Archive for November, 2008

How to Synchronize Your BlackBerry Using Bluetooth

Nov 27, 2008 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

This how-to is a follow up to Monday’s post which described the process used to pair up your Bluetooth devices, if you haven’t done so already make sure to follow the instructions in How to Pair Bluetooth Devices in Windows Vista before proceeding with this tutorial. The ability to synchronize your BlackBerry wirelessly (via Bluetooth) [...]

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How to Pair Bluetooth Devices in Windows Vista

Nov 24, 2008 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

If you own a Bluetooth enabled device or BlackBerry as is my case, you have the ability of syncing your phone wirelessly via a Bluetooth connection, but before you can sync your phone or device, you must first pair that device with your computer. The how-to below will show you how to pair a Bluetooth [...]

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How to Take Control of Vista’s Autoplay Feature

Nov 21, 2008 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

As a Windows user, specifically a Vista user, I find myself constantly closing the Autoplay window when I insert any type of media into my PC. I decided that enough was enough so I ventured into the Control Panel and found that there is an option that allows you to customize these settings for all [...]

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How to View RAW Images in Windows Explorer

Nov 20, 2008 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

One of the most annoying aspects of shooting RAW is MS Windows inability to display RAW images natively. I came across the media section in one of my favorite books that describes how RAW support can be added to Windows Explorer and Picture Viewer. The article below shows you how to find and install the [...]

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Throw Away Your APA Manual and Use Word Instead

Nov 19, 2008 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

As a grad student I am constantly writing papers for pretty much all of my classes, as such I have developed a distaste for anything with APA or MLA on it. I recently stumbled upon MS Word’s ability to keep track of your citations, most importantly the ability to correctly format those citations throughout your [...]

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How to View A Website’s Source Code

Nov 18, 2008 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

The ability to view a website’s source code is built-in most modern web browsers. The source code allows you to view how the website was coded, in other words put together, it also gives you a glimpse of certain data that would not be available to you by just browsing the website. You can [...]

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How to Enable and Disable Picasa’s New Photo Viewer

Nov 17, 2008 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

If you’ve been using Picasa 3 for some time you either love or dislike the new Picasa Photo Viewer. The Picasa photo viewer was intended as a replacement for Windows built-in picture viewer. Whether the Windows Picture viewer or the Picasa Photo Viewer is preferred is a question of taste, either way I have highlighted [...]

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How to Disable User Account Control in Vista

Nov 13, 2008 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

In an effort to prevent misuse and accidental modifications to critical files and settings in Windows, Microsoft developed User Account Control in Vista. Although a noble and thoughtful solution to this issue, User Account Control or UAC for short, is one of the most annoying and frustrating "enhancements" that Microsoft has developed. UAC prompts the [...]

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How to Minimize Outlook to the Notification Area

Nov 12, 2008 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

At any given time I run 5-6 programs concurrently and I try to use my screens real estate as efficiently as possible. One of the simplest ways to make space in your task bar is to either close a program or minimize it to the notification area. Unfortunately many programs do not have this feature, [...]

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How to Check the PHP Version in 1and1 Hosting

Nov 11, 2008 View Comments by Gilberto J Perera

One of my readers pointed out the importance of PHP version numbers when running several modules in Drupal and enabling certain workarounds. I hope I clarified his concern, as a result of this exchange I realized that those of you who run a website on a hosted server with PHP might not know how to [...]

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