Lifehacker’s Top 10: Top 10 Online Freebies and Deals
Saturday, den 8. November 2008Unless you’re a financial Jedi Knight or economic Sith Lord, you probably don’t have a ton of control over our turbulent economy. What you can reign over is your spending and saving—and when you know where they are, you can take advantage of deep discounts and general freebies across the [...]
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Improve Vista’s Performace with RTI…
Thursday, den 7. August 2008
There’s an acronym from the past for you. Run Time Improvements (RTI). I am always looking for ways to squeeze another speed improvement out of Windows Vista. In fact, a few weeks ago I made some changes to my Dell Latitude D820 and it made a very real difference in how the machine performed.
Before [...]
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Iphone 2.0: Turn Off Crash Reports to Speed Up iPhone Sync
Tuesday, den 29. July 2008Any iPhone or iPod touch running the 2.0 firmware can use a little speed boost when it comes to syncing, and some intrepid tweakers have found at least one no-pain way to boost syncing time, at least a little bit. To disable iTunes taking the time to send error or crash reports to Apple [...]
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Keyboard Shortcuts: Open a Command Prompt Anywhere with Vista
Wednesday, den 4. June 2008
open-command-window-here.pngThe How-To Geek technology weblog highlights an incredibly handy Windows Vista feature that opens a command prompt in any system path through a simple shortcut: Shift-Right-click. Let’s say, for example, that you’re browsing a folder deep in the bowels of your hard drive, and you want to work with files in that folder from [...]
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Free Wi-Fi: Get Free Wi-Fi Access on Your Laptop at Starbucks, Barnes and Noble
Thursday, den 8. May 2008
Our gadget-obsessed brothers at Gizmodo report that many AT&T hotspots—including Starbucks and Barnes and Noble—have started offering free Wi-Fi access to iPhone users. With a little ingenuity, the same free Wi-Fi access can be granted to your laptop. Using it from your iPhone, you just connect to the hotspot and give the site your iPhone [...]
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How to Put Games On Your Zune 2!
Thursday, den 8. May 2008
Can’t wait to play games on your Zune 2? Here’s what you need to get started. Jump over to ZuneBoards.com and see instructions from a forum member who gives you the step by step guidelines to get started. They point to two games to get you started, Galactic Wars [...]
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Redmond Path Makes System Path Editing Fool-Proof
Tuesday, den 22. April 2008
Windows only: Anyone who’s edited their system path entries—the places where you tell Windows to look for programs you type into the command line—knows how awkwardly small the space given is to edit a huge string of text, and one misplaced character can nuke the whole thing. Redmond Path, a free download for Windows systems, [...]
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How To: Work in Full-Screen Mode in Microsoft Office Apps
Thursday, den 3. April 2008Dennis O’Reilly digs into the full-screen mode in Microsoft Office apps and shows how you can still keep your most-used options and tools close at hand, despite the lack of menus and toolbars. The two basic suggestions are to learn the Alt+letter shortcuts to your oft-used functions, or use Office’s custom toolbar creator to compile [...]
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Windows Tip: Add Custom Options to the Windows AutoPlay Dialog
Monday, den 24. March 2008
The Windows AutoPlay feature is the bane of many-a-PC user, particularly because of nasty DRM histories and other intrusive business, but what about when you actually want to use the AutoPlay feature? For example, let’s say you’re a fan of Lifehacker’s very own DVD-ripping tool, DVD Rip, and you want your computer to automatically start [...]
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Customize Your Own Laptop Skin at Schtickers.com
Thursday, den 13. March 2008Schtickers.com is a site that provides stock and custom skins for the back of your laptop. As the name implies, these are stickers, but they are high quality, and to give a professional finish. They have wide variety of stock skins choose from, but the real fun is designing your home. Feel free to [...]
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Hulu Is Open for Business: Watch your favorite TV. Anytime. Anywhere.
Wednesday, den 12. March 2008Hulu is finally out of beta on now open to the public. loaded with content from NBC, News Corp., Sony, MGM, as well as their various subsidiary channels like FX, Sci-Fi Channel and so forth, offering anything from full episodes of Battlestar Galactica and Buffy to SNL Digital Shorts and an entire Russell Crowe flick, [...]
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How To: Recover Files Using Vista’s Built-In Shadow Copies
Tuesday, den 26. February 2008
Windows Vista only: Shadow Copies, an automated file version saver built into all copies of Windows Vista (and enabled by default), isn’t a complete backup solution, but it could be a life-saver in certain situations. As The How-To Geek blog points out, however, it’s pretty hard to find, let alone extract files from. Luckily, a [...]
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How To: Disable Vista’s Aero Effects for Certain Programs
Thursday, den 17. January 2008
You may like having Vista’s pretty-fying Aero effects enabled while you’re working, but many modern games can make you want to devote every last bit of memory and power to their 3-D awesomeness. The How-To Geek shows how to easily disable desktop effects by editing (or creating) a shortcut [...]
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Outlook Tip: Boilerplate Text and Images in Outlook
Saturday, den 12. January 2008
Microsoft Outlook 2007 only: If there are certain phrases or images you put in email messages often, Outlook 2007’s Quick Parts feature saves those up for easy reuse. The Productivity Portfolio blog explains how to save email bits—like a company logo, directions, company policy, or signatures—to your Quick Parts [...]
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How To: Encode Zune Videos for Free
Friday, den 11. January 2008
I know some of you probably got a Zune for the holidays and there are a lot of great programs now that will encode your videos for a variety of portable media players. I’ve used many many of these applications in the last year or so, some of them free, some not so free. But [...]
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Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player
Saturday, den 5. January 2008
Microsoft recently added support for Divx and Xvid video to the Xbox 360 via a Dashboard update. I already knew how to stream music to my Xbox 360, but had never tried video. In this article I’ll describe a couple of applications that allowed me to stream video content to my Xbox 360.
I successfully streamed [...]
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Integrate Twitter With Microsoft Outlook
Saturday, den 29. December 2007
If you use Microsoft Outlook as the center for all your communications, you might be interested in integrating Twitter directly into Outlook so you never have to leave the comfort of your inbox to read about the daily minutia of your twitter friends.
The OutTwit add-on for Outlook allows you to both send and receive messages [...]
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Facebook in Your Outlook | Channel 10
Saturday, den 29. December 2007
From those same great people that brought us Outlook and Twitter integration, comes another excellent tool - FBLook, which seamlessly integrates Facebook into Outlook. Using FBLook, which appears in your Outlook as a new toolbar, you can update your Facebook status, see your friends’ statuses, and see the number of new requests, all without having [...]
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Feature: Automatically Load and Update Your Windows Systems
Monday, den 24. December 2007
One of the best parts of getting a new computer for the holidays—other than that new computer smell—is setting up a fresh, clean system exactly how you want it. Your customized productivity apps, your favorite media players, and maybe even some of the software tools you’ve seen on one blog or another.
But searching out, click-click-click-installing, [...]
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Batch Scripts: Set Up Instant Working Environments with Batch Files
Monday, den 24. December 2007
Weblog Inspect My Gadget explains how to use batch files to create a quick working environment—launching every document and application you need to get straight to work—using a Windows stalwart, the batch script. The post is actually very similar to my quick launch workspaces, which I use to get my workspace from zero to productive [...]
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