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Take Your Notes Everywhere

Many people store their info and notes in their flash drives. Flash drives are useful but not always durable. They can easily break, and then all your notes stored in their, are deleted. On the other hand, wrttn stores your notes safely online. You can access them any time and anywhere. It is simple, clean, portable, and media-ready. This website can store you the notes that you would like to see whenever, and you don't have to carry anything. So try it now here.

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Did you know about VLMC? VLC Video Editing Software
 

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Video Lan, creators of VLC Media player, have created VLMC(Video Lan Media Creator). Before I begin, I have to warn you.  This software is still in pre-alpha, which means it is not stable and still some features are not implemented.  VLMC is like Windows Movie Maker. It is a free open Source video editing software. I have tested it out and I see a lot of potential in this software and when it's done i bet it will be better than Windows Movie Maker. Give it a try here or wait till they release the final version. It it available on Mac, Windows, and Linux.

Use Your Ipod as a Flash Drive

Though flash memory has become cheaper over the last couple of years, the capacity in USB drives is still relatively small. On the other hand, Apple has done a fantastic job by increasing  their storage capacity in their Ipod music players without forcing you to carry a brick in your pocket. What if you combine both? You actually can! An Ipod and virtually any portable music player can be used as a huge flash drive that is easy to carry around. To do this, simply plug the device and it will behave like a flash drive!  In this example, the Ipod gets assigned drive letter D; below,  you can see a simple file transfer. Simple? Yes!

How to make an Animated picture(GIF)

Remember Myspace? I know everyone is on Facebook now and animated pictures are not  popular anymore but you never know when trends can reappear.  Today's tip is how to create an  animated picture or also called GIF. If you head over to Picasion.com and browse over to upload your pictures in sequence. You are able to change the speed and size of GIF.  When you set just click "Create Animation". Below is an example.

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Nvidia, Dell, HP, Apple Settlement

A couple days late, but apparently, there has been a settlement between chip maker Nvidia and computer manufacturers including Dell, HP and Apple. As it is, Nvidia supplies video chips to these companies for video capabilities for their respective computers. As Dell, HP, and Apple are major suppliers of computers, there is a high chance for people to qualify for a replacement especially if your computer failed in the last couple of years. To see if you qualify check here. Personally, I own a Compaq that failed recently, I will proceed with trying to get a replacement and will provide a follow-up if anyone is interested. [polldaddy poll=3883013]

How much time do you spend on Facebook?
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If you use Chrome as a browser and are curious on how much valuable time you actually waste on Face book. You can find out by downloading a Google Chrome extension.  It simply tells you how much time you are on Facebook.

You need to have Google Chrome installed and the Google Chrome extension.

View a Webpage's Security Info from Firefox

This is a simple and easy task to do. When you are on the page, it lets you know the owner, whom it was verified by, name of the website, and more. The process in which to find this info is really simple. Just click on the button named tools on the top of the Firefox page. Then hover down your mouse to the link called Page info and then click on that. Then a pop-up will appear and then click the icon with the security sign and there will be the info from the website. So try this out if you need to find the websites security info.

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Wordpress and Windows Work as a Team

Word press will now be easier accessed by Windows Users. They linked up everything like Windows Messenger with Word press. Now you will be able to upload posts from your own personal Windows Live Messenger Account.  Windows was about to make a blogging service online, but they just decided to link themselves up with the most know blogging platform in the world. Wordpress powers 8.5% of the world and is seen by over 250 million people a month.

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How to unsubscribe from any mailing list with Unsubscribe.com

In the past, I had written a post on (How to unsubscribe from a newsletter). I showed you how to do manually. I found a service that does it for you. Its very easy to use. If you head over to Unsubscribe.com you can get started right away by creating an account. There are two options, you can have a free account which allows you to have 5 uses in one month or a paid account which gives you unlimited uses. The best thing, it supports all email clients. Here is how it works.  Let's say you get a newsletter and want to unsubscribe from it. Just forward the email to [email protected] and they will do the rest. Now get rid of those monthly newsletters.

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How to change your Home Page in your browser

Sometimes our homepage have been changed just randomly. Usually it happens when you have installed some software or click on spam.  I will show you how to change your homepage in Internet Explorer and Firefox. FireFox

  1. Go and click 'Tools'
  2. Go down the menu and select ' Options...'
  3. You will get the following window
  4. Insert the URL of the your desired home page where is says 'Home Page'
  5. Click 'OK' when you done.

Internet Explorer

  1. Go and click 'Tools'
  2. Go down the menu and select ' Internet Options'
  3. You will get the following window
  4. Insert the URL of the your desired home page where is says 'Home page'
  5. Click 'OK' when you done.

Copy text without the format

Have you been on Sparknotes and tried to copy over to Microsoft Word just text and it did not copy over just right? Over with it came some ads, some indention's, and tables. You really didn't want that. You just want the text without the format. I have been in that position so many times. Here is the solution, Instead of copying (CTRL + C) directly from the web to Word try copying from the web to Notepad. then paste (CTRL + V) to Word. You will be format free and just have the text and you may do the formatting.

The New Internet Explorer 9

Be one of the first to test the new Internet Explorer 9  beta now! This beta offers better Performance, HTML5 Demos, Graphic Demos, and Browser Demos. The Performance that has gotten better, is that now you can Network Monitor, Speed Read, Browser Hunt, and many more. These features that the New Internet Explorer 9 beta has to offer are really useful to everyone in some way. So download it and try it out now here.

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Launch An Executive Email Carpet Bomb

Have you ever bought an electronic or any product and it turned out to be a lemon? Have you had to deal with the company and they would not comply? Sadly, it has happen. How do we (the consumers) fight back. On a radio show, The Tech Guy, a caller called in and expressed her frustrating story. She had a laptop and tried getting it fixed and even getting it replaced. The company did not comply. The host, Leo Laporte, suggested a site called Consumerist.com. This site gives you a directory of whom to call, email, or send a letter when it is the last straw. Here is a more detailed article on how to format and write your response to the president of the company. Usually, it works and you talk to a high employee instead of oversees employees.

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Do you make Handcrafts? and want money?

Etsey.com, which I personally did not know about till recently, is well a website. How do I put it?  Instead, I like how they put on their website,

"Etsy is the online marketplace for buying and selling all things handmade."

That simple.  You can create a free account and design your online presence or online shop. You may

  • customize your shop banner
  • fill out profile
  • set polices
  • and its clean and simple.

What does Etesy get? That's important. They will get 20 cents for everything you sell. Also, when you sell the item, they will get 3.5% of the Total price. So, these are small factors to pay but all your customers (the community) are waiting for you. Here for more details.

Here are some other helpful things:

Check it out today. You might get some pocket change.

Lost your Office Product key? or just any Product Key?

I bet you, there have been many times were you got a new computer and you wanted to transfer some programs over but did not have the Product Key. Well to bad. No. no. no. Its not over. There is a program called License Crawler. This program finds the product key from almost any program. How does it do this? Well, thanks for asking. It Scans the registry and locates the product key. It pretty straight forward so next time you're not in trouble that you can't find the product key. Click here to install it. Run it. Click Start Search. It will generate a list. It will give you the key and in the address

(like this HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESoftwareAdobePhotoshop7.0Registration)

will give you a hint of the program in this case Photoshop 7. If you have any questions leave a comment.

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Answers for Students via Cramster.com

Cramster.com is a website that is very helpful to students. It is basically a solution guide to your textbook. Out of my physics and math classes,  I have found answers here. It shows you step by step how to do each problem without revealing the solution right away. Furthermore, Cramster offers answers to textbooks in these subjects: Students can review practice exams, walk each other through homework problems, share notes on the site while using the service. If you grab a free account you get the solution to odd problems. If you register to be a paid member you receive all the answers plus more benefits.

Website Notifier

This website called ChangeDetection, monitors others and notifies you what occurs on your website. When it detects a movement in the website, it automatically notifies you by email. This is a good thing to people who have to manage many websites. This is a free service offered to anyone in the world. This service has been available since 1999. So come on and check this fabulous website out now.

Difficulty Level: Easy

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Download all your tagged facebook pictures

Facebook is one of the biggest photo sharing websites out there. Also, we upload so many albums to share with friends and family. We have albums for every major event we have. Another thing to remember is when friends tag us on their photos. Here is the problem. What if you actually want to download all the photos you have been tagged in for personal storage. I found a piece of open source software that download all the photos you have been tagged in. It is called photo grabber. Download it and give it a try.

Priority Inbox with Gmail!!!!

Just as Google has added the calling feature last week, Google has added another feature called Priority Inbox. Well this new thing that Google has come out with is designed to bring Google account users more aware of their accounts and what occurs.  With priority inbox, Google will detect which email are important based on which email you have read, replied, and interacted with the most. Those emails Google will put them into a section so you can see them faster.

Difficulty Level: Easy

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