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Windows Phone 8: Turn On or Off the Glance Feature on Lumia Devices

Since the GDR2 and Amber update, most Lumia users will notice a small clock screen appears whenever they lock the device, and they now have the ability to double-tap to wake the phone up. While the double-tap to unlock feature seems useful, the clock may not. A small force or a change in light conditions is enough to wake your screen up and cause it to stay on for another minute. The most annoying thing is that the screen stays on all the time when the phone is being charged. Luckily, you can turn off or change the behavior of this feature.

Access: Create a Shadow Effect for Report Text

Access comes with shadowed special effects that enable you to display control borders in various interesting ways. Unfortunately, the Shadowed effect applies only to control borders. You can get the same effect with the text in a label by following the steps in this tutorial.

Outlook: How to Assign a Password to Your Personal Folders

To help prevent others from accessing your email messages, you can set up your Outlook data file with a password. The steps in this tutorial explain how this is done.

Using My Friends on Your Sony Ericsson Phone

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If you have owned a Sony Ericsson phone recently, you have probably seen the My Friends options in the phone. So what is this and how does it work? My Friends can let you have all of your IM clients/buddies in one spot, making chatting more simple.

Firefox 2.0: How to Always Restore Your Session

Firefox 2.0 allows you to restore your sessions after a system crash, but you can adjust this so that it restores your session each time you open the browser. To do this, follow the steps in this Tech-Recipe.

BlackBerry: Hide Filed/Sent Emails

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I know I hated seeing my filed or sent email messages in my Messages application on my BlackBerry 8703. This tutorial lets one change that.

Excel: How to Create a Conditional Format

In Excel, you can change your data’s appearance based on its value. For example, you could change the color of negative balances in your worksheet to red while positive numbers are black. To do this, follow the steps in this Tech-Recipe.

Dreamweaver: Sharpening an Image

You can use Dreamweaver to sharpen an image which increases the image’s definition. To sharpen an image, use the steps provided in this tech-recipe.

IE7: Alternative Method for Navigating Back and Forward

As I am sure you know, you can go back and forward between web pages by using the arrow buttons on the toolbar. On IE7, there is a shortcut for doing this that can be quite useful.

Windows 8: Use a Different Input Method for Each App

If you usually have to switch between input methods to work with programs, consider setting up the input method for each program individually so that you do not have to manually switch methods. This tutorial will walk you through the necessary steps to use a different input method for each application.

iOS: Force Videos to Play from the Beginning

By default in iOS, when you play a video, it will resume where you left off. While this is a convenient feature for watching movies, it may not be with shorter videos like music videos or family recorded videos which you may want to start watching from the beginning. Luckily, you can change this and force all videos to start from the beginning.

Access: How to Create a Splash Screen

You can easily create a splash screen for your Access application. Even better, you can give it purpose by making it interactive with buttons, text boxes, or other objects. This tutorial explains adding a splash screen to your Access application.

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