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How to copy music to your Android phone from Windows

Android Windows

This tutorial will guide you step by step through the process of adding audio files (mp3, ogg, wma, etc) from your Windows PC to your Android phone. Continued…

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iPhone App Review: My Squares!

iPhone iPod

The following review is a guest post by Jason Kaneshiro. Jason has also contributed numerous iPhone app reviews for Switching To Mac.

Game Concept: Color squares for points against several opponents in this turn-based board game.

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How to copy music to your Android phone from your Mac

Android Mac

This tutorial will take you step by step through the process of adding audio files (MP3, OGG, WMA etc) to your Android phone. Continued…

Posted in Android, Mac.


How to quickly enable or disable Wi-Fi on your Android device

Android

This brief tutorial will show you how to quickly turn wifi on or off on your Android phone/device. Continued…

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How to add and remove Applications to your Android home screen

Android

This brief tutorial will show you how to add and/or delete apps (which are actually just shortcuts to the application) to your Android home screen. Continued…

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How to add and remove Widgets from your Android home screen

Android

This brief tutorial will show you how to add and/or remove Widgets to/from your Android home screen. Continued…

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How to see a detailed history of the commands run in Linux

Linux

If you use or administer a Linux machine it can be quite useful to be able to take a look at the history of commands that have been executed on a machine. This can be pretty useful when debugging and issue. I usually use the command history to help me with this. Continued…

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How to take screenshots of your Android based phone from OS X

Android Mac

This tutorial will walk you every step of the way through the process of taking screenshots of your Android phone using your Mac. Continued…

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How to use a command line version of Google

Google has some amazing services to offer such as search and translation. Goosh is a web based service that brings you the power of Google in a command line interface in your web browser. Goosh stands for Google Shell. Note: Goosh is NOT an official google product! Continued…

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How to take screenshots of your Android based phone from Windows

Android Windows

This tutorial will walk you every step of the way through the process of taking screenshots of your Android phone. Continued…

Posted in Android, Windows.


How to recursively copy files from an FTP server with Linux

Linux

The other day I was migrating my hosting from one server to another. My previous hosting only gave me FTP access. The new host came enabled with SSH and a complete Linux environment. I wanted to migrate the data from my old host to the new one. Here’s how I moved all my data. Continued…

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How to get a list of files an RPM package depends on

Linux

Sometimes when you are trying to uninstall or upgrade some software on a Linux machine you run into dependency related issues. Just about everyone I know who works with RPM based distributions has experienced what is known as “rpm hell” at one time or another. Here’s something to help you a bit if you are stuck in one of those situations. Continued…

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How to backup your Windows Live Contacts

Email Windows

This tutorial will guide you through the steps required to backup your Windows Live Contacts (the Contact Manager that comes with Windows Live Mail). Continued…

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How to display your Flickr photos on your Facebook wall

This brief tutorial will show you how to display your Flickr photos on your Facebook wall. Continued…

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How to view live updates in a file under Linux

Linux

If you administer a Linux server or are a developer it is quite likely that you might need to watch a file to check for live updates to it. It could be a log file which you want to keep an eye on to see if any errors or messages appear, or it could just be a file with some data written into it. Here’s a way you can have that file update itself rather than your having to hit the refresh button constantly. Continued…

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