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Entries for March, 2008

How to Create an Application Shortcut Key

A great feature in Microsoft Windows is creating custom shortcut keys for your favorite programs for instance open Internet Explorer or Firefox by clicking the F10 key. Doing it is so easy, here’s how:

Create a shortcut to the application you want to run with the shortcut by right clicking the executable file and selecting “Create [...]

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2 Ways to Read Office 2007 Documents on Every Computer

I bet this has happened to you before, a new Email has just arrived and it contained a .docx file. Sadly you are at work and still using Office 2003. Here’s how to read Microsoft Excel, Word and PowerPoint 2007 files on every computer.

This is the easy solution Download Word viewer 2007 and open the [...]

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Make your Disk on Key a Super Disk on Key

It doesn’t matter how big, new and fast your Disk on Key is, you always think that it is too small and too slow. Well, there is a solution to both these problems, and it is to change the removable Flash drive file system to NTFS. To make the Disk on Key compatible with most [...]

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How to Rescue Your Data After a Windows Crash

I am sure this has happened to you before, suddenly the screen turns black, and when you try and boot Windows again, you realize it’s not going to happen… You immediately know that it’s time to take out the Windows XP/Vista CD and reinstall it. But what about all your precious data, pictures, documents and [...]

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How to Select Which Ads Appear Where

As we all know, ads take a big portion of our web page display. We always have to make a compromise between content and ads. There is a solution that may help making these compromises easier, and that would be being selective in the displaying of ads. Basically we have two types of users, regular [...]

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A Must Have Gadget in Your Office

Tell me if you know this situation: You have been working your butt all day long in the office, and you give yourself a much deserved rest while reading some RSS feeds in your Google Reader, or chatting with your friends on Google Talk or Microsoft Messenger. Suddenly your boss comes and you know the [...]

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Why this Yamaha Player is Better than IPod

Try and imagine the following situation:
You are running while listening to some upbeat music from your IPod when suddenly Mr. IPod decides to hit you with a depressing slow ballade by ColdPlay, which makes you want to run straight into the traffic…
If only there was a music player that matched the type of music it [...]

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5 More Tips To Speed Up Windows Vista

Following my Latest article 7 Tips to Speed Up Windows Vista, here are some more tips I have collected and think will be useful for every one who is using Windows Vista. These tips are a bit more complex to perform.
Hope You find it interesting:
1. Install a Defragmentation Software
Surprisingly enough Windows Vista’s file defragging application [...]

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Real Time Stats With Google Analytics

Here’s a nice thing I found out this week: I was checking my site stats on Google Analytics and I found an easy way to see the real time stats of my blog! I looked around on the web but could not find anyone talking about this, so I decided to write this post. It’s [...]

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7 Tips to Speed Up Windows Vista

You can say whatever you want about Windows Vista but one thing is for sure, its not fast, In fact, it’s slow. If you want great performance with Windows Vista you will need a new and powerful computer. I guess you are not running to the store to buy a new computer, so read this [...]

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