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IE9: Increase the Number of Sites Displayed on New Tab Page (Your most popular sites)

Internet Explorer 9’s New Tab Page displays two rows of 5 (10) of your most popular sites. You can increase the number of rows from 2 to 3, 4, or 5 by applying a simple change to your registry.

Firefox: Recover Lost, Deleted or Corrupted Bookmarks

Firefox bookmarks can be lost for multiple reasons. Accidental deletion or file corruption are two common causes. However, if this occurs, you still have a chance to recover them using Firefox’s auto backups. This tutorial also describes how to manually backup and restore your bookmarks as well.

iOS4: Creating and Using Folders for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch

Users can finally organize their applications by placing them within folders! This ability requires iOS4.0 and higher for the iPhone and iPod Touch. iPad users will need to update to at least iOS4.2

Outlook 2010: Arrange Emails as Conversations or Threads

Many email services like Gmail group your incoming emails by conversation if they have the same subject. Frequently, this is also referred as viewing messages as threads or “threaded” view. If you want Outlook to group emails as conversations, this tech-recipes will show you how.

iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch: How Do I Update with an .ipsw File?

Apple frequently releases beta versions of its iOS software through ipsw files. These are the same file format that iTune uses to create backups of your device. If you should find yourself needing to update your device with an ipsw file, this tutorial will walk you through it.

Outlook 2010: How to Change the Navigation Pane’s Calendar Size and Font

If you don’t like the look of the calendar located in the Navigation Pane, you can change the font and font size to be more to your liking. This can be useful if you have a hard time seeing the calendar or if you just like to customize the look of your Outlook.

iTunes 10.0.1: How to Hide the Ping Dropdown Buttons

If you don’t use the iTunes social network, Ping, then these dropdown buttons are both pointless and annoying. Disabling Ping doesn’t remove them but here’s how to get rid of them.

iTunes 8, 9, 10: How to Hide or Show Ping (or Genius) Sidebar

iTunes versions 8 and 9 contained a genius sidebar that displayed related music in the iTunes store. With iTunes version 10, this sidebar has been replaced with the Ping sidebar. Here is how to hide (or show) the sidebars related to these features.

Windows 7: Right-Click To Put Text Files Directly into the Clipboard

Do you store clips of text in notepad? In Windows, I frequently use notepad to store small amounts of information. However, it can be a hassle to open the file, select the text, and then copy it into the clipboard. This guide will demonstrate how to copy a complete text file into the clipboard just using the right-click context menu.

Outlook 2010: How to Minimize to the System Tray

If you find that you don’t use the Jump List functionality for Outlook 2010, you can minimize it to the System Tray to free up space on the Task Bar.

Foursquare: Off the Grid

I frequently receive questions from people asking me about foursquare. What does “off the grid” mean? How do I hide my location from my friends? This brief tutorial shows how to set your foursquare status to “off the grid” and thus hide your check ins from your foursquare friends.

IE8/IE9: Place the Menu Bar Above the Address Bar

If you use Firefox, then you are used to the menu bar being placed above the address bar, however Internet Explorer 8 and 9 place it below the Address Bar. You can move it by using a simple registry hack.

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