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Android ICS: Warn When Approaching Data Caps and Overage Fees

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With Google’s latest mobile operating system Android Ice Cream Sandwich, Data Usage monitoring has been added.  By setting up alerts and limits that trigger before the monthly data cap is reached, users can avoid expensive overage feeds.

Delete a Boot Camp Partition

If you have installed Windows using Boot Camp, the partition has eaten away at some valuable hard drive space. When you are done with running Windows on your Mac and want to regain that partition space, you can delete the Boot Camp partition without affecting the data on your OS X partition.

Excel: How To Add Headers and Footers to Your Worksheets

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Previous versions of Excel required you to utilize a dialog box to add or modify the header and footer. With newer versions of Excel, it is much simpler to add a header and/or footer to your worksheet. This method works for Excel 2007, 2010, and 2011 for Mac.

How to Track Changes and Edits with Microsoft Word

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If you ever work for a club newspaper, help out a friend with an important speech, or collaborate on a Word document with a colleague, you need to know to easily and simply share these edits. This tutorial has been tested in Word 2007, 2010, and 2011.

Solaris: Mount filesystem with UFS Logging Enabled

When UFS logging is enabled, UFS write operations are broken into transactions which are stored to a log before being committed to the filesystem. The use of UFS logging maintains filesystem consistency and prevents the need to run fsck against the filesystem. This can significantly reduce the time required to reboot a system.

Bloodhound.Exploit.6 False Positive Found by Antivirus in Forums and Hijack Logs

Symantec antivirus will have a common false positive if a web page contains a particular type of text which is common in HijackThis logs. This tech-recipe explains and duplicates this positive positive.

Outlook 2010: Hide Unnecessary Items in the Navigation Pane

The navigation pane in Outlook 2010 let you quickly switch between essential features of the program. Many users may only use some of those features so displaying all of them is unnecessary. This tutorial provides a step by step guide to hide specific buttons in the navigation pane and to better let you focus on the ones you need.

Opera Mobile and Mini: Quit Browser Completely to Save Battery Life

Just like many other apps for smartphones, Opera Mini and Mobile will be minimized to the background when users press the Back button on their phone. Leaving the app in the background may drain your battery faster and affect the overall performance of the phone. This tutorial will show you how to display an exit button in the Opera browser’s menu list which will allow you to quit the browser completely.

OS X: How to Display Folder Size in Finder

By default, Finder’s List View displays the file size of individual files, but it does not show the size of folders. This can make it quite time intensive when it comes to locating what files are consuming so much of your drive space. By changing these settings, you can get Finder to show folder sizes as well as individual files size in Finder’s List View.

OS X: How to Lock Your Computer from the Menu Bar

If you are security minded and worried about others using your computer while your are away, you can easily lock your desktop to keep it safe from prying eyes.

Preview: Open All Images in One Window

By default, the Preview application in OS X opens groups of images in one window; however, individually selected images are each opened up in their own windows. If you prefer to work from a single window instead, this tutorial will show you how to configure Preview to open all images in one window, regardless of how they are selected.

Photoshop: Change Default Unit from Inches to Pixels

Like most people, I love photoshop. Pondering that fact, I now realize that it is probably the only Adobe product that I can tolerate. Since I mostly work on web graphics, the first thing I do with every new installation is to change the default unit from inches to pixels.

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