Category: Tips & Tricks
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Deciding Which Programs to Remove Using MSConfig
If you are having difficulty with your Windows OS you should check to see what programs were either delivered with it, or running now, by using MSConfig. I found Patrick Crispen on NetSquirrel has a nice step-by-step HOWTO on MSConfig. Patrick might be familiar to you from the Internet Tourbus, which has been an interesting…
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Print Friendly Pages & PDFs from Blogs & WebSites
I was reading this page on the Quake Moving Japan Closer to U.S. and Altering Earth’s Spin and I wanted to print it out to a PDF to use on my Droid. With the NYTimes print function, it would be two steps and it would be fine, but I decided to use ??Joliprint instead. Try…
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Use Google Docs with MS Office
Today I am working with Google Apps collaboration using MS Office tools on the front end: multi-person, simultaneous editing to the Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint application. I have some large legacy work that I can’t simply convert to Google Docs but need the benefits of web-powered collaboration: online backup, view only web sharing, file revision…
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Text Editor Epistle Syncs with Dropbox on Android
I am always looking to leverage my most commonly used tools and Dropbox is among those. Some call it using the API, others a product eco-system; leveraged properly, a powerful tool. One of the Holy Grails of my existence is a simple text editor to use for taking notes and it appears that on the…
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No Lock Android App Disables Your “Slide to Unlock” Keyguard
Convince I am that I am the last to find the answer to some problems. I texted my peer Android users about this annoyance, the “slide to unlock” feature, but they were unaware of this app, if you are, test it out. After all, the tiny power button seems to ensure not turning it on…
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Holiday Season Means Free Tech Support for The Relatives
Holiday time usually means a great deal of Tech Support for family and friends as well as colleagues at work. So for my favorite work Tech Support person and in order to keep it straight myself, I have some ideas organized from my background as well as others around the internet. Malwarebytes (MBAM) One author’s…