Repair Missing External Hard Drive Database Error in WHS

Here we look at running the Repair Wizard to quickly fix the issue. To fix the issue verify the drive has power and is plugged in correctly and click Repair.

June 14, 2010 · 1 min · 30 words · Sharon Leonard

Access Music from Amie Street in Boxee

One of our favorite sites for discovering new music is Amie Street. Amie Streetis a cool site that allows you to discover a lot of cool music from independent artists. Or you canturn your iPod touch into a Boxee remotetoo. Under the Search Sidebar throw in in Amie Street and select it from the results field. Then you might add it to the My Apps section…and double-pick the icon. punch Start to begin using it....

June 11, 2010 · 1 min · 157 words · Daniel Fletcher

Access Windows Home Server from an Ubuntu Computer on your Network

Today we take a look at the process of accessing files on your home server from Ubuntu. Now you will see the available folders on your home server. In this example we signed in with Administrator credentials, so we have access to everything. In this example we opened a Word document in OpenOffice. Here we’re playing an MKV movie file from the server in Totem Movie Player. you’re free to easily search for files on the server as well…

June 11, 2010 · 1 min · 79 words · Matthew Hughes

Bring Office 2003 Menus Back to 2010 with UBitMenu

Are you having trouble getting used to the Ribbon interface in Office 2010? The Office 2007 Ribbon was both praised and criticized. check that all of your Office programs are closed during the installation. This handy utility is very small, and installed amazingly quick. Here’s a close-up of the toolbar. The menu in Excel even included support for the new PivotTable and PivotCharts Wizard. opt for File tab and select Options....

June 11, 2010 · 1 min · 141 words · Paul Morris

Enable Full Screen Mode in Media Center Without Trapping the Mouse

Here we look at how to solve the annoyance. It relieves the annoyance of WMC capturing your mouse on a dual monitor setup. Or, choose one of the other selections to open another area of Media Center. By default, Maxifier opens Media Center in full screen mode on the secondary monitor. When Media Center is open, you’ll see five additional options. The Fit Screen options simply fits Media Center to the full screen, but still show the Windows borders....

June 11, 2010 · 1 min · 188 words · Jennifer Burke

Find Content Related Images in Internet Explorer 8

For the first of our two examples we chose the Deepwater Horizon rig. A Bing image search for the highlighted word/name will be opened in a new tab. Our second example was the Guatemalan volcano Pacaya.

June 11, 2010 · 1 min · 36 words · Lisa Jones

Remove the Search Helper Extension from Firefox

Its purpose is to help the Bing Toolbar better integrate with your internet tool. Unless you have the Bing Toolbar installed you really do not need this cluttering your web app up. Note: You may need to have administrator rights to get to delete the folder. No more Search Helper Extension!

June 11, 2010 · 1 min · 51 words · Logan Brown

How to Install and Manage Extensions to Safari 5

confirm to download the installer that doesnt include QuickTime if you dont want it. Also, uncheck getting Apple updates and news in your email. Then decide if you want to install Bonjour for Windows and have Safari automatically update or not. Once its installed, launch Safari and select Show Menu Bar from the the parameters Menu. Then go into Preferences \ Advanced and check the box Show Develop menu in the menu bar....

June 10, 2010 · 1 min · 156 words · Jeffrey Morrow

Translate Languages in IE 8 with Bing Translator

Do you need side by side or hover language translations while browsing? Then join us as we look at the Bing Translator accelerator for Internet Explorer 8. For our example we chose a Norwegian news article. Right-click within the webpage to dive into the context menu entry for translating. The translation will be opened in a new tab… Note: The same entry can also be accessed through the All Accelerators listing....

June 10, 2010 · 1 min · 118 words · Aaron Patton

Add Events to Windows Live Calendar in IE 8

For our example we chose the estimated availability date of Microsoft Office 2010 to the public. At the bottom of the pre-order page we found the date we were looking for. There is our new calendar event ready to send out a notification e-mail for the Office 2010 release. Links Add the Add Events to Windows Live Calendar accelerator to Internet Explorer 8

June 9, 2010 · 1 min · 63 words · Karen Thomas

Backup and Transfer Foobar2000 to a New Computer

Here we look at how to transfer Foobar2000 configs to a new Windows 7 machine. Here we take a look at how it’s set up on the current machine. First punch in or copy the following into the Explorer address bar. New MachineNow you’re able to drop in the latest version of Foobar2000 on your new machine. Now we’re back in business! Everything is exactly as it was on the old machine....

June 9, 2010 · 1 min · 125 words · David Walsh

Clone a Hard Drive Using an Ubuntu Live CD

We want to copy the data from /dev/sda to /dev/sdc. Now the fun part: usingdd. Note: you may have to start your box to be able to mount the newly cloned drive.

June 9, 2010 · 1 min · 32 words · Shawn Stephens

How to Animate Text and Objects in PowerPoint 2010

Are you looking for an eye catching way to keep your audience interested in your PowerPoint presentations? Animations are grouped into four categories. Entrance effects, Exit effects, Emphasis effects, and Motion Paths. The green marker along the motion path marks the beginning of the path and the red marks the end. The effects can be rotated by clicking and the bar near the center of the effect. you could display additional effects by choosing one of the options at the bottom....

June 9, 2010 · 2 min · 353 words · Trevor Gonzalez