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Safari 4: Restore Your Previous Browsing Session

If Safari has crashed on you, or you accidentally closed your browser, fear not. You can easily restore your previous browsing session, including all tabs that were open at the time.

Safari 4: How to Add a Site to Top Sites (Windows Only)

Safari’s Top Sites keeps track of the sites that you visit the most and displays preview thumbnails for these sites. You can manually add and pin sites to Top Sites as well. This trick works only on Windows machines.

Kindle 2: How To Reset the Device

If your Kindle locks up or fails to respond, you can easily reset it by following this tech-recipe:

Kindle 2: Listening to Ebooks with Text-to-Speech

Sometimes it is inconvenient to be actually reading your ebook (when your driving is a good example!). Using Kindle’s Text-to-Speech functionality, you can listen to your ebook while you are busy doing something else, and then switch it off so you can continue reading from where it left off.

Safari 4: Modify the Top Sites Display

Using Top Sites, Safari 4 keeps track of the sites that you visit the most and displays preview thumbnails for these sites. By modifying the display to your liking, it can become a useful tool for quickly going to a site or seeing if these sites have new content since your last visit.

Xcode: How to Change the Company Name

Xcode automatically inserts your company name in the copyright info in all new source code files. If you haven’t specified a company, all your code will have the copyright statement showing MyCompanyName. Here’s how to change the company name and get your code looking even more professional.

Youtube: Turn off Text or Annotations for Videos

Youtube thought it would be just great to allow anybody and everybody to put comments within a video. Often it is just annoying. Here is how to disable these annotations or text comments within the youtube video.

iPod Nano: Add Additional Clock(s) with Different Time Zone(s)

Keeping track of time zones can be a bit of a pain, especially if you have friends in foreign countries. The iPod Nano gives you a convenient fix for this by allowing you to have additional clocks that can display the time with different time zones.

Create a Linux software RAID array

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This recipe is a spin-off from my blog entry on building an inexpensive storage server, if you want more commentary, see my blog.

Pear Fix for “Error: Unable to Unpack”

Recently while trying to install some Pear packages, I received an odd “Error: Unable to Unpack” message. A search for this error message found a lot of complaining people and not a lot of answers. I finally figured out the cause and the fix for this common Pear problem.

iPhoto ’09: Rate Your Photos in Batches

Sitting down and rating the photos you just imported from your camera can be a long and painful task. By using batches to rate your images, you can have them finished in no time.

Route selection by host reachability with Cisco SLA

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Cisco’s SLA features, available in IOS other than IP Base, allow modification of the routing table based on a monitored item. In this example, we’ll monitor an Internet address, and change the default route if that address is unreachable.

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