We ain’t none of us perfect, so if you’ve ever accidentally added a misspelled word to your Firefox dictionary, here’s how to remove the misspelling to avoid looking like a fool in front of your friends, family, and coworkers: 1. Open your application data folder. On XP or Vista, go to your Start menu and […]
Unless you’re extremely technical, Internet Explorer is a one-shot affair: either you install it once or you don’t install it at all. Firefox is not like that; you can install many versions and related products and pick between them as you see fit. Mozilla-based browsers do not yet fully support profile sharing between products. Firefox […]
We’ve covered it before, but it’s worth taking another look at the little-known version of Windows that is used to run the Windows Vista installation process: Windows PE 2.0. It’s available as a standalone, streamlined operating system which is incredibly helpful for all sorts of other things, like system recovery and imaging.
This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server on a Fedora Core 6 desktop system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the benefit that you can run multiple operating systems on the […]
So, you’ve turned your back on traditional mail clients and get your mail fix via Gmail these days. The only problem is getting to all those old message that are stuck in your old email client. One way to stuff that old mail into your shiny and capacious Gmail account is to use Mark Lyon’s […]
In computer repair, data backup is obligatory. You may ask a customer if there is data to be backed up and they will say no, not knowing what they are saying exactly. To them, data isn’t the Word documents or speadsheets in their My Docs. Those are “objects” of a sort. Any competent computer tech […]