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Make an Award Certificate in MS Word

Office Productivity

If your organization is honoring someone or a group of individuals for an achievement of some sort, award certificates are a great touch to the occasion. Instead of having custom…

Flash Does Not Delete Cookies When You Clear Your Browser History

Internet Usage

Flash does not usually remove its cookies when you delete your browser history. It keeps its data in a place separate from regular web pages, and it will persist after…

How to Install new Desktop Gadgets in Windows 7

Windows

New Windows 7 Desktop Gadgets can be installed from Microsoft’s web-based Personalizaton Gallery. You can get to the Personalization Gallery website one of two ways: Through the Control Panel Click…

Getting Facebook Messages from People You Don’t Know?

Social Networking

It is both confusing and possible to get Facebook messages from people with whom you are not friends on the popular social networking site. One common way to get these…

How to Install Apache on Windows 7

Windows

In order to install the Apache HTTPD web server software on Windows 7, you must do a couple of different things. Download & install the Apache software. If you want…

Bookmark a Website to Your iPad Desktop

Mobile

You can add a bookmark for any website to the iPad desktop. An icon for the site will sit amongst your iPad App icons. Web sites can define an image…

Download Photos Straight to iPad from Your Digital Camera

Mobile

If the iPad is intended to be a travel-friendly device that goes places your laptop doesn’t, then a question regarding photos comes to mind: can you empty your camera’s memory…

The Difference Between an iPad and a Computer

Mobile

Since Apple is marketing the iPad as a new type of device sitting between the phone and the laptop, the question on many minds is “How is the iPad different?”…

How to Make Your Own iPad Wallpaper

Mobile

In one sense, making iPad wallpaper is just like making wallpaper for any other type of display: crop your image to the appropriate size and save it at the right…

How to Make Vertical Text in Photoshop

Office Productivity

Making vertical text in Photoshop is a very simple task… so simple, you can do it with just two clicks. Using the Type tool, either create a new text layer…

How to Burn Files to a CD or DVD in Windows 7

Windows

The “Burn Disc” feature of Windows 7 works the same for both CDs and DVDs. You can burn files to either type of disc through the Explorer without any third…

How to Disable Windows Media Player in Windows 7

Windows

Windows 7 features the capability to disable many core features, including the Windows Media Player application. This option is located in the Windows Features portion of the Control Panel. How…

Where’s the “My Computer” Icon in Windows 7?

Windows

With Windows 95 through XP, PC users became accustomed to seeing default icons like “My Computer” on the desktop, but if you haven’t spent any time on Vista, you may…

How to Turn Your Pictures into Pencil Sketches

Photography

This article outlines a few free tools that you can use to transform regular pictures into pencil sketches. “4 Ways To Create A Free Pencil Sketch of Your Photos” is…

Convert .CDA Files to .MP3

Internet Usage

Want to convert the tracks on a CD into MP3 files to keep on your computer, iPod or phone? There’s a free program for that. Free CD to MP3 Converter…

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