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IE9: How Do I Add or Change Search Engines?

Internet Explorer 9 defaults to Bing as the search provider. However, many users want to use Google, Yahoo, or an alternative search engine instead. This tutorial shows how to add/remove search providers in IE9.

Sony PSP Go / PSP: How to completely wipe device and memory card and remove PSN ID

This tech-recipe is for PSP and PSP Go owners who are looking to completely wipe / delete all media, saved games, games, and personal information on your PSP prior to selling or gifting. This includes removing your PSN account login info, deactivating your PSP from your PSN account and the actual formatting of the storage memory and any M2 memory cards you may have too.

Outlook 2010: Use Google Maps to Display Contact Addresses

By default, Outlook 2010 uses Bing Maps to map the addresses of your contacts. If you are a Google Maps user, you can change this so that it uses Google’s service instead.

Outlook 2010: How to Edit the Subject and/or Message of a Received Email

If you want to change the Subject of a received email to add something easier to recognize or find in the future or add (or delete) content to the message, Outlook 2010 allows you to do so, although the option isn’t exactly in a straight forward location.

Windows 7: Set a Program or Application to Always Run as Administrator

Typically in Windows 7, when a user runs a application, it will be opened without administrator rights. However, some programs always need to be executed with elevated administrator rights to work properly. This tech-recipe describes how to set a program to open with administrator privileges by default.

IE9: Display the Stop and Refresh Buttons Before the Address Bar

By default, Internet Explorer 9 has the Stop and Refresh buttons after the address bar. If you would like them to be next to the Back and Forward buttons, you can move them to display to the left of the Address Bar and keep your control buttons grouped together.

Itunes 10: How to use Ping in Blocked or Unsupported Countries

With the new Itunes 10, Apple has included a new social music network called Ping. The problem is it currently supports only 23 countries. Many users from all over the world are blocked from using the Ping service! These directions will allow users to enable Ping even in unsupported or blocked locations.

IE9: Disable GPU Rendering to Improve Performance on Low End Computers and Laptops

By default, Internet Explorer has accelerated graphics (GPU rendering) enabled. If you are using a low end/low power computer or laptop, you may experience some performance issues. By disabling hardware acceleration and using software rendering instead, your IE9 performance will be dramatically increased.

IE9: How to Turn Any Website into a Web Application

Internet Explorer 9 takes a page out of Google Chrome’s book and allows you to turn websites such as Twitter, Facebook, and others into their own web application. It does this by creating a site specific browser that transforms the site into a standalone web app that will be unaffected by actions that take place in the regular IE9 window.

IE8/IE9: Make the Favorites Bar Display as Icons Only

By reducing your Favorites Bar to show only the icons, you can access more of them from Internet Explorer’s Favorites Bar. This works great for sites with recognizable favicons like Gmail, Google Calendar, etc.

Benchmark Deathmatch: Parallels Desktop Version 5 versus Version 6

The extremely popular Parallels Desktop is a virtualization solution that allows Mac users to run Windows applications. Every subsequent version promises performance gains. During our upgrade, we decided to do a little benchmarking to see if our performance saw their promised improvement.

iPhone iOS 4.1: See Numeric Signal Strength and How to Keep Field Mode Enabled Forever

With the iOS 4.1 Apple has re-enabled field test mode. This allows the user to see the exact cellular signal stretch instead of bars. This tutorial also shows how to trick the iPhone into staying in this mode.

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