Today, most folks are members of over 20 websites, and at work folks have 20+ applications that may or may not be single sign-on, and then some websites/apps ask us to change our password every so often… finally, with the push for “strong passwords” and not using the same password for EVERYTHING, how is a […]
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Well, howdy. If you are like me, you went scrubbing the internet looking for ways to speed up GoAnimate. When I searched there wasn’t much out there…so hence this post. Usual Disclaimer: There’s lots of factors involved in setting up a workable environment for any application, I am just sharing what worked for me and
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So, I saw this article on prepping a USB drive, and then prepping the Acer to boot from USB. That was a cool post, but in my case the netbook hard drive was dead. So what I wanted to do was prep the new hard drive prior to installing it in the netbook. This method
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OFF BASE INTRO Well, it finally happened…I got sick enough of Windows 7 being quiet that I decided to research doing something about it. Disclaimer? Always! I am running an ASUS motherboard with Realtek Integrated Audio. There’s also a team of licensed audio gnats in this chassis that uses their saliva to regulate sample depth,
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Note: Double-click top border of Task Manager to get your tabs back! I used to joke with people that some day computers would need psychologists to help diagnose their problems. I think it is actually going to happen, though, because now, more than ever, computers are behaving inconsistently. I can have 2 identically configured systems that behave
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OK, bottom line is…I got some conflicting advice from Google about Google. Ever since the death of Gizmo5 I’ve been left with a void in my IP soul…I WANT TO PLACE/ANSWER GOOGLE VOICE CALLS ON MY PC! I read a bunch of posts that said Google Talk cannot do this. And I read some posts
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SYMPTOMS You do a search via Google or Bing, you click a result…next thing you know, you are looking at some weird advertisement and the URL says “Fast-Find” or one of several other URLs including just freaky IP addresses. If you go back and click your search link again, it takes you to the expected
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We’ve all seen the articles about WD-40 and alcohol…but I did an interesting test. Actually I didn’t start the test…I just finished it. The test was STARTED when one of my children decided to take Silly Putty to bed to “help me fall asleep.” Hey, it’s not like I could say,”Dude, you should just try
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OK, I wanted to burn a large file to CD, so I right-clicked the file, chose Send-To and selected my read-write CD drive, where a nice fresh blank CD was waiting. This will usually put an icon in your system tray, but if you are like me and a bit slow to react, the icon will vanish.
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Well, it is not the easiest journey. Especially if you, like me, no longer have access to your Outlook 2007 Media. But here is a way to pull it off. No guarantees, but hope it saves you some time: 1.0 YOU NEED OUTLOOK OK, you can try to do it without Outlook using a plug-in, but I
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