Archive for April, 2009

TwitterBerry is an application that lets you use Twitter from your BlackBerry. “How to Use Twitter from Your BlackBerry” by Simple Help is a step-by-step tutorial on installing TwitterBerry on your BlackBerry. Each instruction is accompanied with a screenshot of the step. If you are looking for a few good people to follow once TwitterBerry is [...]

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SpeedFan is Windows application that is able to monitor and control temperature and fan speed inside your computer. This app caught my eye since the summer is coming and I just set up a new Home Theater PC — sometimes I may want to quiet the case, and on hot days I may want to [...]

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I must agree with Hack Your Day’s description of YouTube comments — most of them are so banal and utterly ridiculous that reading them tends to be a complete waste of time. There are probably a few meaningful quips hidden among the trash though, and so I point you to “Filter YouTube Comments” by Google [...]

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“Ubuntu Commands That Will Kill Your Computer” by Daily Cup of Tech is a list of various commands and bits of code that can either destroy a Linux system, or bring it to its knees. These cruel practical jokes have been around for a while — as long as I can remember using the Internet for [...]

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“How to Send and Receive Hotmail from Thunderbird” is a step-by-step tutorial on setting up Mozilla Thunderbird to work with Microsoft’s Hotmail e-mail service. The tutorial is extremely detailed with screenshots of each step in the process. Warning! This tutorial uses a method called POP3 to check your e-mail. As Thunderbird downloads your e-mail to your [...]

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Dial Username is a web application that can scan a lot of the popular social networking sits and web apps, and let you know on which sites your preferred username is taken. It already supports a few dozen services such as Digg, Twitter, Flickr and FriendFeed, and says that more are on the way. Dial Username [...]

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Bookmark Duplicate Detector is an add-on for Mozilla Firefox that “helps you find and delete duplicate URLs already in your bookmarks. It can scan your bookmarks for duplicate website addresses and let you delete them, and can also detect when you try to bookmark a pre-existing URL and prompt you to confirm the action. Link via [...]

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According to “How To Make Sure Word Prints Document Backgrounds” by The How-To Geek Microsoft Office does not print background in documents by default. It can be frustrating when custom backgrounds do not print out with a Word document. According the the Microsoft Office Website, user created backgrounds do not print by default, so today we [...]

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“Track and delete iPhoto images that aren’t in any album ” by Mac OS X Hints is a tip on managing your iPhoto library, specifically getting rid of orphan photos. iPhoto ‘09 has a “Smart Album” feature that enables you to track down pictures that are not in any albums. Follow the directions in the Mac [...]

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One Rochester, NY resident is fighting Time Warner Cable’s bandwidth caps by trying to lure in some competition from Verizon. VerizonFiber.com is a petition to bring Verizon’s FiOS service to Rochester as a broadband alternative to TWC’s Road Runner. A bandwidth cap is a limit placed on the amount of Internet activity broadband customers may conduct. [...]

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