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Google: Search eSnips for Free Videos, Music, eBooks, Comics, and Archives

eSnips is a large social content sharing site that gives its members 5GB each of storage space to upload whatever they want. These files include music, ringtones, videos, ebooks, comics, programs, magazines and much more. By using Google, you can check to see what others have posted for download.

IE7 : Add custom providers to Search Bar

IE7 features a newly added Search Bar in the upper right area of the browser. By default, this search bar is setup to search the Live search engine. However you can add new providers that Microsoft has setup (google, ebay, wiki, etc) and you can add your own custom search providers (ie search forums or in this example, setup so you can instantly search Tech-recipes.com)

Outlook 2003 : Fix clipping of emails when printed

Well, if you’ve dealt with Outlook on a daily basis for a while, you will notice that there are several weird quirks you occassionally run into. One of my users prints a ton of emails each day from Outlook 2003. The user one day noticed that their printouts started to get clipped on the right side whenever an email was printed. Here’s what fixed the problem.

PS3 : Zoom In/Out, Go Forward/Backward in Photo Album Slideshow and Tips

This guide explains how to use the PS3 controller to zoom in/out and move forward/backward in the Photo Album 1 and 2 slideshow. Also a few slideshow/ps3 photo tips.

YouTube: Change the Thumbnail Image for Your Video

Hate the thumbnail for your video because it’s either all black or just not what you were looking for? YouTube allows you to choose from 3 thumbnail images created from your video clip. Here’s how to change the thumbnail image for your video:

Wii: Set Time

A recent wii update puts the clock on the main menu screen. Suddenly, a lot of people (including me) realized that often the time on the wii is not set accurately. Therefore, here are the instructions how how to set the correct time on the wii.

Ad-Aware 2007: Integrate into Windows Explorer Right-Click Menu

By default, Ad-Aware is not integrated into the Windows Explorer context menu. Enabling this feature makes it a snap to scan a file or folder for spyware by simply right-clicking it and selecting Scan with Ad-Aware 2007 from the menu. Here’s how to integrate Ad-Aware 2007 into Windows Explorer:

Fix: IE7\’s RunOnce Page Keeps Displaying

When you fire up Internet Explorer 7 for the first time, the runonce page is launched to allow you to configure various options. Once this page has been completed, it should not show up again (thus the name runonce). However, sometimes IE7 continually opens this page each time the application is opened. To fix this, follow these steps:

Vista: Add Google Calendar to the Vista Windows Calendar

This is a quick recipe on how to get your Google Calendar to show up in Windows Calendar in Vista. You won’t be able to make changes to the calender however you can set update interval to automatically update it via the Google Calendar webpage. Nice for when you need your Google Calendar offline on a laptop/tablet pc.

Gmail to OS X Mail: Stop Sent Mail from Appearing in Inbox

For whatever reason, gmail bounces a copy of emails sent via POP back into the POP’s account inbox. For example, if you POP your email from gmail using OS X Mail, a copy of any message you send will appear in your Mail inbox. This tutorial will show you how to work around this problem.

XP SP2: RealVNC Will Not Connect. Unable to Resolve Host by Name.

Many systems with realVNC installed will not connect after sp2 is installed. Many XP sp2 systems have difficulty connecting even if realVNC is installed after the update. Here is the fix.

Blackberry: Set up Custom Sync Options for Blackberry Users

This recipe gives a quick overview on how to setup custom sync settings for Blackberry users. This is nice for the users who do not want email or calender contacts or tasks or notes synced on their blackberry device to Exchange/Outlook. This will also show how to setup a user for the first time on the BES / Blackberry Manager.

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