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Wii: Enable or Disable Screen Burn in Reduction

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Some TV screens are prone to screen burn in when a stationary image is displayed over a long period of time. To prevent this, the Wii has a Screen Burn in Reduction feature that fades the screen when your game is paused for more than 5 minutes.

Foxit Reader: Change the Default Page Layout

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If you find yourself constantly changing the Page Layout everytime you open a PDF file, you should consider changing your default page layout. For instance, you may prefer viewing the PDF using the Facing layout (especially if you use a wide-screen monitor).

Opera 9.5: Use Fit to Width to Avoid Horizontal Scrolling

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By using the Fit to Width setting on pages that are wider than your browser window, Opera’s rendering engine reformats the web page, keeping you from having to use horizontal scrolling.

Google: Search Humyo for Free Music, Movies, TV Episodes and Music Videos

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Humyo.com is a free file sharing and hosting site that gives its members 30GB each of storage space. 25GB of this free storage is set aside specifically for the storage of media files (music and video). By using Google, you can check to see what others have posted for download.

Vista: Create an Administrative Command Prompt Shortcut

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If you are use the Administrative Command Prompt, it may be advantageous to create a shortcut for it instead of continually having to go to the shortcut for the command prompt, right-clicking and selecting Run as administrator.

Wii: Save a Mii Character to Your Remote (Wiimote)

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You can save as many as 10 Mii characters to your Wiimote, making it simple to take your favorite characters with you when you go gaming at a friend’s house.

Wii: How to Delete a Mii Character

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Creating Mii’s takes a little time to master. Your first few creations might be something you’d like to hide from the eyes of others. You can delete Mii Characters by following this Tech-Recipe.

Firefox 3: Access Your Gmail Inbox from the Bookmarks Toolbar via Live Bookmarks

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Use Firefox’ 3’s Live Bookmarks and the RSS feed for your Gmail Inbox to get easy access to your incoming email from the Bookmarks Toolbar.

Firefox 3: Allow Windows to Swap Memory When Application is Minimized

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If you keep having problems with Firefox eating up too much memory, you can add a preference that will allow Windows to swap out memory when the application is minimized.

Cisco Unity Unified Messages Do Not Work in Blackberry or Windows Mobile

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By default, Cisco Unity Unified messages don’t work in Blackberry or windows mobile devices. Here’s how to make it work.

Firefox 3: Shrink the Over-sized Back Button

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One thing I dislike about Firefox 3 is that the specialized themes for Windows XP and Vista both leave you with a Back button that is out of proportion with the other buttons on the toolbar. You can tame the oversized button by following this Tech-Recipe.

Firefox 3: Honor System Settings for Anti-Aliasing Smaller Text (OS X only)

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By default, Firefox 3 uses anti-aliasing on all rendered text, regardless of the text size. However, you may want Firefox to follow the OS X system preference of turning off the anti-aliasing of smaller sized text to improve how it is displayed on your screen.