Integrate Hulu into Media Center

Jimmy S

This recipe is for those of you who are using your pc or laptop as a htpc or just like using Media Center for your media playback needs. Most people do not realize it but any PC running Vista Home Premium already has Media Center built-in.

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Logitech Harmony One – Fix repeating buttons on touchscreen / repeating icons for an Activity

Jimmy S

Yes,I am one of those techies/geeks that likes to be able to control everything with one remote. I purchased a Harmony One remote for this sole purpose. However after setting up my PS3, Windows7 HTPC, HDTV, and a few other devices; I started to run into problems with the Touchscreen commands starting to repeat onto later screens for that particular activity.

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Use Quicktime Player to Capture Web Video and Audio

Jimmy S

One of Snow Leopard’s biggest changes was the built-in Quicktime Player. The new player allows you to capture video, audio and also screencasts. However, by default you are only allowed to use your internal or external mic for audio capturing. You cannot capture the audio generated from your mac itself such as sound from a movie playing in your browser or music from a website, for example.

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Our first iPhone game GreenThumb available in the App Store

Quinn McHenry

We are giddy to announce the availability of our first game for the iPhone, GreenThumb. View the game at iTunes or try a full-featured, ad-supported FREE version! GreenThumb is an original, one-thumb casual game for the iPhone and iPod Touch. It is easy to pick up yet challenging to master.

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GreenThumb FAQ: Hints, Secrets, and Strategy

David Kirk

GreenThumb is a free iPhone game that is easy to learn but difficult to master. The following hints and secrets will propel you to the top of the leaderboard in no time. Feel free to post your tips as well.

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How to Tweak and Customize Windows 7 Starter Edition

David Kirk

Where are the personalization options in Windows 7 Starter? They are all locked away or hidden to prevent customization and personalization. Even changing the background image is locked down! This quick guide will get any user started in customizing Windows 7’s Starter version

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iPad : How to copy your movie DVDs to the Apple iPad / iTunes format (.m4v)

Jimmy S

This recipe will explain how to convert your purchased DVDs to the .m4v format which in turn we will import into iTunes to sync to our iPad. There are several ways to do this, I will show you the process that I use which does use one commercial app for ripping, DVDFab.

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iOS4: How to Prevent iAd from Using Your Location and Data

Rob Rogers

If you don’t want iAd to utilize data tracking cookies and location tracking to serve up relevant ads based on the info, you can opt-out to the service and feel just a less bit spied upon.

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Kindle 2: Access Notes and Highlights from Your Computer

Rob Rogers

If you have highlighted some text or made some notes on a Kindle book you were reading and need to access the information from your computer, Amazon has made it easy by allowing access to this information from your web browser.

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Convert PDF, DOC, TXT, and HTML Files for Reading on Your Kindle 2

Rob Rogers

You’ve acquired a large collection of ebooks in various file formats over the years and want to put them on your Kindle, but how? If you are running a Windows computer, you can easily and freely convert them so that you can read them on your Kindle.

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Ubuntu 8.10: Easily Install Inside Windows for Dual Booting

Rob Rogers

Dual booting your machine sounds like a complicated task, but if you want to run both Windows and Ubuntu, it is a piece of cake. In a short amount of time with minimum effort you can be set up to boot into either OS on your computer.

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Outlook 2007: Use Custom Sounds to Alert You of New Messages

Rob Rogers

Outlook can give you an audible queue that you have a new message that just arrived. You can change the default sound, or you can create rules to be even more creative and effective. These rules can notify you of the importance level of the message or who the message is from.

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This recipe is for those of you who are using your pc or laptop as a htpc or just like using Media Center for your media playback needs. Most people do not realize it but any PC running Vista Home Premium already has Media Center built-in.

GreenThumb is a free iPhone game that is easy to learn but difficult to master. The following hints and secrets will propel you to the top of the leaderboard in no time. Feel free to post your tips as well.

Where are the personalization options in Windows 7 Starter? They are all locked away or hidden to prevent customization and personalization. Even changing the background image is locked down! This quick guide will get any user started in customizing Windows 7’s Starter version

This recipe will explain how to convert your purchased DVDs to the .m4v format which in turn we will import into iTunes to sync to our iPad. There are several ways to do this, I will show you the process that I use which does use one commercial app for ripping, DVDFab.

If you don’t want iAd to utilize data tracking cookies and location tracking to serve up relevant ads based on the info, you can opt-out to the service and feel just a less bit spied upon.

If you have highlighted some text or made some notes on a Kindle book you were reading and need to access the information from your computer, Amazon has made it easy by allowing access to this information from your web browser.

You’ve acquired a large collection of ebooks in various file formats over the years and want to put them on your Kindle, but how? If you are running a Windows computer, you can easily and freely convert them so that you can read them on your Kindle.

Dual booting your machine sounds like a complicated task, but if you want to run both Windows and Ubuntu, it is a piece of cake. In a short amount of time with minimum effort you can be set up to boot into either OS on your computer.

Outlook can give you an audible queue that you have a new message that just arrived. You can change the default sound, or you can create rules to be even more creative and effective. These rules can notify you of the importance level of the message or who the message is from.

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