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Enable Google Maps Labs on Your Android Phone to Get Extra Features
Without question, Google Maps is one of the most amazing mobile applications for your Android phone, but it gets even better—there’s a few extra featu
Create a Hotkey to Resize Windows to a Specific Size with AutoHotkey
Since I spend a large amount of my time testing out applications, taking screenshots, and doing web development, I’m constantly needing to resize wind
How to View the Battery Level on Android Phones Without a Widget
One of the great things with Android phones is the gigantic collection of widgets that you can install to show all sorts of information on your screen
Too Much Clutter? Here’s 15 Minimalist Wallpapers for Your iPhone, iPad, Android, or Desktop
Busy wallpaper images don’t work very well on your iPhone, iPad, or any device where you need to have lots of icons on the screen. Here’s a set of min
How to Force Kill Android Applications Without a Task Manager
If you heavily use your Android phone, you’ve probably come across a situation where a buggy application wasn’t working quite right, but there was no
How to Free Up a Lot of Disk Space on Ubuntu Linux by Deleting Cached Package Files
If you're anything like me, you probably have Ubuntu running on your older computers, and they often have smaller hard drives so you're looking to sav
How to Resize All Window Columns with a Single Keystroke
When you’re dealing with an application that displays data in a set of columns, it’s often frustrating to have to resize each column separately—but to
How to Enable Google Instant Search in Google Chrome
Google Instant was released last week, adding instant search results to the page before you even finish typing. Here’s how to enable Google Instant se
How to Copy Output Text from the Command Line to the Windows Clipboard
If you're doing work at the command line on your Windows box, it's sometimes useful to copy the output of a command to the clipboard, but who wants to
How to Tell What Type of Memory Your Linux PC Has Installed
If you are looking to upgrade the memory in your Linux PC, you are probably wondering how many open slots you have, what type of memory is already ins
How to Delete a Windows Live Writer Blog Theme and Use the Default View Instead
Windows Live Writer has a great feature that detects the style of your blog and allows you to write posts in a way that looks similar to your site, bu
Stupid Geek Tricks: How to Switch Windows 7 to the XP Style Alt-Tab Switcher
A while back, we showed a fun Easter egg in Windows 7 that shows the old XP-Style Alt-Tab switcher if you use a certain combination of keys, and today
How to Clean Up Your Messy Internet Explorer Context Menu
Is your Internet Explorer context menu completely out of control? Is it so long that it actually runs off the screen? Here’s how to quickly take a few
How to Save Time by Automating Tedious Tasks with AutoHotkey
Have you ever needed to perform the same mindless task over and over on your PC? Instead of wasting hours clicking buttons and hitting keys, this is t
How to Change the Priority of Wired/Wireless Network Cards in Windows
Do you ever plug in your wired network card while your wireless card is still enabled? Ever wonder how Windows chooses which one to use? Here's how to
Make Windows 7 Start Menu Search Find Your Applications Faster
When you first get your shiny new Windows 7 PC, typing anything into the Start Menu search box returns exactly what you want instantly---but what abou
How to Setup milter-greylist Spam Blocking in Sendmail
So you've installed spamassassin and it works good but you still are getting unflagged spam emails through? Perhaps you need to try greylisting.
How to Prevent Yum from Updating the Kernel
When you're running production servers, the one thing you don't want to do is upgrade the kernel every time a new update comes out. Why? Because that's the only Linux update operation that requires a reboot once it's done—and in a production environment you often can't have downtime.
How to Change Your Linux Hostname Without Rebooting
How to change the hostname quickly and without rebooting the box since there are 18,000 users all trying today to access data from that one server?