Tips and Tricks

Knowledge is how we make decisions, change ourselves, and improve our lives. Often we desire a ‘how-to’ about something quickly and with little effort. Where are the tips and tricks we can gather online right now to help us?

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• Protect Your Important and Personal Data

  
  Techie Buzz — Authority: 577
  Why to protect data? These days most companies, large or small, store their data in computers and laptops. Maintaining paper files is not only cumbersome but also outdated. Some experienced computer users often take a backup of their important data to ensure that their data is safe in case of any untoward incident ...
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• Yet Another Exploit for Older Versions Of Internet Explorer

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 592
  Another way has been found for Internet Exploder versions 6 or 7 to be compromised. It was first posted by a hacker, and later confirmed by Symantec (good to know they’re working together on this!) to be a way to install rogue software on the user’s machine. The story comes from NetworkWorld , and apparently has ...
  3 hours ago

• EVE Evolved: Trading: Advanced trading

  
  Massively — Authority: 691
  In the first part of this guide I covered the basics of trading in EVE Online and some of the jobs best suited to newer players. Theres a lot more to trading than buying low and selling high and in this weeks installment, Ill cover some of the more advanced trading and marketeering tactics that have proven ...
  6 hours ago

• EVE Evolved: Trading: Advanced trading

  
  Be The Gamer — Authority: 458
  In the first part of this guide I covered the basics of trading in EVE Online and some of the jobs best suited to newer players. Theres a lot more to trading than buying low and selling high and in this weeks installment, Ill cover some of the more advanced trading and marketeering tactics that have proven ...
  6 hours ago

• Premium Vendors – Are They Going The Way Of The Dodo?

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 592
  When some people shop for computer parts, they purposely look at the ones with the longest warranties, knowing that they are likely to be built to a better specification, as no manufacturer wants to be supporting bad parts – it’s a sure way to bankruptcy. Some manufacturers have sprung up with that idea in mind, ...
  7 hours ago

• The Interfaces of MySource Matrix Open Source CMS – Screencasts

  
  MyTestBox.com :: web software reviews, news, tips and tricks — Authority: 119
  If you are in search of a CMS and are considering MySource Matrix , an Open Source Content Management System then the following screencasts will give you an overview of the two interfaces it offers for content managers, authors and administrators. The Simple Edit Interface This screencast gives an overview ...
  10 hours ago

• SPARQL Hacks: moving query logic into data

  
  n — Authority: 104
  There are too many terms that mean the same thing sometimes. Take labels. rdfs:label is perhaps the most obvious choice if you want to label something in RDF, but there are a whole bunch of semantically equivalent predicates in high usage for doing the same thing. For a while, it seems, it was common practice for ...
  12 hours ago

• Avira Changing Update Method

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 592
  Due to the fact that updates are becoming a problem for many users, the folks at Avira Antivirus are changing the method and size of the updates, so as to make the system more reliable. I have noticed the problem with my systems that run Avira in the last couple of weeks, but according to an article on gHacks , the ...
  14 hours ago

• Tinnitus Ringing in Ears

  
  Tinnitus — Authority: 526
  Tinnitus Ringing In The Ears If you have tinnitus, ringing in ears, it could be affecting your day to day life. This can have an impact on how you live your life and the things you do on a daily basis. People with tinnitus have found that this ringing affects their ability to do daily functions, sleep at night, ...
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• Steps to send exe and other files through Email

  
  Tech Salsa — Authority: 123
  There are occasions when we wish to send to our friend some cool software or any application via email but the email scanners don’t allow us to do that. This is right on one part to disallow anyone to send virus which are exe files through email but it is of no use to people who have no intention of sending the ...
  16 hours ago

• The power of make-up

  
  When boredom strikes — Authority: 100
  By slowly scrolling down from the first photo to the last one, you’ll realize the true power of make-up in the right hands. This is why I never hit on women wearing too much make-up, you never know who you’re going to wake up in the morning. I’m not saying the girl in the first photo is ugly, but compared to ...
  18 hours ago

• Keep your PC Software up-to-date with Ninite Easy PC

  
  Etiole — Authority: 133
  Everyone likes software’s however, they are also very conscious about to keep their software updates. Unfortunately people don’t know which version launched the updates. Other things, whenever they install everytime they have a fresh windowd to install the software. So, they have to go to multiple websites.  ...
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• Windows 7 Flying Off Retailers Shelves? Perhaps Not.

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 592
  To hear the story from Steve Ballmer, Microsoft is selling copies of Windows 7 faster than the copies can be pressed. The people are buying in droves, with adoption so high it beats all previous upgrade cycles. After examining the previous upgrade cycles, that really is not hard to believe, as most Microsoft upgrade ...
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• SQL SERVER – Remove Bookmark Key Lookup – 4 Different Ideas

  
  Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave — Authority: 530
  I quite often get request to summarized my ideas about Removing bookmark lookup on this blog post. Bookmark lookup or key lookup are bad for any query as they force query engine to lookpup corresponding row in the table or index as it does not find required data from just reading the data. Here are list of my four ...
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• Xboxes For Sale May Be Tainted – Caveat Emptor

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 592
  After hearing my son speak of many Xboxes showing up on Craigslist as “new In box” I started looking around on other places where things are sold, only to find similar results. This might be not that unusual for this time of year, with Christmas approaching, and the economy down, but I was still a bit spooked by ...
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• How Can Web Developers Create Rich Web Applications With Desktop Capabilites

  
  Computer Tips And Tricks, Gadgets, How-To, Life - 2.0 Style — Authority: 131
  Yahoo! BrowserPlus is an amazing open source technology that lets the web browsers generate advanced web applications. It allows users to create applications that feature eminent desktop capabilities. It exposes a new arena to JavaScript that facilitate the web applications to gain a secure and safe access to the ...
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• Getting bit by the Gmail "exceeded IMAP bandwidth limits" bug

  
  The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW) — Authority: 777
  Filed under: Software , Tips and tricks , Bugs/Recalls , Troubleshooting , Snow Leopard I have a couple of Gmail accounts set up with Google Apps , so that Google is hosting my email using my own domain names. While those accounts have been working flawlessly for quite a while, I suddenly ran into issues a ...
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• Getting bit by the Gmail “exceeded IMAP bandwidth limits” bug

  
  Sell Off Music — Authority: 165
  Filed under: Software , Tips and tricks , Bugs/Recalls , Troubleshooting , Snow Leopard I have a couple of Gmail accounts set up with Google Apps , so that Google is hosting my email using my own domain names. While those accounts have been working flawlessly for quite a while, I suddenly ran into issues ...
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• Auslogics Defrag Adds Features, Windows 7 Improvements

  
  Revelations From An Unwashed Brain — Authority: 592
  The newest revision of Auslogics Disk Defragmentation utility is gaining functionality that once was the domain of paid programs. Where it once only defragmented files, it now defragments files, consolidates space, and will move system files to the beginning of the drive – essentially most of what Diskeeper ...
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• User Interface Design Is Not About Lorem Ipsum And Pretty Boxes.

  
  ThousandtyOne! - .NET, Life and Logical Thoughts By Rajiv Popat — Authority: 460
  Wikipediadefines Lorem ipsum in a website design proposal as - generally incomprehensibleplaceholder text allows viewers to focus on the visual elements, rather than the content. Lipsum - theonline Lorem Ipsum generator is bullish about the Lorem Ipsum history and future: Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text ...
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