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Kindle Fire: How to Locate the Device’s MAC Address

If your wireless router uses MAC filtering, you will need to know the Wi-Fi MAC address of your Kindle Fire so that it may connect to the internet.

PlayStation 3 – How to Install PS3 Themes from a USB Thumbdrive

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Do you have a PlayStation 3 and wish you could change the theme on your PS3 without having to buy themes from the PSN?  Here’s how you can download and install PS3 theme files from a usb harddrive or thumbdrive.

Firefox: Quickly search your favorite site from the address bar

If you usually have to search for information in a particular website, it is quite handy to do the search directly from the address bar of your browser instead of going to the site and typing in the search box. This tutorial will show you how to do this in Firefox.

SQL Server 2005: How to Reset a Forgotten Password for the sa Account

If you’ve forgotten the sa password for your SQL server, you are probably in a panic. Fear not, for you can reset the password and once again have access to the powers of the sa account by using the query window in the Management Studio.

SQL Server 2005: Locating Stored Procedures that Contain a Keyword

Making changes to a database that has been created by a third pary can be a difficult task, especially when you don’t want to break any of the existing stored procedures. You can search the database’s stored procedures for keywords to find which procedures use a keyword that is involved in your change. This makes it much easier in identifying these procedures so you can make the appropriate changes.

SQL Server 2005: What Service Pack is Installed?

If you’re running SQL Server, it’s very wise to make sure that you have the latest service pack installed for optimum performance. If you’re not sure what service pack you have installed (or if you’re still running RTM), follow these steps to find out:

SQL Server 2005: How to Disable a Trigger

A trigger allows for the execution of SQL code anytime an UPDATE, INSERT, or DELETE command is performed on a certain table. If you are having to perform manual modifications to the table, you may not want the trigger to fire off. Here’s how to disable the trigger so that you can perform your administrative tasks:

SQL Server 2005: Move tempdb

By default, tempdb is placed on the same drive that SQL Server is installed on. This is probably not a desirable result, especially if you have installed SQL Server on the boot drive or on an IDE versus a SATA drive. To move tempdb to a faster drive and improve performance, follow these steps:

SQL Server 2005: Easily Grant Select to All Tables and/or Views in a Database

Granting Select to all tables for a login can be an extremely painful and lengthy process. Utilizing the SQL Server Management Studio to perform this means going table by table and checking the Select checkbox for each individual table, this makes a real nightmare if you are working with hundreds of tables. You can do this in mere seconds versus hours by using the Query window. Here’s how:

Excel 2010: Change the number of sheets in a new workbook

By default, when you create a new Excel workbook, the program will create three new sheets for you. If you usually work on only one sheet, the rest will be unnecessary. Or if you always have to work on a big workbook, then three sheets may be not enough and you have to manually create new sheet. For your convenience, you can change the program’s setting to make it include the number of sheets that you usually have to work on right at the start.

Chrome: Setup, use or remove multiple user profiles

To be more productive, many Chrome users may want to carry the browser’s settings including extensions, apps, theme…. and personal data with them to any computer that they use. However, by doing so, you may mix your settings with the current browser’s settings on that computer. Fortunately, Chrome lets users setup and use multiple user accounts with different settings in just some clicks. This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to add accounts, change the settings for the accounts and remove them from the browser.

Outlook 2010: How to Set Up a Short Delay for All Messages You Send

One of the benefits of email is that it’s quick, but sometimes this isn’t such a great thing if you hit Send and then remembered that you didn’t attach the intended files or include vital information. By setting up a short delay of only a few minutes, you will give yourself adequate time to catch these shortcomings prior to the message going out.

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