If you’ve customized your system by using different icons for the Recycle Bin so it has a more stylish look when Full and Empty, you may run into a problem with the icons behaving in the desired fashion. Sometimes they stay stuck so that a Full Recycle Bin looks empty and vice versa, and the only way to update the icon is to refresh your Desktop. Here’s how to get your icons to behave like they are supposed to.
Twitter displays how many people you are following and how many people follow you. But what if you want to find out how many people that you follow also follow your tweets? Here’s a quick and easy method.
If you use both Twitter and Facebook, you can save a great deal of time by using Twitter to update your Facebook status. That way you can communicate via both services with only one post.
By simply re-registering a dll file, you can make Microsoft’s latest web browser even faster. It might sound complicated, but it is a very simple process.
If you want to keep your youngsters from accessing certain sites, you want to block certain cites due to their content, or if you want to play a mean joke on a co-worker, you can block sites by redirecting them to the computer’s IP address that is used for a loopback network connection.
If you have installed an extension that isn’t behaving in the desired manner, you can remove or uninstall the extension by following these steps.
Gadgets can increase the level of interaction between you and your contacts. You can insert gadgets from either the Gadget Gallery or by inputing the address of the desired gadget.
By eliminating the need to leave your keyboard, you can perform a number of actions so much quicker. These include navigation, message formatting, message management, and editing.
Tapping the background on the homescreen will bring up Quickplay. Quickplay allows you quick access to radio stations, apps, music, video, pictures and even bookmarked sites.
When creating screencasts for youtube, I create, export and upload all in HD quality. These are the settings that I have found to create high quality youtube videos once exported out of ScreenFlow.
Sometimes grabbing screenshots from video or DVD can be a major pain. The VLC Player makes it easy and delivers sharp looking images.
Lately, there has been a sudden resurgence back into touchscreen technology and adding of touchscreens to laptops and other devices. Windows 7 is setup to handle touchscreen input pretty good out of the box, however trying to use the scrollbars and start menu can prove to be a challenge on netbooks with a touchscreen or smaller devices. This recipe will show you how to use an existing Vista utility, Microsoft Origami Experience 2.0 (free) to optimize the GUI to allow easier navigation using touchscreen inputs. This barely known but very useful add-on also will give us the Origami add-on and also picture password as an added bonus. 🙂
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