Stream Music and Video Over the Internet with Windows Media Player 12

punch Stream and then “Allow Internet access to home media.” Click “Link an online ID.” punch “Link Online ID.” Next, you’ll be prompted for a Windows Live ID and password. put in your Windows Live ID and password and click “Sign In.” A pop up window will notify you that you have successfully allowed Internet access to home media. Now, you will have to repeat the exact same configuration on the 2nd Windows 7 computer....

March 26, 2010 · 2 min · 331 words · Jacqueline Schwartz

Move Firefox’s Tab Bar to the Top

This is definitely a good UI matching extension for anyone using a Chrome based theme in Firefox.

March 25, 2010 · 1 min · 17 words · Melissa King

Watch Netflix Instant Movies in Boxee

Boxee is multi-platform Media PC tool with a host of media applications. One of which is the popular Movie service, Netflix. Today we’ll show you how to get setup to watch Netflix Instant streaming video in Boxee. Note: Nexflix requires Microsoft Silverlight which unfortunately means Boxee users running Linux out of luck. What You’ll Need Click “Yes, Link This Account.” Install Silverlight If you don’t already have Silverlight installed, you’ll need to do so....

March 25, 2010 · 1 min · 185 words · Shannon Wong

Add a Cache Clearing Button to Firefox

The Empty Cache Button extension lets you have instant on-demand cache clearing in Firefox. Note: CacheViewer is available via a separate extension and can be foundhere. Drag the Toolbar Button to an appropriate location in your browsers UI and you are ready to go. To clear your browsers cache simply tap the button…that is all there is to it. Opening up the CacheViewer again shows that everything has been cleared out....

March 24, 2010 · 1 min · 71 words · Christina Love

Test All Features of Windows Phone 7 On Your PC

We noticed, however, that the emulator only contains Internet Explorer Mobile and some controls. This is still interesting to play around with, but it wasn’t the full Windows Phone 7 experience. This will be a zip file, so extract it first. Note where you save the file, as you will need the address in the next step. Choose Open Command Window here. At the command prompt, enter XDE.exe followed by the location of your new rom image....

March 24, 2010 · 2 min · 282 words · Daniel Martinez

Move Window Buttons Back to the Right in Ubuntu 10.04 / 10.10

Well use the graphical program gconf-editor to change this configuration file. The key that we want to edit is in apps/metacity/general. The button layout can be changed by changing the button_layout key. Double-click button_layout to edit it.

March 23, 2010 · 1 min · 37 words · Kyle Garcia DDS

Remove a Network Computer from Windows Home Server

Right-press the computer that you no longer need and click Remove. Youll be prompted to verify that you want to remove the machine and delete all of its backup data. Check the box I am sure I want to remove this computer then nudge the Remove button. Thats all there is to it! The computer and all of its backup data is removed. Remember that if you remove a computer, all of its backup data will be deleted as well....

March 23, 2010 · 1 min · 80 words · Calvin Collins

Rip and Convert DVD’s to an ISO Image

Rip DVD with DVDFab6 DVDFab will remove copy protection and rip the DVD files for free. The first time you run it, a welcome screen is displayed. Pop the DVD in your drive and click Next. Now select your region and check Do not show again, then OK. It will then launch the DVD and begin to scan it. If you want to burn the DVD to a disc after it’s created opt for Full Disc option....

March 23, 2010 · 2 min · 254 words · Jonathan Sullivan

Skip “Next Links” with the PageZipper Bookmarklet

Switching tabs back to the article we never even needed to refresh the page. One nice little tap on our new bookmarklet and… It immediately went to work. you’re able to see the transition between pages here…nice and smooth. When using the bookmarklet just keep scrolling down as needed to read the entire article. Six pages of reading condensed into one without having to click a single link. Now that is nice!...

March 23, 2010 · 1 min · 72 words · Michaela Navarro

Use Advanced Font Ligatures in Office 2010

Heres a quick look at these new font features in Office 2010. It also includes the new font Gabriola, which includes an incredible number of beautiful stylistic sets and ligatures. This includes support for OpenType ligatures, stylistic sets, number forms, contextual alternative characters, and more. Here we have Word 2010 in Windows 7 with some random text in the Gabriola font. tap the arrow on the bottom of the Font section of the ribbon to bring up the font properties....

March 23, 2010 · 2 min · 343 words · Brandi Davidson

Create a Bootable Ubuntu 9.10 USB Flash Drive

Creating a bootable USB flash drive is surprisingly easy with a small self-contained utility called UNetbootin. It will even download Ubuntu for you! Select Ubuntu from the Distribution drop-down box, then 9.10_Live from the Version drop-down box. If you have a 64-bit machine, then select 9.10_Live_x64 for the Version. Click OK and UNetbootin will start doing its thing. First it will download the Ubuntu Live CD. Then, it will copy the files from the Ubuntu Live CD to your flash drive....

March 22, 2010 · 2 min · 306 words · Julie Mcknight

Installing the Updated XP Mode which Requires no Hardware Virtualization

Here we take a look at how to install it and getting working on your PC. Microsoft has dropped the requirement that your CPU supports Hardware Virtualization for XP Mode in Windows 7. If not, you were out of luck or would need a different machine. Then there are three downloads you’ll need to get from the page. Windows XP Mode, Windows Virtual PC, and the Windows XP Mode Update (All Links Below)....

March 22, 2010 · 1 min · 152 words · Shannon Page

Read Mobi eBooks on Kindle for PC

Do you use your PC as a eBook reader? Kindle for PC makes it easy to read thousands of books from the Kindle Store on your rig. Amazon has jumpstarted the eBook market with their popular Kindle unit. Sign in with your Amazon account when you first run it. However, this does not always seem to work. This folder contains all the Kindle books you have downloaded. Here we have a ....

March 22, 2010 · 1 min · 144 words · Danielle Hanna