If you use Windows 7, as a growing majority of people are, then you are probably as frustrated as I am about that Windows Explorer shortcut on the taskbar. Here’s what I’m referring to:
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July 12, 2013Fixing the Windows Explorer Taskbar Shortcut
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July 10, 2013Lovely Chrome Bookmarks
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July 8, 2013Zettabytes of CrapThe furor over infamous whistleblower Edward Snowden continues, but yet the media misses the point entirely: Snowden isn’t the bad guy. The U.S. Government is the bad guy for illegally spying on its own citizens. Snowden merely pointed it out, but he’s not the guilty party.
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July 5, 2013When a Byte is not a ByteIt’s with great pride that you bring home that 3TB hard drive. It’s awesome! Three trillion bytes of storage, who could imagine? Then you install the thing and, lo and behold, the operating system reports 2.54TB are available. Huh?
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July 3, 2013Taking in a Little Jazz
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July 1, 2013When the Rug Gets PulledGoogle search is free! The Chrome browser is free! Facebook is free! Gmail is free! Cloud services are free! Can you stand all the freedom? June 28, 2013Clean Up Your Desktop!I’m referring to your computer’s desktop, not that messy thing awash with papers and Post-It Notes™. You should make it a regular task: Checking out all those itty bitty icons to see which can be banished and which should remain.
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June 26, 2013Editing the Normal TemplateThe Normal template is the document that stores all of Word’s formatting defaults: the font, paragraph, margins, and page size information. It’s used whenever you create a new, blank document. All that stuff can change, but to do so you first need to hunt down the Normal template file and edit it directly. That isn’t easy.
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June 24, 2013It’s 1996 and This is the Web
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June 21, 2013The Shrinking Cost of Mass StorageI can’t understand why I sometimes dither about which mass storage device to buy. The answer is really obvious: Buy the storage with the highest capacity. It’s cheaper. That philosophy may not make sense, but that’s only because you fear the math.
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