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iOS 7: Disable Translucent Background Effect

The new flat design in iOS 7 is a welcome change, but for many users, the style is not suitable for their tastes. Beside revamping the interface for all system apps, many interfaces like Control and Notification Center now have a translucent background which exposes the color of the content behind them.

Facebook App for iOS / Android: Delete or Reorder Stickers

The Facebook Stickers Store offers many sticker sets to help you express yourself in conversations with friends. With many sticker sets coming out regularly, you may download one and try it out to see if you like the set or not. This could make your sticker list clutter very fast. Luckily, you can delete and reorder the stickers easily.

iOS: Exclude Apps from Search

By default, Spotlight Search in iOS can search for results in a wide range of apps. While one search giving you results across all apps is a convenient feature, it may give results from unnecessary apps, and you may have to scroll very far down to get what you need. To keep the returned results clean and focus only on the apps that matter to you, you can hide other unnecessary apps from Spotlight Search and reorder the most important apps to the top of the result list.

Windows Phone 8: Control and Limit Data Usage

If you are using a limited data plan, you always have to worry about the amount of data usage. Luckily, Data Sense from Nokia provides the perfect solution to let you keep track of your internet usage, see which apps consumes the most data, and set the data cap.

Configure Console Login Password on Cisco Switch

Cisco devices allow password protection of console access. This tech-recipe describes configuring the use of a password to protect the console of a Cisco switch.

YouTube: Blur Faces in Videos

If you have a video that you want to share with the public but you also want to keep the people in the video anonymous, consider blurring their faces. This tutorial will show you how to do it in YouTube without any third-party applications.

Company of Heroes: How to Enable the Console

To utilize some of the cheat codes for CoH, you need to enable the console. To do this, follow the steps in this tech-recipe.

Company of Heroes: How to Toggle the Fog of War

As in most war games, CoH obscures the battlefield to hide areas that have not been scouted or occupied to help with the element of surprise. If you are struggling with this, the Fog of War can be disabled using the steps provided in this tech-recipe:

Battlefield 2142: How to Skip the Intro

Battlefield 2142 is the latest outing in the Battlefield series. If you are impatient and want to skip the introduction movies to get right to the action, follow the steps in this tech-recipe to skip the intro.

Windows 8: Switch Input Method Using a Keyboard Shortcut

If you use multiple input languages, switching between them manually using the Language bar can be a pain. Luckily, you can define a hot key for each input language so that you can switch to it using a keyboard combination.

Company of Heroes: Skip the Intro

Company of Heroes is a fantastic World War II RTS game. If you are impatient and want to skip the introduction movies to get right to the action, follow this tech recipe to bypass the intro.

XP: Reinstall Windows Movie Maker

If you are experiencing problems with Windows Movie Maker, you can reinstall it by following this Tech Recipe.

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