At some point in your Mac, iPhone, or iPad development you may find the need to express a long number (1000000000) as a comma-separated string (1,000,000,000) to make life easier on your users. The NSNumberFormatter class is a rich tool for converting numbers to strings supporting different types of currencies and localizations. It’s also the perfect class to leverage for our comma-ing task.

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Google Nexus One: How to Use Folders to Store and Organize Your App Shortcuts

Rob Rogers

By using folders to group your various application shortcuts, you can stay organized and preserve precious Home screen real estate.

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Windows 7: How to Access All Control Panel Tasks from a Single Window

Rob Rogers

Control Panel allows you to perform various tasks on your Windows 7 system, but these tasks are contained beneath their parent category. Instead of having to click various categories to find the desired task, you can access all Control Panel tasks in a single window, allowing you to easily find what you are looking for.

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T-Mobile : How to get T-Zones Web unlimited data for $5.99 (works w/iPhone and Nexus one)

Jimmy S

This recipe is not really so much a tech/hardware recipe but more of a social hack. I’ve had T-Mobile as my cellular provider for well over 4 years and have not moved off of them because of their much cheaper (but previously slower until as of recently) data plans. Lets get back that T-Zones $5.99 plan!

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Google Nexus One : Fix blank SU request screen when using Wired or Wireless Tethering (rooted)

Jimmy S

This recipe is for the more brave geeks with a rooted Nexus One who can’t get wired or wifi tethering working. This resolves the blank SU screen that may hang.

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PSP Go : Finding Wifi MAC Address

Jimmy S

This recipe shows how to locate your PSP Go’s Wifi MAC Address. This may be needed depending on the security on your wireless network.

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Windows 7: How to Easily Take Ownership of a System File or Folder

Rob Rogers

Normally, taking ownership of a system file or folder can be a bit of a pain, taking numerous steps that can be a major inconvenience. If you do a great deal of tweaking to your system, you are bound to run into an instance where you need to take ownership of a system file to accomplish the tweak. By adding a Take Ownership command to the Explorer context (right-click) menu you will make taking ownership of a file a piece of cake.

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Windows 7: Disable the Windows Live Mail Splash Screen

Rob Rogers

If you’re tired of seeing the splash screen for Windows Live Mail every time you run the application, follow these steps to get around it and be splash screen free.

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Windows 7: Prevent Automatic Reboot After Windows Updates are Installed

Rob Rogers

After Windows Updates are installed, your computer will be forced to reboot. This can be inconvenient if you are running other applications at the time. You can prevent this from happening by making a change to your registry.

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Buzz is another Google entry into social networking. Buzz integrates into Gmail. However, some users may want to disable the Buzz features from Gmail. You can turn off Buzz really easily. Here is how.

Posting to Google Buzz is easy when doing it from the Gmail page, but what if you use an email client to access your Gmail? You can post messages and images to your Buzz by following these simple steps.

Android provides a way to quickly access menus and functionality by doing a long press ( a press and hold) of buttons or keys. These shortcuts can be a real timesaver.

By using folders to group your various application shortcuts, you can stay organized and preserve precious Home screen real estate.

This recipe is for the more brave geeks with a rooted Nexus One who can’t get wired or wifi tethering working. This resolves the blank SU screen that may hang.

This recipe shows how to locate your PSP Go’s Wifi MAC Address. This may be needed depending on the security on your wireless network.

If you’re tired of seeing the splash screen for Windows Live Mail every time you run the application, follow these steps to get around it and be splash screen free.

After Windows Updates are installed, your computer will be forced to reboot. This can be inconvenient if you are running other applications at the time. You can prevent this from happening by making a change to your registry.

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