Using The Unity Feature in VMware 5

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Whenever taking screencasts of an OS that isn’t Windows 7, I’m using VMware Player to do it with. I’ve been holding out with version 3 for the longest time, but I finally decided to upgrade to 5 and there’s a feature called Unity. No, it’s not like Ubuntu’s Unity at all. What Unity in VMware [...]

How To Access A Yahoo! Mail Account With IMAP

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For a small while now there has been the ability to connect a Y! Mail account using IMAP, even for free accounts. As for why you can do it now and not before is because many mobile users prefer to access their mail via IMAP because it makes for easier synchronization, and also want the [...]

It’s Time To Uninstall Java

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Back in the early-early days of the internet, I used to play games in the browser that were Java based like Yahoo! Pool (which amazingly still runs off Java). Back then there was this thing in Windows called Microsoft Java Virtual Machine. The Sun company evidently got all in a twist about that because of [...]

Hey Microsoft, I Don’t Need Fun-Colored Spam In My Hotmail

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I have a really old Hotmail account (registered in 1998 if you can believe it) that I login to periodically just to keep the account active. When I go in there I check the Junk folder just to see if I get any legitimate emails got dumped there by mistake (which doesn’t happen too often, [...]

Voice Mail Usage In Decline? *DUH*

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I am old enough to remember when there wasn’t such a thing as anyone having an answering machine or any business having voice mail service. I might have been just a kid during that time, but I do remember it (right along with rotary phones). As it turns out, voice mail isn’t being used as [...]

Windows 7 Tip: Enabling Checkboxes For Easier File/Folder Selection In Explorer

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Windows 7 does in fact include a way to have checkboxes next to files and folders for easier selection for those that use the mouse often. It looks like this: …and also works for saving files, selecting folders and basically anywhere else you would use Windows Explorer. Click the Windows logo and type “folder options”: [...]

How To Size Down MP4 Video Files Using Handbrake

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Handbrake is free software for Windows (including 64-bit), Mac or Linux that anyone who makes video (for hobby or for pro) should use because it’s just so damned good at what it does. The purpose of Handbrake is to plop a video file in there (such as a WMV, AVI or MOV) and then convert [...]

Anyone Who Says They Haven’t Stalked Someone On The Internet Is Lying

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I find the term online stalker (or stalked online or online stalking or whatever other way the word stalk is used with online) to be rather interesting because it doesn’t mean the same today as it did ten years ago. In 2002, the mere mention of someone “stalking someone else online” struck terror into people’s [...]

Internet Connectivity On A Wireless Model Is Not A Bad Thing

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A few years back you may have remembered all the hub-bub concerning the “white space” frequencies of what was formerly used for the television band spectrum, which Big Telco, Big Cable and a few others (even Google) fought each other for, tooth and nail. Well, it’s now 2012 and there’s this thing now called “Super [...]

Cool Stuff You Can Do In Google Earth

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While there have been many improvement in Google Maps and Bing Maps over the years, there’s still nothing that beats Google Earth as far as what you can do with it. Some of the features you’ll see below are in Google/Bing Maps, but done done in a way where the functions are separated and/or cumbersome [...]

Retro Friday: Love Your Software? Start Hoarding It Now

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The term “hoarding” is generally considered to be a bad thing, but when it comes to the software you love that you can’t live without, I cannot stress this enough: SAVE THOSE INSTALLERS. This is especially true for Windows XP users. The software you love right now will not be on the internet forever where [...]

A (Very) Old-School Firefox Keystroke That’s Good To Know

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For some of you, this will probably make your whole week knowing this feature exists in Firefox and has more or less ever since the browser came into existence. Here’s an animated GIF of an ant: Press ESC and the animation plus any other animated GIFs will stop animating. Flash will continue to animate, but [...]

Firefox 15 FINALLY Fixes Memory Leak Issues

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Firefox 15 has just been released, and it’s noted on this Mozilla blog that Fx 15 “prevents most memory leaks” caused by add-ons. I wasn’t so much interested in that, but rather if Fx actually releases memory properly when a tab is closed. From my cursory examination of the browser, yes it does. FINALLY. The [...]

How To Reset A Smartphone Before Selling It

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Many people are under the delusion that a factory reset of a smartphone device will clear all the user data in it. Not usually. In most devices there are remnants of user data left behind which could easily be used for identity theft purposes. So before you sell off that smartphone device, here are the [...]

How To Reset A GPS Before Selling It

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System resets of GPS devices I know for a fact do not clear the data in the unit as I’ve owned enough Garmin GPS devices to figure that out. What I’m going to tell you below specifically applies to Garmin devices, although it can be applied to any GPS device as the data I’ll mention [...]

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