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Tweak Mac OS X & Access Hidden Settings With Mountain Tweaks & Lion Tweaks [OS X]

Apple’s walled-garden approach to computing has some pretty far-reaching implications for an everyday user of OS X. Apple provides, on the whole, a smooth and pleasant experience while using your computer, partly because the options that will break something aren’t there. Conversely, this approach can be quite limiting - especially to those who are used to endless preferences on Windows or Linux.

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3 Handy Mouse Tricks You've Probably Never Heard Of [Windows]

The computer mouse is an incredibly nifty device, which unfortunately, a lot of people do not use to its full potential. There are many more things the mouse can do than left-click to move and select things or right-click to bring up context menus. Many of the tricks are easy to learn as they depend on no more than three keyboard keys. However, they can turn out to be huge time savers and making some tasks much easier.

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How To Use Microsoft Excel To Manage Your Life

It's no secret that I'm a total Excel fanboy. Much of that comes from the fact that I enjoy writing VBA code, and Excel combined with VBA scripts open up a whole world of possibilities. However, if you’re serious about using Excel to manage more of your life, then you should take the time to learn how VBA coding works. If you want to enhance your use of Excel, I invite you to follow along as I share a few of these designs.

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Never Be Embarrassed By Your Computer's Speakers Blasting Sound Again [Windows]

Have you ever pulled out your laptop in public and had to fumble for the mute button as its speakers blasted loud sounds? Or have you used your computer late at night and accidentally woke people up when a video appeared on a webpage? Unfortunately, our computers can’t read minds (yet) and don’t know when we want them silent and when we want them loud. There are some settings you can tweak – and a useful application you can install.

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Learn All About The Moon Landing Conspiracy Theories On The Web

Man first landed on the moon, that celestial body that is our constant orbiting companion, on July 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong recently passed away, which prompted an article all about him and the Apollo missions to conquer near-space. While researching that article I was astounded by the amount of conspiracy theories which still exist around the Apollo 11 moon landing.

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Forget Blogging: How To Power Any Website With WordPress

Have you heard? Blogs are old news. I hope you didn’t jump on that particular bandwagon. Yep, static sites are the all the rage now. I’m joking, of course. There has always been the need for various kinds of sites, but the blog format doesn’t fit every requirement. However, Wordpress is more than happy to be moulded into whatever you want - blog or otherwise - and today we’ll be talking about making a basically static website with Wordpress.

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How To Make Sure Windows 7 Will Boot After Changing The Motherboard

How many times have you installed copies of Windows on a computer following a major hardware change? A case in point is probably Windows XP – although flexible, popular and easy to use, the operating system wasn’t great at dealing with hardware changes, in particular new motherboards. This shouldn’t come as any surprise, really.

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Top 10 Uses For Dropbox You May Not Have Thought Of

For many advanced computer users, Dropbox is the premiere cloud-based storage and sharing document service. It has replaced the Documents folder on my Mac, and is the primary way I sync files between my devices. Similar and equally useful free services include Google Drive and Box.com. We've already covered some awesome ideas for using Dropbox, but here are a handful of other ideas for new and maybe more experienced users of Dropbox.

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