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Archive for October, 2007

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Close All Your Open Programs At One Time

Here’s a quick tip that will show you how to close all your open programs at one time.
Hold down the CTRL key and click all the open programs in the task bar. (Notice they all stay selected) now right click any of the tabs and choose Close Group. Now all the programs you selected will [...]

Alphabetize The Programs In Your Start All Programs Menu

  When you click Start > All Programs to view all your installed programs you will see that as you add new programs they get added to the bottom of the list and they get harder and harder to find, but its easy to sort them Alphabetically. Here’s how.

Click the Start button.
Choose All Programs.
Right click [...]

Find Missing Album Artwork for iTunes With iTunes Art Importer

Very rarely does a great program comes around that makes a difficult task manageable. If you use iTunes you most likely have many Albums with missing art work. iTunes Art Importer works and works good, Here’s a download link Give it a try and get your Coverflow working like it should. It is without [...]

How To Keep Your Programs Menu From Stretching Off Your Screen

  If you’ve been using XP for a long time and have a but load of programs installed sometimes your programs menu will extend past the edge of your screen. To solve this problem all you have to do is enable scrolling for your Start > Programs folder, here’s how

Right-click Start, select Properties.
Select [...]

Get More Info From Windows Explorer

When navigating through your files with windows explorer you normally see Name, Size, Type and Date modified as your column headings. As shown below for my C drive.

But you can easily add more columns of info, just right click in any column heading for more options.

Put a check in the one you want [...]

Quickly View Your System Information

Are you looking for a quick way to view your computers system information in one handy place. Check out what you’ll get with this handy tip.

Host Name
System Up Time
Time Zone

OS Name
System Manufacturer
Total Physical Memory

OS Version
System Model
Available Physical Memory

OS Manufacturer
System Type
Virtual Memory: Max Size

OS configuration
Processors
Virtual Memory: Available

OS Build Type
Bios Version
Virtual Memory: In Use

Registered Owner
Windows Directory
Page [...]

How To Avoid Reactivating XP After A Reinstall

We’ve all had to do it at least once, I routinely do it every 6 months. What am I talking about. Reformatting and reinstalling Windows XP. Whether you’re having problems with crashes, errors, spyware or viruses or just need to clean out the junk that accumulates over time. After you reinstall you will need [...]

The Digital Video Rocket

Budding astronauts can experience liftoff from the rockets point of view thanks to the impact-resistant digital camera in the nose cone of this 3′ model rocket that records video at 320 x 240 pixel resolution. The rocket is ready to fly after a brief set-up, and just 15 seconds after the ignition button is [...]

Streaming Music On Demand With Dreezer

Deezer.com formerly known as Blogmusik.net is a free Internet-based music-on-demand service. Deezer offers on-demand ad-supported streaming in a similar manner to imeem.com, with a portion of the ad revenue being delivered to content partners. The site has been the center of some controversy, with record companies such as Universal alleging that the service “illegally” hosts [...]