Contributed by Lê Hoàng on January 27, 2012 under Android Unlike the Apple App Store, the Android Market has no approval process for apps or games before they appear for purchase. Not surprisingly, unsuitable apps or games will be visible to your children when they access the Android Market. By using Content Filtering you can protect your children from seeing these inappropriate apps. This tutorial will also show you how to block your children from purchasing any apps or games.
Contributed by David Kirk on January 25, 2012 under Windows The Sony Vaio desktop systems that come with a wireless mouse and keyboard occasionally can develop connection problems. Even though the system is powered on, neither the mouse or keyboard respond. Here are the steps to get these activated and working again.
Contributed by Lê Hoàng on January 24, 2012 under Internet If you use many add-ons in IE9, you will properly be welcomed by the “Speed up browsing by disabling add-ons” notification every time you launch the browser. If you sure that all your add-ons are essential, this notification is annoying. This tutorial will show you how to disable this warning.
Contributed by David Kirk on January 23, 2012 under Technology reviews One of our visitors dropped me an email asking an interesting question. While out running and wearing gloves, she noticed that her iPhone would not respond to her touches but her exercise touchscreen watch had no difficulties. As touchscreens become commonplace on our devices, understanding how they work will save you a lot of aggravation.
Contributed by Lê Hoàng on January 21, 2012 under Windows When closing multiple tabs in IE, the browser typically asks for confirmation first. Eventually, many users will check the “Always close all tabs” to prevent this confirmation. However, this feature is actually very helpful as it will prevent tabs from getting closed when one accidentally hits the Close button. If you regret disabling this feature, this tutorial can help you get it back.
Contributed by Rob Rogers on January 20, 2012 under Google Google’s search includes personalized posts in your search results. This means that it will include posts and images by people that are in your Circles in Google+. While you may enjoy reading their posts, their information may not be useful to your searches. Here’s how to keep these posts from cluttering up your search results.
Contributed by Lê Hoàng on January 19, 2012 under Android Every time you save a new number to the contacts on your Android phone, the phone will ask you where you want to save it. Many users often save their contacts to one location only–Phone, Sim card or Google account. However, it is much more convenient and efficient to set the default save location. This tutorial describes this process under the Gingerbread OS version of Android.
Contributed by Lê Hoàng on January 16, 2012 under Internet The Hotmail Instant Actions contains a set of action which will only be visible when you hover your mouse over the mail. This helps you access and perform common tasks with the emails quickly. By default, only “mark as read/unread” and “delete” are visible in the Instant Actions area. If you need more than that, this tutorial will help you customize the Custom Actions as you wish.
