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A simple word counting tool

Sometimes when you are doing a little writing…whether its for school or some other project, you need to count the words you are writing. You can write up what you are writing then go back and count each word yourself. If you are using Microsoft Word or any similar text editor you the counting is [...]

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Browse iTunes App store without iTunes

What would be the purpose of having access to the iTunes app store without installing iTunes? Maybe you are at work and theres no itunes available. Maybe iTunes slows down your computer so much that you don’t want to load it up just to browse? Whatever your situation there is a website that pretty much [...]

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How to make a Multi-page blog post, like the Pro’s.

I was surfing DIGG the yesterday day and I ran across something Ive always seen that I use to hate. It was a list post where they put each individual item on the list on its own page. (Here’s the post that I’m talking about). I say I use to hate it because now I [...]

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What do you do with your computer parts? Here are a few suggestions

In my house, in my computer room, I have a closet that contains several PC cases, old power supplies, sound cards, video cards, old motherboards, ram… My closet has become a graveyard for old computer parts. Like I have said from the start of this blog, I love working on, building, repairing PCs. With [...]

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Scanning in Windows Vista (yea some of us dont know how)

A friend of mine got a new PC recently. When he got home he setup everything else he had at his desk to the new PC. Of coarse, the new PC had Vista installed, so there were some things he wasn’t familiar with. He asked me one day how to scan a document in Vista. [...]

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Next time someone needs help with photo resizing, point them here.

Something as simple as resizing a picture can be quite the task for someone that either lack the knowledge or software to do so. Yea if someone ask you about making a picture on thier PC bigger or smaller, you can point them to a few places that offer free software. You might even cause [...]

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How do you know if your PC is good enough for your favorite game?

Recently I bought Age of Conan, I hadn’t played an MMORPG in a while and Ive been hearing so much about this game that I wanted to find out what all the hype is about. Before I play any MMORPG, I usually go and read up on everything about the game so that I have [...]

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Cant delete that file in Vista? Bypass all that permission mumbo jumbo by logging into the hidden admin account.

The other day, a friend of mine installed some software on his Vista notebook. The software was incompatible with Vista so he went to uninstall it so that he can install the newer version that is compatible. The incompatible software somehow got corrupted so it wouldn’t uninstall using your regular automated uninstall method. After trying [...]

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Its fun to Self-Search

Do you ever search for yourself at Google? Vanity searches are for pretty vein people huh? I know you’ve probably done it a time or 2, come on, admit it. If you’ve never preformed a self-search, you might want to do so. You’d be surprised what you find. Of coarse, If you have a pretty [...]

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Do you use Google Reader? Make sure you are only sharing what you want shared.

Do you use Google Reader? I started out using FeedDemon as my RSS aggregater. later on I went to Bloglines. For a while now I have been using Google reader. I really liked Bloglines but for some reason I felt that It would be in my best interest to switch over to Google. So far [...]

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