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Safari for Windows: Change Font Smoothing for Sharper Display

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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.

PS3 – How to use Bluetooth Remote as Controller in Games

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This recipe explains how to easily use your bluetooth remote control in games. Sometimes its just fun to try. 🙂

Safari for Windows: Change the Interval for Removing RSS Articles

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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:

Adobe Acrobat 7.0 / 8.0 Standard or Prof – Making pdfs searchable / OCRing

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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.

Safari for Windows: Change How Download List Items are Deleted

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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:

XP: kill a Windows process from the command line with taskkill

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.

OS X: Disable Apple Remote Control

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Tired of your remote control changing the volume on every apple device in your house? For example, mightyQ’s apple TV remote is turning down my MBP volume as I type! Here is how to disable the apple remote control from OS X.

Safari for Windows: Change the Location for Saving Downloaded Files

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By default, Safari for Windows saves downloaded files to the Desktop. This can create a big mess of your desktop if you download lots of files from the internet. To change the location that downloaded files are saved to, follow these steps:

Safari for Windows: Change the Default Search Engine

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By default, Safari for Windows uses Google as the default search engine. If you are one who prefers Yahoo! instead, follow these steps to make it the default:

PowerShell: Quick Way to Check for a File Type on a Drive or Directory

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Instead of performing a search on a drive or directory to see if files of a specific file type reside on it, you can save a lot of time by using PowerShell. It will come back with a True or False response in a matter of seconds instead of having to wait for the search to complete. This comes in handy if you are trying to analyze what file types are being stored on your server (for example, you want to make sure no one is stashing their MP3 collection on it!)

2006 Civic Navigation : Hacking the startup screen

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This is my super duper easy appendum guide to Guicide’s Navigation Hack. His original guide can be found here: http://guicide.com/cars/2006civic/nav/hacks/ Thanks and props to go to Guicide and Bysin for their work on these hacks.
Basically, my recipe is the same thing you would find at Guicide’s site however its geared more toward the not-so-computer-savy types and newbies (like myself in regards to navi hacking.. hehe..) The video shows what you need to do after you have the dvd with your custom welcome screen on it. Hopefully you’ll get through without any problems! Here’s my first welcome screen!

Tmobile MDA Tips (Windows Mobile 5)

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Just a few tips on getting the most out of your Tmobile MDA running WM5. This includes things i’ve learned from my first week of owning it (i’ve done 3 hard resets and tons of resetting but finally found and think i know what caused most of my problems!)