Clear Outlook Searches and MRU (Most Recently Used) Lists

For instance, if you are using Outlook 2007 there’s the Instant search box on every folder. This is where the brilliant program OutlookTools comes into the picture. You’ll notice that there are a lot of options you might choose from. double-check you have the correct profile selected in the drop-down list, and then smack the buttons to clear. Odd that there’s no Clear All button, isn’t it? you’re able to alsoclear the auto-complete email addresscache using a different method....

September 17, 2007 · 1 min · 82 words · Matthew Watson

Speed Up Your Web Site With MySQL Query Caching

This isn’t going to fix all of your problems, but it definitely can’t hurt. This is ideal for an app that mostly does reads against the database, such as a Wordpress blog. Most distributions do, but you should check anyway. Note that it might be in a different location on your installation. If they do exist, just uncomment them. Monitor the status using the methods above and see how it works over time....

September 16, 2007 · 1 min · 73 words · Frank Pham DVM

Reset Open/Save Choice for Internet Explorer Downloads in Vista

then you are in luck, because I’ve got the answer for you. To reset the setting for each, just delete that particular one from the list. The changes will be immediate. If you want more granular control you should use the manual method outlined above. Note: Using this registry hack will delete information from your registry that isn’t easily recoverable. You should consider doing a registry backup before doing this.

September 15, 2007 · 1 min · 70 words · Sara Lyons

Enable "Pin to Start Menu" for Folders in Windows Vista / XP

That should be the only thing you should probably do. You’ll notice the new item for Pin to Start Menu. Now your folder should be pinned to the start menu… Note: This tip will not work if you are using the classic start menu.

September 14, 2007 · 1 min · 44 words · April Miller

Hotkey for Creating New Folder in Windows Explorer

Have you ever wondered if there is a hotkey to create a new folder in Windows Explorer? Update: We’ve added in the instructions for Windows 7, where it’s really easy to do. So your shortcut key sequence ends up being F+W+F with the Alt key held down. Install bxNewFolder This freeware plugin uses F12 as the new folder hotkey, which unfortunately isn’t changeable. There’s no visible UI in Windows Vista, but it works perfectly....

September 13, 2007 · 1 min · 117 words · Melissa Bautista

Undocumented Microsoft Word Feature: Insert Lorem Ipsum Text

Our tip last week aboutinserting random textwas extremely popular, but virtually everybody said it would be much better if you could insert lorem ipsum text into the document instead of random content from the help file… Turns out, in Word all you have to do is use =lorem() instead of =rand() and you’ll be able to insert the lorem text instead. We found out about this from a comment by readerWill, who gets the reader of the week award… which I just made up....

September 13, 2007 · 1 min · 132 words · Charles Moss

What Kind of Memory Does My Computer Have Installed?

If your PC is newer, it probably has DDR4, or even DDR5. Speccy and CPU-Z are tools that provide the same functionality as HWiNFO. The UI will be different, but they present the same information. Justin Duino / How-To Geek Fire up HWiNFO and ensure to select “Summary-only” before you click “Start.” We don’t need the sensor data right now. HWiNFO displays everything you could ever want to know about your PC’s hardware....

September 13, 2007 · 3 min · 512 words · Anthony Davis

Power Up Your OS X Terminal With iTerm

All of the colors are customizable as well.. I prefer the green on black, but you might use it in the default configuration if you want. Right-clicking on the terminal will give you quick access to your saved “bookmarks”. you might launch a new tab with the cmd+T shortcut, but it’ll use your default session. And a very interesting feature… full screen mode! I was really surprised to see this one in there....

September 11, 2007 · 1 min · 89 words · Mary Brown MD

Save Time With Search Folders in Outlook 2007

This article was written by MysticGeek, a tech blogger at the How-To Geek Blogs. You could also use one of the other search folders as a base if you choose. In the name field jot down in a name for your folder. Next, tap the browse button to specify which folders to include in your custom search folder. Choose as many or few as you want, and then click OK to proceed....

September 11, 2007 · 1 min · 152 words · Mary Reyes

Use Outlook Rules to Prevent "Oh No!" After Sending Emails

Select Rules and Alerts from the Tools menu, and then hit the New Rule button. Under “Start from a blank rule”, choose Check messages after sending, and then click Next. Now when you send messages, you’ll notice that they sit in the Outbox for a few minutes.

September 11, 2007 · 1 min · 47 words · Vincent Peterson

Disable Ease of Access Button on Vista Logon Screen

Ever wondered what that little button in the lower left-hand corner of the Windows Vista logon screen is? Download and unzip the software, and then right-hit the setup file and choose Run as Administrator. Choosing to run it as administrator is such an important step that the software will remind you regardless. If you wanted to re-enable it, just launch the setup again and nudge the Enable button. And now you’ll get this message anytime you press the Ease of Access button....

September 10, 2007 · 1 min · 89 words · Sheila Frazier

Disable Syntax Highlighting in Vim

So, how to disable syntax highlighting in Vim?

September 9, 2007 · 1 min · 8 words · Leslie Atkinson

Prevent X.Org from Starting in Ubuntu

If you’ve got an Ubuntu machine that you initially installed with Ubuntu Desktop, but would like to run as a server, you’re free to just turn off the graphical environment from starting up to get to save resources. This is also useful for doing system maintenance from the command line that needs to be performed outside of the GUI. The only reason to do this instead of removing the packages would be because you might want to still sometimes use the box through the GUI....

September 7, 2007 · 2 min · 219 words · Joel Schaefer