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How do I import my iGoogle settings into other accounts?

The iGoogle service lets you create a personalized homepage. It also allows you gather and access Google services and many other internet services via gadget. If you are using multiple Google accounts, you may wish to set up all of your iGoogle page the same. Here is how to do it without manually adding the gadgets to each page.

How to Update Your Facebook Status from Google+

If you are spending a lot of time checking out Google+ and don’t want to neglect your Facebook friends, you can easily share your Google+ updates with Facebook and you don’t need additional software or extensions.

CyanogenMod 7 for Android: Access the Camera application on the lockscreen

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Having the camera easily available to grab a quick photo is essential, but many Android devices do not have a dedicated camera button.  This tech-recipe will show you how to add the Camera app directly to your lockscreen.  This will only work for users who have rooted their Android phone and are running any variant of CyanogenMod 7 custom ROM.

Google Docs: How to Download Specific (or All) Documents to Your Computer

While Google Docs is an extremely convenient way to store your documents, what happens if you need to view your files when you are offline or when the service is down? You can easily select which files to download (and even download all of them) into a zip file for storing onto your computer.

Vista and Windows 7: Show or Unhide File Extensions

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Most power users of Windows will want to see file extensions for all files. Here is how to see file extensions when browsing in explorer. This technique works for Vista and Windows 7.

How do I Open or Mount a Bin File Without a Cue File?

You downloaded a CD image in a bin format. However, nothing will read it. Most software for mounting or burning the bin file requires a cue file and this describes how to create one.

Chrome: Hide images when visiting particular sites

If you are using a low speed internet connection, loading a website which has many images may take a lot of time. This tutorial will show you how to hide those images when you visit the website on Google Chrome. This will not only help the browser speed up the loading time, but also prevent embarrassing moments from happening when the site contains NSFW images.

IE9: Disable Internet Options

The Internet Options is the center place for tweaking most of all important settings in Internet Explorer. Because this option can be easily accessed by anyone, problems may arise when an user erases or tweaks the settings of other users. Luckily, you can lock the option by using this registry tweak.

PHP: determine the directory path of the server root

It is sometimes necessary to refer to files in the host filesystem explicitly. By retrieving this information dynamically instead of hard coding it, moving the code from one server or hosting company to another is much simpler.

DNS/BIND resource record: using $GENERATE to make many records

A cool feature in versions of BIND since 8.2 and 9.1 is the $GENERATE directive which can create hundreds or thousands of resource records with a single line in zone file. A common use for $GENERATE is assigning PTR records for a DHCP address range.

DNS/BIND resource record: CNAME, canonical names, host aliases

A single host may have multiple personalities: web server (www), mail server (mail, mx), dns server (ns), ftp server (ftp). Rather than assign each of these names an address (A) record pointing to the same IP address, all of which would need to be changed if the IP address changed, one name can be associated with an address record and the remaining names can be aliases for that name. The CNAME record simplifies DNS management, and who doesn’t want that?

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