This tutorial will guide you through the steps required to search for and play YouTube videos from directly inside of the Ubuntu Totem Media Player. Also included are the steps required to watch the higher quality H264 videos that YouTube now includes. …
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Using the absolutely fantastic app Fluid, you can run any web application (Gmail, Facebook, Twitter – the list is endless) on its own, as its own application. The benefits of working this way are numerous – if one app crashes, it won’t bring them all down (ie. a regular browser). You can create shortcuts to the specific app/site in your Dock or Applications folder (or both). This brief tutorial, which could also be called “an introduction to Fluid” – will give you the rundown on using it, configuring and using its plugins and more. …
This tutorial will guide you in downloading, installing and setting up Conky, a free, light-weight system monitor for X11 that lets you display system info on your Linux desktop.
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This tutorial will guide you through the steps required to access any shared files, folders or printers you may have set up on Windows XP, from Windows Vista.
A bit of background, from a Microsoft TechNet site that isn’t around anymore:
Network Map uses a discovery protocol called Link-Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) in order to query the other devices on the network to determine how the network is organized. Computers that are running Windows Vista include the software components that implement the LLTD protocol. For network computers that are running Windows XP to appear on the map, they must have a discovery protocol enabled that can respond to the mapping computer’s requests.
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If you have a second hard drive, or even a second partition on your existing hard drive, it might be a good idea to relocate your data (music, documents, pictures, videos etc). This allows for easier/faster backups, and you can even re-install Vista without having to worry about losing your files. You can also do this with just one of the folders – for example if you have a ton of audio files and don’t want to use all the space on your C:\ drive to store music, you can relocate just the Music folder. Follow the steps outlined below to move your files to a new location… …
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This tutorial will guide you through the steps required to access your jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch through the Finder, via Wi-Fi.
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This tutorial will guide you through setting up and using WWWinamp, a Windows web server-like application that allows remote control of Winamp via any web browser. If you run a media server in your house and want to be able to control what’s playing in Winamp without having to go to that server, this is the program for you. …
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This very brief tutorial will guide you through the steps to set Thunderbird to leave mail on the server. Leaving your mail on the server can be helpful if you use Thunderbird on a portable USB drive to check your email while away from your main computer. That way when you return to your main desktop/laptop, you can still download all of your email. …
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So you’ve upgraded to Vista. Now you’re wondering where exactly your files and folders went. Here we break down the differences between where Windows XP kept files and where Windows Vista keeps files.
In Windows XP it was: C:\Documents and Settings\
In Windows Vista it’s: C:\Users\
In Windows XP it was: C:\Documents and Settings\your-username\My Documents\
In Windows Vista it’s: C:\Users\your-username\Documents\
In Windows XP it was: C:\Documents and Settings\your-username\My Documents\My Pictures\
In Windows Vista it’s: C:\Users\your-username\Pictures\
In Windows XP it was: C:\Documents and Settings\your-username\My Documents\My Music\
In Windows Vista it’s: C:\Users\your-username\Music\
In Windows XP it was: C:\Documents and Settings\your-username\Local Settings\
In Windows Vista it’s: C:\Users\your-username\AppData\Local\
In Windows XP it was: C:\Documents and Settings\your-username\Local Settings\Temp\
In Windows Vista it’s: C:\Users\your-user-name\AppData\Local\Temp\
In Windows XP it was: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\
In Windows Vista it’s: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\
Hope this helps!
This brief tutorial will show you how to display file extensions (and a number of other file and folder options) in Windows Vista.
If you’re new to Vista but a pro with XP or Windows 2000, even you might be a bit stumped as to where the file and folder options went. Here’s how to enable viewing file extensions – …
This tutorial will guide you through creating a shortcut to the Vista Command Prompt that automatically opens with Administrator privileges. …
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This guide will show you how to add a “Recent Items” Stack in your macOS Dock so you can quickly access recently used files. …
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As long as there has been a Windows and a Mac OS, people have come up with themes to make one look like the other. This brief guide will show you how to install and set up the OS X Leopard skin for Windows Mobile Smartphones.
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This brief tutorial will take you through the steps to enable ReadyBoost, a feature of Vista that allows you to improve your PC’s performance by utilizing the faster speeds of flash memory vs. your hard drive. It’s similar to adding more RAM to your PC, without having to actually add more RAM. …
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This tutorial will guide you through the steps to install and configure Blurminal, a SIMBL hack that allows you to ‘blur’ the background of Leopard’s Terminal.
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