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Keeping track of how things are going, whom to contact, who your friends are, not forgetting important dates, all of this is part of modern life. Naturally managing such personal information is critical and having a helping hand doesn’t hurt. Personal Information Managers or PIMs (as they are frequently known as) help you manage everything [...]
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To the average computer user, contracting a virus is like contracting a rare disease – it brings life to a halt, it is expensive to remove, and worst of all, the probability of catching a virus is much higher than that of catching a serious disease. After the dreaded infection, removal procedures usually include taking [...]
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A drop cap is the first letter of a paragraph that’s of a much bigger size than the rest that follow. The letter formatting is such that the letter “˜drops down’ to cover the few lines following the first one. Drop caps have been extensively used, from the early days of printing to the advent [...]
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Streaming free movies is becoming more of a valid alternative to ‘real’ downloads. Instead of having to wait for an entire download to finish, you can just keep pace and tag along. The problems with video streaming always boils down to quality. Not all movies free streaming movies offer enjoyable resolutions, especially when you live [...]
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I have used OpenDNS in the past for monitoring children and employees. Now I am here to tell you how important it is to safeguard your children online. I have also said in the past that the Internet is a great place for kids to learn and a computer can be their best friend. See [...]
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I have to admit, the one thing that I dislike about the explosion of the Internet, and the multitude of websites and online tools that we now use throughout our daily lives, is the fact that there are just so many passwords to remember. Some of you may experience this worse than others, depending how [...]
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Photoshop as we know, is the mother of all image editing software. Rarely does a software achieve so much competence and popularity in its niche as Photoshop has done. One of the downsides of so many features in a single piece of software is that it gets cumbersome and difficult to learn for newbies. Well [...]
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I recently wrote about how to deal with Internet Explorer’s Parental Controls. Another common question I get from users is how to reinstall Internet Explorer and why it is necessary. I will walk you through reinstalling Internet Explorer and tell you about the instances where I would reinstall it. Sometimes after cleaning a virus or [...]
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This article really needs no introduction. There are many free anti-virus programs on the market, and you want to sort the wheat from the chaff. Fair enough. Documented here are the 10 best antivirus programs on the market. While I won’t attempt to rank the programs here (in many ways the programs can’t be compared), [...]
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So you have a small home office or a few computers at home. Want to build a local area network to allow them to connect to each other? Occasionally, there are reasons for building a network without a router. Sometimes, to save money and other times for security. Depending on what you want to do, [...]
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A good collection – doesn’t matter what kind – is of the essence. Whenever you’ve got lots of something in one place, you at least need to make sure everything is labeled and stored correctly. This is certainly true for downloaded TV series collections. Although the uploader’s netiquette helps, a lot of your episodes will [...]
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I love working with Active Directory on my Windows network because it makes my life so much easier. Active Directory is the directory service used on Windows based networks to administer large groups of computers easily. You use Active Directory to push out group policies. Group policy is the magic behind Active Directory. Group policies are [...]
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It’s time once again for our featured Movers and Shakers post. Each week, we take one software category and list the top ten most downloaded apps. This week, we are looking at Desktop Enhancements. These are the apps that can be used to spruce up your desktop and add functionality to your computer’s desktop.
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Need a cool project for school? Have oodles of free time? Try your skills at creating a video with claymation or stopmotion! Claymation is an animation technique used with clay figures.  Basically, each movement is a new “shot” and the “shots” are connected together at the end to make a movie. Famous claymation cartoons like [...]
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We have covered FTP (File Transfer Protocol) in the past, pointing you towards the best FTP clients, letting you know about the basic FTP commands and how to use them among other things. Today let’s venture into the wild a bit and see how to set up an FTP site for yourself, which is just [...]
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