Create Screenshot Image of Entire Web Page in Firefox

Thankfully for Tim he has a geek friend to explain a simple way to accomplish this. I’ve already converted Tim to use Firefox, which is a requirement for this particular method.

October 19, 2007 · 1 min · 31 words · Ann Arnold

WinSCP's "Network error: Software caused connection abort" Message is Driving Me Crazy!

This messagebox needs to go away! To change this setting, you’ll have to modify your saved connections in the WinSCP Login screen. verify you smack the Save button after you are done.Download the awesome WinSCP client

October 19, 2007 · 1 min · 36 words · Andrea Johnson

Add User Accounts Utility (Userpasswords2) to Control Panel

To get to this alternate User Accounts screen after installation, first select User Accounts in the Control Panel. Now you will see the new item named “User Accounts Admin (Alternate)”. For those of you unfamiliar, you could use this utility tomanage saved data pipe passwordsor require Ctrl+Alt+Delete.

October 18, 2007 · 1 min · 47 words · Bryan Powell

Keyboard Ninja: Use StumbleUpon With The Toolbar Hidden

If you haven’t heard ofStumbleUponyou are probably still a very productive person. Just tap on the Stumble toolbar’s Tools menu and choose Toolbar Options. grab the Shortcuts tab and then check the box for “Enable stumbling shortcuts” to initiate the hotkeys. When you’ve chosen it, poke the Change button. Disclaimer: Two hours were wasted in the research for this article. We are not responsible for lost time as a result of stumbling too often....

October 18, 2007 · 1 min · 80 words · Alejandro Solis

Get Maps and Directions to Your Contacts in Outlook 2007

This article was written by MysticGeek, a tech blogger at the How-To Geek Blogs. This is a fairly simple tip, but useful if you aren’t aware that it’s there. Just open up one of your contacts… And choose the Map button on the Contact tab.

October 17, 2007 · 1 min · 45 words · Melissa Robbins

Add Group Policy Editor to Control Panel

Windows XPYou will have to switch to the Classic View to get to see the icon in XP. And now it will show up in the list of icons. InstallationJust download and extract and double-select AddGroupPolicyToControlPanel.reg to add the icon. There is also another registry script that will remove the items.Download AddGroupPolicyToControlPanel Registry Hack

October 16, 2007 · 1 min · 54 words · Travis Miller

Using the Outlook 2007 To-Do Bar

This article was written by MysticGeek, a tech blogger at the How-To Geek Blogs. you could also right-opt for To-Do bar to choose which options you want to show. I wanted to show the calendar and task list, but didn’t want to see the appointments. I find this feature alone incredibly useful. The task will then appear under the Today column. Marking Tasks Complete To mark a task complete, simply left-grab the red flag....

October 16, 2007 · 1 min · 125 words · John Pierce MD

Customize Your Folder Icons in Windows XP

The new colorized icons are definitely a lot more pleasant to look at. This is actually a zip file, but I changed the icon to… not sure what that is. The best part about this utility is that there’s no resident process taking up memory. It just uses the built-in mechanisms to set the icons and then exits.Download iColorFolder from SourceForge

October 15, 2007 · 1 min · 61 words · Michael Robinson

Prevent Windows Update from Forcibly Rebooting Your Computer

There’s a couple of ways that we can disable this behavior, however. You’ll still get the prompt, but it won’t force you to shut down. This trick should work for all versions of Windows as far as we know. Just see to it you right-click and run as administrator if you are using Vista.

October 14, 2007 · 1 min · 54 words · Julie Roberts

Why Did Windows Vista's Music Folder Icon Turn Yellow?

After doing some research I finally have a workaround for this issue. In Windows, all folders can be customized with whatever icon you want. Your Music folder icon should now look like this: Hopefully this solves the problem for you!

October 13, 2007 · 1 min · 40 words · Courtney Beck

Copy Windows Drivers From One Machine to Another

Driver problems are a source of never-ending issues in the Windows world. You’ll have to hit the next button to get to the list of drivers. This should show you all drivers installed on your system. Use the next button again and everything is done. You’ll be able to directly pop kick open the folder using the “Open extraction folder” button. In here you should see the folders containing the actual driver files....

October 12, 2007 · 1 min · 108 words · Kelly Banks

Installing Tomcat 6 on Ubuntu

Instead you’ll need to use the manual installation process that I’m outlining here. Before you install Tomcat you’ll want to double-check that you’ve installed Java. You should check to double-check there’s not another version and adjust accordingly. I chose /usr/local/tomcat, but you could move it somewhere else if you wanted to. sudo mv apache-tomcat-6.0.14 /usr/local/tomcat Tomcat requires setting the JAVA_HOME variable. The best way to do this is to set it in your ....

October 11, 2007 · 1 min · 141 words · Chase Roberts

Restore "Show Hidden Files and Folders" Option in Vista

The scanner applications won’t restore this setting, however. If the key does not exist, create a new String value. I hope it can help somebody.

October 11, 2007 · 1 min · 25 words · Susan Ingram