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How To Customize IE 9 the Easy Way

By Ross McKillop / April 17, 2022

If you’re new to Internet Explorer 9, you might not like the minimal interface. You can go through and make UI  and other adjustments manually, but here we’ll take a look at a free utility that will tweak it how you want easily.

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How To Play Your Music Seamlessly from the Cloud On an iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch

By Ross McKillop / October 3, 2012

We previously covered the new cloud based music player and storage service from Amazon that allows you to play music from the cloud easily. Unfortunately it doesn’t work well with iOS devices. Here we’ll take a look at using a free SugarSync account to play your tunes seamlessly.

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How To Listen to Your MP3s From Dropbox

By Ross McKillop / April 20, 2021

Dropbox is a versatile service that’s becoming an essential part of your daily computing. One thing you might not know is you can play your MP3s from Dropbox. Unfortunately the player is very basic and you can only play one song at a time. Here’s how to make the experience more fluid.

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How To Totally Customize Your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch Home Screen

By Ross McKillop / March 31, 2013

We previously covered how to customize your iOS device with user generated content using Grallery. Today we take a look at another cool app for customizing your iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch with Pimp You Screen.

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How To Install Only the Programs You Actually Use in MS Office

By Ross McKillop / April 2, 2011

If you use Microsoft Office there might be some programs that you don’t need and never use. Here is how to only install the programs in the Office suite that you actually Use.

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Mac Tip: Move the Window Control Buttons in iTunes 10 Back to the Horizontal Layout

By Ross McKillop / March 28, 2011

During the days of iTunes 9 the Minimize, Maximize, and Close control buttons were in a straight horizontal line. When iTunes 10 came out they were moved to a vertical layout. Here’s how to get them back to the way they were. …

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How To Find Your Laptop If It’s Lost or Missing with Prey

By Ross McKillop / March 28, 2011

Having your laptop lost or stolen can be a horrible experience. Thanks to the light, easy to use, and Open Source project Prey, you can set it up to find your laptop, netbook, desktop, or Android device if it’s lost or stolen.

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How To Make Firefox 4 Look Like Version 3

By Ross McKillop / March 28, 2011

If you’ve upgraded to Firefox 4, you’ve undoubtedly noticed there are several changes to the layout of the user interface. If you’re not a fan of it for whatever reason, you can make it look like Firefox 3 with an add-on and a couple of other tweaks.

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How To Completely Disable the Ping Feature in iTunes 10

By Ross McKillop / March 27, 2011

Earlier today we showed you how to disable Ping on an iPhone or iPod Touch to help save battery life. If you don’t use this service, you might as well turn it off in iTunes as well. Here we show you how to turn it off in iTunes and through your account.

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How To Disable the Ping Service On an iPhone or iPod Touch to Save Battery Life

By Ross McKillop / March 27, 2011

There has been some talk that since Apple released the iOS update 4.3 that battery life is worse than before. One way to help remedy this problem is to disable Apple’s Ping service. Since you probably don’t use it anyway, here we’ll show you how to turn it off.

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How To Manage Video and Audio Podcasts with a Zune

By Ross McKillop / June 17, 2012

We previously let you know that Microsoft is giving up on the Zune series of hardware. In that article we also mentioned that if you want to upgrade to a nice MP3 Player or get your first one, this is prime time to get a Zune on the cheap.

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How to use Facebook Questions

By Ross McKillop / March 25, 2011

This brief tutorial will guide you through setting up a “Facebook Question” – one of the latest features that Facebook has implemented. …

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How To Enable the Firewall in Mac OS X Snow Leopard

By Ross McKillop / March 24, 2011

Whether you want to admit it or not, Macs running OS X can be compromised by hackers. If you’re a longtime Windows user and switching to Mac, you know the importance of having the built in firewall enabled. But did you know OS X comes with a Firewall as well? Here we take a look at how to enable and set it up.

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How To Start Torrent Downloads Remotely With Dropbox

By Ross McKillop / June 19, 2020

If you use torrent clients to download files from the Internet, you might think of something you want, but you’re not at home to kick off the download. The solution to this is to use Dropbox to start torrent downloads remotely, from one computer to another.

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How To Sync Bookmarks Between PC & Mac in Firefox 4 with the Sync Feature

By Ross McKillop / March 23, 2011

If you’re a Firefox fan you probably know that Firefox 4 was released yesterday. It includes a new Sync Feature and here we’ll take a look at using it to sync its bookmarks and other settings between a Mac and PC.

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