Depending upon how much you use your home PC should determine what route you take. If your using it only once or twice a week to check email and do some browsing then it is probably save to turn it off between sessions. If your using it several times a day … keep it on, or set it to sleep or Hibernate between sessions. This will allow you to quickly restore the computer state between usage....
Note: You will need to be using the newest Dev Channel release of Chrome (version 3.0.191.3) to activate this. To get your installation of Google Chrome set up on the Dev Channel, check out our article here. Before A quick look at the old new-tab interface…looks ok, but time to have fun with the new design! Get Chrome Set Up for the Redesigned New-Tab Interface You will need to do a little bit of prep work to get Chrome ready to display the redesigned new-tab interface....
Setup Once you have installed Search Cloudlet, having a quick look through the options is a good idea. This will let you become familiar with the services that Search Cloudlet works with. In the first tab area you can specify the services that you would like to integrate Search Cloudlet with (very nice!). In the second tab, you can modify number of cloud items displayed and the font size to best suit your personal needs....
First we need to make sure your gmail account is set up to enable POP (Post Office Protocol). In Gmail just go to mail settings and choose the Forwarding and POP tab. Click on one of the options to enable POP. Update: Note the drop-down that says what to do when mail is accessed with POP3. Please do NOT change this to “Delete”. Now open up Outlook 2007 and go to Tools \ Account Settings…...
The latest version of AMD’s Adrenalin software includes a new feature called ‘AMD Noise Suppression,’ which uses machine learning running on your graphics hardware to filter out background noise from an audio input. AMD said, “by using a real-time, deep learning algorithm to reduce background audio noise, this new feature works for both your input and output devices across any AMD-powered system, removing unwanted background noise captured on your microphone or from someone else’s device....
Since XP, Windows has supported a technology called Volume Shadow Copy, which is used to power the previous versions feature in Vista as well as System Restore and backups. What it does is take a temporary snapshot of the file or drive, and then allow an application to read from the snapshot even while other applications are accessing or modifying the file. What we can do is use a command line utility called HoboCopy that utilizes this service to copy the file....
The second bounty so far was sponsored by Scott, who was looking for a replacement for the Active Desktop feature that is missing from Vista. Once again, Andreas Verhoeven was up to the task, and created Ave’s DesktopSites, which will let you put images of websites on your desktop, configurable to where you want them, and they will update on a schedule. You could use this for displaying headlines on your desktop:...
Some home recording software suites can be quite expensive depending on how in depth you want the production to be. Having a rack mount of hardware effects can also add up to much money. These software effects do a solid job of mimicking their hardware counterparts. Today I would like to show you some of my favorite VST plugins which are completely free and work very well. Usually when I am recording my guitar and bass I mic the amp to try and get the best possible “real hardware” tone that I can, then use VST plugins to mix the different tracks....
Here’s Totem before I figured out how to clear the history: Turns out, almost all of the applications in Gnome store their history in the same place, and it can be cleared by clearing the recent documents on the Gnome menu. Just go to the Places menu and Recent Documents \ Clear Recent Documents You’ll get a confirmation message asking if you really want to do this. Of course we did, and now the list is gone from Totem....
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Hide the Menu Toolbar with Personal Menu Extension There are a number of ways to hide the Menu toolbar, but I prefer using the Personal Menu extension. Once you’ve installed the extension, you’ll be able to hide the menus toolbar: To show the menu toolbar again you can use the Alt key. You’ll also notice that some new items will be added to your menu, which can be customized or just removed....
First go to the Windows Live Page and choose what programs you wish to install. If you already have some of the applications installed they will be updated. One thing to watch while your installing or updating Windows Live applications is to make sure and uncheck options you do not want changed. Now that your Windows Live applications are installed click on Start and scroll to Windows Live to expand the applications and choose Windows Live Movie Maker....
One thing to mention during installation is that the Ask Toolbar will be checked by default. If you don’t want another toolbar make sure and uncheck this. The user interface of BurnAware is very clean and easy to navigate. Just click the type of media you would like to create on the left. Also worth pointing out is the ability to create ISO and DVD images, new in Windows 7 is a utility that will allow you to burn ISO images....
How Does a Hybrid Vehicle Work? With inconsistent marketing around low and zero-emissions vehicles, it can be hard to pin down exactly what each model does or how they work. Some use a mix of gasoline and electric power, while others are entirely battery-powered. Hybrid vehicles get their name from the fact that they use both electric and internal combustion engines. The models most of us are familiar with, like the Prius, use an electric motor powered by a battery to move the vehicle during low-demand conditions like surface street driving....
Over the past 37 years, Microsoft has used a variety of logo designs to represent its flagship product, Microsoft Windows. We’ll take a look at each major version as the design has evolved through the ages. Before we begin our trip through the past, it’s important to note that while researching, we discovered dozens of minor variations on the Windows logo used in print, advertising, software, retail box art, and more—far too many to cover in detail here....
Exaile is a solid choice for Ubuntu users to manage their music collections. It incorporates automatic fetching of album art, lyrics, artist/album information via Wikipedia, Last.fm scrobbling. It also supports Internet radio services like Shoutcast, includes tabbed playlists, and supports your iPod and other portable music players. Install Exaile 0.3.0 on Ubuntu Let’s take a look at how to install Exaile 0.3 on Ubuntu 9.04. The first step in the process is to get PPA added to your software sources list....
I couldn’t agree more. So let’s start up a program to figure out who it is that is selling your email address to the spammers. We’ll start with a fresh new Gmail account, because they provide the feature that we are looking for, which is +plus addressing. Essentially, plus addressing means if your email address is DONOTSPAMME@gmail.com, then you can also receive email on DONOTSPAMME+citibank@gmail.com. So here’s the plan. For each and every one of your online accounts, you will change your email address to DONOTSPAMME+accountname@gmail....
First launch the MozBackup application which will start an easy to follow wizard and click Next. Next, choose the Backup a profile option. You will notice MozBackup will locate all of your Mozilla applications including Thunderbird. Highlight the application profile you want to backup and click Next. Here we select the profile in this example there is only one which is default. Also browse to the location you wish to save the backup file....
Having recently transitioned to using Ubuntu full-time at home (instead of just part-time), this was one of the first things I wanted to disable. Sadly there’s no option in the default configuration screens, so we’ll have to use the “registry editor” for Ubuntu, called gconf-editor. Just type in gconf-editor into the Alt+F2 run dialog to open the app. Now browse down to the following key: You should see a key in the right-hand pane called volumes_visible....
If you have words that you want to emphasize in your slideshow, you can animate them one at a time. In fact, you can even make each letter pop. Create an impactful slideshow by animating words or letters in PowerPoint. Maybe you have an educational slideshow where you want to stress a strict class rule. Or maybe you have a business presentation where you want to introduce the name of an amazing new product....
