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How to buy a good scanner

Just bought a Cannon scanner as I am addicted of scanning of my old pictures to have them on my hard drive and being looking for a good scanner I was thinking that a couple of tips will make your life easier. Here a few thoughts. It seems to be an easy decision to buy [...]

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Send free SMS / text message from your E-Mail Account

Have you ever wonder if is possible to send SMS, text messages, directly from your email account? Is possible! You just have to write emails and send them to specific SMS gateways. The people will receive your emails as text messages on their phones. And the best part – is free. eg.: phonenumber@msg.koodomobile.com phonenumber@pcs.rogers.com phonenumber@msg.telus.com [...]

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How to find out if your profile picture is used by someone else

This will sound odd but I’ve found one of my pictures used by some guy on his website. It was happen a few years ago. My bad, I didn’t keep any print screens of that. But why on Earth would someone use your picture instead of his? For the simple reason of not using personal [...]

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The page isn’t redirecting properly

This is an error message I’ve got today when I wanted to open up my Gmail account. It seams that this Firefox (it not happens in Internet Explorer) problem appear for yahoo email and other email providers also. I’ve tried to open my email account even direct from Gtalk but I’ve got the same Firefox [...]

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Can’t rearrange apps within iTunes

I’ve been through a lot of nerves yesterday trying to arrange my iPhone apps within iTunes. I even had the latest version, iTunes 9.1. I’ve tried everything: unplugging and replugging my iPhone, turning it OFF and ON, checking my iPhone for restrictions (none) and finally syncing it. The damn iTunes didn’t let me rearrange the [...]

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Exclude folder from htaccess rewrites on WordPress blog

A couple of months ago I tried without success to share some video files on my web domain. I created a new folder, I copied those avi files there but when pointing the browser to that files it gave me that 404 error, page not found. I took me a while to understand that WordPress [...]

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Could not create filter. Forwarding to too many addresses.

This is the message you can get when using Gmail forwarding. It’s happened because there are only 20 forwarders accepted by Google email so you can’t create another email forwarder anymore. To solve the problem you have 2 solutions: 1. create more Gmail accounts 2. combine filters Since we are not talking about creating new [...]

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Attach multiple files at once when sending emails with Gmail

Is there possible to upload multiple files at once as email attachments? Yes, if you’re using Gmail (to upload multiple files on Yahoo Mail is not possible yet). Instead of attaching files one by one you can from now attach bulk pictures or documents to your emails. How? 1. open the folder containing the files [...]

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Keeping Rounded Rectangle’s Corners When Adjusting Its Size in Photoshop

Maintain or preserve the radius of a rounded corners button during resizing in Photoshop was bugging me for a while but I did solve it with a little help from my colleague, Steff, who’s writing as well useful tutorials about ModX CMS rules . As we already now, Photoshop is not working with vectors but [...]

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Great website, wonderful idea!

Yesterday I’d discovered an extraordinary website which is offering daily, software for free, software for each one you would pay good money, otherwise. I’d already installed two pieces of software, WinUtilities which is solving your system registry entry problems and is helping your operation system to be faster and more stable. Today I’ve downloaded Plato [...]

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How to disable Gmail Buzz

Actually is very simple to turn off the Google buzz – go to the bottom of your gmail account page and click on “turn off buzz”. This is a temporary solution (in other words is more than nothing) till Google will give us a solution to block certain users from following us on Gmail Buzz. [...]

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“You Have Watched 72 Minutes Of Video Today”

“You have watched 72 minutes of video today. Please wait 54 minutes or click here to enjoy unlimited use of MegaVideo“. This is the message you get after watching 72 minutes of a movie on MegaVideo. And obvious is very very annoying. But still there is a reasonable method of watching movies for unlimited time, [...]

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