Read on to see the fixes for this week’s reader dilemmas. What can I do? Surely there is a trick for this? You canread more about it here. What app would you recommend to do this? Check outour guide to setting it up here. So far so good, I really like Windows 7! I don’t get it? Is the Library bit just a fancy new face for My Documents? Think of the Library system as a way of tagging and grouping files....

Quick Links Ever wanted to add color to your old, vintage, or historical photographs? Read on to see just how easy it can be. Once your photograph is open, our first task is checking our Color Mode. Navigate to Image > Mode > RGB color to set your image to RGB. If it is in Grayscale or some other color mode, Photoshop will convert it for you. Once this is done, you’ll be ready to add color to your image....

Quick Links Are you comfortable with Linux/Unix and want SSH access to your Windows 7 machine? Cygwin provides this functionality and gives you a familiar environment to work with in a few simple steps. We’re assuming you’ve got Cygwin installed and configured. If not, check out our article,How To Use Linux Commands in Windows with Cygwinto get started. it’s possible for you to keep all of the same defaults as when you originally set up Cygwin....

Ever get the desire to control your rig, Star Trek-style? With Windows 7s Speech Recognition, its easier than you might think. Microsoft has been working on its voice command steadily over the years. XP introduced it, Vista smoothed it, and 7 has it polished. Its simple to enable, easy to configure and use, and just plain fun.

We insist you watch the video and listen to the crowd. Theyre totally blown away by what we now look at as downright primitive. Why were they so blown away? Because the Macintosh heralded the availability of a functional and consumer friendly GUI on a personal computer. Mythbusters Takes to the Airwaves This weekin 2003 MythBusterspremiered onthe Discovery Channel. Its impossible to watch the show and not want to turn your garage into a mad scientists laboratory....

Quick Links Creating pictures from monospaced ASCII characters may be useless, but it sure is fun! Read on to check out how to do it. What is ASCII, and Why Do These Pictures Look So Weird? It’s a lot of fun to experiment with, and is completely free to download. Check them out at theirwebsite, or simplydownload it here. Using Custom Graphics in Textaizer Pro Out of the box, Textaizer is not terribly exciting....

Image adapted from icon set byGasClown. (Here’s looking at youMario KartandHouse of the Dead: Overkill.) Fire up your Wii and navigate toWii Options –> Data Management –> Save Data –> Wii. Plug in the SD card and navigate to the directory/private/wii/title/. Here is where all of the saved games you’ve transferred to the SD card are located. Let’s open up that folder and take a peek: Thedata.binfile is where the magic resides....

Quick Links Microsoft Word’s mail merge is an excellent productivity tool. you might create some profiles, each tailored to specific email account. A proper profile name lets you identify the email account that you associate with your mail profile. If you see this screen, you have setup your mail profile successfully. Now, we are ready to setup our Outlook’s contact folder. Most web based email providers allow us to export our their address book into an Outlook-compatible data source....

What if you want to copy your saved games to a new gear? Read on to find out how. When it comes to selective backup and restore, however, iTunes isnt so hot. Further more it doesnt always effectively back up 3rd party data. What Youll Need The requirements for this trick are pretty minimal. Were focused on retrieving data from third party applications which do not store their data in the root directory....

Click next until you come to a download mirror selection. Here is where things get a bit more intimidating. There will be hundreds of packages available separated by multiple different categories. Start by opening your system properties with either Win+Pause/Break or right press computer and select properties. From the advanced tab, punch environment variables at the bottom. Then in the system variables, locate the path variable and click edit. At the end of the variable value option, add the Cygwin bin location like so....

Quick Links We’re always looking for new ways to speed up everyday tasks in Ubuntu. When Keyboards Ruled the Earth Unix—the spiritual predecessor of Linux—predates graphical user interfaces. The keyboard was the only game in town, so it was typing all the way. No surprise then, that functionality was soon introduced for the benefit of the computer operators of yesteryear. Features such asthe command andaliasesstarted to appear in Unix shells....

Quick Links Tired of the grey Apple logo on your Mac? Why not “think different” and “switch” it to something else? To change the default startup logo on your Mac you will need 3 things. Download and install BootXChanger Head over to the link below to download BootXChanger for free. Once downloaded, plant the utility by dragging it to your applications folder. Change Your Boot Logo When picking a picture you should keep these tips in mind....

Fortunately there is freeware that can help you achieve professional results without professional costs. Read on to see a great Freeware option, with a simple How-To describing how to properly use it. This is a good thing—because shooting in JPG makes decisions for you that can’t be changed. Processing Camera RAW Images Raw Therapee looks like this upon opening. This is simple enough. Find this area on the bottom left and navigate to where which drive your RAW photographs are kept on....