Automate Windows 7 Maintenance Tasks to Keep Your PC Running Like New

you might setup Disk Cleanup in XP as well as a Scheduled Task. The process is easy following theScheduled Task Wizard in XP. If you have Windows Home Server, backing up your computers is veryeasy to configure and automate. There’s plenty of commercial backup services, likeMozyandCarbonite. You cancustomize the defragmenter scheduleif you want, but there’s probably no reason to change it. This will spin up the chkdsk command, and then run a shutdown afterwards....

October 4, 2010 · 1 min · 175 words · Karen Butler

How to Understand Typography Like a Professional Designer

Quick Links Typography is so overwhelmingly ever-present we hardly notice it there anymore. At least, any font that wasn’t created by somebody named “Pizzadude.” These fonts were agonizingly designed around the core principle of legibility. Jannon’s fonts are often lumped together with Garamond, even to this day. This is the sort of history to be found behind every major typeface and Bringhurst lets us know it. Typography exists to honor content....

October 4, 2010 · 3 min · 437 words · Gary Thomas

Wean Yourself from Compulsive Email Checking with Positive Reward

Related Do you check your email more often than you oughta? Do you experience withdrawal symptoms when if you haven’t checked your email in a while? Compulsive email checking is an unhealthy habit that keeps you from doing more important things. Use positive reward to establish a healthier relationship to your inbox. Email is not always productive There are three major reasons why email is not always productive. Not just any time you feel like checking....

October 4, 2010 · 2 min · 421 words · Joshua Lewis

How to Stop The Obnoxious “Top stories today by @yourname” Spam on Twitter

Very irritating, but heres how to get rid of it. For the Love of FSM, Make It Stop! Dear Paper.li Owners hey make your service less annoying. Constantly getting spammed is frustrating, and its not a solid way to build a useful service.

October 1, 2010 · 1 min · 43 words · Karen Pierce PhD

How to Trigger Torrent Downloads from Anywhere with Dropbox

So how do you accomplish this? you might name this anything, but Id suggest just calling it Torrents. Read on for setup in Linux. Once youve done so, then nudge the file browse icon and choose the Torrents folder from your Dropbox. If youre using another client, you will probably find a similar option in the preferences pane. Dropbox is in the Android Marketplace, and instructions for installing the BlackBerry app are availablehere....

October 1, 2010 · 1 min · 73 words · Megan Mueller

Remove Complex Backgrounds from Images in Photoshop

Let’s take a look. Right click your Background Layer in your Layers Palette, and choose Layer from Background… It automatically renames as Layer 0. Your Layers Palette should only have a single layer, your newly unlocked Layer 0. Press to go for the Lasso Tool. Check your options on your Control Palette near the top of your Photoshop screen. see to it that yours looks like this screenshot. Most importantly, be certain that Anti-Alias is turned off....

October 1, 2010 · 2 min · 423 words · Joy Sanchez

Enable the Reminder Bell in Outlook 2010

If youre still using Outlook 2003 youre probably familiar with the Reminder Bell icon.

September 30, 2010 · 1 min · 14 words · Joseph Zimmerman

Learn These Mouse Tricks in Gnome for a More Productive Linux Experience

In GNOME, however, youll notice that right-clicking immediately yields a context menu. To get the same behavior, you actually need to use the middle mouse button. You get a menu that allows you to move, copy, or link files to your destination. Did you reassign the middle mouse button to something else? Dragging to Copy Files you’re able to also drag and drop to copy files! Want to save a bit of text from that web page you were surfing?...

September 30, 2010 · 1 min · 101 words · Samantha Davis

Transfer Music, Apps, and Other Data from an Old Gen iPod to a New One

Here we show you how to do it easily using iTunes. Here we have our iPod Touch 32GB 3rd generation equipment. Notice we have most everything infolders using the new iOS 4 feature. Backup Old iPod First plug in your old iPod and back it up. Just right-press the unit in iTunes and select Back Up. Then wait while the backup process completes. Or you could register it later to if you want....

September 30, 2010 · 1 min · 121 words · Megan Williams

What Are WLIDSVC.EXE and WLIDSVCM.EXE and Why Are They Running?

You’ve come to the right place. Do you know what those services are? So What Are These Processes? The WLIDSVC.EXE is the actual Windows Service, and the WLIDSVCM.EXE is the “Service Monitor”. It’s also absolutely required if you’re using Windows Live Messenger. kindly have another go later. Error code 800706ba". But Wait, I’m Not Using Windows Live Messenger? That’s exactly the problem that I ran into and which prompted this article....

September 30, 2010 · 1 min · 113 words · Christopher Molina

Create Custom Windows 7 Jumplists for Apps that Don't Have One

Quick Links Would you like more of your favorite programs to include jumplists for your favorite tasks? Here’s how you’re able to customize your Windows 7 jumplists quickly with Jumplist Extender. To get started, download Jumplist Extender (link below), and install as normal. Once it’s installed, you could run it and get started tweaking jumplists. Select Start a new jumplist to get started. Now select an system in the Explorer window that opens to tweak that app’s jumplist....

September 29, 2010 · 2 min · 271 words · Victoria Mullins

Do More With These Great Plugins for Windows Live Writer

Windows Live Writer is our favorite tool to create and edit blog posts. How Do You Install Live Writer Plugins? Once you’ve installed Live Writer, it’s very easy to add plugins. Just download the plugin installer, and install it like any other Windows app. Next time you restart Live Writer, you’ll see your new feature integrated. Some plugins have to be installed manually. Where Are My Plugins? You’ll see them in a list under the Plug-ins section of that tab....

September 29, 2010 · 1 min · 208 words · Susan Jones

How to Email Your Professor and Get a Quick Response

Related Quick Links Professors are some of busiest people around. Introduce yourself during the first week of school. Let your professor know about your interests, your questions, or something else unique to you. The better impression you leave, the better they can remember you. That helps them put your email into context. And perhaps they’ll already trust that you’re a serious student. Based on subject line alone, they may delete mail that looks spammy or simply unimportant to them....

September 29, 2010 · 2 min · 363 words · Dennis Ruiz