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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.

8apps: Change the Name of a Task

Often times, what you originally name a task ends up requiring modification. Renaming your tasks in 8apps Orchestrate is quite simple, but only if your know what to do. Follow these steps to rename a task:

VeohTV: Email Recommended Video to Another VeohTV User

If your watching a video that you think one of your friends (who also runs VeohTV) would enjoy, you send them an email from the VeohTV interface. This way they can simply click on the link in their email instead of trying to find the video themselves. A great way to share your favorite videos.

MySpace: How Do I Remove a Comment that I Left?

Suffering from myspace comment regret syndrome? Has your hacked myspace account spammed your friends and you want to clean up the mess? Although leaving a comment is certainly easy enough, deleting a comment is not obvious. Here is how to do it….

Live Search: Filter Sexually Explicit Text from Search Results

By default, Microsoft’s Live Search filters sexually explicit images by utilizing moderate filtering. Since it is doubtful you were looking for sexually explicit language in the first place, you can filter out explicit text as well.

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