If you’re tired of listening to the default sound effect each and every time you scroll the Trackball, you can easily disable the sound and have a more peaceful experience with your BlackBerry.
Nintendo DS makes it simple to play multiplayer games with others, even if they don’t have their own copy of the game. Follow these steps to connect to your friend’s DS and game away.
You can use your BlackBerry’s firewall to block SMS, MMS, PIN, and/or BlackBerry Internet Service messages. This can be useful in avoiding spam or preventing you from ringing up extra charges.
The Quick Launch Toolbar is an area on the Taskbar for giving you quick access to your favorite apps. By default, it uses small icons which can be difficult to see, especially on computers that are set at a high resolution. Using large icons makes them easier to see and even more handy.
By using the Windows Instrumentation command-line interface (WMIC), you can share an existing directory on a remote PC on your network. This can save some time when a directory needs to be shared immediately and the user does not know how to create the share. This Tech-Recipe applies to Windows XP Professional, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2003 and Windows Server 2008.
If you’re running the recent version of OpenOffice and feel like taking a break and playing then you’re in luck. There’s an Easter Egg that let’s you play a simple game of TicTacToe against the application.
Using an external editor such as photoshop with iphoto is a great feature. However, frequently people find that “edit in external editor” is grayed out and disabled. This tutorial will show how to enable this wonderful little feature.
If you are troubleshooting a spreadsheet with complex formulas, it can sometimes be a very time consuming task to figure out what the formula is supposed to be calculating. A good practice to follow is to include a description in the formula itself so the user can more easily understand the purpose of the formula.
Tired of that “Camera connected” notification window? This recipe explains how Windows XP users can disable/change autoplay options when connecting an iPhone to a PC. Hint, its not in iTunes. 🙂
If you want to empty the contents of a UNIX file, you could delete it and recreate it, but, as is typical of UNIX, there are more elegant alternatives. Here are a couple of ways to dump the innards of a file. If you know of any others, add them to the comments.
The jawbone is one of the best bluetooth cellular headsets available. Here are the basic directions for controlling this wonderful device.
If you are constantly using a spreadsheet that requires you clear the values but retain the formulas, it can be painful to go through and select each field individually for deletion. Excel makes it easy to do this in just a few steps.
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