?

The “AddThis – Share & Bookmark” extension for Google Chrome adds a button to the Toolbar that lets you share content via, according to the author, over 300 services. These include the aforementioned as well as AOL Mail, Blogmarks, Digg, Evernote, LinkedIn, Plurk, Xing, and many, many more….

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Windows 8 – Make it Easier to Differentiate Explorer Windows by Showing Full Paths

24 Apr

Add the full paths to Explorer folders in Windows 8.1 to make it easier for you to navigate your system.

Let’s say you are copying files between different folders on your Windows 8.1 system or networked drives, or perhaps you are performing basic file maintenance. The need comes to work with two different folders that end with the same name in the path. Another task distracts you, and now you need to get back to work on a particular folder. If you hover your mouse pointer over “File Explorer” in the Taskbar, only the ending parts of the paths are readable. You’ll have to manually click on each window to find out what path each thumbnail represents.

What if you could make the folder windows contain the full paths, such as “C:\Windows.old\Windows\Cursors”, instead of just “Cursors”? This is an easy tweak….

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[MODIFIED] General Computers – Why Do Install Programs Ask Me to Close Everything or Restart?

23 Apr

When installing software, here’s why you should close down all running applications – but think twice before shutting down security software.

When you install software on your machine, you are usually asked near the beginning to close other running programs (a good practice to do even if you are not explicitly asked). Why should you consider doing so, and should you shut down everything?

1) Some install programs require you to reboot your operating system when the install is done, so, you would have to close other programs down anyway or let the operating system do so (risking you losing work in such applications). This is especially true for software such as firewalls, virus scanners, some anti-spyware applications, backup utilities, etc….

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