Archive for August, 2008

Photograph Small Objects With Your Flatbed Scanner Automatically Post Your iPhone Call Log to an iCal Calendar Geotagging Made Easy With Microsoft Pro Photo Adium 1.3 Released — Now With Facebook Chat Support Lying Printers: The Deceptive Inkjet and Toner Racket

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To put a link into a Yahoo! Mail e-mail message, highlight the text you wish to link and press the hyperlink button . Yahoo! Mail will pop up an alert box, in which you can type or paste the URL to which you wish to link. Yahoo! Mail will link the highlighted text to the URL [...]

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First of all, you must be editing in Rich Text mode. If you are in Plain Text mode, click the “Rich formatting” link right above the message body box. Hilight the bit of text you wish to link, then click the link button to insert a hyperlink into your Gmail message. Type or paste the URL [...]

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In this series of articles, you will learn how to insert links into e-mail messages with a variety of e-mail clients and webmail services. A hyperlink is a reference in a document that takes you somewhere else — to either another document, another place in another document, or specific place within another document. On the web, [...]

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The Linksys WRT-54G administration panel is able to show you all of the devices that are connected to your home network — if you know where to find this feature. The WRT-54G is an extremely popular router among people with broadband at home, but the option to see all active connections is hidden behind a [...]

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Occasionally, a reader inquires as to where I get the various images that fill out Of Zen and Computing articles. Stock photographs are a great tool for adding value to blog posts and web pages, and the combination of Flickr and Creative Commons makes finding those images a breeze. I find the majority of the stock [...]

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Adium is a popular instant messaging client for Mac OS X, and the Adium team recently added support for Facebook Chat to the software. By configuring Adium to sign in to your FB account, you can converse with your Facebook buddies right from your Desktop. Configuring Adium to work with your Facebook account is nothing [...]

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How should I deal with my laptop’s wet power cord? I spilled some water on the connector while it was lying on the floor. From your description of what has happened, it sounds like your A/C adapter was not plugged into the laptop. That is a very good thing, and the rest of this article will [...]

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I’m trying to play some Flash games on my iPhone, but I can’t get it to install. How do I install Flash? As of this writing, Flash does not work on any version of the iPhone. Excluding Flash support was a conscious decision by Apple. There has been a great deal of speculation as to why [...]

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The iPhone’s built in camera takes pretty decent photos… in fact, I never bothered to use a mobile phone camera until I bought my iPhone 3G. But it’s still a bare-bones camera with a tiny sensor and no flash, so taking acceptable nighttime photos can be challenging. Here are a few tips for improving your [...]

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