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Windows Live Mail 2011 – Change the Location of the Message Store

18 Dec

Change where Windows Live Mail 2011 stores calendar events, downloaded e-mail and RSS feeds, and other items.

Windows Live Mail 2011’s Message Store is the location on your hard drive where e-mail, calendar events, RSS feeds, and other information and messages are stored. This is normally located in a folder underneath your user folder. For example, in Windows Vista, the location is “C:\ Users\ YOUR_USER_NAME\ AppData\ Local\ Microsoft\ Windows Live Mail”.

If you have multiple hard drives or partitions, with one of them designated for storing data, you may wish to move the store to another location. Here’s how to change it:…

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[MODIFIED] Sites to Browse – Misc – Where is Santa Claus? Find out on Twitter, Facebook, iGoogle, and More!

17 Dec

Track Santa Claus using sophisticated equipment from NORAD.

Merry Christmas! A fun site for the young and young at heart, NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defense Command) has set up a worldwide Santa Claus tracker website. Powered by Google, you can view Santa’s location as he zips across the world in his reindeer sleigh delivering toys. Santa Cams are set up to record the visit, “ultra-cool, high-tech, high-speed digital cameras pre-positioned at many locations around the world only on December 24th”. You’ll also be able to see how many cookies Santa munches on.

As Santa has gone high-tech, you can also track him via the Google Earth application, allowing the young and old to do some learning as they follow his flight. You can also follow NORAD as they track Santa Claus via their Facebook, Twitter, and Picasa pages. Plus, his location is available on your mobile phone. And, there’s even a gadget for iGoogle….

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Microsoft Visio 2010 – View Diagram in Full Screen

15 Dec

Quickly scan your Visio 2010 diagram in full-screen mode, hiding toolbars, status bars, and other onscreen elements.

Instead of constantly zooming in and out of your Microsoft Visio 2010 diagram when you need to see a “bird’s eye” view, a simpler option may be to switch to a Full Screen view. While you cannot edit a diagram in this view, it does hide all menus, status bars, the Windows Taskbar, etc., allowing you to completely concentrate on your opened diagram.

Here are a few ways to access the Full Screen view:…

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iGoogle – Test Your English Language Knowledge with Synonym Game

15 Dec

Have fun testing your knowledge of synonyms with the “Match Up” gadget for iGoogle.

Are you a master of the English language? Assess your proficiency with The Free Dictionary’s “Match Up” gadget for iGoogle. Every day five new words are presented to the left, with five unsorted words to the right. Your job is to match up the synonym pairs.

When done, click the “Answer” button to see how well (or, umm, otherwise) you performed. You’ll also be able to read definitions for the daily words, so you might learn something after you play….

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Mozilla Firefox – Plugins and Extensions – Keep Other Windows from Covering Firefox

10 Dec

Keep a Firefox window on top of other windows with the “Always on Top” extension.

Do you keep a lot of other windows open while browsing the web such as a word processor, spreadsheet, or e-mail client? If so, these might cover up the Mozilla Firefox window, something you do not want if the browser is constantly reloading data such as a Twitter feed.

With the “Always on Top” extension you can force the Firefox window to stay visible above other windows. Plus, the extension is window-sensitive; if you have multiple Firefox windows open you can make one or two of them appear always on top of other windows, even other Firefox windows. …

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Picasa – I’m Not Being Prompted to Confirm Deleting Photos!

10 Dec

If Picasa does not prompt you to confirm removing a photo from the album or deleting it from disk, turn these warnings back on.

Depending on your configuration, Picasa should notify you before removing a photo from the album or deleting it from the disk. The warning dialog (as long as you read it!) asks if you are absolutely sure before performing the selected operation. Especially in the case where your Recycle Bin is disabled, when you delete a photo, it may be gone forever. File recovery software may help, but is no guarantee.

In some cases, however, the warning dialogs may not appear. For example, if you are warned about deleting files and you check the “Don’t ask again, always remove” box, this potentially file-saving dialog will not appear again. In this case, later deleting a file from Picasa will occur immediately and without warning. If you have experienced this behavior once and want to help ensure it does not happen again, do the following:…

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Google Maps – Randomly Virtually Drive Around the World

10 Dec

See the world without needing a passport with MapCrunch, a Google Maps Street View randomizer.

Hard economic times slashing your travel budget? Looking to explore the world without leaving your couch? If so, you may frequently use the Street View feature of Google Maps, virtually driving through cities and rural areas. But what if you’re tired of “visiting” the same places and don’t know where to look for something interesting?

Enter MapCrunch, a Google Maps Street View randomizer. With this website you can choose continents or countries and be whisked away to random locations. You can limit your locations to urban areas if the city life is the way to be, and a slideshow mode lets you jump between locations by waiting a few seconds or pressing the N key….

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Miscellaneous Software – Keep the Screensaver from Running or the Computer from Hibernating

03 Dec

Prevent the screensaver or Windows power management from interrupting a video, download, or other long task with Don’t Sleep.

Have you ever had Windows turn off the monitor or display a screensaver while playing a video? Or maybe you are downloading a large file, and suddenly the computer goes to sleep before it finishes. Frustrating, isn’t it?

One option to solve this problem is to use the small utility “Don’t Sleep”. This software can prevent the screensaver from displaying or monitor from turning off, as well as system automatic stand-by, hibernation, shut-down, and logoff. The disabling can be turned off or on with ease, and can even run on a timer. …

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System Information Software – Freeware to Display Windows Memory Usage in System Tray

03 Dec

Keep track of Windows memory usage via an icon in the System Tray area of the Taskbar with MemInfo.

MemInfo is a freeware Windows application that displays detailed memory usage in the System Tray area of the Taskbar. Memory used and a percentage bar is displayed as an icon; hovering over it displays more detailed usage information.

Configuration options include showing the page file or physical memory, showing actual value or percentage free, altering the refresh rate (useful for slower computers), and displaying a warning balloon for high memory usage. You can also change the font, text colors, and theme….

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Mozilla Firefox – Plugins and Extensions – Copy Page URL and Title to Clipboard, Configuring the Format

26 Nov

“My CopyFixer” allows you to copy the URL and/or title of the currently browsed webpage in Firefox to the clipboard.

Are you setting up a links page, do you write about websites, or do you often want to tell a few friends or coworkers about websites you visit via e-mail, Facebook, or Twitter? If so, don’t manually retype web page names or URLs when you can copy them to the clipboard and paste them into another application or webpage.

The “My CopyFixer” extension for Mozilla Firefox lets you copy the URL and/or title to the clipboard by pressing Ctrl+C when no text is selected. The format is customizable, so you can copy web addresses to the clipboard formatted as an <a href>, a comma-delimited text, a personal recommendation, or however else you wish….

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