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Magnets are incredibly handy. Using the same rare-earth magnets from my article about making a magnetic Palm Pre, I just slapped a few on the side of my desk. The result: no more USB cables all over the place. If you’re like me, you probably have USB cables for all sorts of stuff like your [...]
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A friend recently needed help recovering data from a Buffalo Terastation NAS device. This particular device had four 250GB drives all strung together in a RAID 0 array. It turned out that one of the drives started to go back, so he made a bit by bit copy with dd to a spare hard drive. [...]
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Software development is a long term process. Software vendors constantly keep on updating their products to incorporate new features and plug security loopholes. Many of the software, which are installed on your PCs, have the capabilities to automatically contact their developer websites to know when a new software patch or update is available so as [...]
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[A Guest Post from Silki] After reading a useful articles from Eric on Organizing Bookmarks With Firefox To Save Screen Space, I thought I’d share my tips for the maximization of the useful screen space in your Firefox window in this first guest post of mine. This post is for those readers, who love to [...]
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This article is mainly for the high resolution junkies running 1680 x 1050 or higher. There comes a time when you have multiple windows open and want to view them all at once. In order to do that, you must re size every window to fit. While it doesn’t sound like much work, resizing windows [...]
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Everyone knows that they should backup their files, but few actually do. I sometimes make backups (like before reformatting), but I never had the patience to devise a solid backup schedule and strategy. The problem with keeping backups is sticking to the routine; before you know it, you’ll miss one day, then a few more [...]
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A little part inside of my laughs every time I see a 15.4″ WXGA (1200 x 800) laptop display. I realize the people using the laptop have no clue when it comes to computers, but to me, looking at a 15.4″ 1200 x 800 resolution is like a blast from the past. That’s almost as [...]
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I’m sitting here typing on a 13.3″ 1280 x 800 resolution LCD screen, and to me, 1280 x 800 isn’t low resolution, but it’s not quite enough to show me everything I want to see. This is especially true while browsing the web and accessing my bookmarks toolbar in Firefox. At most, I was able [...]
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I’ve been looking for a program like GRemote for a very long time. GRemote allows you to use your smartphone’s touchscreen and hardware keyboard to control a PC. For carputer users, I’d say this is one of the best options for keyboard and mouse input. No more bulky IR keyboards, no more drained batteries, and [...]
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I’ve been messing with and testing the Guardian Edge full hard disk encryption solution for the past few months. Basically, you install the encryption client and it encrypts your entire hard drive by reading the data and applying an encryption algorithm. Furthermore, after you have finished the initial encryption of your drive, the encryption program [...]
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