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Google: How to disable Google+ posts in search results

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.

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Kindle Fire: How to display .mobi files as books and not documents

Contributed by Rob Rogers on January 6, 2012 under Android

At some point you will run into the situation where you have transferred an ebook in .mobi format to your Kindle Fire and it is displayed as a document instead of a book. This creates an inconvenience since now your books are in two locations instead of just one. Here is how to make your .mobi files be registered as books on the device.

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How to Root Kindle Fire 6.2.1

Contributed by Rob Rogers on December 29, 2011 under Android

The latest update for Kindle Fire broke the popular root method and disabled the SuperOneClick utility. If you want to be able to prevent your device’s wallpaper from changing and the other benefits of rooting your device, the Kindle Fire Utility is a simple solution to your problem.

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Kindle Fire: How to Remove Items from the Carousel

Contributed by Rob Rogers on December 23, 2011 under Android

The Kindle Fire utilizes a sexy Carousel to display the items that you have used on the device. If you want to keep some of these items from being displayed due to privacy concerns, you can remove individual items from the Carousel at any time. This is also great for reducing clutter so that the Carousel can continue to be a productive tool for accessing items.

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Kindle Fire: How to Prevent the Wallpaper from Automatically Changing

Contributed by Rob Rogers on December 11, 2011 under Android, Entertainment

The Kindle Fire automatically changes the wallpaper each time the device wakes from sleep mode or is turned on. If you’ve installed a third party launcher and want your wallpaper to always be displayed instead of being changed to one of Amazon’s default wallpapers. Here’s how to keep the Fire from changing your wallpaper.

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How to Install Google Currents on the Kindle Fire

Contributed by Rob Rogers on December 9, 2011 under Android, Entertainment

Google Currents is a magazine-like news reader (like Flipboard or Zite) that is available for iOS and Android. Unfortunately, since the Kindle Fire doesn’t contain any of the Google frameworks or files, Google Currents won’t install on the device. Here’s how to enjoy the new reader on the Kindle Fire.

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Kindle Fire: How to Disable Automatic Spelling Correction

Contributed by Rob Rogers on December 8, 2011 under Android, Entertainment

The Kindle Fire has automatic spelling correction enabled by default. As with autocorrect on any device, it is not always helpful to every user, in fact in can actually create more problems than it solves. Here’s how to disable automatic spelling correction.

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How to Root a Kindle Fire Using OS X or Linux

Contributed by Rob Rogers on December 4, 2011 under Android, Entertainment

If you use a Mac or Linux computer, you are just a few steps away from rooting your Kindle Fire. Rooting your device will allow you to run certain applications that require the SuperUser app (such as screenshot applications).

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