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Photoshop CS6: Create Flaming Text Effect

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Eye-catching text is important for any project. Flaming text often provides an overdose of eye candy. This tech-recipes tutorial will cover the creation of the proper layer styles to build text which will appear to be en fuego. I am using Photoshop CS6 but similar steps will work on prior versions.

Windows 8: Change the Color of Events in Calendar

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If you sync multiple accounts with the Calendar app in Windows 8, the app will automatically set the color for events from each account differently. While that is enough to help you identify events from different accounts, you should consider changing the colors to your favorites. Manually setting the colors will help you know which event comes from which account, and you will be able to manage them more effectively. Continue reading to find out how.

Windows 8: Prevent Windows Update from Restarting PC

Seeing the “PC will restart in 15 minutes to complete the update” window can be a nuisance. The simple registry hack described in this tutorial will remove it.

C++: Operator Overloading (Even a Little More Complex)

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Use the instructions in this tech recipe to Overload the operators: +=, -=, *=, /=, %=.

C++: Operator Overloading (Slightly More Complex)

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This tech recipe explains how to Overload the operators: ++(int), (int)++, –(int), (int)–.

Word 2000-2003: Create Microsoft Reader eBooks

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Use the download in this tech recipe to find the easiest and quickest way to create an ebook from Word.

IE6/IE7: How to Download More Than Two Files at Once

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In IE, by default, a user can only download two files at once. The following tutorial explains how to increase this.

Google Gmail: How to Turn Off or Hide Talk or Chat

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Google has plugged everybody into Google Talk from the Gmail interface. However, many people who enjoy using Gmail for email, do not want Google Talk displayed within the email windows. This tech recipe describes how to turn it off.

Java: Wrapper Classes

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This tech recipe describes going to and from the Java Object wrapper classes.

Windows 8: Single-Click to Open Folders

Single-click to open a folder has been a useful feature of Windows for quite some time now. This tutorial will show you how you can enable it within Windows 8.

Windows Phone 8: Format SD Card

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Moving an SD card from one device to another can corrupt the card. This seems to happen frequently with Windows Phone 8 devices. In fact devices which run on this OS can be very picky about the SD card types that it accepts. If your phone is reporting that the current SD card has errors, you can use the built-in feature to format the card to the correct state.

Photoshop CS6: Create a Realistic Planet in Outer Space

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As much as most of us would love to visit outer space, we can bring the cosmos to us instead by using Photoshop. In this tech-recipes experiment we will recreate some of the famous photographs of the sun starting to peek out from the Earth’s shadow.