COMPUTER INFO

Copy Windows wrongdoing Messages to the Clipboard

2011-07-18T22:27:00.000-07:00

Instead of re-typing long, aching absurdity letters whenever you are aggravating to Google for a solution, did you apperceive you can artlessly use Ctrl+C to archetype the argument of the bulletin to the clipboard?

If you appetite to analysis this out for yourself, aloof accessible Windows Explorer and blazon an incorrect drive letter into the abode bar, and you’ll get an absurdity bulletin immediately.

Just hit Ctrl+C whenever you get an absurdity bulletin prompt, and again you can adhesive it into block (or anywhere you’d like)

Personally I adopt to adhesive the absurdity letters into a bare block window so I can baddest aloof a allocation of it for pasting into Google. This is additionally a absolute way to archetype your absurdity letters back you are allurement for advice on our forum.

This tip should assignment in Windows Vista or XP or 2003.

Copy To the Clipboard by the Windows prompt

2011-07-18T22:24:00.000-07:00

Let’s face it, not everybody is an ubergeek, so there are abounding times that you’ll charge to ask somebody for help. They consistently assume to ask you to blazon things into the command alert and again acquaint them the results… but how do you archetype that argument to the clipboard so you can email it to them?

I had consistently anticipation this was universally understood, but it turns out that a lot of bodies are blind of how it works. There are two options, the absence right-click menu… or QuickEdit mode. We’ll explain both.

Enable QuickEdit Mode

Right-click anywhere on the appellation bar and again baddest Properties. (Or use Alt+Space P)

On Options tab, assure the box as “QuickEdit Mode” and so close the dialog.

That was simple…

Copy / Paste in QuickEdit Mode

If you accept this approach enabled, you can artlessly left-click anywhere in the window and annoyance a box about the argument that you would like to select.

Once you’ve called the text, you can either right-click anywhere in the window or use the Enter key to archetype the called argument to the clipboard.

To adhesive into the command prompt, artlessly use the appropriate abrasion button anywhere central the window while not in “Select” mode.

Copy / Adhesive With Right-Click Menu

If you don’t appetite to change any settings, you can aloof use the right-click card to archetype or adhesive text. Note that the right-click card doesn’t appearance up with QuickEdit approach enabled.

Right-click on the accomplishments of the window and baddest “Mark”, and again draw a box about the argument you appetite to copy.

Once you accept called the argument you want, again use the appropriate abrasion button or the Enter key to archetype the called argument to the clipboard.

To adhesive into the window, right-click and accept the “Paste” advantage on the menu.

Clear up IE7 browse History of the Command Line

2011-07-18T22:17:00.000-07:00

If you like to body accumulation files to automate cleanup on your computer, you’ll apparently appetite to accommodate at atomic one of these commands in your accumulation script. You can automate any one of the functions on the Internet Explorer 7 Delete Browsing History dialog.

Here’s the chat that you are apparently acclimated to seeing:

And here’s the commands that accord to the altered buttons. The best important one from a cleanup angle is the first, which will annul aloof the acting internet files that are abashing up your computer.

To use these commands, aloof run them from the command line, the alpha card chase box in vista, or a accumulation file.

Temporary Internet Files

RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 8

Cookies

RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 2

History

RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 1

Form Data

RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 16

Passwords

RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 32

Delete All

RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 255

Delete All – “Also annul files and settings stored by add-ons”

RunDll32.exe InetCpl.cpl,ClearMyTracksByProcess 4351

These commands should assignment in Internet Explorer 7 on XP or on Windows Vista.

Cleaning Past notice Icons in Windows Vista

2011-07-18T22:12:00.000-07:00

A actual advantageous affection in Windows is the adeptness to automatically adumbrate arrangement tray icons back they are not in use. The botheration is that over time, Explorer caches a account of every distinct figure that it’s anytime seen, and your account ability abound to hundreds of items that Explorer knows about.

The added affair is that Explorer keeps these items in anamnesis somewhere, so it’s additionally causing bloat, but we can absolutely displace this account with a little catchy anthology alteration and recycling Explorer. Note that this will abolish any settings you had set for the icons.

To get to the chat we are talking about, right-click on the Taskbar and accept Properties, again accept the Notification Area tab, and bang the Customize button.

Just attending at all the items in the list… I don’t alike accept some of those applications installed anymore.

Open up regedit.exe through the alpha card chase box, and again browse bottomward to this anthology key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\Local Settings\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TrayNotify

Now you will see two entries in the list: IconStreams and PastIconsStream. Select both of them and annul them. (You may appetite to accomplish a advancement with the consign action afore you do this)

Now we’ll charge to recycle Explorer.exe by aperture up assignment administrator (You can use Ctrl+Shift+Esc), selecting explorer.exe in the account and allotment End Process.

Now go to the File menu, accept New Task and blazon in charlatan into the accessible box. Hit enter, and charlatan should restart itself.

Now your Customize Notification Icons chat should appearance you a actual apple-pie account of items, but agenda that any settings you had will be displace to default.

Note that some icons ability abandon absolutely until you reboot your computer. Also, if the Volume/Power/Network icons aren’t able to be called in the taskbar backdrop dialog, you should be able to abutting it and re-open it and they will assignment again, but you ability accept to baddest them again.

Switch the distance of Time as Users Need to Change their Login Password

2011-07-10T11:15:00.000-07:00

If you’re the ambassador of a aggregate computer or a few in the office, you apparently appetite to accept the users change their countersign periodically for added security. Here’s how to do it in Windows 7 & XP.

Note: This uses Bounded Aegis Policy which is not accessible in Home versions of Windows. These are bounded settings on machines not on a domain. Area settings will booty antecedence over bounded settings.

Changing Countersign Age in Windows 7

Local Security Policy opens. Navigate to Account Policies \ Countersign Policy and double-click on Maximum countersign age.

Here you can change the Maximum countersign age to what you want. By absence it is 42 days, but you can change it from 1-999 days. When you’re finished, bang OK and abutting out of Local Security Policy Editor.

Whenever you were adjust them to zero, the password would never expire.

Changing Password Age in XP Professional

While accessible in Windows 7, XP gets a bit added tricky. First go to Start \ Run and blazon mmc and Enter.

The soothe opens and you prefer to go to File then select Add/Remove Snap-in…

Now click on the Add button…

Roll down and highlight Group Policy objective Editor…then click Add.

Under aggroup Policy objective make sure it says Local Computer and click Finish.

Now you will charge to cross to Local Computer Policy \ Computer Configuration \ Windows Settings \ Security Settings \ Account Policies \ Countersign Policy. Then as afore double-click Maximum countersign age.

Then change it to whatever you want it to be.

Conclusion

If you appetite to accomplish users on your bounded machine(s) to change their passwords periodically, alteration the countersign age is how to get it done. You should accept users change their countersign consistently and animate them to use able passwords as well.

Exchange Display below the System Tray Clock in Windows 7

2011-07-10T10:59:00.000-07:00

If you’re on the computer 18+ hours a day, you apparently await on the alarm in the arrangement tray abundant of the time. Although it’s generally overlooked, there are altered means you can adapt the breadth to affectation altered time and date formats.

Everything looks accustomed here…however it can be annoying accepting to hover the abrasion over the alarm to affectation the day of the week. Yeah…yeah…how can you not apperceive what day it is? Trust me, during a active day you can balloon a lot including your own name!

To affectation assuredly appearance the day of the anniversary or change the date and time architecture to article you’re added adequate with, accessible Control Panel and go to Region and Language. Here you can accomplish changes to the Date and time architecture how you would like it.

Click on Additional Settings and beneath the Date tab baddest the date and time formats you would like to see. Notice What the notations mean… You can change it to some affair in the dropdown card or you can blazon in what you want.

There are a lot of altered combinations and formats you can create. You ability appetite to try altered formats and see what works best for you. For this archetype I entered in dddd/M/d/yyyy so I can see the day of the anniversary all the time after aerial the abrasion over the clock.

Or perhaps you just now want the day of the week and the time only…

This may assume like a accessory abuse to your computer, but it can be absolutely able in allowance you get things done easier. Sometimes it aloof comes bottomward to “the little things”.

Switch default on Wallpaper Folder to My Pictures about Windows XP

2011-07-10T10:52:00.000-07:00

Have you anytime wondered why Windows XP had such awfully animal wallpapers to accept from? On top of that, there’s no way to calmly change the account of backgrounds to a binder you ability absolutely use… like your My Pictures folder.

There’s a adequately simple anthology drudge you can do to accomplish Windows attending in a altered folder, but if you appetite to get rid of Blue Lace 16 you’ll additionally accept to annul it manually. (The accepted warnings about anthology alteration administer here)

With a name like “Bliss” you would anticipate I would be beneath annoyed of seeing this:

Change Wallpaper Folder

Open up regedit.exe application the alpha card Run box, and again cross bottomward to the afterward key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion

On the right-hand ancillary you should see a amount alleged WallPaperDir, which defines the binder Windows uses to abide the list. If the key does not exist, again you can actualize a fresh cord amount with the aforementioned name.

Double-click to change the value, and again adhesive in the abounding aisle to your My Pictures folder. (Note that you could specify any aisle actuality if you capital to.)

The change should be immediate, the abutting time you accessible the Desktop panel… but you’ll apprehension a cardinal of absence images still in the list. Turns out that Windows additionally queries the Windows binder for images…

To get rid of those, browse to C:\Windows and again attending for a set of angrily animal Bitmap files:

You can annul these images to accomplish them stop actualization in the wallpaper alternative list, aloof be accurate not to annul annihilation abroad in your Windows binder or you acceptable won’t be able to cossack anymore.

Another acrimony solved…

Convert Your Windows 7 program library Icons the easily Way

2011-07-09T11:45:00.000-07:00

Have you anytime capital to bandy out the Windows absence icons with article else? The fresh Windows 7 library icons can be afflicted with a drudge to a argument file, but there’s an easier way. We’ll explain both.

Not abiding what we’re talking about? Open up Windows Explorer, and analysis out the Libraries.

For today’s lesson, we’ll advise you how to change those icons with article else. (It’ll additionally assignment for your own custom Libraries).

Change Library Icons the Accessible Way

To change the icons out the accessible way, we’ll use a tiny apparatus alleged Library Figure Changer from a user over at deviantART. Thanks to Pratik for pointing us appear this tool!

Once you’ve opened up the tool, you’ll be presented with account of icons and libraries… aloof bang on the Library on the right-hand side, and again accept the figure on the left, and bang “Select Figure from dll”. You can additionally use the Select fresh Figure from book instead, if you don’t appetite to use a absence Windows icon.

Note that if you appetite to restore the figure to default, you accept to bang on the Library aboriginal on the right-hand side, and again bang the Restore absence figure button.

Another agenda is that if you appetite to change out the DLL, you’ll charge to baddest it, and again hit the Enter key.

Once you’ve swapped out your icon, it usually shows up appropriate away, or you can Refresh with F5 (though logging off or restarting explorer.exe ability be required).

Download Replace Librarie Icons from deviantART [mirror copy]

Change Libraries the Manual Way

Don’t feel like messing with a allotment ofcomputer application from some being somewhere? You can accomplish these changes manually with annihilation added than Notepad. Just adhesive the afterward into the alpha card chase box, or Explorer area bar:

%appdata%\microsoft\windows\libraries

Then annoyance one of the icons from Explorer over to a Notepad window to accessible up the file.

Inside the file, you’ll see an iconReference line, or if you don’t see it, you’ll appetite to add one like so:

C:\Windows\System32\shell32.dll,301

The abstracts in the average is the path, either to the figure (.ico) file, or if you are referencing a DLL file, you’ll charge to add the breach and cardinal position of the figure in the file.

And now you’ve abstruse how to bandy out the icons. Awesome, eh? Alright, able-bodied it’s not that awesome. But still fun aberrant advice to have.

Switch the Windows 7 or Vista Power push button* to Shut Down/Sleep/Hibernate

2011-07-09T11:31:00.000-07:00

The absence activity for the Power button on the alpha card in Windows 7 is shutdown, and in Vista is Sleep, which isn’t necessarily advantageous for everybody, so we’ll explain how to change it here.

Change Windows 7 Abeyance Button

Windows 7 makes it absolutely accessible – aloof arch into the Alpha Card / Taskbar preferences by right-clicking on the alpha card and allotment Properties.

All you charge to do is change the drop-down for Ability Button Action to whatever you would prefer.

Change Windows Vista Ability Buttons

You can configure this ambience calmly by application the avant-garde ability settings panel, which is a little catchy to get to normally, but we’ll booty the shortcut.

Open a command alert (type cmd into the alpha card chase bar), and again blazon in the following:

powercfg.cpl,1

You could additionally booty the continued avenue (Control Console \ Ability Options \ Change Plan Settings \ Change Avant-garde Ability Settings)

Once you get to this dialog, browse bottomward as apparent to “Power buttons and lid”

From here, you can change the options:

* Ability button activity – Changes the accouterments ability button action

* Start card ability button – Changes the ability button on the Start Menu

You can change the ability button to either Sleep, Hibernate or Shut Down, or alike annihilation for the accouterments ability button.

Modify the Number from past Items Shown on the Windows 7 / Vista Start Menu

2011-07-09T11:23:00.000-07:00

If you’ve anytime wondered how to configure the cardinal of abstracts apparent on the Recent Items menu, you’ve begin the appropriate article. The absence bulk is set to appearance 10 documents, but you can access that with a anthology tweak.

What we are alteration actuality is the bulk of abstracts apparent in this card (I afflicted abundance bottomward to 1 for illustration)

Manual Registry Tweak

Open up regedit.exe through the alpha card chase box, and again cross bottomward to the afterward key, creating it if it doesn’t exist.

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

Add a fresh DWORD 32-bit amount called MaxRecentDocs into the right-hand pane, and again double-click to accessible it up.

To set the value, you’ll aboriginal charge to change Base to Decimal, and again you can access any amount you want. For instance, if you appetite to set it to 50, access that into the Amount abstracts field.

Now I’m not absolutely abiding what will appear if you set it to a huge number… I’d stick with article like 20.

Note that the aforementioned abuse works in Windows 7 as well, alike admitting the screenshots are from Vista.

Shift Start Menu to apply little Icons in Windows 7 or Vista

2011-07-09T11:17:00.000-07:00

Windows Vista uses ample icons by absence in the alpha menu, and it hides the ambience for baby icons appealing well. No matter, we’ve amid it. (Thankfully Windows 7 is a bit easier)

Changing in Windows 7

Simply right-click on the alpha card orb button, accept Properties, again analysis the box for Use Baby Icons on the Taskbar tab:

Changing in Windows VistaRight click about the start push button, and pick out Properties:

Then click the Customize button:

Now annal bottomward all the way to the bottom. You should see a checkbox for Use ample icons, which you’ll appetite to uncheck:

Ahh, much best, peculiarly whenever you pin your favorites to the start menu:

Add lost Off-Screen Windows back up to Your background (Keyboard Trick)

2011-07-09T10:53:00.000-07:00

If you’ve anytime absorbed up your laptop to a accessory adviser and again broken after canonizing to move the windows aback to the primary desktop, you’ve apparently encounted this problem:

The appliance is running. You can see it in the taskbar, but you can’t see it on the screen, because it still thinks it’s active on the accessory monitor. You try and use right-click, Move, but that doesn’t do anything, and the window doesn’t move anywhere. You end up rebooting and cursing Microsoft.

There’s a simple ambush to get about this. First accomplish abiding you’ve alt-tabbed to the window, or clicked on it already to accompany it into focus. Again right-click on the taskbar and accept Move

At this point, you should apprehension that your cursor changes to the “Move” cursor, but you still can’t move anything.

Just hit any one of the arrow keys (Left, Right, Down, Up), move your mouse, and the window should magically “pop” aback assimilate the screen.

Note: For keyboard adeptness people, you can aloof alt-tab to the window, use Alt+Space, again M, again Arrow key, and again move your mouse.

This should assignment on any adaptation of Windows. It’s absolutely amazing how abounding bodies are not acquainted of this little trick.

Update: Note that you can additionally right-click on the taskbar and accept to Cascade your accessible windows, which will generally advice accompany the windows aback assimilate the screen.

Boost Netbook velocity on a SD Card & ReadyBoost

2011-07-09T10:47:00.000-07:00

Looking for a way to access the achievement of your netbook? Here’s how you can use a accepted SD anamnesis agenda or a USB beam drive to addition achievement with ReadyBoost.

Most netbooks address with 1Gb of Ram, and abounding earlier netbooks alien with alike less. Alike if you appetite to add added ram, generally they can alone be upgraded to a max of 2GB. With ReadyBoost in Windows 7, it’s accessible to addition your system’s achievement with beam memory. If your netbook has an SD agenda slot, you can admit a anamnesis agenda into it and aloof leave it there to consistently addition your netbook’s memory; otherwise, you can use a accepted USB beam drive the aforementioned way. Also, you can use ReadyBoost on any desktop or laptop; ones with bound anamnesis will see the best achievement access from application it.

Please Note: ReadyBoost requires at atomic 256Mb of chargeless amplitude on your beam drive, and additionally requires minimum read/write speeds. Best avant-garde anamnesis cards or beam drives accommodated these requirements, but be acquainted that an old agenda may not assignment with it.

Using ReadyBoost

Insert an SD agenda into your agenda reader, or affix a USB beam drive to a USB anchorage on your computer. Windows will automatically see if your beam anamnesis is ReadyBoost capable, and if so, you can anon accept to acceleration up your computer with ReadyBoost.

The ReadyBoost settings chat will accessible back you baddest this. Accept “Use this device” and accept how abundant amplitude you appetite ReadyBoost to use.

Click Ok, and Windows will bureaucracy ReadyBoost and alpha application it to acceleration up your computer. It will automatically use ReadyBoost whenever the agenda is affiliated to the computer.

When you appearance your SD agenda or beam drive in Explorer, you will apprehension a ReadyBoost book the admeasurement you chose before. This will be deleted back you banish your agenda or beam drive.

Whenever you want to remove your drive to use elsewhere, simply release for normal.

Windows will acquaint you that the drive is currently actuality used. Make abiding you accept bankrupt any programs or files you had accessible from the drive, and again columnist Continue to stop ReadyBoost and banish your drive.

If you abolish the drive after ejecting it, the ReadyBoost book may still abide on the drive. You can annul this to save amplitude on the drive, and the accumulation will be recreated back you use ReadyBoost abutting time.

Conclusion

Although ReadyBoost may not accomplish your netbook feel like a Core i7 laptop with 6GB of RAM, it will still advice achievement and accomplish multitasking alike easier. Also, if you have, say, a anamnesis stick and a beam drive, you can use both of them with ReadyBoost for the best benefit. We accept alike noticed more good array activity back multitasking with ReadyBoost, as it lets you use your adamantine drive less.

SD cards and deride drives are almost bargain today, and abounding of us accept several already, so this is a abundant way to advance netbook achievement cheaply.

Add up New characteristics to WMP with Windows Media Player Plus

2011-07-06T22:51:00.000-07:00

Do you use Windows Media Amateur 11 or 12 as your absence media player? Today, we’re activity to appearance you how to add some accessible fresh appearance and enhancements with the Windows Media Amateur Plus third affair plug-in.

Installation and Setup

Download and install Media Amateur Plus! (link below). You’ll charge to abutting out of Windows Media Amateur afore you activate or you’ll accept the bulletin below.

The abutting time you accessible Media Player you’ll be presented with the Media Player Plus settings window. Some of the settings will be enabled by default, such as the Find as you blazon feature.

Using Media Player Plus!

Find as you blazon allows you to alpha accounting a chase appellation from anywhere in Media Player after accepting to be in the Chase box. The chase appellation will automatically ample in the chase box and affectation the results.

You will as well see Disable group headers inward the Library Pane.

This ambience will affectation library items in a connected account agnate to the functionality of Windows Media Player 10.

Under interface you are able to enable displaying the currently playing artist and entitle in the title bar.

These are enabled by default.

The context of use Menu page admits you to enable context menu enhancements.

The File card accessory allows you to add the Windows Context card to Media Player on the library pane, account pane, or both. Right bang on a Title, baddest File, and you’ll see the Windows Context Menu.

Right-click upon a entitle and choose Tag Editor Plus.

Tag editor program Plus permits you to rapidly edit media tags.

The Advanced tab displays a cardinal of tags that Media Player usually doesn’t show. Only the tags with the block and pencil figure are editable.

The Restore Plug-ins folio allows you to configure which plug-ins should be automatically adequate afterwards a Media Player crash.

The Restore Media at Startup folio allows you to configure Media Player to resume arena the aftermost playlist, track, and alike whether it was arena or paused at the time the appliance was closed. So, if you abutting out in the average of a song, it will activate arena from that point the abutting time you accessible Media Player.

You can additionally set Media Player to rewind a assertive cardinal of abnormal from area you larboard off. This is abnormally advantageous if you are in the average of watching a movie.

There’s additionally the advantage to accept your currently arena song beatific to Windows Live Messenger.

You can admission the settings at any time by activity to Tools, Plug-in properties, and selecting Windows Media Player Plus.

Windows Media Plus is a nice little chargeless constituent for WMP 11 and 12 that brings a lot of added functionality to Windows Media Player. If you use Media Amateur 11 or WMP 12 in Windows 7 as your capital player, you ability appetite to accord this a try.

Download Windows Media Amateur Plus!

Add up Network hold to Windows Live MovieMaker

2011-07-06T22:37:00.000-07:00

Windows Live MovieMaker is a acceptable apparatus for creating videos in Windows 7, however, one botheration is it doesn’t acquiesce you to acceptation videos anon from arrangement locations. Here we’ll booty a attending at a quick anthology drudge that will accredit arrangement support.

If you try to add a video book to Windows Live MovieMaker from a arrangement arrangement location, area in this archetype we’re aggravating to add a book from our home server…

You’ll get an absurdity bulletin advertence files can’t be added anon from a arrangement folder, and it advises to archetype the book to your bounded apparatus first. Well, you may not accept the amplitude on your apparatus or the time to alteration it first. Not to acknowledgment there is aloof no acumen why you shouldn’t be able to add a book from a network.

We can add arrangement abutment with a quick anthology hack. Click on Start and blazon regedit into the chase box and hit Enter.

Navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows Live\Movie Maker and actualize a fresh DWORD value.

Name the amount AllowNetworkFiles and set the amount abstracts to 1 again bang Ok and abutting out of Registry Editor.

Now you are able to add up video files from a network location into MovieMaker.

Conclusion

While you could archetype the video from the server to your bounded apparatus or alien drive as a assignment around, you shouldn’t accept to. This Registry abuse enables arrangement abutment and works in both Windows 7 and Vista.

Add up keyboard spoken language* to XP, Vista, and Windows 7

2011-07-06T19:56:00.000-07:00

Do you consistently charge to blazon in assorted languages in Windows? Here we’ll appearance you the accessible way to add and change ascribe languages to your keyboard in XP, Vista, and Windows 7.

Windows Vista and 7 appear preinstalled with abutment for examination a advanced array of languages, so abacus an ascribe accent is adequately simply. Abacus an ascribe accent is hardly added difficult in XP, and requires installing added files if you charge an Asian or Complex calligraphy language. First we appearance how to add an ascribe accent in Windows Vista and 7; it’s basically the aforementioned in both versions. Then, we appearance how to add a accent to XP, and additionally how to add Complex Calligraphy support.

Please agenda that this is alone for abacus an ascribe language, which will acquiesce you to blazon in the accent you select. This does not change your user interface language.

Change keyboard accent in Windows 7 and Vista

It is adequately simple to add or change a keyboard accent in Windows 7 or Vista. In Windows 7, access “keyboard language” in the Start card chase box, and baddest “Change keyboards or added ascribe methods”.

In Windows Vista, accessible Control Panel and access “input language” in the chase box and baddest “Change keyboards or added ascribe methods”. This additionally works in Windows 7.

Now, click alteration Keyboards to add together another keyboard language or vary your default one.

Our absence ascribe accent is US English, and our absence keyboard is the US keyboard layout. Click Add to admit addition ascribe accent while still abrogation your absence ascribe accent installed.

Here we called the accepted Thai keyboard accent (Thai Kedmanee), but you can baddest any accent you want. Windows offers about any accent you can imagine, so aloof attending for the accent you want, baddest it, and bang Ok.

Alternately, if you want, you can bang Preview to see your blueprint best afore accepting it. This is alone the absence characters, not ones that will be activated with Shift or added keys (many Asian languages use abounding added characters than English, and crave the use of Shift and added keys to admission them all). Once your accomplished previewing, bang abutting and again columnist Ok on the antecedent dialog.

Now you will see both of your keyboard languages in the Installed casework box. You can bang Add to go aback and get more, or move your called accent up or bottomward (to change its priority), or artlessly bang Apply to add the fresh language.

Also, you can now change the absence ascribe accent from the top menu. This is the accent that your keyboard will alpha with back you cossack your computer. So, if you mainly use English but additionally use addition language, usually it is best to leave English as your absence ascribe language.

Once you’ve apprenticed Apply or Ok, you will see a fresh figure beside your arrangement tray with the brand of your absence ascribe language.

If you bang it, you can about-face amid ascribe languages. Alternately you can about-face ascribe languages by acute Alt+Shift on your keyboard.

Some circuitous languages, such as Chinese, may accept added buttons to change ascribe modes to board their ample alphabet.

If you would like to change the keyboard adjustment for alteration languages, go aback to the Input Languages dialog, and baddest the “Advanced Key Settings” tab. Here you can change settings for Caps Lock and change or add key sequences to change amid languages.

Also, the On-Screen keyboard will affectation the actual keyboard accent (here the keyboard is announcement Thai), which can be a accessible advertence if your concrete keyboard doesn’t accept your adopted ascribe accent printed on it. To accessible this, artlessly access “On-Screen keyboard” in the alpha card search, or bang All Programs>Accessories>On-Screen keyboard.

Change keyboard accent in Windows XP

The action for alteration the keyboard accent in Windows XP is hardly different. Open Control Panel, and baddest “Date, Time, Language, and Regional Options”.

Select “Add other languages”.

Now, bang Capacity to add addition language. XP does not accommodate abutment for Asian and circuitous languages by default, so if you charge to add one of those languages we accept capacity for that below.

Click Add to add a input language.

Select your adapted accent from the list, and accept your adapted keyboard blueprint if your accent offers assorted layouts. Here we called Canadian French with the absence layout.

Now you will see both of your keyboard languages in the Installed casework box. You can bang Add to go aback and add more, or move your called accent up or bottomward (to change its priority), or artlessly bang Apply to add the fresh language.

Once you’ve apprenticed Apply or Ok, you will see a fresh figure beside your arrangement tray with the brand of your absence ascribe language.

If you bang it, you can about-face amid ascribe languages. Alternately you can about-face ascribe languages by acute Alt+Shift on your keyboard.

If you would like to change the keyboard adjustment for alteration languages, go aback to the Input Languages dialog, and bang the “Key Settings” button on the basal of the dialog. Here you can change settings for Caps Lock and change or add key sequences to change amid languages.

Add abutment to XP for Asian and Circuitous calligraphy languages

Windows XP does not accommodate abutment for Asian and Circuitous calligraphy languages by default, but you can calmly add them to your computer. This is advantageous if you ambition to blazon in one of these languages, or artlessly appetite to apprehend argument accounting in these languages, back XP will not affectation these languages accurately if they are not installed. If you ambition to install Chinese, Japanese, and/or Korean, analysis the “Install files for East Asian languages” box. Or, if you charge to install a circuitous calligraphy accent (including Arabic, Armenian, Georgian, Hebrew, the Indic languages, Thai, and Vietnamese), analysis the “Install files for circuitous calligraphy and right-to-left languages” box.

Choosing either of these options will accessible a alert reminding you that this advantage will booty up added deejay space. Abutment for circuitous languages will crave about 10Mb of adamantine drive space, but East Asian accent abutment may crave 230 Mb or added chargeless deejay space. Bang Ok, and bang administer to install your accent files.

You may accept to admit your XP CD into your CD drive to install these files. Admit the disk, and again bang Ok.

Windows will mechanically copy the files, admitting fonts for these languages…

…and again will ask you to reboot your computer to agree the settings. Click Yes, and again reopen the “Add added languages” chat back your computer is rebooted, and add a accent as before.

Now you can add Complex and/or Asian languages to XP, aloof as above. Here is the XP taskbar accent selector with Thai installed.

Conclusion

Unfortunately we haven’t begin a way to add Asian and circuitous languages in XP after accepting an XP disc. If you apperceive of a way, let us apperceive in the comments. (No downloading the XP disc from torrent armpit answers please)

Adding an ascribe accent is actual important for bilingual individuals, and can additionally be advantageous if you artlessly charge to occasionally appearance Asian or Circuitous languages in XP. And by afterward the actual instructions for your adaptation of Windows, it should be actual accessible to add, change, and abolish ascribe languages.

Add together Dropbox the Send To Menu in Windows 7, XP, and Vista

2011-07-06T19:34:00.000-07:00

Dropbox is one of the coolest utilities accessible today to advancement and allotment files and folders online. If you appetite easier admission to it, you ability appetite to add it to the Send To Menu in the Context Menu.

Add Dropbox to Send To Menu in Vista & Windows 7

First cross to the afterward aisle by artful the afterward into the Windows Explorer abode bar or the Search box in the Start Menu.

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Windows\SendTo

If you accept Dropbox beneath Favorites right-click on the binder and annoyance it into the SendTo folder. If it’s not beneath your Favorites in Explorer, aloof annoyance it to the SendTo binder from whatever agenda you accept it in.

When you absolution the binder you’ll accept the advantage to move, copy, or actualize a shortcut…you can absolutely move it there if you want, but we’re activity to actualize a shortcut.

Now while you right-click about an file or folder you will have the choice to send it to your Dropbox folder.

If you accept added aggregate folders in your Dropbox binder you can add them to the SendTo Menu as able-bodied application the aforementioned method. Like in this archetype we added a aggregate Dropbox binder we use for testing beatnik stuff.

Add Dropbox to transmit To Menu in XP

In XP attend Control Panel and Folder selections and then select Show hidden files and folders.

Navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\[User Name]\SendTo (where User Name is the name of your computer) and actualize a adjustment to your Dropbox folder.

ow you've your Dropbox folder added to transmit To in the Context Menu…

If you use Send To from the Context Menu in Windows, this is a acceptable way to calmly add files and folders to your Dropbox folders.

Add together Copy To / Move To to Windows Explorer Right Click Menu

2011-07-06T19:24:00.000-07:00

A hidden functionality in Windows allows you to appropriate bang on a file, baddest Archetype To Binder or Move To Folder, and the move to box will pop up and let you accept a area to either archetype or move the book or binder to.

Update: Downloadable adaptation additionally available.

Here’s the quick anthology drudge to get this working. As usual, aback up your anthology aloof in case. You will appetite to browse bottomward to this key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AllFilesystemObjects\shellex\ContextMenuHandlers

Once you are at that key, appropriate bang and accept the New Key option:

Now you will double-click on the (Default) amount and access the following:

{C2FBB630-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}

Click OK and continue.

If you appetite to accredit Move To, you will echo the aforementioned steps, except creating a fresh key called Move To, and application this value:

{C2FBB631-2971-11D1-A18C-00C04FD75D13}

Now back you appropriate bang on a book or folder, you should see the afterward options:

Gets click Copy To Folder just now to see what happens….

And that’s it. Useful!

Add an fast Launch Feature to Windows 7 the easygoing Way

2011-07-06T19:16:00.000-07:00

Do you absence accepting the Quick Launch Toolbar in Windows 7? Now you can get that functionality aback with the awful customizable chargeless account SE-TrayMenu.

Note: SE-Tray Menu comes in exe book and carriageable versions.

Initial Look & Setting SE-TrayMenu Up

Installing SE-TrayMenu is quick and easy…once you accept accomplished you will see a baby “Light Bulb Icon” in the “System Tray Area”. Simply authority your abrasion over it to see the absence layout, theme, and apps available.

To accumulate it arresting at all times you should accessible the “Notification Area Icons Window” and change the ambience to “Show figure and notifications”.

To accession of settings as SE-TrayMenu, right click with the “System Tray Icon”.

The first thing that you will probably want to do is decide if you would like for SE-TrayMenu to start with Windows each time, the type of layout that best suits your needs (you can personalize how SE-TrayMenu looks very nicely with this), and the color theme.

The abutting affair is to alpha abacus in the apps that you appetite quick admission to. Here you can see the absence accumulation forth with their “Target Paths”.

Click on the arrow allocation of the “Add Button” to admission the “Drop Down Menu”. The quickest and best acceptable advantage is to baddest “Add applications from Start Menu…”.

Once you accept called “Add applications from Start Menu…”, you will see the afterward window. Scroll through the account and baddest the apps that you would like to add to SE-TrayMenu. When you are accomplished bang “OK”.

Now you can see your fresh app list. From actuality you can abolish any apps that you do not need, add added apps, or adapt the ones on the list. Click “Close” back you are finished.

On afresh theme, set out, and another apps, our setup turned out very nicely.

Conclusion

If you’re attractive for a way to add the Quick Launch affection to Windows 7, again SE-TrayMenu provides a quick and accessible way to do it. It will additionally assignment with Windows 2000, XP and Vista. While this is an accessible way to add Quick Launch functionality, accomplish abiding and apprehend The Geek’s commodity on how to Add the Real Quick Launch Bar to Windows 7.

Download SE-TrayMenu

Get at Windows 7 System Settings the at ease Way

2011-07-06T11:39:00.000-07:00

Are you attractive for a quicker way to admission your arrangement settings after application the Control Panel? Then “Windows 7 in a Box” is a affairs that you should booty a afterpiece attending at.

What “Windows 7 in a Box” Looks Like

Setting “Windows 7 in a Box” up is actual quick and easy. Simply achieve the rar file, abode the exe book in an adapted “Program Files” folder, and actualize a shortcut. Once started the interface is accessible to cross and use with bead bottomward menus.

Note: The capital app window will be small.

The best affair to do already you accept the affairs started is to attending through the airheaded to become accustomed with them. “System Settings” accept been burst bottomward into focused categories to advice you acquisition what you are attractive for as bound as possible.

For those who are curious, we accept included screenshots for all six airheaded so that you can accept a actual acceptable abstraction of all the settings accessible through the program. Here you can see the settings accessible beneath the “Functions Menu”…

And the items available in the “Folders Menu”.

The “Internet Settings Menu”.

You can admission the added accepted apps included in Windows 7 (i.e. Windows Media Center, Snipping Tool, etc.) application the “Programs Menu”.

Note: This card will not affectation user-installed programs added to Windows.

Use the “Tools Menu” to access “System Management Tools”.

Access generally acclimated “System Settings” such as “Screen Resolution, User Account Control, & Window Color and Appearance“ in the “Settings Menu”.

“Windows 7 in a Box” in Action

As a quick example, we acclimated “Windows 7 in a Box” to admission the “User Accounts” settings and they opened up actual quickly.

Though not apparent in our screenshot, “Windows 7 in a Box” is still accessible and active “behind the “User Accounts Window” accessible for the abutting accumulation of settings or affairs that you charge quick admission to.

Conclusion

If you accept been absent a quick way to admission settings after activity through the assorted layers of the Control Panel, again you will absolutely get pleasure “Windows 7 in a Box”.

Links

Download Windows 7 in a Box

Backing an whole Vista PC Across a Network utilizing wbadmin

2011-07-06T11:23:00.000-07:00

Compared to the advancement accoutrement that appear with antecedent versions of Windows, Vista’s Advancement and Restore Center, is a contentment – except for one baby problem: It can’t do a complete arrangement (image) advancement to addition computer on the network. In this commodity we apprentice a workaround to this limitation.

Backup and Restore Center

The Windows Vista Advancement and Restore Center alien to Windows users the adeptness to advancement your absolute computer: files, programs, settings, anthology – everything.

Running The affairs created a VHD book – an angel of your absolute C drive. In the accident of a annexation or adamantine deejay failure, your arrangement could be adequate to the exact accompaniment it was in back the aftermost advancement was taken (using the Windows Recovery Environment on your Windows accession DVD).

This VHD angel book would about be astronomic (the accumulated admeasurement of all files on your C drive), and so a area to abundance this book would charge to be called carefully. Unfortunately, the alone options presented to you were added adamantine disks in your arrangement (such as an centralized D drive or an alien USB drive) or a accumulating of bare DVDs.

An accessible blank was the adeptness to aback up beyond a Local Area Network, to addition computer such as to a book server or advancement server. Only Microsoft would be able to acquaint us why this advantage was omitted. Thankfully it has been added into Windows 7.

If your advancement administration requires that your Windows Vista arrangement be backed up beyond a network, and you’re not accommodating to carapace out for third-party software, such as Norton Ghost or Acronis True Image, again you’ll charge to use the abstruse Windows arrangement advancement account alleged wbadmin. wbadmin is a command-line tool, and so to use it you will apparently accept one of the afterward methods:

1. The Windows command prompt,

2. Writing a accumulation book (script), or

3. Automating the advancement application the Windows Task Scheduler

Given that best bodies who charge to aback up a arrangement won’t appetite to do it aloof once, and will added than acceptable accept a charge to do it on a approved (daily or weekly) basis, this tutorial will analyze the third option:

Automating a approved abounding arrangement advancement application the Windows Task Scheduler

To agenda a approved backup, we charge aboriginal accessible the Windows Task Scheduler. This is calmly amid by beat the Start button and accounting “task“:

The undertaking Scheduler window and then opens up. To schedule a backup, click on Create Basic Task…

The Create Basic Assignment Wizard starts and prompts us for a name by which we would like to accredit to this task. We can accord it a name such as “Weekly Full System Backup”:

We again bang the Next button and are prompted for how frequently we would like to like to run the backup. Obviously the best fabricated at this point is up to you (or your IT department), but for this tutorial we will accept Weekly:

We bang the Next button and are prompted to complete the scheduling details. We will accept Every Wednesday morning at 4:30am:

We bang the Next button and are prompted for what blazon of assignment we appetite to perform. We will accept Start a program:

We bang the Next button and are prompted for the name of the affairs we ambition to run, as able-bodied as any command-line arguments (parameters) we will to accommodate to the program.

We could browse for the program, but in this case it’s easier to artlessly blazon its name: wbadmin..

The command-line arguments we will specify in this archetype are:

alpha advancement -backuptarget:\\servername\sharename -include:c:

-user:MYNAME -password:MYPASSWORD -quiet

These options beggarly the following:

* alpha alpha the job (not now, but aback the assignment is scheduled, of course)

* advancement the job to alpha is a backup

* -backuptarget:\\servername\sharename The area to aback up to. This could be a simple Drive:Folder aisle (e.g. D:/Backups), or – in this case – the UNC aisle of a computer and arrangement aggregate folder.

* -include:c: The drives to accommodate in the backup. If you appetite assorted drives, abstracted them with commas (no spaces). i.e. -include c:,d:

* -user:MYNAME -password:MYPASSWORD The username and countersign appropriate to admission the alien ambition computer/folder on the network. (obviously, you alter MYNAME with your absolute username and MYPASSWORD with your absolute password.)

* -quiet Run the job after bidding the user for any information

There are abounding added options for the wbadmin program. These are all abundant on Microsoft’s TechNet folio (link below).

It is not all-important to specify annihilation in the Alpha in box:

That is all the advice that the astrologer requires. We bang the Next button to see a arbitrary of the assignment details:

…and then click the Finish button to return to the list of active tasks:

It may be all-important to double-click on the anew created assignment to acclimatize some of the backdrop or conditions, specifically:

* On the General tab, you may ambition to ensure that the assignment runs alike if you are not logged in. If you do this, you will be prompted to accumulation the login accreditation – username and countersign – of the user that the assignment is to be run as.

* On the Altitude tab (if your computer is a laptop), you may ambition to accept to alone run the advancement assignment if the computer is acquainted into mains power.

The assignment will now run every Wednesday morning. You can additionally run it manually whenever you appetite by aperture the Windows Assignment Scheduler, analysis the assignment in the account and beat the Run button in the Actions area to the right.

Once the assignment has completed, you can cross to the arrangement computer/folder that you defined in the assignment settings and see the results. You will see a binder alleged WindowsImageBackup, and aural that a sub-folder with the aforementioned name as the computer you were abetment up. If you aback up several machines with this technique, you will see one sub-folder for anniversary computer. Aural anniversary sub-folder you will see a subfolder alleged Advancement with a date in its name. That is area your angel files are located, forth with some XML housekeeping files. The advancement files are accessible to identify, as they are abounding Gigabytes in admeasurement and accept a VHD extension.

Notes:

* More advice about the wbadmin affairs can be begin on either Microsoft’s TechNet folio or on the Wikipedia page.

* VHD files can be army and browsed (to restore alone files after accepting to restore the absolute drive) by application the baby and advantageous VHD Attach utility.

* When the assignment is run the afterward week, the antecedent backups will be automatically removed. Only one set of VHD files will be present in the WindowsImageBackup binder for anniversary computer at any accustomed time.

Specify an Shortcut Key to the snippet Tool in Windows Vista

2011-07-06T11:04:00.000-07:00

Windows Vista includes a awning capture/screenshot apparatus that is absolutely appealing decent. You can booty arena captures or abounding screenshots and calmly save them application this tool.

Note: The snipping apparatus doesn’t abide on every adaptation of Vista. To about-face it on, you’ll accept to go to “Turn Windows appearance on or off” in Control Panel, and analysis the box for the Tablet PC utilities.

The alone botheration with this apparatus is that there’s no hotkey to accompany up the window. But we’ll fix that…

Bring up the Start Menu, and again bang on All Programs. Bang the Accessories folder, and you’ll see the Snipping Tool.

Right click them and attend the Properties screen. You will see an Shortcut key text box:

The alone annoying affair with this ambush is that you can’t use the PrintScreen key… but no big deal. I assigned Ctrl + F12 because that’s article accessible to bethink that I don’t use for annihilation else.

Add up the Recycle Bin from Start Menu to Windows 7

2011-07-06T10:56:00.000-07:00

Have you anytime approved to accessible the Recycle Bin by analytic for “recycle bin” in the Alpha card search, alone to acquisition nothing? Here’s a quick ambush that will let you acquisition the Recycle Bin anon from your Windows Alpha card search.

The Alpha card chase may be the best timesaver anytime added to Windows. In fact, we use it so abundant that it seems aching to manually chase for a affairs back application Windows XP or earlier versions of Windows. You can calmly acquisition files, folders, programs and added through the Alpha card chase in both Vista and Windows 7. However, one affair you cannot acquisition is the recycle bin; if you admission this in the alpha card chase it will not acquisition it. Here’s how to add the Recycle Bin to your Alpha card search.

What to do

To admission the Recycle Bin from the Alpha card search, we charge to add a adjustment to the alpha menu. Windows includes a claimed Alpha card folder, and an All Users alpha card binder which all users on the computer can see. This ambush alone works in the claimed Alpha card folder.

Open up an Explorer window (Simply bang the Computer articulation in the alpha menu), bang the white allotment of the abode bar, and, admission the afterward (substitute your username for your_user_name) and hit Enter.

C:\Users\your_user_name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu

Now, right-click in the folder, select New, and then click Shortcut.

In the fix box, enter the followers:

explorer.exe shell:RecycleBinFolder

When you have set this, click Next.

Now, access a name for the shortcut. You can access Recycle Bin like the accepted shortcut, or you could name it article abroad such as Trash…if that’s easier for you to remember. Click Finish back your done.

By absence it will accept a binder icon. Let’s about-face that to the accepted Recycle Bin icon. Right-click on the fresh adjustment and bang Properties.

Click Change Icon…

Type the afterward in the “Look for icons in this file:” box, and columnist the Enter key on your keyboard:

%SystemRoot%\system32\imageres.dll

Now, annal and acquisition the Recycle Bin figure and bang Ok.

Click Ok in the past dialog, and at once your Recycle Bin cutoff accepts the correct icon.

You can alike accept assorted shortcuts with altered names, so back you searched either Recycle Bin or Trash it would appear up in the Start menu. To do that, artlessly echo these directions, and access addition name of your best at the prompt. Here we accept both a Recycle Bin and a Trash icon.

Now, back you access Recycle Bin (or trash, depending on what you chose) in your Start card search, you will see it at the top of your Start menu. Simply columnist Access or bang on the figure to accessible the Recycle Bin.

This ambush will assignment in Windows Vista too! Simply chase these aforementioned directions, and you can add the Recycle Bin to your Vista Start card and acquisition it via search.

This is a simple trick, but may accomplish it abundant easier for you to accessible your Recycle Bin anon from your Windows Vista or 7 Start card search. If you’re application Windows 7, you can additionally analysis out our admonition on how to Add the Recycle Bin to the Taskbar in Windows 7.

Accession Google serves by the Command Line

2011-07-05T11:43:00.000-07:00

Want to appearance your aberrant ancillary and adapt your Google Docs or address a Blogger column from command prompt? Here’s how you can admission a array of Google casework from command band with the GoogleCL.

Getting Started

GoogleCL is a Python command band appliance that lets you admission assorted Google casework from command band on Windows, Mac OS X, or Linux. Here we’ll be application the Windows adaptation on Windows 7, but it would assignment the exact aforementioned on added platforms.

Head over to the download articulation below, and baddest the actual adaptation for your OS. If you appetite to run it on Windows, baddest the zip file. Ubuntu users can download and install the .deb file.

sshot-2010-07-27-[08-22-30]

After downloading the zip book for Windows, abstract it as accustomed and again run the google.exe affairs in the folder.

The aboriginal time you run Google CL, it will actualize a preferences binder at:

%USERPROFILE%\.googlecl

On one of our tests, we accustomed an absurdity adage that MSVCR71.dll was missing from our computer, so GoogleCL couldn’t run. This is a C++ runtime library in Windows, and best programs that charge it accommodate it with their affairs files. GoogleCL does not accommodate this DLL in the zip file, so we’ll charge to acquisition a archetype for it.

You’ll acceptable accept abounding copies of this book throughout your computer, but GoogleCL cannot acquisition them. So, do a computer-wide chase for msvcr71.dll, and archetype one of these files it finds.

Now adhesive that dll book in the GoogleCL folder, and run google.exe as before. Everything should assignment altogether this time.

UsingGoogleCL
GoogleCL’s syntax is actual accessible to use and understand. To get started, you ability appetite to checkout the readme.txt book included. Or, aloof blazon advice at the alert to get some quick instructions.

You can use GoogleCL to admission casework on Picasa, Blogger, YouTube, Docs, Contacts, and Calendar via the command band interface, and we’d adulation to see approaching versions will accommodate abutment for added items including Gmail and Search. For now, though, these casework are still useful. Enter advice followed by a account name to see added advice about it and some acceptance examples. Here we see the advice for Calendar.

Activating a Service

When you aboriginal use a service, you’ll accept to actuate your computer with it online. For instance, if we capital to see all the accessories in our Calendar, we’d admission Calendar list. You’ll be asked to specify a user; admission your Gmail email address. Then, you’ll be prompted to accept the admission in your browser, and the approval folio will automatically accessible in your absence browser.

Click Grant access in the webpage that opens, and then press Enter in the GoogleCL window.

You’ll accept to do this for anniversary of the Google casework you use. Even carefully accompanying casework like Contacts and Calendar accept to be activated individually. One absorbing aspect of this is that you could accept altered Google annual associated with altered services. Already they’re activated, though, it’ll be accessible to use these casework on this computer.

Using GoogleCL

GoogleCL has bags of functions you can use to collaborate with Google’s services. We’ll attending at a few of the functions we begin interesting.

Docs

First, we approved uploading a certificate to Docs. To do this, enter:

docs upload path_to_your_document

This may booty a minute depending on the admeasurement of your document, but already it’s done, you’ll see a success bulletin and a articulation to your document.

You’re declared to be able to adapt abstracts by entering:

docs adapt –title “your_document” –editor your_editor

However, this didn’t assignment in our tests, and we accustomed an absurdity message. This should assignment in the future, and could accept been acquired by a botheration on our end, but it would not assignment in any of our tests.

YouTube
GoogleCL worked great for uploading videos to YouTube. Once you’ve authorized your account, enter:

youtube post “your_file_path”

Enter a category name when requested, and GoogleCL will start uploading your video to YouTube. As usual, this will take a few minutes depending on the size of your video, but it’s still quicker than going to the YouTube page to post a video.

Note that you may see an absurdity if you access a
class that is not accessible on YouTube. If so, try again, this time entering a actual category.

For your reference, here’s some of the categories you can use from YouTube.com…so make sure you use one of them.

Blogger

GoogleCL makes Blogger into a geekier blogging service. You can review, tag and alike actualize fresh posts on Blogger, all anon from command line. You can address the anatomy of your column in a argument file, and you can alike use HTML markup to accomplish the column attending like you want. To do this, access the afterward in GoogleCL:

blogger column –title “your_title” path_to_post_file

Moments later, we had a fresh blog column with the agreeable from our argument file. We could accept acquaint a long, able-bodied formatted HTML post, but hey, what’s more good than the archetypal beatnik greeting for a aberrant blog post?

Conclusion

Whether you’d like to bound adapt Gmail acquaintance info, upload a YouTube video after application the cool Flash uploader, or accomplish a calligraphy that automatically makes a column on Blogger back you blast your arch on the keyboard, GoogleCL gives you the accoutrement you charge to do added with Google than you admitting possible. Who said Google doesn’t accept a billow OS? Back you can collaborate with a webapp via command prompt, aback it feels like Google is aloof addition allotment of your computer. We’ve alone aching the apparent of what you can do with GoogleCL; analysis out the examples articulation beneath for added ideas. Let us apperceive what aberrant projects you do with GoogleCL!

Link

Download GoogleCL

Check out Example GoogleCL Scripts

Accession and launching Windows Utilities the Easy Way

2011-07-05T11:12:00.000-07:00

Tired of accepting to dig through the Control Panel (or added genitalia of the Alpha Menu) aloof to admission and use assorted Windows Utilities? Enjoy accepting cool quick (and easy) admission to those utilities with Windows Utilities Launcher.

Note: Requires .NET Framework 3.5+ (link provided at basal of article).

Setup

Windows Utilities Launcher is affably simple to set up…just achieve the exe file, abode it in a “Program Files” folder, and actualize a shortcut. Get accessible for burning admission goodness!

This is what you will see as anon as you alpha Windows Utilities Launcher… In the “Utilities Tab Area” you can bound admission the utilities apparent with a distinct bang of the button below anniversary listing. Notice that you can calmly abbreviate Windows Utilities Launcher to the “System Tray” or avenue the affairs application the two buttons in the lower appropriate corner. Windows Utilities Launcher will additionally affectation the adaptation of Windows that you are application in the “Status Bar”.

Note: Windows (Computer) Info works on Vista & 7 only.

The “Settings Tab Area” lets you adjudge if you would like to accept Windows Utilities Launcher alpha up with Windows anniversary time and if you would like to accept the app alpha as minimized.

The “About Tab Area” provides basal app advice and additionally a way to acquaintance the developer.

The Right Click Menus

Time for a afterpiece attending at the “Right Click Menu” bureaucracy for Windows Utilities Launcher. Actuality you can see the capital menu… Notice that there are two added apps that you can admission actuality (Notepad & Calculator).

Use the “Windows Utilities” sub-menu as an alternating way to bound admission alone Windows Utilities.

Windows Utilities Launcher in Action

For our archetype we absitively to admission the “Date and Time Utility”. With a distinct bang the “Date and Time” window opened actual quickly. We had the aforementioned abundant aftereffect on any of the added utilities that we chose…quick and accessible access.

Conclusion

Windows Utilities Launcher is still in the beforehand stages of development, but this little app is already demonstrating how accessible it should and can be to admission accepted Windows Utilities. This is absolutely account aggravating out…have fun!

Links

Download Windows Utilities Launcher (version 1.1)

Download the .NET Framework (version 3.5 SP1)

Works On: Windows XP – 7

Installed On: Windows Vista (32 bit), Service Pack 2

Sum up grouping Policy editor program to Control Panel

2011-07-05T11:00:00.000-07:00

If you acquisition yourself application the Group Policy Editor all the time, you ability accept wondered why it doesn’t appearance up in the Control Panel forth with all the added tools. After abounding hours of anthology hacking, I’ve appear up with a anthology abuse to let you do aloof that.

You can’t manually accomplish the anthology abuse yourself application regedit.exe because there’s no way to add a absence account of blazon REG_EXPAND_SZ, but I’ve provided a anthology drudge download for you.

Please agenda that this does not assignment with the Home editions of either Vista or XP because they don’t appear with Group Policy Editor.

Windows Vista

After installation, you will acquisition the fresh account by aboriginal allotment Additional Options in Control Panel.

You should now see Group Policy Editor in the list.

Windows XP

You will accept to about-face to the Classic View in adjustment to see the figure in XP.

And now it will appearance up in the account of icons.

Installation

Just download and abstract and double-click on AddGroupPolicyToControlPanel.reg to add the icon. There is additionally addition anthology calligraphy that will abolish the items.

Download AddGroupPolicyToControlPanel Anthology Hack

Add up Defragment by Right-Click Menu for any Drive

2011-07-05T10:50:00.000-07:00

After autograph the commodity aftermost anniversary about how to add Disk Cleanup to the ambience card for a drive, I accustomed several requests for how to add addition card account for Defrag instead. With a simple anthology drudge we can do aloof that.

After manually applying or downloading the hack, you’ll accept a fresh account on the right-click card for your drives…

Which will alpha up the command-line adaptation of Disk Defragmenter (after accepting the UAC prompt)

Manual Registry Hack

Open up regedit.exe through the alpha card chase or run box, and again browse bottomward to the afterward key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\Drive\shell

Create a fresh key beneath carapace alleged “runas”, and again set the (Default) amount to “Defragment”. If you appetite to adumbrate this card account abaft the Shift key right-click menu, again add a fresh cord alleged Extended with no value.

Next, you’ll charge to actualize a key alleged “command” and set the absence amount to the following, which is the command to run defrag with the absence options but appearance bombastic output.

defrag %1 -v

You can alternately accept from one of the added defrag switches actuality if you’d like.

Downloadable Registry Hack

Simply download, extract, and double-click on either AddDefragToDriveMenu.reg (for the approved menu) or AddDefragToExtendedDriveMenu.reg (to adumbrate abaft the Shift key). There’s additionally an included abatement calligraphy that will abolish either one.

Download AddDefragToDriveMenu Registry Hack

Add together "Run for Administrator" as AutoHotkey playscripts in Windows 7 or Vista

2011-07-05T10:43:00.000-07:00

As approved readers apperceive well, I’m a huge fan of application AutoHotkey to automate my absolute accretion experience… but in Windows 7 and Vista there’s a austere limitation back you can’t run a calligraphy as Administrator by default. This agency that your hotkeys can’t collaborate with windows active in Admin mode… so how do we get about this?

There are three solutions to this problem:

* Completely Disable UAC – Not the best band-aid for aegis purposes, but it works.

* Compile your calligraphy to an executable.

* Hack the anthology and add “Run as Administrator” to the ambience menu.

Compile Calligraphy as Executable

All you accept to do is right-click on the script, accept “Compile Script”…

And now you can run the executable adaptation as administrator:

This isn’t the absolute solution, however. I adapt my calligraphy all the time, so accepting to recompile anniversary time I accomplish an edit… would get annoying.

Manual Registry Hack for AutoHotkey “Run as Administrator”

Open up regedit through the alpha card chase or run box, and again browse bottomward to the afterward key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\AutoHotkeyScript\Shell

Right-click on “Shell” on the left-hand ancillary and actualize a fresh key alleged “runas”, again actualize a key alleged “Command” beneath it. Again actualize or set the afterward two ethics on the right-hand side, adjusting the aisle if necessary.

Name Value

(Default) “C:\Program Files\AutoHotkey\AutoHotkey.exe” “%1″ %*

IsolatedCommand “C:\Program Files\AutoHotkey\AutoHotkey.exe” “%1″ %*

The absence key should already be there, aloof charge to set the value.

Now back you right-click on an AutoHotkey script, you’ll see the advantage to Run as Administrator:

Download Anthology Hack

Download, extract, and double-click on the AdminAutoHotkey.reg to access the advice into the registry. There’s additionally a abatement calligraphy included.

Note that this anthology drudge will alone assignment if you installed AutoHotkey into the absence location, contrarily you’ll accept to adapt the paths.

Download AdminAutoHotkey Anthology Hack

Backup/Copy Files that are "busy" or "locked up Windows Command

2011-07-05T10:34:00.000-07:00

If you’ve anytime approved to archetype a book that is bound by addition application, you’ve apparently apparent an absurdity bulletin agnate to “The action cannot admission the book because addition action has bound a allocation of the file”. So how do you archetype it anyway?

Since XP, Windows has accurate a technology alleged Volume Shadow Copy, which is acclimated to ability the antecedent versions affection in Vista as able-bodied as System Restore and backups. What it does is booty a acting snapshot of the book or drive, and again acquiesce an appliance to apprehend from the snapshot alike while added applications are accessing or modifying the file.

What we can do is use a command band account alleged HoboCopy that utilizes this account to archetype the file.

Understanding the Prerequisites

HoboCopy and best added advancement utilities accomplish use of two casework in Windows, and you’ll charge to verify that these casework are not disabled:

* Volume Shadow Copy

* Microsoft Software Shadow Archetype Provider

They can be larboard as Manual startup, so they don’t charge to be active all the time. Hobocopy will alpha the two casework automatically aback needed, and the Volume Shadow Archetype account will be angry aback off afterwards it’s done.

Using HoboCopy to Backup/Copy a Distinct File

The syntax is a little weird, because HoboCopy is absolutely meant to be acclimated for abetment up an absolute set of folders. We can use it to advancement a distinct book by casual in the filename altercation at the end.

Note: on Windows Vista you will charge to barrage an Administrator approach command alert by right-clicking on the Command alert in the alpha card and allotment Run as Administrator.

Syntax:

hobocopy c:\directoryname\ d:\backupdirectory\

For example, I appetite to advancement my c:\users\geek\mail\outlook.pst book to d:\backups\outlook.pst. Here’s the syntax that I’d use:

C:\> hobocopy c:\users\geek\mail\ d:\backups\ Outlook.pst

Starting a abounding archetype from c:\users\geek\mail to d:\backups\

Affected directory

Advancement auspiciously completed.

Advancement started at 2008-03-09 01:57:28, completed at 2008-03-09 01:58:39.

1 files (606.45 MB, 1 directories) copied, 7 files skipped

Using HoboCopy to Advancement an Absolute Directory

A abundant added advantageous assignment would be to advancement my absolute User folder, apparently to an alien adamantine drive for safekeeping. For this, we’ll appetite to add a brace of command-line arguments.

/full Copy all files

/skipdenied Ignore any admission denied letters because of permission errors.

/r Copy recursively

/y Don’t prompt, aloof archetype everything

Syntax:

hobocopy /full /skipdenied /y /r c:\directoryname\ d:\backupdirectory\

Let’s go with the aforementioned example, I appetite to advancement my absolute user agenda to d:\backups\, so I’d use this command:

hobocopy /full /skipdenied /y /r c:\users\geek\ d:\backups\

This command will acceptable booty a actual continued time to complete, so you ability appetite to booty a nap or something. At the end you should accept a about absolute archetype of the directory… if there are any permission errors you’ll be alerted to files that didn’t copy. Realistically any files in your user agenda shouldn’t accept this problem.

Using HoboCopy to Incrementally Advancement a Drive

Hobocopy additionally supports abetment up files incrementally, so it will alone archetype the files that accept afflicted back the aftermost backup. This works analogously to utilities like rsync, except hobocopy food the aftermost advancement date in a book that you charge to specify on the command line.

/statefile=filename This banderole specifies the book that contains the aftermost advancement information.

/incremental Only archetype files that accept afflicted back the aftermost abounding copy.

Syntax:

hobocopy /incremental /statefile=filename /y /r c:\directoryname\ d:\backupdirectory\

Example:

hobocopy /incremental /statefile=d:\lastbackup.dat /y /r c:\users\geek\ d:\backups\

The aboriginal time that you run this command you will charge to use /full instead of /incremental, or abroad you will get an absurdity because the accompaniment book hasn’t been created yet. After that you can run the incremental advancement with the /incremental switch.

This would be an accomplished way to automatically advancement a set of folders as allotment of a appointed task.

Download HoboCopy from sourceforge.net

Bring "opened with Notepad" to the context of use Menu for All Files

2011-07-01T00:40:00.000-07:00

The absence adjustment of aperture alien files armament you to go through a account of accepted applications and is about a affliction to accord with. That’s why I like to accept a ambience card advantage for “Open with Notepad” so that I can bound accessible up files after accepting to go through a lot of trouble.

This anthology drudge is annihilation new, it’s been about forever… anticipate of this as a refresher course. Also agenda that you can use this aforementioned address to acting any added appliance that you’d like by adjusting the aisle in the anthology to point to the altered editor

Manual Registry Hack

Open regedit.exe through the alpha card chase or run box, and again browse bottomward to the afterward key:

HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\*\shell

Right-click on “shell” and accept to actualize a fresh key, calling it “Open with Notepad”. Actualize a fresh key beneath that one alleged “command”. Double-click on the (Default) amount in the right-hand area and access in the following:

notepad.exe %1

The change should booty aftereffect immediately… aloof right-click on any book and you’ll see the abutting card entry.

Download Anthology Hack

Just download, abstract and double-click on the OpenWithNotepad.reg book to access the advice into the registry. There’s additionally an uninstall calligraphy included.

Download OpenWithNotepad anthology hack

Add up "My Dropbox" in Your Windows 7 Start Menu

2011-07-01T00:35:00.000-07:00

Over actuality at How-To Geek, we’re huge admirers of Dropbox, the amazingly fast online book accompany utility, but we’d be alike happier if we could natively add it to the Windows 7 Start Menu, area it belongs. And today, that’s what we’ll do.

Yep, that’s right. You can add it to the Alpha Menu… application a asinine drudge to the Libraries affection and renaming the Recorded TV library to a altered name. It’s not a absolute solution, but you can admission your Dropbox binder this way and it aloof seems to accord there.

First things first, arch into the Customize Alpha Card console by right-clicking on the alpha card and application Properties, again accomplish abiding that Recorded TV is set to “Display as a link”.

Next, right-click on Recorded TV, accept Rename, and again change it to article abroad like My Dropbox.

Now you’ll appetite to right-click on that button again, and accept Properties, area you’ll see the Library locations in the list… the accepted abstraction is that you appetite to abolish Recorded TV, and again add your Dropbox folder.

Oh, and you’ll apparently appetite to accomplish abiding to set “Optimize this library for” to “General Items”.

At this point, you can aloof bang on My Dropbox, and you’ll see, well, Your Dropbox! (no abruptness there).

Yeah, I know, it’s absolutely a hack. But it’s a actual advantageous one! Also, if you aren’t already application Dropbox, you should absolutely analysis it out—2 GB for free, attainable via the web from anywhere, and you can accompany to assorted desktops.

Maximize Your Windows

2011-06-29T02:09:00.000-07:00

Today’s technology tip goes aback to the basics. It's all about application the windows on your desktop added effectively.

For example, the buttons in the top appropriate duke bend of the screen:

Maximize (full screen)

Minimize (Make a adaptable window)

Close (end a affairs by closing the window it's in)

To resize a window go to the basal appropriate duke corner, grab it by larboard beat and captivation the button. Then annoyance to accomplish the window beyond or smaller:

All windows accept a appellation bar beyond the top and some windows, depending on the affairs that's active in them, ability additionally accept a card bar and apparatus bar. Here's and archetype from Microsoft Word:

acted as call that

2011-06-29T01:53:00.000-07:00

Today's technology tip is about those little buttons and icons that you see every day but may not apperceive the name of. For archetype how abounding of these items can you point to on your desktop appropriate now?

Maximize Minimize Close

The Start Menu Title Bar Menu Bar

Tool Bar Address Bar A Drop Down Menu

Were you able to locate all of them?

Move bottomward the folio to see the answers.

There is a accomplished cant that goes with application a computer. Abounding of us booty alive basal computer cant for accepted but it can be actual alarming for fresh computer users. This goes for adolescent accouchement as able-bodied as adults. Booty a attending at the images above. How abounding of the names did you know?

Getting through with Windows

2011-06-29T01:02:00.000-07:00

Today’s Technology Tip will advice you cross your way through the assorted folders and windows on your Microsoft desktop.

Some accepted analogue you should be accustomed with:

1. DESKTOP: The aperture awning back you about-face on your computers. It apparently looks article like this:

ICONS: The little pictures that represent files or programs. Here are some sample icons:

Shortcut to Word:

     Shortcut to GradeQuick:

A Word Document:

3.MY COMPUTER: The desktop figure from which you can cross your way through the assorted drives, folders and files on your computer

                                             The “My Computer” Icon:

4.FOLDERS: The basal authoritative anatomy in Microsoft Windows. Like a behemothic filing chiffonier your computer uses folders to adapt aggregate in it. Here are some sample binder Icons:

You ability apprehension that your icons and folders ability attending altered than the ones pictured above. When anytime you accessible a binder (by bifold beat the larboard abrasion button) a fresh window opens to appearance you what is in that folder. You can change how the icons (files) are displayed. Here’s how:

1) Accessible a folder, any folder.

2) Every window has the afterward “Bars” at the top:

The Appellation Bar tells you the name of the binder you are in. In this archetype the appellation bar tells you that you are in a arrangement drive alleged "X:"

Each chat on the Card Bar gives you a bead bottomward card of options.

The Tool Bar offers you shortcuts for accepted tasks

The Address Bar tells you which binder you are in and additionally offers you a way to admission added folders. If you bang the triangle on the Address Bar you can see a bead bottomward account of added folders and pathways to them:

3) To change the appearance bang on the chat “View” on the card bar and baddest a fresh appearance from that list. Anniversary appearance has its own advantages and disadvantages. For example, if you are attractive at a binder abounding of pictures you ability appetite to use the “Thumbnail” appearance so you can see what anniversary account looks like. If you are aggravating to apple-pie out your C: drive you ability appetite to use the “Details” appearance to acquisition the better files so you can annul them first. Here are some sample angle of the aforementioned folder:

Details View

Edit undo, Undo, UNDO!

2011-06-28T23:16:00.000-07:00

Have you anytime fabricated a mistake? I beggarly a aberration on the computer. You know, pasted the amiss account into a Word certificate or messed up a table or a argument box. The programmers of the Microsoftcomputer application (Word, Outlook, Excel, Publisher, etc.) knew we would accomplish mistakes so they programmed in a brace of means to “undo” them. Here are a few means to disengage your abutting mistake:

OPTION #1: On the card bar baddest “Edit” and again “Undo.” This will

eliminate the aftermost activity you took in the program. For example, if you aloof typed the amiss chat “Edit” & “Undo” will accomplish the chat go away.

OPTION #2: On the apparatus bar you can use this button to disengage something
you just did:

If you adjudge that you appetite the aberration aback you can use this button to
bring it back:

OPTION #3: There's additionally a keyboard adjustment to disengage article you aloof did. Try application CTRL + Z to disengage and CTRL + Y to accompany article aback that you undid.

If you aloof fabricated lots of mistakes and appetite to go aback and annihilate a lot of them try beat the triangle abutting to the disengage button to see a account of the best contempo accomplishments you accept taken.

Trying with Using some Shortcuts

2011-06-28T22:07:00.000-07:00

Today's technology tip is all about application shortcuts on your computer. First, what do we beggarly by shortcuts. You may accept noticed them on your desktop and in folders. You ability bang on them to alpha programs and accessible files. They are icons that accept a little arrow attribute in the lower larboard duke bend like the desktop adjustment to the, on the left.

The purpose of a adjustment it to actually accord you a adjustment to article on the computer. For archetype a desktop adjustment to the , can be acclimated to booty you anon to a website after accepting to accessible Internet Explorer (or whatever web browser you use). Just bifold bang on the adjustment and off you go. Here's how to accomplish a adjustment to a website:

Go to the website you appetite to accomplish a adjustment to. Right Bang about on the website and baddest "Make a Shortcut" from the card that appears:

The abutting box that appears will acquaint you that a adjustment figure to this website will be placed on your desktop.

Besides authoritative desktop shortcuts to your admired websites you can additionally accomplish shortcuts to folders and programs on your computer. Find a affairs or binder you'd like to accept a desktop adjustment for. Right bang on that book or affairs figure and baddest "Create Shortcut" from the card that appears. You can abode the adjustment anyplace you appetite it, in a binder or on the desktop. For example, you could accomplish a desktop adjustment to your "My Documents" folder:

Please agenda than in abounding arrangement environments you may not be able to accomplish any changes to your desktop. In best schools this advantage has been blocked for both acceptance and staff. But you can still accomplish shortcuts in your folders.

Hear Doodling with Paint

2011-06-28T20:42:00.000-07:00

Your computer came with lots of acceptedcomputer application that you ability not alike be acquainted of. In a antecedent technology tip we showed you how to admission the calculator on your computer. Today's technology tip will appearance you how to admission a actual simple affairs for manipulating images and aloof doodling.

The name of the affairs is Paint and if you accept a computer with Microsoft Windows on it you should be able to acquisition it by activity to:

START card again All Programs again Accessories and again attending for Paint

Depending on the adaptation of Windows you accept the alleyway ability be a little altered but you should acquisition it beneath Accessories (the aforementioned abode area you begin the Calculator).

The affairs is appealing simple to use. Try accomplishing these activities to get the feel for it:

Enlarge the Assignment Area:

If you opened Paint and the assignment breadth (the white space) appears to be too baby you can calmly enlarge it by avaricious the basal appropriate duke bend of the white amplitude and boring it down:

Draw a Rectangle:

Click on the apparatus bar button on the left. Move your arrow into the assignment area, larboard bang area you appetite the top larboard bend of the rectangle to be, authority the button bottomward and annoyance out a rectangle:

Fill up a Shape with a color in:

At the basal larboard of the awning you'll see a blush palette. Choose a blush for central your rectangle by beat on it. Then baddest the "Fill with Color" apparatus bar button. Then aloof bang central your rectangle and it should change to the blush you selected.

Pretty accessible so far right!

Try Doodling:

Lets agreement with some added apparatus bar buttons. Try anniversary of these:

With some analysis you can accomplish some simple drawings. If you don't like how it's activity you can consistently alpha over by activity to "File" and selecting "New" to bright your assignment area. If you like your art assignment you ability appetite to save it by selecting "Save" off the "File" menu.

Ow, I exactly Overtyped

2011-06-27T12:09:00.000-07:00

Have you anytime started accounting something, again backed up into your book to add a word? Usually back you do this the curser pushes the words afterwards the one you are abacus so your fresh chat can be added to the sentence. But sometimes the curser starts accounting appropriate over the words in your book rather than inserting the fresh chat into your sentence. This is alleged overtyping and it’s a affection that can be toggled on and off application the “Insert” button on your keyboard:

Most common Computer Hardware

2011-06-27T12:06:00.000-07:00

Just in case you never heard of the appellation before, "computer hardware" refers to all the genitalia of the computer that you can touch. "Computer software" about refers to those computer accompanying things that you can't touch.

Examples of Software: The computer cipher that makes this webpage arise on the screen, the cipher that tells the computer how to comedy a bold or run a PowerPoint accelerate show, etc.

Examples of Hardware: The computer accessories that you charge to "run" the software, the abrasion that you use to baddest things on the screen, the awning (or monitor) itself, the keyboard, etc.

Here are some added examples of computer hardware:

Monitor Computer CPU

Keyboard

   Mouse                                                         Wireless Router

                          Printer

Other items that are technically accouterments but abounding bodies aberration for software: Compact disks (CD's), Flash Drives, 3.5" Diskettes, DVD's. Though these items abundancecomputer application they are, added specifically, accouterments accessories for autumn software.

Printer rules

2011-06-27T11:54:00.000-07:00

So how does a printer assignment anyway?

We accept them all over the place, and abounding of us use them everyday, but how abounding bodies accept any abstraction how they work?

Today’s technology tip will accord you some basal advice about how the admirable laser printer and ink jet printer works. But aboriginal some background:

The Printer's Progress:

In the alpha there was the pen, cardboard and a allowance abounding of monks. Eventually this was replaced by the typewriter and carbon cardboard (if you’ve never heard of carbon cardboard afore here’s a articulation to: The Exciting History of Carbon Paper). When computers came out there was a abundant appetite to actualize “hardcopies” or printouts of whatever the computer did. Initially they affiliated buzzer machines to aboriginal computers but these were eventually replaced with dot cast printers. By the backward 1980’s the old dot cast printers, with their blowzy ink ribbons and compatible letter spacing, were actuality replaced by more good technologies.

Today there are basically two kinds of printers, Laser Printers and Ink Jet Printers. The laser printers are the best best for ample calibration press while the ink jets are more good for baby calibration printing. Chances are you accept an ink jet printer at home for example.

How they Work:

Ink Jet Printers – They aerosol tiny drops of ink assimilate the cardboard to actualize the image. The dots are as baby as 50 microns. A animal beard is about 70 microns for reference, so don’t bother attractive for them. For added advice about how ink jet printers assignment we acclaim this website: http://www.howstuffworks.com/inkjet-printer.htm

Laser Jet Printers – They use changeless electricity to stick artificial crumb (toner) on the cardboard and again cook it assimilate the cardboard application a hot roller. That’s right, laser jets don’t use ink they use toner which is a actual accomplished artificial powder. For added advice about how these printers assignment I acclaim this website: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/laser-printer.htm There are blush laser jet printers by the way. They use toner that is black, cyan, amethyst and chicken to actualize all the colors of the rainbow.

MB This

2011-06-27T11:48:00.000-07:00

When you assignment with computers you see KB (or KiloBytes) and MB (or MegaBytes) all the time but what does it angle for? Basically it’s a altitude of anamnesis on a computer. To advice you accept absolutely what in agency there is an archetype below.

So What’s a Byte anyway?

When you get appropriate bottomward to it computers alone apperceive two things off and on. That’s it aloof OFF and ON. And a computer expresses OFF as a “0” and ON as a “1”. Everything you see on the awning appropriate now is aloof a accurately ordered aggregate of 1’s and 0’s to the computer that acquaint it absolutely how to affectation this webpage. Now here’s the ambagious part. Each alone 1 or 0 is alleged a BIT and 8 BITS calm is alleged a BYTE. When you blazon a 0 the computer absolutely recognizes that aught as the alternation of 8 BITS or “00000000”

Here are some examples of what some added numbers and belletrist attending like to the computer:

0 = 00000000 a = 01100001 L = 01001100

1 = 00000001 v = 01110110 p = 01110000

2 = 00000010 $ = 00100100 z = 01111010

Here’s a articulation to alike added if you’re curious: http://www.micron.com/k12/lessonplans/zerosones/asciibinary.html
So, in absolutely cool simplified terms, back I blazon the letter “L” the computer translates that to be the BYTE “01001100." If I typed the letter “L” 50 times that would be 50 BYTES of information. If I typed the letter “L” 1000 times that would be 1000 BYTES or 1 KiloByte or 1KB. Actually Bytes are abstinent in admiral of 2 so 1KB isn't absolutely 1000 bytes, but it is abutting enough. Below is a blueprint of accepted abbreviations and their absolute ethics in bytes:

Name	Abbreviation	Actual Size in Bytes
KiloBytes	KB	1024
MegaBytes	MB	1,048,576
GigaBytes	GB	1,073,741,824

To apprentice added about these bytes and their abbreviations try this site:

http://computer.howstuffworks.com/bytes1.htm

And here's some alike added specific advice about how bytes and mega bytes are measured: http://www.t1shopper.com/tools/calculate/

Are You costing Recorded?

2011-06-27T11:34:00.000-07:00

Are you acquainted of how abundant added bunched recording technology has become? Do you accept any abstraction how accessible it is to almanac a abecedary in their classroom? It could be done by a apprentice application a technology as simple as an iPod or a corpuscle phone. Normally this wouldn't be a botheration but accede what's possible.

You could be this abecedary who was afresh filmed in class:

Just a admonition that it doesn't booty accessories like these to accomplish a recording of aggregate you say and do in the classroom:

ABC News Article about a contempo classroom adventure that was

"Caught on tape"

Classroom Beating: Florida Student Gets

Pummeled While Teacher Sits Back

USB Drives

2011-06-27T11:29:00.000-07:00

You may accept apparent added bodies with them, you ability alike accept one of your own. They’re the newest and best acceptable way to abundance abstracts and they attending like these:

They additionally go by assorted names: USB Drives, Flash Memory, Flash Drives or alike Thumb Drives:

Here's a articulation to the top 10 weirdest attractive USB drives
http://gadgets.fosfor.se/the-top-10-weirdest-usb-drives-ever/

What you charge to apperceive about USB Drives:

They go by several names: Thumb drives, beam drives, beam memory, SanDisk drives. The best official name would be aloof “USB Drive”

They accept abundant greater accumulator accommodation than old ancient billowing disks and are easier to backpack than CD’s.

They bung into the USB ports of any computer actuality at school

There are two “speeds”: USB 1.0 and USB 2.0 (2.0 is faster and all fresh USB drives are 2.0)

They appear in these accepted sizes: 128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1GB, 2GB. Best afresh USB drives accept gotten abundant beyond by the way.

Prices for USB drives ambit from $9-$129. If a 512MB USB drive costs about $12 that equals about $.02 per MB. For those of you on a bound technology account you ability appetite to analyze that to the amount of an old ancient 3.5” billowing diskette which holds 1.44 MB's and could amount you about $.20 per MB.

For added advice about how Beam Drives assignment analysis out this site: http://www.usbflashdrive.org/usbfd_faq.html

Accept an Digital image from That

2011-06-27T11:22:00.000-07:00

Do you accept a agenda camera? Do you appetite one? Do you apperceive how to use one? Today's technology tip will hopefully accord you some basal advice about agenda cameras.

Below is a diagram of an earlier Sony Mavica agenda camera. The oldest ones acclimated a billowing disk, newer ones booty a anamnesis stick, or beam memory. Even admitting this appearance camera has been discontinued they are a still acceptable archetype of the affectionate of agenda camera you ability acquisition in a school. Bulky and athletic with the adequacy of extenuative pictures to bargain billowing disks fabricated them a acceptable best for educators. The basal controls are labeled below:

This blazon of camera could booty a 3.2 mega pixel account which was abundant for best applications. Newer cameras assume to accept about 5 mega pixel capability. So what's a MEGA PIXEL you ability ask?

Here's the simplest analogue I could acquisition for you:

"A mega pixel is artlessly one actor pixels. What's a pixel? The abstruse analogue takes several pages, so let's answer to say a pixel is the single, aboveboard "picture element" amid a filigree of abounding others which captures and again represents that accurate point of ablaze the camera saw back you clicked the 'shutter' button." Read added here: http://www.user-groups.net/showker/megapixel.html (by: Fred Showker, Editor/Publisher UG Net News)

What you charge to know, the added mega pixels you accept the beyond the angel that you can booty will be. The beyond the angel the added capacity it will contain. So in mega pixel terms, bigger is about better. But how abounding mega pixels do you need? 4 or 5 should assignment for aloof about any appliance you could appear up with.

Are you arcade for a agenda camera for yourself? Here's some assets that could advice you shop:

Over 500 agenda camera reviews:

http://www.imaging-resource.com/DIGCAM01.HTM

Digital Camera amount comparisons:

http://www.shopzilla.com/digital-cameras/402/products

More agenda camera comparisons:

http://www.digitalcamerainfo.com/d/Digital-Camera-Reviews.htm

Handling on automobile Computers

2011-06-27T11:17:00.000-07:00

You may accept heard bodies say that “computers are all about us.” Hopefully you’re not too batty about that, abnormally back it is accurate to a assertive extent. For example, you apparently collection to assignment today with the abetment of a little “computer” central your engine. Today’s Technology Tip is about the little computer in your car that keeps it running. Added chiefly it's about how to handle those annoying “Check Agent Soon” lights on your birr board.

Depending on the age, accomplish and archetypal of your agent you apparently accept added than one computer in it

Controlling the agent is the ECU, which stands for Agent Ascendancy Unit. This one is usually the best big-ticket one to alter and it is advised to ascendancy the agent so you can get optimum achievement and ability out of it. Generally speaking, the newer your car the added circuitous the ECU is. Compared to your desktop computer about it’s appealing primitive. For example, your car’s ECU apparently has beneath than 1 MB of anamnesis compared to the several Gigabytes best fresh desktop computers appear with. But that’s abundant to run your agent calmly back thecomputer application is so abundant simpler. For added advice about your car’s computer analysis out this site: http://auto.howstuffworks.com/car-computer1.htm

For best of us, the best annoying affair your car’s computer anytime does is ablaze up that “Check Agent Soon” ablaze on the dashboard. The ECU in your car includescomputer application alleged OBD which stands for On Board Diagnostics. Thiscomputer application consistently monitors your agent for agitation signs or inefficiencies. When sensors ascertain problems the “Check Agent Light” appears on your dashboard. Because engines that run inefficiently adulterate more, OBDcomputer application was allowable on all cars congenital from 1987 on. Aloof for advertence the aboriginal OBDcomputer application was upgraded in 1996 and is now alleged OBD II. For added advice about OBDcomputer application analysis out this link: http://www.asashop.org/autoinc/may2004/mech.cfm

Now for the absolutely important question, how do you get the “Check Agent Light” off? The ablaze ability about-face on for any or a cardinal of reasons. Even admitting the technology is there for your fresh car to verbally acquaint you what’s aggravation it, you still apparently accept to booty it to a dealership or artisan so they can bung it into a appropriate OBD clairvoyant and analysis what “error code” is causing the ablaze to appear on. This “diagnostic test” usually costs $50-$100 and is about as complicated a assignment as authoritative toast. But back you don’t accept the accessories at home, and your car won’t aloof acquaint you what’s amiss with it, you’re ashore advantageous for the diagnostic.

Well absolutely here’s addition option. Many autoparts food accept the OBD readers on armpit and they will do the analytic analysis for you for chargeless (AutoZone is one such abundance for example). They can’t bright the cipher (get the ablaze to about-face off) but they can acquaint you what the botheration is (in hopes you’ll shop for a backup allotment from them).

Make up Your personal Tech specializer

2011-06-27T11:14:00.000-07:00

This primarily applies to problems you ability accept with your computer at home but it can appear anywhere. While alive on your computer did you anytime get an active bulletin and you had no abstraction what it meant? You know, article that looks like this:

I can’t acquaint you what an absurdity letters like this agency but I can acquaint you how to acquisition out:

When an active box ancestor up with an absurdity bulletin in it booty agenda of what it says. If it doesn’t accomplish faculty to you address bottomward absolutely what it says (or highlight the argument and archetype it if you can)

Open up the internet and go to a chase agent (google, yahoo, ask). Type (or paste) the absurdity bulletin into the chase agent and bang “search”

Look at the responses carefully. Chances are you are not the aboriginal being who has anytime apparent this bulletin before. Some of the bodies who accept apparent that absurdity afore accept absolutely fabricated absolute web pages up about their experience. Some of these websites ability acquaint you how to fix the problem. In abounding cases the aggregation that created thecomputer application will actualize a website that offers chargeless downloads that you can use to adjustment the error. Check out these sites for a band-aid to your problem.

The Original calculator go

2011-06-27T04:18:00.000-07:00

Computers weren't invented for email or the internet. They were never advised to be acclimated to accumulate clue of your coffer accounts or 2nd appearance aeon grades. The actual aboriginal cyberbanking computer was created during World War II and it's advised action was to advice American soldiers hit their target.

Often cited as actuality the actual aboriginal cyberbanking computer, the was congenital at the At that time the US Army was employing hundreds of adolescent ladies with algebraic adeptness to serve as "computers" and physically do the algebraic to actualize ballistics tables for aggressive weapons. The action of the was to electronically do the algebraic that ahead had been done by animal computers.

Here's a articulation in case you'd like to apprehend some added about the abroad ancestors of the computer you're attractive at appropriate now:

For today's technology tip we'd like to appearance you how to acquisition the calculator on your computer. These admonition will assignment on best computers that are application a Microsoft Operating system:

1) Go to the START card in the lower larboard duke bend and bang on it.

2) Bang on "All Programs" or "Programs"

3) Look for "Accessories" and again baddest "Calculator"

You can use the calculator that appears by either application your abrasion to bang the buttons or by application the cardinal keypad on the appropriate ancillary of your keyboard.

Note that the computer uses "/" for analysis and "*" for multiplication.

Take a image by Your cover

2011-06-27T01:01:00.000-07:00

Everyone has had their computer go a little crazy on them. You apperceive those boxes that pop up with letters like “imminent failure” and “contact your arrangement administrator.” Today's tip is about the quickest way to acquaint those absurdity letters to others who ability not accept what you’re saying. Just booty a "screen shot" and email it to them. Here’s how it’s done:

Simply columnist CTRL and Print Scrn/SysRq

in the high appropriate duke bend of your keyboard:

You accept now taken a account of your screen. Now you could accessible a bare email and adhesive it in by acute CTRL and the letter V at the aforementioned time.

(hint demography awning shots like this and again alteration them in a simple affairs like Paint is how we accomplish the admonition in abounding of these Technology Tips)

Copy & Paste same You think IT!

2011-06-27T00:50:00.000-07:00

If there’s annihilation computers are absolutely acceptable at its bombastic tasks, they adulation them. We bodies invented computers because we abhorrence accomplishing the aforementioned affair afresh and again. Every computer has this adeptness to absolution their animal operators from the bullwork of redundancy. But how do you absolve this bewitched ability central your desktop computer?

Get a line to copy and paste:

Most Microsoft programs accord you three options back it comes to artful and pasting. Choose the one you like the most.

USING THE EDIT MENU:

1) highlight the argument or account you appetite to archetype and baddest “Edit” from the card bar and again baddest “Copy”

2) Next bang in the certificate area you appetite to adhesive the argument and accept “Paste” from the “Edit” menu.

RIGHT CLICKING:

1) Highlight the argument you appetite to archetype and again Right Bang on the text.

2) Select Archetype off the card that appears:

3) Right bang area you appetite to abode the argument and again baddest “Paste” from the card that appears

KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS

1) Highlight the argument you appetite to copy

2) Hold the CTRL key bottomward and columnist the letter “C” on your keyboard

3) Left bang area you appetite to adhesive the text

4) Hold bottomward the CTRL key and columnist the letter “V” on your keyboard to adhesive the argument

Flip Your projection screen!

2011-06-26T19:08:00.000-07:00

Here’s article I abstruse from a 7th grader:

Directions: Read aggregate afore you do anything

1.Columnist CTRL + ALT + the up arrow key (see below)

2.Next columnist CTRL + ALT + the appropriate arrow key

3.Then columnist CTRL + ALT + the larboard arrow key

4.Then, afore you get too addled columnist CTRL + ALT + the bottomward arrow key

Pretty neat???

Now bethink that a 7th grader showed me that afterwards I had spent 5 account aggravating to fix a adviser that was set upside bottomward by addition student. You will accordingly acquisition that generally the kids are advanced of the adults back it comes to computers. It’s OK, that’s aloof the way it is.

At atomic you apperceive how to cast your awning aback if anyone messes with it.

And if this action didn't assignment on your computer it aloof agency you ability accept a altered adaptation of Windows (other than XP) or this accurate affection may accept been disabled. But if you anytime see an upside bottomward awning you'll apperceive what to do.

Basic wires & connecters

2011-06-26T11:24:00.000-07:00

Does it attending like a basin of spaghetti abaft your computer these days? Are you apprehensive what cable does what? Well hopefully accepting a little accustomed with some accepted computer cables, affairs and connectors will advice you the abutting time a wire is loose.

USB connections: Probably one of the better innovations in computers in a while, USB (Universal Serial Bus) connectors are actuality acclimated for all kinds of things these days. The kinds of things you can bung into those ports: your mouse, your keyboard, the cable for a agenda camera, alike your USB drive (like the SanDisk deride drive in the picture, on the right).

In this account you can see an earlier abrasion with what’s alleged a PS/2 affiliation (on the left) and a newer one with a USB affiliation (on the right). You could use either appearance abrasion with your computer if it's newer.

S-Video Cable is generally acclimated to affix DVD players and TV’s. These newer cables are declared to action added good video affection and added distance. If you accept a browse advocate (AverKey) you ability be application S-Video cable to affix it to your TV.

SVGA Cable is the one that connects your adviser and computer together. If you anytime accept to abstract and reconnect one of these be absolute accurate not to angle any of the little prongs in there.

Agenda Camera to TV Adaptor – Most newer agenda cameras appear with one of these. You could use this to affectation pictures on the agenda camera to the TV.

Billow Protectors and Ability Cables – Yes you should accept a billow protector on your computer. Computers are actual acute to abrupt fluctuations in ability and a billow protector

can help. Its additionally a abundant safer way to accumulate the cardinal of outlets in a allowance as best billow protects additionally accept a agglutinate in them that will cruise (shut down) if you draw too abundant current. HELPFUL HINT: If your computer aback stops alive don’t balloon to analysis the billow protector.

What is You considering?

2011-06-26T11:14:00.000-07:00

There are basically two kinds of computer monitors in the world. Do you apperceive what affectionate of adviser you are attractive at? There are the old ancient beefy (TV like) monitors and the newer, abbreviate collapsed console monitors. Here is a basal description of the differences:

CRT Monitor: Cathode Ray Tube: agnate to a television in which application of electrons are beamed assimilate a ablaze awning to aftermath images. CRT is Often acclimated as a all-encompassing appellation for a computer monitor. Here’s a articulation to added advice about CRT's: PCtechguide.com/06crtmon_Anatomy.htm Note that CRT Monitors are sometimes declared by adroit advertisers as “FLAT SCREEN” monitors. That aloof agency that the tube awning is collapsed instead of arced like a an earlier TV set screen.

Collapsed Console Monitor: You could anticipate of them as the final change of the old LCD calculator awning that afflicted anybody so abundant aback in the 1970’s. There accept been lots of amazing technology developments forth the way but the basal abstraction is the same. Here’s a articulation that goes into greater capacity about the allowances of Collapsed Console Monitors: PCtechguide.com/07panels.htm This is a abundant articulation for lots of abstruse advice about not alone computer monitors but additionally the newest collapsed console TV’s and the altered technologies that they use.

Some Care & Maintenance Tips for Your Computer Monitor:

1. Try to not eat or alcohol abreast it. Monitors don't acknowledge able-bodied to liquids or cookie crumbs.

Don’t blow the screen, abnormally if it's one of the fresh collapsed panels. It’s not glass, aloof artificial and you can accident it. The screens on the earlier CRT monitors is bottle so you apparently won't accident it but you will leave an annoying smudge.

3. Accumulate magnets abroad from your monitor. As a amount of fact, accumulate magnets abroad from all your computers and electronics equipment!

4. If your adviser is bedraggled clean it off with a clammy cardboard anhydrate or tissue. Try to abstain accepting it all wet with cleaners.

5. If you do accept problems with your adviser (it goes blank) alpha by blockage the cables, they get apart sometimes.

6. Finally, don't balloon to acclimatize it to accommodated your needs. If the words on the awning are too baby and adamantine to apprehend you ability accept to move the adviser afterpiece to your face. I'm serious, don't balloon to acclimatize the adviser if you charge to!

Your computing device Mouse

2011-06-26T11:09:00.000-07:00

The all-over abrasion has become one of the best important and able accoutrement for interacting with the computer. There are a brace altered kinds of computer mice but they all appealing abundant do the aforementioned thing. They move the arrow about the awning so you can baddest altered things.

Clicking and Double Click is not alone adamantine to explain but at aboriginal it's appealing adamantine to do too. Here's is a abundant website that can advice you convenance this important skill: http://www.mouseprogram.com/

There is additionally an action at that website to advice you convenance Clicking and Dragging.

if you accept an earlier computer abrasion it apparently works on a clue brawl which is amid beneath the mouse. Occasionally this clue brawl will get bedraggled and your abrasion arrow will skip about the awning randomly. When this happens you can calmly fix it by aperture the basal disc that holds the clue brawl in and again removing any adopted altar that ability be causing the abrasion to behave erratically.

If you accept a newer computer abrasion you apparently accept an optical mouse. These mice are abundant added reliable back they accept no affective genitalia and will assignment on aloof about any surface. If you’d like to apprentice added about how they assignment you can analysis out this website: http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question631.htm

The advantage to this fresh affectionate of abrasion is that it has no affective parts. And the red LED ablaze isn’t any added alarming than a flashlight (it’s not a laser beam).

Make Maine a Folder

2011-06-26T07:21:00.000-07:00

Organize, Organize, Organize! Did you anytime appetite to aloof annul aggregate on your computer and alpha over but you can’t because you absolutely charge some of the being there? Are you attractive for a way to adapt the mess? Here’s how to accomplish folders to adapt your files.

You may not apperceive it but the admirable old filing chiffonier was the afflatus for how computers are bureaucracy today. And aloof like in an old ancient filing chiffonier the key to acclimation things is to use folders to put like things in together. Here's how to accomplish a folder:

Choose a abode you'd like to abode your fresh folder. In this archetype I'll be authoritative a fresh binder in my H: drive which is a arrangement drive that I accept admission to at work. You could additionally be authoritative a binder on your C: drive or in your "My Pictures" or "My Documents" folders.

The aboriginal footfall is to go to the abode area you appetite to actualize the fresh folder. Again go to the chat "New" at the to of that window and baddest "New." Again baddest "File" and again "Folder"

Once the new folder appears you will have to name it (unless you want it to always be called “New Folder”) by typing in the new name of the folder. If the computer won’t let you just type in a name for the folder right click on the folder and select “Rename” from the list that appears.

To move items into your new folder all you have to do is drag and drop them over.

Technology hint first Realizing Sound Judgments

2011-06-26T06:59:00.000-07:00

Did you anytime sit bottomward at a computer that had the complete cranked way up? Anytime capital to apprehend article on the computer but you couldn’t because the aggregate is angry bottomward too low? Here’s what to do back you adjudicator the complete on your computer to be wrong.

Go to the “Task Bar” at the basal of your desktop screen. Look for the little gray apostle attribute on the appropriate duke ancillary and larboard bang on it.

This figure should arise on your awning and accord you the befalling to change your complete akin or aphasiac it by blockage the “MUTE” box at the bottom.

For a added apostle options you could appropriate bang on the apostle attribute in the Task Bar. Then baddest “Open Volume Control” to accomplish adjustments to this menu:

If you alone accept the apostle that is in the computer to assignment with (no alien speakers) the complete affection is apparently appealing low already. Making adjustments to this card ability not be of any use to you.

Hold on the VPN connective Box by popping

2011-06-25T11:13:00.000-07:00

VPN access (virtual clandestine networks) are wonderful. I use one to affix to assignment several times per week. I can do all sorts of accessible things: cream the network, grab files, book to my office. But one acrimony has been bugging me for a acceptable while now, and I’ve aloof been putting up with it. Seemingly at accidental moments, the VPN affiliation box would aloof pop up for no reason.

I assuredly got annoyed of beat the abolish button, and absitively to amount out aloof what was causing this problem. Turns, out that Internet Explorer was the culprit, alike admitting I alone use Firefox.

VPN Popping up and Internet Explorer

vpn affiliation boxLike I said, alike admitting I don’t use Internet Explorer, it was still causing the VPN affiliation box to pop up. Internet Explorer was because the VPN affiliation as a absence connection. It’s no admiration that this was giving me agitation back IE is additionally so deeply weaved into the operating system. It additionally explains why I was seeing this alike admitting I alone use Firefox.

To accumulate the vpn affiliation box from bustling up, all you accept to do is accessible up Internet Explorer, bang Tool > Options and again bang on the Access tab.

On the Access tab, baddest the VPN affiliation listed beneath “Dial-up and VPN Connections” and bang the abolish button. Yeah, that awning is from Internet Explorer 6. If you’re application IE7 (you poor thing!) I brainstorm the action would be similar. Just acquisition the Options window and attending for access setting.

Add up Windows Live from Hotmail to Gmail Account

2011-06-25T11:05:00.000-07:00

It’s no abstruse that millions of association accept angry their adherence to Google’s alarming online email service, Gmail. However, if you’re like me, you’ve apparently begrudgingly kept that old Hotmail annual about for affidavit that cannot be authentic by animal words.

Until now, we’ve had to login our old Hotmail accounts every ages or so to analysis mail from accompany (if we can still alarm them that!) who debris to amend their acquaintance list, and to accumulate Hotmail from abatement our annual abstracts because of the abridgement of activity.

Well, Hotmail has assuredly absitively to add POP3 support. This agency we can now add and accept our Hotmail emails in our admired Gmail accounts or any mail applicant that supports POP3.

First off, let’s booty a attending at the info:

* POP Server: pop3.live.com

* SMTP Server: smtp.live.com

* Incoming Port: 995

* Outgoing Port: 25

* SSL Required? Yes

* Authentication Required? Yes

* TLS/SSL Required? Yes

* User Name: Your Full Email Address/Windows Alive ID (Example: geekinspired@hotmail.com)

* Password: The countersign you use to login to your Hotmail account

Add Hotmail To Gmail

In your Gmail account, bang on the Settings articulation in the top appropriate corner, again accept Accounts from the accessory annual of options.

Send Mail with Hotmail Address

Under the Accelerate mail as area, bang on the articulation to Add addition email abode you own (Even admitting you ability not appetite to accelerate mail through your Hotmail address, Gmail wants you to go advanced and add this info). From the pop-up card that appears, artlessly access your name and your Hotmail address. A analysis cipher will again be beatific to your Hotmail address, so you’ll charge to login to your annual (one aftermost time!) and get that code. Once the cipher is verified, you’re all bureaucracy to accelerate mail through your Hotmail account.

Get Mail From Hotmail

Next we’ll appetite to booty a attending at the Get mail from added accounts breadth and bang on the Add a mail annual you own link. You’ll get a fresh pop-up area you’ll add your Hotmail abode again. Bang Next and access in your username, password, POP server (pop3.live.com), anchorage cardinal (995), and accomplish abiding to analysis the advantage that says “Always use a defended affiliation (SSL) back retrieving mail.” The added options on this awning are optional.

Click the Add Annual button and that’s it. You’re all set! Of course, you ability appetite to accelerate a analysis email from your Gmail to your Hotmail annual to verify that everything’s alive correctly.

Of course, afterwards you do this it’s appealing abundant affirmed that your alleged accompany will assuredly amend their acquaintance account with your Gmail info. So, get pleasure communicable all of your Hotmail spam in your Gmail inbox!

Exchange World Wide Web Page to PDF or articulate Document

2011-06-25T10:55:00.000-07:00

We’ve all begin a web folio that we capital to book out for account abroad from the computer or aloof to accept a concrete archetype for accessible reference. However, artlessly beat on the Printer figure doesn’t consistently accord you the best results. You could calmly end up press a folio with exceptionable advertisements or images.

Here I will outline a more good way to accept a archetype of this agreeable for accessible printing. It aloof takes a little bit of backbone and time, but you end up with your admired website’s agreeable in a adjustable architecture that can either be printed or transferred to a handheld accessory for accessible reading.

Please agenda that this should alone be acclimated for claimed use and not for actionable offline administration of any kind. Please assure the rights of the authors of online content.

1. Archetype Agreeable from Web Page

We’ll alpha by artful the adapted agreeable of a web folio and pasting it into Word. Typically, you’ll appetite to position your cursor to the actual larboard of the commodity title/heading and bang and annoyance beeline bottomward the folio while still captivation bottomward your abrasion button. Keep boring bottomward until you get to the aftermost chat in the commodity (or the area area you appetite to stop copying).

Depending on the blueprint of the folio you’re copying, it may be catchy to archetype the agreeable while alienated any exceptionable advertisements or devious icons/photos. If there are abundant ads or added obstacles aural the commodity that you do not ambition to copy, you may acquisition it easier to archetype portions at a time instead of all the agreeable at once.

Once you accept either the articulation or the absolute commodity selected, archetype the agreeable (cmd/ctrl+c) and go to your Chat document. Artlessly adhesive (cmd/ctrl+v) the agreeable aural your Chat document. You should see all the content, including both argument and images, that you advised to copy.

2. Arrange Layout

Depending on what all was affected from the web page, it may be all-important to adapt the blueprint or add and annul assertive elements or content. You may appetite to absorb a few moments aloof bound browsing through the commodity to accomplish abiding that aggregate is in order.

Repeat the aloft accomplish for anniversary commodity you ambition to copy. Continue pasting the accessories one afterwards addition into your Chat document.

3. Change Commodity Titles to Headings

In adjustment for our Table of Contents to work, we’ll charge to assure the title/heading of the commodity is accurately formatted as a Heading aural Word. Accomplish abiding the Formatting toolbar is arresting (View > Toolbars > Formatting).

Select the title/heading of the article. Make abiding that alone the argument of the appellation is called and no accidental spaces or curve are selected. From the Style bead bottomward card in the Formatting toolbar (the bead bottomward card to the actual larboard of the Font bead down), accept Heading 1.

If there are sub-titles in the accessories you are copying, accept Heading 2 for them.

4. Actualize Table of Contents

Go aback to the actual alpha of your certificate and columnist Return a few times to add a few curve of agreement afore your aboriginal article. We’re creating allowance for area your Table of Contents will be placed.

Go to Insert > Reference > Index and Tables and accept the Table of Contents tab. You accept a few affectation options for how your Table of Contents, mostly apropos whether or not to appearance the folio numbers, how to adjust them, and if they will be alive links aural the document. To get the best out of your Table of Contents, I would acclaim application hyperlinks as this adds accessible aeronautics aural the Word certificate and the PDF version.

At this point, you can save your certificate and accept a alive archetype of your admired website complete with a Table of Contents. However, we can booty this a footfall added and catechumen it to PDF.

5. Catechumen to PDF

The easiest way to do this is by artlessly application the accoutrement provided with Adobe Acrobat. Just use the Catechumen to Adobe PDF command in the Adobe PDF toolbar aural Word.

If you don’t accept admission to Acrobat, you can use chargeless accoutrement (doPDF) to actualize a basic PDF printer for your computer. Artlessly install the software, go to File > Print like you commonly would, and accept the basic PDF printer from the printer bead bottomward menu.

Listing every last Files and Folders on DOS tree diagram

2011-06-25T10:49:00.000-07:00

I’m consistently afraid by how generally I about-face to DOS to accomplishment a task. The added Microsoft tries to advance us into a graphical world, acceptable ‘ole command band brings us aback in. Perhaps this is why so abounding adopt to run Linux.

Anyway, I afresh bare to accomplish a account of every binder and book that is in a accurate directory. Windows XP doesn’t action a way to do this and I’m not acquainted that Vista does either. So, to DOS I angry already afresh to accomplish this list. It alone appropriate accounting one little command and, back it was done, I had a nice little argument book that presented my account in a absolutely broadcast tree.

How to Account Every Book and Binder in a Agenda with Tree

To actualize such a account for yourself, chase these simple instructions:

1. Bang Start > Run (or columnist Windows key + R) to accessible the Run chat box.

2. In the Run chat box, blazon ‘cmd’ (without the quotes) and bang OK. A atramentous window with a command alert will appear.

3. At the prompt, blazon the following:

timberline "c:\targetdirectory" > "c:\mydirectorytree.txt" /A /F

Note: Replace ‘targetdirectory’ with the agenda from which you appetite to accomplish your list. Replace ‘mydirectorytree.txt’ with the agenda in which you appetite to save the list, as able-bodied as the book name you ambition to use for your argument file.

4. Bang the Enter key.

5. The alert will move bottomward to the abutting line, giving the apocryphal actualization that annihilation happened. You should acquisition your argument book in the agenda you indicated. Now you can annal the list, or book it out, or do annihilation you ability do to a argument file.

This ability assume a little adopted if you’ve never or not generally acclimated a DOS prompt. Aloof convenance with a brace of directories and I anticipate you’ll get the adhere of it.

DOS Command: Tree

Let’s breach this bottomward aloof a bit added to accomplish abiding you understand. Here’s the archetype I acclimated aloof a moment ago:

tree "c:\targetdirectory" > "c:\mydirectorytree.txt" /A /F

Starting from the left:

* timberline – This indicates that we are active the timberline command, which can account all folders, subfolders, and anytime book in those folders. This account is in the anatomy of a agenda tree, which is acclimated to appearance how the folders are organized.

* "c:\targetdirectory" – This indicates which binder you appetite to use as the starting point for your timberline list. It can be any binder or alike aloof a drive letter (such as c:\ Be accurate with advertisement absolute drives, it can booty a while and can actualize a adequately massive argument file).

* > (the ‘greater than’ symbol) – The ‘Greater Than’ attribute allows us to booty the after-effects of the command, which is aggregate to the larboard of the symbol, and abode it into a file.

* "c:\mydirectorytree.txt" – Since we’re putting our account into a argument book with the ‘Greater Than’ symbol, we accept to accommodate a abode for it to be stored. You can use any drive or agenda accessible to you, aloof be abiding to bethink area you’ve put it!

* /A – This is alleged a “switch.” You can anticipate of a about-face as an added affection that can be angry on or off. Each command has their own set of switches and, alike admitting the switches attending the aforementioned amid altered commands, they best generally do altered things. This accurate about-face changes the appearance set that’s acclimated to draw the “tree” (the curve that announce a change in hierarchy). You can agreement with not application this about-face by removing it from the command all calm to see what you prefer.

* /F – This about-face lists all files that are aural the folders and subfolders. If you ambition to aloof see folders and not the files aural them, leave this about-face out.

That’s all there is to it. This can be abnormally accessible for web developers who accept aloof been accustomed a fresh armpit to manage. Network Admins can use this for added base reasons, such as advertent the actuality of ambiguous files. If you can anticipate of some added accessible way to use this able DOS command, leave a comment!

If you’d like to apprentice about a agnate but added able command, you should analysis out the DOS Command XCOPY.

Adobe brightroom Workingflow – Partll – Flag, Rate, and Filter

2011-06-24T09:23:00.000-07:00

In the antecedent commodity of this alternation we took an all-embracing attending at importing your photos into Lightroom. Now that your photos are imported, let’s booty a few moments to go through them and tag them with a flag, appraisement or blush so we can calmly clarify through them during the alteration process.

It’s sometimes accessible to belittle the accent of a acceptable tag and clarification process. If done appropriate this can be a huge time saver. It’s additionally accessible for archiving; back you acknowledgment to these photos afterwards weeks, months or years accept anesthetized you are anon able to see the aboriginal tags you applied.

1. Loupe View

The aboriginal affair you’ll appetite to do is accomplish abiding you’re in Loupe appearance of your photos. This allows you to calmly appearance anniversary alone photo as you annal them. To do this, artlessly hit the E key on your keyboard, or go to Appearance > Loupe. Now, starting with the aboriginal photo in your series, you can artlessly use the larboard and appropriate arrow keys to annal through the Filmstrip (the scrolling account of photos at the basal of the screen).

2. Flags, Stars and Colors

Lightroom offers you several options to tag and clarify your photos. One affair to accumulate in apperception back allocation through these clarification options is whether or not the tag is global. If it is global, it will be accustomed by Lightroom behindhand of what folder, accumulating or archive the photo resides in. If it’s not global, the tag you administer will alone be arresting aural the binder or accumulating that you are examination at the time.

Flags – Quick and accessible way to announce whether a photo is to be kept or deleted. Not global.

Flagged (Hit P key) – Marks photo as a keeper

Unflagged (Hit U key) – Removes any ahead activated tag.

Rejected (Hit X key) – Marks photo as rejected

Stars (Hit 1-5 on keyboard, or 0 to abolish stars) – Fairly aboveboard way to announce whether a photo is “meh” or if it’s “AWESOME”! Stars are globally recognized.

Colors (Hit 6-9 on keyboard) – Nifty way to accredit a accumulation to a set of photos. For example, all Green photos charge to be cropped, all Red photos charge to be afflicted to atramentous and white, etc. Colors are globally accustomed as well.

One affair to accumulate in apperception is that Photoshop can additionally admit all-around tags. So, if you accept aloof flagged a photo in Lightroom and opened in Photoshop for editing, back you save the photo it is automatically added to your Lightroom archive but it will not absorb the Flag that you had ahead applied. Photoshop does absorb all Star ratings and Color labels that you accept applied, but not Flags.

Quick Tip!

In Lightroom, go to the Photo card and baddest Auto Advance. Now back you administer any tag to a photo, you’re automatically avant-garde to the abutting photo in your Filmstrip. (There, I aloof adored you an added keystroke in your tagging process! You can acknowledge me later.)

3. Clarification Fun!

Now that all the “hard work” is done (bless your soul), it’s accessible to use the clarify options in the toolbar to affectation alone assertive sets of photos. Artlessly bang on the clarification adjustment of your best to affectation alone the photos with those tags.

Tagging and clarification has become the actual aboriginal affair I do with my photos afterwards they are imported. It’s abnormally advantageous if you are importing a ample bulk of photos at one time as it helps you attenuated bottomward the best photos to a acquiescent list.

Mozy remote control backing

2011-06-23T20:22:00.000-07:00

As you know, anybody needs to advancement their computer files. Mozy is the aboriginal and alone full-featured, alien advancement arrangement in the apple that’s offered for free. And as of this writing, Mozy additionally offers absolute advancement for aloof $4.95 a ages (or $54.50 a year). If you accept files your affliction about, or files that you can’t replace, there’s absolutely no alibi to not accept aggregate backed up. Mozy makes it easy!

Mozy offers several advancement options to advice you aces the best plan. Of course, they are best accepted for their chargeless service, but if you accept added than 2GB of files that you appetite to accumulate safe (and it’s absolutely accessible to do, now days), you can assure aggregate you affliction about for beneath than $5 per month. So, for the amount of a foot-long sandwich, all of your files and adored ancestors photos can be safe and secure.

Mozy Home Free

Mozy Online Backup: 2GB Free. Automatic. Secure.

MozyHome is apparently the absolute best for best of us who appetite to advancement our home computer or laptop. All you accept to do is assurance up for an account, install the Mozy software, and aces out the files you appetite to backup. Mozy will do the rest. Mozy can advancement your files automatically or go by a agenda (daily, weekly, monthly).

MozyHome additionally offers a absolutely nice bandwidth throttling feature, which agency you can acquaint Mozy how abundant of your Internet affiliation to use. This agency you can assignment or comedy like you consistently do with a minimum appulse from active a advancement job. Speaking of work, you don’t accept to abutting all of your files for them to be backed up. Mozy can advancement accessible and “locked” files, absolution you assignment abundantly at your convenience.

Mozy Home Absolute Backups

Many of us accept added than 2GB of files that we would like to backup, abnormally if you accept a appropriate accumulating of music and agenda photos on your computer. Mozy will advancement aggregate you affliction about, far above the 2GB mark, for alone $4.95.

Mozy for Macs

Good news, Mac Lovers! Mozy Home for Mac is authoritative its admission as the aboriginal absolute online advancement account for the Mac. Thousands of beta barter accept formed to accompany the ability of Mozy to Mac users like you. I alone haven’t gotten to use the Mac adaptation of Mozy, but according to their website it is “sleek, sexy, and… scrumdidliumptious.” Not abiding what that aftermost chat agency but it abiding does complete impressive.

Who uses Mozy?
Ans:

“I adopt Mozy.” – Walter S. Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal

“Backing up abstracts is a affliction in the neck. The alone way to accomplish bodies do it is to automate the process. Mozy does that.” – Daniel Lyons, Newsweek

“Instead of annoying what ability appear to your laptop during flight, use Mozy.com to advancement your files afore you leave.” – Bonnie Ruberg, Forbes

“The added is to use one of a cardinal of online advancement account providers such as Box.net, Symantec Online Backup, Carbonite, or Mozy that action low amount gigabyte-level storage.” – David Strom, PC World

“For a fair price, you can accumulate a defended offsite advancement of your best important files, afterwards annoying about accumulator limits. If you pay for a year or added at once, you alike get a discount. What’s not to love?” – Susie Ochs, MacLife

“Mozy cleverly solves the where-are-my-settings botheration with “backup sets” that awning abounding accepted programs, in accession to its automated advantage of an astronomic ambit of book types.” – Rob Pegoraro, WashingtonPost

“Fortunately, aggregate formed out as able-bodied as it could for both of them afterwards Mr. Wade, a business consultant, reinstalled a apple-pie adaptation of Windows and adequate his and his wife’s claimed files with Mozy, an online advancement account that maintains a archetype of all of the files in a abroad cyberbanking bunker.” – Peter Wayner, The New York Times

“For online backup, I acclaim Mozy Home. For $5 a month, it will automatically advancement all the abstracts you can fit on a distinct PC’s adamantine drive.” – Lincoln Spector, PC World

Transfer 3.6.7 published

2011-06-23T20:14:00.000-07:00

The most recent adaptation of my admired Mac-based FTP client, Transmit, has aloof been released. Updates include:

Re-worked examination drawer to abstain accidental book transfers and cancels, appropriately alienated accessible alteration stalls

Fixed a accessible blast back alteration alternative bound and right-clicking

Fixed S3 uploads with files greater than 2 GB

Fixed a botheration in which files may be deleted back affective them into a subfolder

You can analysis all the absolution addendum appropriate here.

Transmit is my admired FTP affairs on any platform. The interface is apple-pie and sleek, it’s about fun to assignment with. The pricetag for Transmit is $29.95 and account every penny.

If you’re attractive for a chargeless FTP applicant for Mac, analysis out either Cyberduck or FileZilla (All platforms).

Force to Shutdown Your Computer

2011-06-23T11:07:00.000-07:00

Just this morning my mother-in-law alleged to acquaint me that her laptop wouldn’t about-face off. She had approved the accessible stuff: initiating a abeyance through the Start Menu, acute the ability button. Nothing seemed to work. Her laptop was finer bound up.

There’s a ambush to analytic this botheration and I balloon how few bodies apperceive about it. I’ve yet to see it abort and, if it doesn’t assignment for you, you’re either actuality too abrupt or article is actively amiss with your hardware.

Computer won’t shutdown? Use the force!

The ambush to banishment your computer to abeyance is artlessly acute and captivation your computer’s ability button for 5 abounding seconds. Note, this isn’t artlessly acute the button and counting to 5, but captivation the ability button bottomward for five, absolute seconds. Every avant-garde computer or laptop that I’ve anytime apparent has this affection congenital in.

Please accumulate in apperception that you should alone do this back actually necessary. This is absolutely aloof like yanking the bung out of the wall. The operating arrangement doesn’t accept a adventitious to tidy up and any unsaved assignment will be lost. This is a aftermost resort, people.

Now that you’ve gotten your computer to shutdown, you should apparently accord some anticipation as to why your computer was bound up in the aboriginal place. Sure, it could accept been a fluke. But, there is usually a acumen abaft these sorts of things. For example, some laptops don’t “wake up” from beddy-bye approach like they should, abrogation the blow pad and/or keyboard inoperable. Also, fresh hardware, drivers, orcomputer application could baffle with the accustomed operation of your computer. If you apprehension the bad behavior afterwards authoritative these sorts of changes, you should accede removing them or analytic for an adapted adaptation of the disciplinarian or software.

If you’ve begin that your fresh wireless abrasion or all-in-one printer is accepting in the way, and that you’re not able to remove/uninstall them. Cossack into safe approach (press F8 during cossack up) to get the job done. If you’re still active into a alley block, accede accomplishing a arrangement restore.

Got any added tips or suggestions for adamant computers? Leave a animadversion for us. Got a question? I’ll advice if I can!

Illegible magnetic disc computer error – Xbox 360 videodisk driving

2011-06-23T11:04:00.000-07:00

Last Wednesday, I absitively I would comedy some GTA IV afore the wife got home. So angry on the Xbox, popped in the disc, and got to it. About 20 account into my session, I began to apprehend a abhorrent babble advancing from the DVD drive. After a few abnormal of growling, a Xbox brand came beyond the awning adage the disc was unreadable.

Cursing beneath my breath, I got up from the couch to accord the Xbox and bold a abutting look. Of course, the disc was fine. I put in addition bold aloof to be sure, and got the “unreadable disc” absurdity already again. I amid a cine we had watched over the weekend. No dice.

What comes abutting is what absolutely frustrates me. My Xbox 360 is aloof over a year old so I accede it to be appealing new. Also, it’s the “Elite” version, a adaptation I had hoped Microsoft had appear with confidence. Besides all that, I accept never heard of DVD drives aloof activity out like that and, if they do, it’s because they are acutely defective. In my six years of alive at Dell, you appetite to apperceive how abounding computers I had to adjustment because of a bad CD or DVD drive? That’s right, none.

I alleged 1-800-4MY-XBOX the abutting black to see what my options were, alike admitting abysmal bottomward I knew that I was activity to accept to pay to accept it repaired. After speaking my way through the automatic options (which I’ve never accepted why it’s more good than aloof “pressing 1″) I got in blow with a abutment guy rather quickly. He absolved me through some absolutely basal troubleshooting in his best “I’m hip and adolescent too, bro” articulation and anon agreed that my Hitachi DVD drive was toast. Then he abreast me that, back my Xbox was out of warranty, I could accept it anchored and my assurance continued for $99.

I’ll admit, I anticipation about aloof aggravating to fix it myself. I mean, it’s aloof a DVD drive, right? Well, I did a little analysis and begin that I’d accept to shop for a accurate brand/model and somehow beam it with the Xbox’s key. Looked like that was activity to amount me about $60 + my time, so the $99 adjustment fee began to complete more good and better.

I plan on authoritative addition alarm tonight to go through with the repair. I additionally plan on afterlight this column with all of my adventures with the adjustment action as they appear so that added bodies may apperceive what to expect. I additionally achievement that added bodies who are accepting this aforementioned affectionate of botheration will leave a animadversion for the record. Who knows, maybe this will about-face out to be the aforementioned array of affair as the Three Red Lights.

EDIT: I afresh anchored my Xbox with aloof a blow of glue. To acquisition out how I did it, apprehend this article: Fix the Unreadable Disc Error. If you’re not accessible to accelerate your Xbox in for adjustment or attack to fix it yourself, apprehend about the altered means you can use your burst xbox.

If you’re accessible to aloof get addition Xbox 360, analysis out eBay afore accomplishing annihilation else. List of Xbox 360′s for auction at eBay

Electric battery fill-in Power

2011-06-23T10:59:00.000-07:00

Battery advancement units, accepted as UPS (uninterruptible ability supplies) can save you both time and money. Retyping a address or replacing big-ticket computer accouterments (due to ability outages) can be a affair of the accomplished with one of these units. And the best part? Array advancement units are analogously absolutely inexpensive, usually costing beneath than $100.

Battery advancement units are like acute billow protectors; they consistently adviser the ability actuality beatific from your electrical outlet. While ability is present, the array advancement assemblage will allegation its centralized array while powering the accessories you accept affiliated to it. Whenever ability is lost, the array advancement assemblage will anon activate powering your accessories with its battery. When ability from the electrical aperture becomes accessible again, the array advancement assemblage will about-face aback to charging the battery. This way, your computer charcoal operational and you’ll accept an befalling to save your assignment and cautiously shutdown.

The bulk of time that a array advancement assemblage can accumulation ability to your accessories varies amid manufacturers and models. Obviously, the best or added accessories it can power, the added big-ticket the assemblage will cost. However, accepted $80 models will accumulate the boilerplate computer and collapsed awning adviser powered up for about twenty minutes. That is added than abundant time to save your assignment and cautiously shutdown.

Some array advancement units appear withcomputer application for your computer. With thiscomputer application (and usually a USB affiliation from the array advancement assemblage to the computer) your computer can be cautiously abeyance while unattended. This is a abundant affection to accept back there’s a abundant achievability that the ability accident will appear while you are abroad from your home (or comatose in your bed!).

Another account of application a array advancement assemblage is that your accouterments is adequate from dips and spikes in electrical power. Your accessories is provided with a apple-pie beck of power, which can extend the activity of the accessories you accept connected.

Also, array advancement units aren’t bound to powering computers and monitors. If you accept a home arrangement (cable modems, routers, switches), you should accede affairs an added unit. This way, whenever the ability flashes off for a abrupt aeon of time, you can abide appointment files or browsing the internet uninterrupted. If you’re into arena video games, accede hooking up your admired consoles. Accident hours spent in a bold can assume about as crushing as accident your letters or homework!

So, for beneath $100 your unsaved assignment can be preserved and your accessories can aftermost longer. However, there is one baby catch. The batteries in your advancement assemblage will not aftermost forever. You can apprehend to alter them every few years or less, depending on how generally the array was used. The acceptable account is that the batteries are actual accessible to alter and usually amount $30 – $50. That’s a abundant arrangement because the account they provide.

There are abounding UPS manufacturers out there, but I can alone vouch for APC units. I’ve installed abundant APC units over the accomplished few years and accept had no agitation with them at all. The abate units appear withcomputer application (as mentioned above) that automatically abeyance the users’ computers. In fact, they came in accessible aloof a few weeks ago back a awful storm formed through the breadth and agape the ability out. Thankfully, the alone aggravation from the storm was accepting to ability up a few workstations the abutting morning!

Hard Disk Drive cause of Failures

2011-06-23T10:51:00.000-07:00

A adamantine drive is the best important allotment of accouterments in your computer. Sure, after all the added pieces your computer would not work. However, I feel that it is the best important because of the admired abstracts we abundance on them. After adamantine drives, you cannot abundance the hundreds of ancestors photos, the hours of homework, or the banter presentation on your computer. You may altercate that we could abundance these things on disposable media, but this is far beneath amount able and convenient. Adamantine drives will abide to be the #1 best for accumulator for abounding years.

Companies absorb tens of bags of dollars anniversary year to apply competent abstruse cadre who ensure that their abstracts is not in crisis of actuality destroyed. Why? Because it is not a catechism of if a adamantine drive will fail. It is a catechism of back a adamantine drive will fail!

Hard drives accept appear a continued way over the years. My aboriginal computer had a 1GB adamantine drive. At the time this was advised to be so ample that one would never acquisition any way to ample it. Today, best of us accept mp3 collections that would ample my aboriginal adamantine drive abounding times over. As of the date of this writing, $100 would back you a adamantine drive at atomic one hundred times larger. Also, avant-garde drives apprehend and address abstracts abundant added bound and action more good methods of transmitting data.

Regardless of the advances in adamantine drive technologies, adamantine drives abide to be accessible to failure. The better contributor to this botheration is the abounding affective genitalia central a adamantine drive. A adamantine drive consists of a motor, several alluring platters (disks), and a read/write head. The motor spins the platters at 5400 – 7200rpm (and faster on aerial achievement models). A set of read/write active that float aloof aloft and beneath the platters move from ancillary to ancillary account and autograph abstracts from the spinning disks. I am abiding you can brainstorm what would appear if the motor burns out, or if the platters become damaged, or if the read/write active do not function. Any of these things aftereffect in adamantine drive failure

USB – (Universal Serial bus)Universal Connections

2011-06-23T10:45:00.000-07:00

USB (universal consecutive bus) is a accepted consecutive bus that is acclimated to affix accessories together. The best accepted appliance actuality abutting an astronomic bulk of peripherals to your computer. It’s not aberrant to use three or four USB accessories in any accustomed day (keyboard, mouse, USB Flash Drive, blackberry). What’s that? You’re still ashore at “serial bus”? Please, acquiesce me to explain!In the accretion world, a consecutive affiliation refers to the adjustment of appointment advice sequentially, one bit (those little ones and zeros) at a time. A bus is a computer subsystem that connects two apparatus (or two computers) together.

Imagine a two news abode with a actual attenuated access abutting the two floors. There’s a ancestors of eight active in this abode and they all appetite to go upstairs. In adjustment to get from one attic to the next, the ancestors associates charge band up in distinct book and ascend the stairs one at a time. That, my friend, is like a consecutive bus.

USB was created in 1996 to authorize a accepted way of abutting accessories together. It is additionally advantageous as a agency of appointment ability to low-consumptions devices. Over the years, USB has gone through abounding improvements. The best accepted actuality the “high speed” USB 2.0 (480 Mbit/s transfers) which was appear in 2000. A approaching adaptation of USB (USB 3.0) is in the works. It is declared to be almost ten times the acceleration of USB 2.0 and be backwards accordant with antecedent adaptation of USB (4.8 Gbit/s).

As I mentioned earlier, there are bags of peripherals that use USB. My claimed favorites accommodate USB Flash Drives and USB External Hard Drives. USB Flash Drives acquiesce me to backpack important files everywhere I go (I accumulate it on my key chain). The USB External Hard Drive is an accomplished way to calmly add accumulator to your computer. I like to use them as a advancement device.

So there you accept it… an account of USB technology in a nut shell. Go alternating and affect your neighbors

Power Supply Main Power Of Computer

2011-06-23T10:42:00.000-07:00

A computer’s ability accumulation (sometimes alleged a PSU for Ability Accumulation Unit) is what converts the AC advancing from the bank aperture to the DC that your computer needs. Ability food breach up the accepted and bear it to anniversary of the altered apparatus in your computer. Ability food are abstinent in wattage, with 400W usually actuality the minimum for a solid computer. If you’re out attractive for a ability supply, don’t get the cheapest one you can find. A acceptable ability accumulation will advice assure your computer basic from awful ability surges. However, that’s no alibi to not use a billow protector! Also, never, never booty afar a ability accumulation unless you’re an electrician. Ability food can authority a allegation continued afterwards they accept been disconnected!

Sound Cards

2011-06-23T10:39:00.000-07:00

A complete agenda is benign for audio abundant like a committed video agenda is for video. Complete cards additionally accept added accretion and whistles acceptance you to get pleasure things like a 5.1 beleaguer complete set up. Unless you’re a huge audiophile, you’ll apparently be blessed with audio ports that are (likely) chip assimilate the motherboard.

VGA and SVGA Video Cards

2011-06-23T10:37:00.000-07:00

Some users, like clear artists or gamers, charge to accept a little added ability back it comes to video performance. Video cards booty affliction of this need. A video agenda is a allotment of accouterments that is committed to all the circuitous video tasks like alive with image/video files or apprehension a circuitous 3D environment. This makes your computer run faster as it takes a huge accountability off of your CPU. Video cards additionally usually accept added than one achievement anchorage which enables you to affix two monitors to your computer (called a bifold awning setup).

CD Drive and DVD Drives

2011-06-23T10:34:00.000-07:00

CD and DVD drives acquiesce your computer to apprehend abstracts from… you estimated it, CD’s and DVD’s. CD drives are acceptable beneath accepted back a DVD drive (which are now actual bargain at about $50) can comedy a CD. If you get a DVD burner (a drive that can address abstracts assimilate a DVD) you’re now able to address or “burn” abstracts assimilate both CD’s and DVD’s. In my opinion, there is no alibi for a computer bought in the aftermost brace of years to not accept a DVD burner installed.

RAM (“Memory”)random access memory

2011-06-23T10:27:00.000-07:00

RAM (random admission memory) acts like acting accumulator for your computer. Typically, any affairs or book that you accessible is stored in RAM until you abutting it. That’s why you lose all of that adored assignment in a ability outage. That is, unless you’ve afresh adored your work. RAM is abstinent in MB’s (megabytes) and GB’s (gigabytes). Most fresh computers appear with at atomic 1 GB of RAM. Generally speaking, the added RAM your computer has the faster it will perform. This is because your computer starts to put things on your adamantine drive whenever it runs out of RAM. Affairs abstracts from your adamantine drive is abundant slower than affairs it from RAM!

CPU (The “Processor”)Central Processing Unit

2011-06-23T10:24:00.000-07:00

The CPU (central processing unit) is the “brains” of your computer. How bound your computer can complete a assignment is abundantly the aftereffect of how fast your processor is. You can acquaint how fast a processor is by its acceleration which is abstinent by how abounding cycles it completes in one second. One MHz (mega-hertz) is one actor cycles per second. One GHz (giga-hertz) is one billion cycles per second. So, if a processor completes one apprenticeship per aeon you could say that a 3 GHz processor completes 3 billion instructions per second! Some of the newer processors on the bazaar today accept added than one core, which is like accepting assorted processors on one chip.

Main part of computer is Motherboard

2011-06-23T06:31:00.000-07:00

The motherboard is the capital ambit lath to which all added computer genitalia connect. The motherboard additionally contains the BIOS (basic ascribe / achievement system) as able-bodied as added connectors like USB ports. Many motherboards accept the video and complete apparatus congenital in (referred to as “on board”). This can save you a acceptable bit of money bottomward the road, but you’ll be sacrificing some ability and versatility by not application committed components. More on that later. When architecture a computer, the motherboard you accept is activity to actuate what kinds of technologies you’ll accept at your disposal. So booty agenda of the motherboard specs afore authoritative a purchase!

Hard Disk Drive

2011-06-23T06:28:00.000-07:00

Your adamantine drive (sometims abbreviated as HDD) is area aggregate one your computer is stored. Unlike RAM, your adamantine drive is abiding storage. That is, already you accept adored a certificate you will not lose it back you about-face the ability off. There are several “types” of adamantine drives which is bent by how it connects to your motherboard. First, there’s IDE which uses those advanced “ribbons” to affix to the motherboard. IDE drives are boring actuality phased out, but are captivation on back they are now usually a abundant bargain, abnormally if you’re added afraid about accumulator and performance. Next, there’s SATA drives which abundantly beat IDE. Last but not atomic there’s SCSI (pronounced “skuzzy”) which are about begin in high-end machines like servers. All adamantine drive accumulator is abstinent in GB’s (gigabytes, or one billion bytes) and now sometimes TB’s (terabytes, or one abundance bytes… which is agnate to 1000 GB’s!). Adamantine drives accept become so bargain now that abounding austere computer users accept added than one. Its not aberrant to accept 300GB of accumulator in a home computer.

How come can not I Email My point display?

2011-06-23T05:40:00.000-07:00

About two or three times a anniversary I am asked, “Why can’t I email my presentation to John?” Of course, I apperceive that our email server is active fine, so I jump to the best acceptable problem: attachments. I ask if they are sending any accessories forth with the email. Best bodies acknowledgment yes with a “how did you know?” complete in their voice.

The best accepted adapter in my boutique is the acceptable ‘ole PowerPoint presentation. I’ll admit, PowerPoint can be a admirable and able tool. In the calmly of a pro, you can accomplish some absolutely nice presentations. In the calmly of a abecedarian (and alike a novice), a PowerPoint presentation can bound about-face into a aggrandized mess, abnormally if agenda pictures and scanned images are used.

In the past, this wasn’t abundant of a problem. Absolutely ample angel files were non-existent until affordable agenda cameras came on the scene. Now bodies are putting two abundant accoutrement calm with an annoying result. You see, agenda pictures tend to accept rather ample book sizes. Adding agenda pictures and scanned images to your PowerPoint presentation can bound accomplish them too ample to accelerate through best email systems.

There are a brace of means to get about this problem. One is a added hands-on, awful customizable approach. The added is aloof a amount of a brace of clicks.

The hands-on access requires that you accept some angel alteration skills. All you absolutely charge to do is resize your pictures and save a abstracted copy. If you break about the 800 x 533 (width x height) mark, you’ll accept images that are absolute for the screen. Aloof be abiding you don’t accidentally amplitude your pictures one way or the other.

The simple bang adjustment is apparently activity to be the best popular, so I’ve taken some awning shots and accounting some admonition on how to configure PowerPoint 2007 to calmly abbreviate images. Let’s get started!

How to abbreviate pictures in PowerPoint 2007

First, accessible up a bare presentation in PowerPoint 2007. Locate the tiny billowing deejay angel (the Save icon) and again acquisition the alike abate down-pointing arrow. Clicking this arrow allows you to adapt the Quick Access Toolbar. Go ahead, bang it!

In the card that ancestor up, bang “More Commands…” This will accessible the PowerPoint Options window.

In the PowerPoint Options window, you’ll apprehension that “Customize” is called forth the larboard side. In the average of the window beneath “Choose commands from:” bang the bead bottomward card to appearance all of your choices. Scroll bottomward a bit and baddest “Picture Tools | Format Tab.” You’ll apprehension that the capacity in the area beneath will change.

In the area beneath the bead bottomward list, baddest “Compress Pictures…” and again bang the Add button amid aloof to the right. This will add the Compress Pictures figure to your Quick Access Toolbar (where the tiny billowing deejay is).

Click OK to save these changes. Now you will see the Compress Pictures Figure to the appropriate of the Save figure in your Quick Access Toolbar!

The abutting time you actualize a presentation with lots of pictures in it, all you accept to do is bang the Abbreviate Pictures figure that you aloof added. This will abbreviate the pictures in your presentation which will accomplish it added email/web affable (and possibly accomplish your presentation run a bit added smoothly).

When you bang your fresh Abbreviate Pictures you will be presented with a few options. Let’s booty a quick attending at these.

The aboriginal affair you’ll see back you bang the Abbreviate Pictures figure is a baby window with a few options on it. The choices at the top accept to do with which pictures will be compressed. If you’d like to alone abbreviate assertive pictures, you’ll charge to baddest them afore you bang the Abbreviate Images icon. Best generally you’ll appetite to go advanced and abbreviate all of the pictures.

The settings in the average accord with how abundant compression will be used. Web/Screen applies the best compression, which after-effects in the aboriginal book sizes. This is the best adorable for emailing presentations. If you’d like to abbreviate the images in a way that keeps them acceptable for printing, accept the Print setting.

Along the basal you’ll accept a brace of added options that lends some adaptability to the compression process. You can accept to alone annul circumscribed areas of the picture, or alone abbreviate the images, or both. Bang OK to abbreviate the pictures with these settings.

You may be presented with one added chat box at this point that warns you about how burden pictures can abate the affection of your images. You can accept to never see this admonishing afresh by blockage the box and beat Apply.

That’s it! Now your presentation has been optimized for emailing and downloading via the web. Not alone is it accessible but your I.T. guy will adulation you for it.

Re-create Directory anatomical structure other then Files XCOPY Command

2011-06-23T05:17:00.000-07:00

I’m not a DOS guy. I do abundant added acceptable with a graphical user interface (GUI). However, afresh I came beyond an affair area the XCOPY command came in handy.

On my Windows XP apparatus had a binder that independent over 500 sub-directories. I bare to archetype the agenda anatomy afterwards artful the files independent in these directories. Afterwards a acceptable bit of analytic on my own, I angry to my acceptable acquaintance Jared who acicular me to the XCOPY command.

XCOPY is abbreviate for Extended Archetype and is the big brother to the archetype command begin in MS-DOS. It provides abounding added options for artful assorted files and directories from one drive to addition or beyond a network. Adding assertive characters will acquiesce you adapt your archetype command.

How to archetype agenda anatomy afterwards artful files

Go to Start and accept Run

In the Run chat box, type: cmd

In the command window, use the afterward syntax.

XCOPY "C:\Existing Folder" "D:\New Copy" /t /e

Upon acute Enter, I accept the message: “Does C:\Existing Binder specify a book name or agenda name on the ambition (F=file, D=directory)?”

In my instance, I hit D for directory. (If you’re aggravating to archetype file(s) to a file, again you would accept F here). Because of the cardinal of sub-directories, it took a few moments for the action to complete, again I was accustomed a fresh command band area I typed avenue to abutting the command window.

Below are a few attributes you can adjoin to your XCOPY command to clothing your artful needs. For a abounding ambit of attributes, analysis out the Microsoft TechNet site.

/t Copies agenda anatomy afterwards artful files. Excludes abandoned directories. Include /e to archetype emtpy directories.

/e Copies agenda structure, including abandoned ones. Same as /s /e. Can be acclimated to adapt /t.

/d :mm-dd-yyyy Copies files afflicted on or afterwards date provided. If you don’t specify a date, alone files from your Antecedent agenda that are newer than your Destination agenda will be copied, acceptance you to amend alone the files that accept been changed.

/exclude: filename1 [+filename2] [+filename3] Specifies which files to exclude depending on the cord you enter. You can additionally specify a agenda name (\zip\) or book blazon (.zip) to exclude files in that agenda or of that book type.

/f Displays filenames of antecedent and destination while copying.

/h Copies hidden files and arrangement files which XCOPY does not do by default.

/u Copies alone the files from antecedent that already abide in destination.

My Computer going to slow Slow

2011-06-23T05:04:00.000-07:00

There is a byword I accept heard so abounding times as an IT guy that, if I was acclimatized a dollar per occurrence, I would accept retired years ago. It seems to be actual accepted amid computer users and, honestly, it drives me insane.

The phrase, you may accept guessed, is some alternative of “My computer is slow.” Aloof accounting those words makes me fidget in my chair.

At first, I articular that bodies anticipate there’s a accepted fix for slowness. Later, I anticipation that, by adage article is slow, bodies accept they accept baldheaded the anecdotic evidence of their problem. Really, aback bodies acquaint me about their apathetic computers, they are aloof allurement for help. “My computer is slow” has become to mean, “I don’t accept what’s happening. Please Help!”

I anticipate bodies adhere to this byword because they don’t appetite to assume as apprenticed as they are. There’s annihilation amiss with benightedness unless you accept to abide ignorant!

Besides, I can ache with absent to assume proficient. I accept no agnosticism my brother-in-law cringes aback I try to explain what may be activity amiss with my car. I not generally absolutely accept what is accident mechanically, so I usually resort to application frequently ambiguous words like, “sluggish,” or “it sounds like…”.

Don’t be so vague

Since there are so abounding altered tasks that a computer can do, adage a computer is apathetic is far too ambiguous to be helpful. Instead, accredit to what aspect of your computer seems slow. If you apprehension the slowness aback you were online, acknowledgment this first. It could be that your internet affiliation is apathetic or the website you were visiting was beneath almighty aerial demand. In either case, your computer wasn’t responsible. Now, do you see why this bugs me?

Whenever you alarm your office’s advice board or your tech-savvy nephew, be able to call your issues with detail. Also, be able to acknowledgment a few questions too. Us tech guys adulation to ask questions; they’re usually the quickest way to acquisition the basis of the botheration (and the added you can acquaint us up front, the beneath questions we’ll accept to ask!).

Slow or Unresponsive?

Let’s allocution about one aftermost thing: slowness. No one can actuate if article is apathetic unless a allegory can be made. We tend to say things are apathetic aback article doesn’t appear as bound as we’re acclimatized too. Some computers may do things added boring than another, but there are generally times aback the chat “slow” should be replaced by the chat “unresponsive.”

Let’s accredit aback to the internet affair again. Sometimes, a web server may accept so abounding requests at already that it takes it best than accepted to action castigation (like a absolutely continued band at the DMV). An boilerplate user may alone accede that they clicked a articulation and accept had to delay best than accustomed to get to a web page. In this case, the web server is unresponsive; neither your computer or internet affiliation is “slow”.

Which computer mouse Click?

2011-06-23T04:58:00.000-07:00

Image of a computer mouseThe abrasion is a simple device, but there is a hasty bulk of altered means to use it. Knowing how to use it for a accurate assignment will accomplish you added able at your job and can alike advice your computer to run added smoothly.

If you’ve anytime wondered why there are 4 copies of Outlook accessible on your screen, amuse apprehend on!

The Altered Kinds of Abrasion Clicks

Depending on the blazon of abrasion you are using, there are about 5 altered types of clicks.

Left-Click

Right-Click

Middle-Click (if you accept a caster mouse)

Double-Click

Bang and Drag

I’m abiding these complete accessible enough, but the important affair to apperceive is what they do and back they should be used. Each blazon of bang has their own appropriate purpose!

Mouse Clicks Explained

Left-clicking is artlessly beat the larboard abrasion button one time. This is apparently the best accepted blazon of click. You should left-click to highlight a binder or file, to cross a program’s menu, to chase a articulation on a web page, or to bang a button. Sure, a bifold bang would assignment in best of these instances, but you would be crumbling a bang and active the accident of cogent the computer to do article twice. A acceptable archetype of this is the Quick Launch toolbar (located on the assignment bar abutting to your Start button). These icons alone charge a distinct left-click.

Right-clicking is beat the appropriate abrasion button one time. If you right-click on a book or folder, you are presented with a card of accepted accomplishments such as Open, Copy, Paste, and Properties. Viewing the backdrop of a book or binder is how you can apprentice about the size, location, and conception date (and more). In a web browser, you can right-click on links to save their “target” (what they articulation to) to your computer, appearance the breadth and book admeasurement of images, not to acknowledgment the ever-useful Copy and Paste.

Middle-clicking is beat the mouse’s annal caster down. Lots of bodies don’t apperceive you can do this! The best appliance of middle-clicking is accomplishing so in a web browser (Firefox or Internet Explorer). If you middle-click in a web page, a amphitheater with two arrows will appearance up. If you move your abrasion up or bottomward afterwards middle-clicking, the folio will annal accordingly. The further up or bottomward you move your abrasion the faster it will scroll! Already you’re done scrolling, middle-click again.

Some programs, such as Firefox, use the middle-click as a way to ascendancy tabs. Middle-clicking on a articulation will accessible the affiliated folio in a abstracted tab. Middle-clicking a tab will abutting it.

Double-clicking is bound beat the larboard abrasion button two times. Double-clicking is best generally acclimated to accessible a file, folder, or application. Double-clicking in an appliance has a array of furnishings depending on which appliance is actuality used. Bifold beat on argument in best applications will highlight that word, for example.

Click and boring is larboard beat already but captivation the button bottomward while you move the mouse. This is advantageous for highlighting several altar (or words) at once. A accompanying maneuver, alleged the Annoyance and Drop, is abundant like the bang and drag. Already you accept accent a book or accumulation of words, you can again left-click and authority on the accent items, and again move your abrasion (drag) to a altered breadth on your screen. In Windows, the Annoyance and Drop is a quick way to move and adapt files. In a chat processor, you can calmly reformat your certificate by rearranging absolute paragraphs.

Optimising PDF data file*

2011-06-23T04:51:00.000-07:00

PDF files that are created for columnist and columnist can accept aerial resolution and ample book size. This can accomplish it difficult to appearance these files on the Web or accelerate them via email. In some beforehand versions of Acrobat, you could artlessly go to Book > Reduce Book Admeasurement and you were done. The Reduce Book Admeasurement advantage was a quick and accessible way of downsizing your PDFs, but with the addition of Acrobat 8 we’re presented with a abundant added full-featured tool; the PDF Optimizer.

Keep in apperception that assuming this Optimization can aftereffect in abridgement of resolution and burden assertive book components. This is not recommended for files that are apprenticed for press.

1. Save As

Before we get to the Optimizer, let’s aboriginal accessible your absolute PDF book and attending at the book admeasurement (File > Properties, or Ctrl/Cmd D). In the Description tab, attending in the Advanced area and booty agenda of the accepted book size. Now, do a simple Save As (File > Save As…, or Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + S) for the file. Examining the book admeasurement afresh may appearance a cogent decrease; the Save As advantage will generally abolish added apparatus from the book after aspersing the achievement quality.

2. Audit Amplitude Usage

Now we can accessible the PDF Optimizer by activity to Advanced > PDF Optimizer… The aboriginal affair you’ll appetite to do is bang on the “Audit amplitude usage…” button in the top appropriate bend of the menu. This will accord you a breakdown of the capacity in your PDF and how abundant amplitude they’re demography up. Images will about be the items that are demography up the best bulk of space.

3. Images

Hit OK to get aback to the PDF Optimizer card and accomplish abiding that Images is the advantage called on the left. Here you can ascertain the resolution that you appetite all images adapted to. Use the afterward settings:

Color Images: Bicubic Downsampling to 100ppi for images aloft 100ppi.

Grayscale Images: Bicubic Downsampling to 100ppi for images aloft 100ppi.

Grayscale Images: Bicubic Downsampling to 300ppi for images aloft 300ppi.

The angel Compression that you use will actuate the bulk of tonal accident your book will experience. To absorb the best angel data, change the Compression ambience to “ZIP” compression (this works abundant for atramentous and white images, as able-bodied as grayscale). Using “JPEG” will accord you the best abundant compression, added abbreviation the book size. Choosing Medium Affection can generally be acclimated for examination on awning while Aerial or Maximum will assignment more good if you intend to book to a customer printer.

In Acrobat 9, you can analysis the advantage to “Optimize images alone if there is a abridgement in size” box if you appetite to absorb the absolute affection of your images if the compression will not aftereffect any book admeasurement reduction.

4. Fonts

In any PDF, you appetite to accomplish abiding your chantry files are preserved. Bang on the Fonts alternative to the larboard of the Optimizer and analysis the “Do not unembed any font” box (Acrobat 9 only). For Acrobat 8, artlessly accomplish abiding that all fonts listed are beneath the “Embedded fonts” box.

5. Transparency

The Transparency advantage may be benign if you accept a ample bulk of cellophane altar aural the file. Artlessly analysis the box beside the Transparency advantage and accept “High Resolution,” as this keeps the Optimizer from converting your argument to outlines, but doesn’t override the settings in the Images dialog.

6. Abandon Objects

Next we’ll appointment the Abandon Altar menu. Items such as JavaScript actions, anatomy fields and components, and alternating images can add on accidental book admeasurement to your PDF. Artlessly baddest the altar from the account that you ambition to discard. The two selections that I would not acclaim auctioning are “Convert bland curve to curves” and “Discard bookmarks.” The above would aftereffect in abrupt alterations to any curve in the PDF, and bookmarks booty up actual little amplitude but can be accessible back browsing the document.

7. Abandon User Data

The Abandon User Abstracts advantage is actual agnate to Abandon Objects. You can manually go in and analysis which abstracts you won’t need. Be abiding to advertence “Audit amplitude usage” to accomplish abiding this abstracts is account removing. If it’s demography up a actual baby bulk of space, again it ability be safer to leave it.

8. Clean Up

The final option, Clean Up, allows you to go through and baddest certificate capacity which can be removed or compressed. The actual aftermost option, “Optimize the PDF for fast web view” is the one you charge to accomplish abiding is checked. This sets up the certificate so that back it’s actuality beheld on the web, the book is loaded one folio at a time instead of loading all at once. This agency your readers can be examination the aboriginal folio while the blow of the certificate is still loading.

9. Certificate Compatibility

In the high right-hand bend of the PDF Optimizer menu, the certificate affinity should be set to “Acrobat 5.0 and later.”

10. Finish Up

Now that you’ve got a acceptable bureaucracy for the PDF Optimizer, bang on the “Save” button in the top larboard bend to save the settings for approaching use. Now bang OK to administer the Optimizer settings and save the book to your computer. Accessible the anew created PDF and go to Book > Properties to appearance the changes in book size.

Extra Credit: Catechumen CMYK Images to RGB

For files that will be acclimated on the web, you appetite to accomplish abiding the blush contour of the images is RGB. With the book open, go to Advanced > Print Production > Catechumen Colors. The chat box for this about-face varies amid versions, but the capital abstraction is to catechumen any and all CMYK (U.S. Web Coated (SWOP) v2) images to sRGB IEC61966-2.1. Lastly, analysis the advantage to Embed the blush contour for optimum compatibility.