How to Sync Your iPod With Another PC Without Losing Your Music

But what if this computer (with which you sync the iPod) dies? All the content on your iPod is at stake, because syncing it with another computer will erase everything. Ah, poor lonely iPod. Fortunately, theres a way out. A guide on syncing your iOS machine with a new computer will be available soon, do check back! Apple hasdetailed instructionsfor that, so have a look at them. Just a matter of copying and pasting, its that simple....

January 31, 2012 · 3 min · 523 words · David Hicks

IT: How to Join Machines to Your Active Directory Domain

Now press the Advanced system options link on the left hand side. When the advanced system configs open, switch to the computer name tab. hit the change button, from here you could change your Computers Name to a more friendly name. Now switch the radio button, in the bottom section, from Workgroup to Domain. This will make the text box become available. If you specify the correct credentials you will be welcomed to the Domain....

January 26, 2012 · 1 min · 75 words · Christopher Rodriguez

How To Get Your Free Yearly Credit Reports Without Getting Scammed

Here we will walk you through exactly how to get them. It is important to note that you are getting credit reports from the reporting agencies,nota credit score. So essentially you are getting the information behind the score, but not the score itself. If you do not already have one installed, followour guide for installing a PDF printerfirst. When you go to AnnualCreditReport.com, snag the state where you current live and click Request Report....

January 24, 2012 · 3 min · 485 words · Lisa Walker

Download Portable Chromium Browser the Easy Way

Francois Beaufort decided to rectify that problem by creating a dedicated webpage for downloading Chromium without all the hassle. Once you visit Francois’s website simply tap on the Download Chromium for PC text to start the download. Just scroll down to the latest numerical folder listing and press that to dive into the files. Download Chromium Daily Builds for Windows(mini_installer.exe & chrome-win32.zip) Download Chromium Daily Builds for Linux(chrome-linux.zip)

January 12, 2012 · 1 min · 68 words · Sean Morales

Hack Apart an Old Keyboard to Create Custom Control Interface

Hack: Reverse Engineer and Repurpose an Old Keyboard “The Matrix Reloaded”[viaHack A Day]

January 10, 2012 · 1 min · 13 words · Veronica Benton

Using Server 2008 R2 as a Desktop OS: Sound (Part 3)

Once the Snap-In opens scroll down until you find the Windows Audio Service. Double-press it to open its properties. Now it’s crucial that you change the Startup drop-down box from Manual to Automatic. Click ok when you are done, and reset your gear. In the fourth and final part of this series, we’ll be coveringenabling searchand fixing other annoyances.

December 26, 2011 · 1 min · 59 words · Jeremiah Chase

How to Automatically Backup Your Web Server Files With WinSCP over FTP

Related You’ve heard it time and time again: back up your data. There are plenty of backup solutions, but nothing is better than an easy and free solution. FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is an Internet protocol that allows users to transfer files between computers. From the login screen, key in your host name (i.e.ftp.howtogeek.com), username, and password. Then click Save to save the profile. kick off the profile to log into your FTP server....

December 21, 2011 · 2 min · 401 words · Michael Keller

Find out How Long You’ve Been Working on a Document (or Presentation)

In our testing, this feature was found to be present in Office 03, 07, and 10. In the properties pane, click Document Properties>Advanced Properties. you’ve got the option to try this with your existing MS Word documents as well. Youll see some details and statistics in the details pane. Have a look at the Total Editing Time field. In this case, its 0 hours and 39 minutes. you’re able to check this by another method as well....

December 20, 2011 · 1 min · 97 words · Kathleen Porter

Group Policy Geek: How to Control the Windows Firewall With a GPO

Given this information we decide to make use of the Windows Firewall and Group Policy. Whatever modifications you oughta make to the firewall should be done now. Now we need to edit our Firewall rule, to edit it double hit the rule. This will bring up the properties of the Skype rule. Switch over to the Advanced tab and uncheck the Domain check box. The fix is simple, stop it from being able to communicate in the first place....

December 19, 2011 · 2 min · 268 words · Melissa Scott

How to Benchmark Your OS X Mac or Hackintosh PC

There are several benchmarking tools available, but the two most commonly used are Geekbench and Cinebench. ), we thought it would be a good idea to benchmark your Mac OS X machine. And yes, by Mac OS X machine, we mean real Macs and Hackintoshes as well. The first benchmarking utility is called Geekbench. It mainly focuses on benchmarking your computers performance (processor and memory). Go to the Geekbenchdownload pageand download it....

December 12, 2011 · 2 min · 412 words · Jonathan Little

From the Tips Box: Kindle Shopping Flowchart, Downgrading iOS, and DIY Soldering Pens

you’ve got the option to imagine my surprise! or the Kindle DX (big!). without ads?). I foundthis super handy flowchartto help me pick. I figured I cant be the only one looking for an ebook reader this holiday season. Keep up the good work! As of the iOS 5 updates its impossible to downgrade. This is where iFaith comes in. Heres a step-by-step tutorial to using the app. While youre right, its a very focused tip, its a very useful one....

December 8, 2011 · 1 min · 168 words · Robert Silva

Enable Night-Reading Mode Inside Any iOS App

They write: Theres an easy workaround. Press the Home button to exit prefs and launch any reading app. Triple-click again to switch to normal mode. initiate the Night-Reading Mode Inside Any iOS App[Digital Inspiration]

December 7, 2011 · 1 min · 34 words · Stephanie Lee

Ask HTG: White Noise Screen Savers, Efficient File Naming, and Recovering from a Password Compromise

Where Can I Find a White Noise Screen Saver? Can you help me? Mac users interested in the effect will want to check outNoise Screen Saverfor OS X 10.6 and above. What Is The Most Efficient File Naming System for NTFS Files? Dear How-To Geek,Just what is the most efficient naming convention for saving files? names and was wondering .. Which is the best to use with NTFS? (Microsoft give some very general guide lines but never says which is most efficient....

December 5, 2011 · 1 min · 181 words · John Harris