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Microsoft Onenote 2010: Hide Author Tags and Highlighting of New Changes

Onenote 2010 is a great note taking and clipping application. It now supports shared notebooks across multiple computers.  By default, Onenote will tag changes with the author’s initials and highlight any new content when opened on a different computer. This tutorial describes how to turn that off.

OS X Lion: Fix Blank Wallpaper in Spaces

This tech-recipe will explain how to fix the blank white screen on the non default Space.  Opening the Desktop and Screen saver preferences and setting the wallpaper will not set the blank space but the previous/default Space 1.  Lets fix that!

How To Prevent Amazon from Tracking Your Browsing and Recording Your Visits to 3rd Party Sites

By default, Amazon.com tracks your Browsing History of items you’ve recently viewed, searches that you have made, and product categories visited on their site. In addition, Amazon also collects information about you, not only from their site, but also from affiliated sites. This information is used for ad personalization. If this makes you nervous, you can change the default actions.

Using Autosum with Microsoft Excel

Many people use Microsoft Excel to crunch numbers and keep track of sales. It’s ability to insert and utilizing formulas is incredible. This tutorial and screencast demonstrates Excel’s powerful autosum feature to calculate the sum and the average of a column of numbers.

Lion Mail: Add Account or Folder to Shortcut Toolbar

The Mail (5.0) application in OS X Lion has a new shortcut toolbar to give quicker access to your various email accounts or folders. Here we show how to easily add or remove a shortcut to this new toolbar.

How to Fix a Failing Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Install

Sometimes Windows patches or service packs simply will not install successfully. Following the definition of insanity and going back to Microsoft Update to try again and again does not usually fix the problem. Here are 3 things you can do to get that update installed.

OS X: Hide Your Hard Disk from the Desktop

If you want to hide the Hard Disk icon from your desktop so that you can maintain a clean look, follow this Tech-Recipe. These directions are accurate for all modern versions of OS X including 10.7 Lion.

OS X Lion: Enable Dock Running Apps Indicators

With OS X Lion, Apple has decided to disable the blue lights on the dock that demonstrate that an application is currently loaded into memory and running. For the majority of users who could not care less about memory management, this makes perfect sense. However, many pro users will want to know exactly which apps are running and will want to follow these steps to display the running app indicators in the dock.

How to Install OS X Lion Server

OS X server is now bundled as a optional install with OS X Lion. Here is how to find and install it.

OS X: Display Date on Menu Bar

I never understood why OS X does not provide an easy way to place the day on the menu bar. This tech-recipe describes a work around that will display the date. Now updated for OS X Lion.

Install OS X Lion to Separate Partition

For many of us developers, testing OS X Lion is very high priority. This is how I installed OS X Lion into a separate partition on my MBP.

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