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How Can I Hide My Facebook Profile Preview when People Google Me?

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When people google your name, they can see a small portion of your profile on Facebook. Often it will show your friends’ names and what you “like” in this profile preview. You can prevent your profile preview from appearing in google by following these directions.

Windows 7: Remove a folder from a Library

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From time to time, when using the Library feature in Windows 7, you may find that some of your folders are not appropriate for the current Library or they have been moved to a different location. To keep things organized, you may want to remove them from the Library.

IE9: Disable pinning sites to the taskbar

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Pinning a site to the taskbar in IE9 is an useful feature, but may also be an annoying thing when everybody in your family tries to pin their favorite websites to the taskbar. To keep your Windows taskbar organized, you may want to disable this feature.

Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011: Remove personal informations from photos before sharing

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Windows Live Photo Gallery is great for organizing and sharing your photos to many popular services, such as Windows Skydrive, Flickr or Facebook. While sharing photos is fun, many users may not know that such informations like location, tags, captions are embeded by WLP and can be easily extracted. It is not a good idea to share those informations on the web, especially when your photo albums are in public mode. Here is how to tell WLP to remove all informations before uploading the photos.

Connect VNC client through a Putty SSH tunnel

Using tunnels with SSH is a powerful method to access services on systems behind a firewall or that are otherwise inaccessible. In this example, a VNC client on your local computer will connect to a remote VNC server (vncserv.tech-recipes.com:0) using port forwarding with an SSH connection to another remote host (sshd.tech-recipes.com).

Delete an LDAP object using ldapmodify

Using ldpamodify to manipulate a directory server from the command line enables rapid changes (quicker than loading a GUI in some cases) and allows commands to be scripted for automation.

Outlook Mac 2011: Adding Holidays to your Calendar

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Outlook allows the user to add holidays from multiple countries into the calendar.

Connect to a MySQL server using the mysql command

The mysql command provides a text-based interface into the MySQL database server. Once connected, SQL commands can be issued to the server to make queries, create or alter databases or tables, or many other operations.

Determine the version of MySQL server

How do I tell what version of MySQL server that I am running?

Create a MySQL database

SQL command used to create to create a db.

Display a list of databases on a MySQL server

Use the ‘show databases’ command to display the list of dbs on the server.

Select a MySQL database to use

A single instance of MySQL can hold many separate databases. It is important to specify the database to which subsequent commands will be issued.