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Facebook: Turn Off Facial Recognition Photo Tagging Suggestions

Facebook has introduced (actually reintroduced) a new feature which suggests a photo tag based on facial recognition. From your previous uploaded photos, it recognizes your identity and suggests a tag when you or your friends upload a photo of you onto Facebook. If this bothers your sense of privacy, you can disable this feature through the following steps.

Windows 8: Group Applications under a Single Pinned Folder

Create a custom folder with an unique icon that contains all of your go-to applications. In my example below, we will create a custom folder on your Start screen that contains a list of all your installed Office applications. However, you can use these same steps to group any number of applications to a single pinned folder. Continue

PowerPoint 2013: Convert Presentation to a Word Document

Handout are a great visual aid for your audience. Creating handouts of your presentation can really help your audience stay on track and follow along. By converting your PowerPoint presentation to a Microsoft Word document, you can easily edit, print, and distribute your information.

Excel 2013: Create Sparklines to Visualize Trends

Inserting sparklines next to your data set provides a simple way of viewing a trend for a set of data points. Sparklines are tiny, free-flowing graphs with no axis or labels.

SQL Server 2012: How to Use CHOOSE() Logical Function

SQL Server 2012 introduced the powerful new CHOOSE() function. This tech-recipe will explore its use and common mistakes through some simple examples.

Windows 8: Bring Back the Old Windows 7 Style Task Manager

As you may have noticed, the new Task Manager is quite different from the older version. The most straight forward functions have remained the same but may be difficult to access for new users because of the completely redesigned UI.

Windows 8: Use Calculator App to Perform Date Calculations

Are you counting down the days until that concert you have been dying to see? Do you want to know how many days you have been alive? Whatever your motives are, the Windows 8 calculator application comes with a built-in date calculator.

Windows Phone 8: Change the Default Search Engine in Internet Explorer

By default, the search engine in Internet Explorer for Windows Phone 8 is set to Bing. All the search results will be provided by Bing if you try to search from the address bar. Follow these directions to change your search engine to Google instead.

Android Jelly Bean 4.2: Edit Quick Settings Panel

Android 4.2 through the Quick Settings panel introduces a new way to centralize all your frequent places and settings. By default, it displays many tasks that are common to most users. However, if you want to rearrange the order of the items and swap the tiles for other settings, this tech-recipes tutorial will be helpful for you.

Photoshop CS6: Create the “Little Planet” Effect from a Panorama Picture

Panoramic pictures are already pretty cool. With the ability to take panoramas from almost any smartphone, they are also becoming more popular. To make these pictures even more unique, follow these steps to create a miniature planet using the scenery of your photo.

Windows 8: Left-handed Mouse Users

If you are left-handed, using a mouse that is configured for right-handed users will be uncomfortable for you. Keep reading to find out how to change the mouse settings to left-handed mode.

iPhone: Hard Reset

It is inevitable that any electronic devices will eventually freak out. If you iPhone ever does, and I’m not saying it will, you may not be able to get it to respond to normal inputs. Pressing this combination of buttons will let you reset the iPhone.

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