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Playstation 3 – Backup PS3 Using the Backup and Data Transfer Utilities

Contributed by Jimmy Selix on March 10, 2011 under Entertainment

This guide is an overview and explanation of what the Sony PS3 Backup Utility and Transfer Utility settings do.  There are a lot of misconceptions and blatantly wrong information out there about the PS3 backup options.  Let’s clear them up and get down to the facts.  We’ll start with a quick introduction and then get down to some PS3 backup business.

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Microsoft Onenote 2010: Hide Author Tags and Highlighting of New Changes

Contributed by Jimmy Selix on March 7, 2011 under Microsoft Office

Onenote 2010 is a great note taking and clipping application. It now supports shared notebooks across multiple computers.  By default, Onenote will tag changes with the author’s initials and highlight any new content when opened on a different computer. This tutorial describes how to turn that off.

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OS X Lion: Fix Blank Wallpaper in Spaces

Contributed by Jimmy Selix on March 5, 2011 under Apple Mac, Mac system administration

This tech-recipe will explain how to fix the blank white screen on the non default Space.  Opening the Desktop and Screen saver preferences and setting the wallpaper will not set the blank space but the previous/default Space 1.  Lets fix that!

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Backup Gmail Offline to Mac Mail or Windows Outlook

Contributed by Jimmy Selix on March 1, 2011 under Apple Mac, Google, Microsoft Outlook

This guide is an alternative, offline method of backing up your Gmail emails.  I will explain how to setup your Gmail account to use POP and in turn use Microsoft Outlook Mail or Apple Mail to download your entire gmail account to save offline.  You can archive the messages in Apple Mail or save as a PST file in Outlook. Keep reading for the details.

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Convert OS X Lion DMG Installer to a Bootable USB Thumb Drive

Contributed by Jimmy Selix on February 28, 2011 under Apple Mac, Mac OS X Leopard, Mac system administration

This recipe will explain how to make a USB Thumb Drive bootable with the OS X Lion Developer Preview installer on it and in turn allow you to install Lion on a Mac without an optical drive (ie Macbook Air line).  We will need a copy of the installer dmg (not provided) and a 4GB USB Thumbdrive or Memorycard Reader w/memory card and a Mac to convert the dmg to a bootable usb thumb drive.

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Playstation 3: How to reset the display output options after changing video cables

Contributed by Jimmy Selix on February 12, 2011 under Games

This recipe is for Playstation 3 owners who change their video output from using the SCART / Component cables to HDMI or vice versa.  I’ve moved my Playstation 3 from HDMI to Component cables and initially could not get the video to display.  Lets fix this!

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Springpad: What is it and how to get started

Contributed by Jimmy Selix on February 8, 2011 under Internet

Recently, I started using a new free web service called Springpad to use for my online note taking and web clipping application and overall remembering app.  So what is Springpad? How do you use it? What are its benefits? I hope to answer these questions and give a quick overview on what you can do with Springpad.

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Windows 7: Mounting and Unmouting WIMs Using a DISM Batch File Menu

Contributed by Jimmy Selix on January 19, 2011 under Batch file programming, Microsoft Windows 7, Windows installation

This tech-recipe will include a batch file that lets you mount and unmount .WIM files in Windows 7 Professional / Ultimate and Windows Server 2008. I will also explain some the basics of WIM files and discuss how to manage them using DISM from the command prompt.

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