If you use AIM to chat with your friends and family, it is doubtful that you want to chat with any and everybody that uses AIM. To limit what users can contact you, follow these steps:
When you install WinRar, it places a long list of items on your Explorer context menu. You may find that you only use a few of them and the rest are just taking up space. To keep your Explorer context menu more efficient, remove the WinRar items you don’t need by following these steps:
While the Windows Sidebar is a nice piece of functional eye candy for home users, it can be an administrator’s nightmare in a business environment. Having users installing an endless amount of gadgets off of the internet can at the very least waste work time and bandwidth and a worse case scenario would be a security breach. You can limit or eliminate the Windows Sidebar and keep control of what, if any, gadgets are able to run on the users’ machines.
When working with spreadsheets, there is often a situation that requires the same data, text, and/or formulas to be placed on separate sheets. Examples of this would be a list of employees or formulas for monthly calculations. If you need the same data, text, and/or formulas to be on multiple sheets of your document, you can accomplish this by following these steps.
While the default toolbar for Safari meets most needs, if you are like me, you will want to add some more buttons to it. I am used to having a button for the home page and on for printing. To get the toolbar to better meet your needs, follow these steps:
One of my previous recipes explained how to do an ‘unofficial’ master/hard reset on the Q. One thing I have noticed w/our Sprint Motorola Q is that after a hard reset is done, I get an error trying to use the internet or any internet-enabled apps. It shows the error: “Unable to place call”. Lets fix that!
If the text displayed in your Safari browser isn’t looking very sharp, changing the font smoothing setting can greatly improve things. While not as crisp as Microsoft’s ClearType, it still does a fairly good job of sharpening the text displayed in the browser.
This recipe explains how to easily use your bluetooth remote control in games. Sometimes its just fun to try. 🙂
By default, Safari for Windows removes RSS articles after two weeks. You may require that it be more or less frequent than the default setting. Follow these steps to change the interval for removing RSS articles:
This is a quickie recipe on how convert those non-searchable (image only) pdfs into searchable pdfs. Note, if the pdfs contain images the OCRing of the pdf may not be 100% accurate.
As you download files from the internet, Safari keeps them in the download list. Over time, this can leave you with a lengthy list that becomes time consuming to clean up when using the default settings that require manual removal of the list items. To change how Download List Items are deleted, follow these steps:
The ability to perform tasks from a system’s command line allows those tasks to be used in batch files. This recipe describes several uses of taskkill to terminate Windows processes.
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