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Windows 7: How to Reset the Recycle Bin

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Sometimes the Recycle Bin can become corrupted and prevent you from deleting files from it (or emptying it). By following a few simple steps, you can give full functionality to your Recycle Bin.

Google Voice: Disable Sending of Text Message (SMS) Alerts About New Voicemails

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By default, Google Voice will both email you and send a text message to your mobile phone to alert you about new voicemail messages. If your current cellular plan isn’t SMS friendly, meaning they charge you for each one, you can disable this functionality to avoid unnecessary costs.

Firefox 3.5: Stop the Location Bar from Suggesting Bookmarks and/or History

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By default, Firefox’s location bar suggests existing bookmarks and previous browsing history. If you find this to be more than you want to deal with, you can disable the suggesting of bookmarks, browsing history, or both.

Outlook 2010: Automatically Close Original Message After You Reply or Foward

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If you forward or reply to lots of messages, then this can be a real timesaver. By changing the configuration of Outlook, you can make it automatically close the original message after you have forwarded or replied to it.

Bing: Track UPS, FedEx, USPS and DHL Packages

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Microsoft’s Bing search engine makes it easy to track packages. If you have Bing as your homepage, then you have no need to go elsewhere for the information.

Google Images: Use License Filters to Find Images You Can Reuse

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Google Images makes it easy to find images that can be reused. This is helpful if you are searching for images that are under GNU Free Documentation license, Creative Commons, or in the public domain

iTunes / iPhone – Put iTunes into Activation Only Mode (Enterprise deployment)

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This recipe is for those of us that work in an enterprise/corporate setup and support iPhones.  If you support iPhones via Exchange, you most likely will at some point have to activate an iPhone or two.

Firefox 3.5: Set Gmail as the Default Email Client

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If you use Gmail as your primary email client, Firefox 3.5 makes it easy to associate any mailto links that you might encounter to us Gmail as the default email client. While this has been possible with previous versions, you don’t need to jump through any hoops or use any add-ons with Firefox 3.5.

Firefox 3.5: How to Disable Location-Aware Browsing

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If you are concerned about your privacy and don’t wish for Firefox’s new Location-Aware Browsing feature, you have probably noticed that there is no setting to turn it off in the Preferences screen. You can disable this feature though, you just have to use about:config.

Google: How to Disable SearchWiki

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Google’s SearchWiki allows you to customize your web search results by ranking them, adding notes to them and even removing them. If you don’t use any of SearchWiki’s functionality, you can disable it so that the various icons won’t show on your search results.

Bing: Increase the Number of Results Displayed per Page

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While most of the time, you want to narrow your search down and view only a few results for a particular search query. However, sometimes it becomes necessary to view quite a few results, especially if the topic matter is new to you and you aren’t sure how to narrow your search. By default, Bing displays 10 results per page. With a broadband connection and have cookies enabled on your browser, why limit yourself to 10?

Sony PSP CFW : Getting purchased Final Fantasy VII from PSN Store working on CFW 5.00x

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This recipe explains how to spoof your CFW PSP’s version.txt file to allow you to play games requiring a newer firmware version. This also lets you your purchased Final Fantasy VII from the PSN store on a CFW 5.00 M33-2 PSP.