Archive for July, 2008

Many older digital SLR cameras do not have built-in sensor cleaning features, and therefore tend to collect a lot of dust. Photographers usually realize their sensor needs to be cleaned when little specs start showing up in their photos, but there is also a lot of dust that cannot be easily seen with the naked [...]

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Need to print up a quick checklist from your computer? An easy way to do this is to make a bulleted list in Microsoft Word, and change the “bullet” character from a small dot to a box that can be checked off with a pen. Make Your List Step 1: make your bulleted list. Just type out [...]

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Don’t worry – your blog has not been compromised (to the best of my knowledge, anyway). Early versions of the WordPress iPhone client make a blank post to your blog after you configure the application. Last night after I set up WP for iPhone, I too noticed that each of my blogs had a new [...]

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Daniel Pataki had an interesting post over at gHacks.net last week: separating your social (networking) life and your real life. Social networking sites send large volumes of e-mail to their users, and the weight of all these notifications in your inbox has great potential to ruin your productivity. The Social Networking Time Sink Social networking sites send [...]

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People who check their IMAP e-mail through Outlook Express sometimes go looking for a folder that is supposed to exist, but is not listed in the “Folders” pane on the side of the screen. I hear this all time time — a particular culprit is the spam folder. Sometimes people want to sift through their [...]

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I have been happily using the iPhone 3G since it was released. All-in-all it is a great device – Internet access, music, photos, endless information, even a lightsaber. And it makes phone calls, too. I am not much of a phone person. Anyway, the only aspect of the iPhone 3G that I have found disappointing [...]

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How can I open a .7z file that I got in my e-mail? .7z files are compressed archive files similar to zip files. They originate from the Windows archiving software 7-Zip, and can be opened by both 7-Zip and a variety of third party software. 7-Zip is archival software for Microsoft Windows. Archival software is able to [...]

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Mount Remote Filesysems on Your Mac with MacFusion How to Keep Your Digital Photos Safe and Sound Three Handy Windows Hacks WordPress iPhone Application is Now Available Stop Clicking “Next”!

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A friend sent me a .xlsx file. What is it, and how do I open it? An XLSX file is an Excel spreadsheet that was created with Microsoft Office 2007. Office 2007 includes a new XML-based file format — files saved in this new format have an “x” appended to the file extension in order to [...]

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Simply put, an FTP server is a computer that allows you to log in and either upload files, download files, or do both. FTP servers have a number of uses: Many web hosts allow customers to upload their websites’ files via the FTP protocol. When a file is too large for e-mail, many organizations will instruct you [...]

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