If you are a Firefox user and Google Reader is your RSS feed reader, you normally have to take an extra step of choosing how you want the feed displayed, either on your Google homepage or in Google Reader. By making a couple of simple changes in the about:config settings, you can click on an RSS feed and preview it directly in Google Reader, one step away from subscribing to the feed.
An easy way to make your documents available from other computers or to even share with other users, is to save your document to your Windows Live SkyDrive account. Office 2010 allows you to save Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents directly to your SkyDrive account instead of having to upload it later.
Outlook prevents the automatic download of pictures in email messages as a security measure to help prevent possible spamming. It permits images from sites in your Trusted Zone to show but blocks all others. You can override this feature by following this tech recipe:
By default, Windows Live Mail places all downloaded items (email messages, calendars, etc.) in the Application Data folder in the current user’s folder. If you want to put this in an easier place to remember (like your Documents folder) or on a larger drive, you can do so by following these steps.
You can make Windows Live Mail automatically spell check all outgoing e-mails before sending. The following option will force this to occur before you send out composed messages and help avoid embarrassing spelling mistakes.
You don’t have to just rely on ripped music files or CD’s to listen to some good music. If you’ve got a good internet connection, you can use Windows Media Player to listen to internet radio and enjoy all kinds of music anytime you wish to.
Depending on the display settings, Kindle for PC may not give you an optimum viewing area. Monitors that are in portrait position and Tablet PC’s can be troublesome viewers for reading via Kindle for PC because you are presented with a very narrow page to read. You can modify the page width by adjusting the Words Per Line setting.
Windows 7 allows you to create your own Libraries, but changing the icon is not a straight forward process. The GUI doesn’t allow for changing the icon and the desktop.ini file isn’t used. To change the icon, you just need to have the desired icon and a little help from our friend, Notepad.
By default, Windows Media Player 12 stores the music you rip from CDs to your Music folder. You may want to store these in another folder on a larger drive. To change the default location, follow these steps.
If you are tired of having to deal with the My Bluetooth Places icon resting on your otherwise perfect desktop, you can get rid of it by following these steps.
By default, Window 7’s Onscreen Keyboard has the numeric key pad disabled. If you use numbers a lot, you will want to enable the key pad to make it easier to input numbers.
By default Firefox has AutoFill disabled for the address bar, but if you like this functionality, you can enable it by following these steps.
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