Ever Sold a Cell Phone on eBay? Your Personal Information May Be At Risk

If you have sold or donated your cell phone in the past, you may be in for huge surprise. According to a recent NBC article related to cell phones that are sold online, Trust Digital who bought 10 used cell phones from eBay recovered the equivalent of 27,000 pages of personal and corporate information from [...]

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How to Keep Track of Your Adsense Earnings While Browsing

If you own and a website and use Google Adsense to monetize it, I’m sure that you have found yourself constantly logging on to Adsense to view your latest earnings. This can be time consuming and really a waste of time. I found a Firefox extension that installed display all relevant adsense information in the [...]

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How to Control iTunes From Your Taskbar

I found a very useful tip while browsing Digg the other day. It allows you to run iTunes from your taskbar, Windows Media Player has a similar feature, but based on the feedback through Digg (number of Diggs) it appears that not many people knew about it. Read the instructions below to find out [...]

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How to Manually Configure Your Computer’s IP Address in Windows XP

Manually configuring IP address is sometimes a necessity and always good to know. For example you visit a friend who’s routers DHCP server is disabled (this is what allows the router to automatically assign IP addresses to devices accessing the network) in which case you would need to tell your wireless card what IP [...]

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Use iColor Folder to Color Code Your Folders

iColor Folder allows you to easily color code folders in your computer. Once installed you can right-click on any folder and assign a color to it. I have been using the software for some time now and find it very useful. I color the folders I use most often red so that they automatically grab [...]

 

10 Essential Programs Every Memory Key Should Have

I have found that in the course of fixing friends computers, updating their software, and introducing them to new programs, I usually use specific programs for certain functions. As a result of that I went and created a list of Memory Key Essentials – below I will list all of the essential programs that I [...]

 

Google Updates Google Talk With New Features

Google has released a set of new features for it’s Instan Messaging software, Google Talk. Among the new features is the capability to initiate and receive file transfers to/from other users, leave and receive voicemails, and see what your friends are listening to. Read the official blog post from Google.

"Millions of you use Google Talk [...]

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Blogger Beta New Feature Overview & Screenshots

I started my blog/website with Blogger many moons ago. One of my biggest problems with Blogger was the lack of categories among other things. After using it for a while I decided to host my own blog/website using custom CMS software and have been very happy since. 1 year later blogger overhauls their service – [...]

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My Name is Gilberto J Perera and I'm the editor behind Gil's Method. I started this blog to help relatives with computer questions. Since then the blog has grown to the collection of articles you see today, I hope that you find this blog useful and that you come back again.

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