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OneNote 2013: Hide or Unhide the Clipping Tool

OneNote 2013 introduced the clipping tool which can help you quickly capture the screen, send content to OneNote, or write a note. Although this seems to be a useful feature, it automatically starts with the application and takes up space in your taskbar. Many users will want to disable this feature and to launch the tool only when necessary.

Use Photoshop to Convert Video to a Gif

While many programs have the ability to export a part of a video to a gif image file, the quality of the images is often far from acceptable. This tutorial will show you how to get the best quality gif file from video using Photoshop. Continue reading to find out how.

Remove Birthdays and Facebook Events from iPhone and iPad

With iOS 6 many users are noticing that Facebook birthday and events are polluting their personal calendars on their iPhones and iPads. By disabling and hiding this data, you can return your calendar to its previous look and feel.

Mac: Force Mail to Forget Prior Email Address

Even if you delete an email from your address box, the Mail application will continue to offer it as an option to you when composing messages. By following these steps, you can convince your mac to forget annoying remembered email addresses.

Outlook: Add Grid Lines Between Emails

In Outlook, emails are displayed on a white background without any line separators between them. This makes finding and managing emails difficult. Fortunately, by changing Outlook’s default settings, you can enable the grid lines option. This will improve visibility by allowing you to differentiate between email items more easily.

Solaris: List Detailed Package Information with pkginfo

The pkginfo command lists information about one or more packages installed on a Solaris system. It has a verbose setting to display detailed information about a package which includes the software version number, the number of files and space occupied on disk, and the date of install.

Remove a Solaris Package with pkgrm

Most software provided for a Solaris system comes in a package. Removing an installed package is easy, but any command associated with “removing” is worth your attention.

Solaris: List Installed Packages with pkginfo

The pkginfo command in Solaris is capable of providing detailed information about the packages installed on a system. This tech-recipe describes some of its uses in listing numerous packages.

Dropbox File Sharing With Facebook

One of the most desired features on Facebook has been the ability to trade files with friends. Exchanging music files, torrents, ebooks or documents within a group is now very simple with the new Dropbox and Facebook integration.

PowerPoint 2013: Merge Shapes Together

With PowerPoint 2013, one of the most noticeable design tool upgrades is that users can now merge two or more shapes together. This allows you to form custom shapes which cannot be made by simply editing the shape points.

Android: Limit Contacts Displayed in the Contacts Book

When you add multiple Google accounts to your Android phone, contacts from these accounts will be automatically synced and displayed in the Contact book. Displaying all of these additional contacts can make it hard to manage, search, and organize your contact. Luckily, you can decide to display contacts from only the account of your choice or even mix them together.

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