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  • 6 Handy WordPress Code Snippets

    Adding more and more plugins can bloat out your WordPress installation, so try to use straight coding where possible. You can customise your WordPress blog and add new features without worrying about plugins, widgets and themes using these simple code snippets. Display Random Links If you have a lot of links to other websites and [...]

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  • Our top free Twitter resources (Part 1)

    Twitter in itself can be very overwhelming, and that’s without worrying what tools and resources you need to manage your account properly. So we’ve done the hard work for you and compiled a list of our favourites. Twitter for Beginners We’ve divided our list into two parts; this one for fledgling tweeters and one for [...]

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  • How to conceal your identity online

    Whenever you go online, you unwittingly reveal information about yourself. We show you 8 ways to conceal your identity and stop people seeing what you’re up to. 1. Activate your browser’s privacy mode By choosing to go online privately, you tell your browser to refrain from keeping a log of the pages you view, the [...]

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  • UBitMenu: Classic Menu for Office 2007/2010

    Many people believe that Microsoft Offices new “ribbon” toolbar needs to be fixed. “UBitMenu: Classic Menu” brings back the classic menu that users were used to from Office 2003 and previous versions. It actually creates a new tab in the current Office 2007 tabbed system so you can easily switch between the classic menu and [...]

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  • 10 Fast and Free Security Enhancements

    Before you spend a dime on security, there are many precautions you can take that will protect you against the most common threats. 1. Check Windows Update and Office Update regularly (_http://office.microsoft.com/productupdates); have your Office CD ready. Windows Me, 2000, and XP users can configure automatic updates. Click on the Automatic Updates tab in the [...]

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  • 23 Ways To Speed WinXP, Not only Defrag

    Since defragging the disk won’t do much to improve Windows XP performance, here are 23 suggestions that will. Each can enhance the performance and reliability of your customers’ PCs. Best of all, most of them will cost you nothing.

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  • How to make Windows XP boot Faster

    Make sure you’re running Windows XP. The version of XP doesn’t matter When you start up your computer you probably get a screen with the company name of the computer, then sometime after the Windows XP screen with the bars going across over and over again for a little while. This is the part that [...]

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  • BIOS Beep Codes

    When a computer is first turned on, or rebooted, its BIOS performs a power-on self test (POST) to test the system’s hardware, checking to make sure that all of the system’s hardware components are working properly. Under normal circumstances, the POST will display an error message; however, if the BIOS detects an error before it [...]

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  • How to copy and paste

    First select the text you want to copy by placing your cursor at the beginning of the block of text you wish to copy. Now, hold down the left mouse button and drag your mouse to the end of the text you wish to copy, making sure you don’t let go of the left mouse [...]

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  • Best Keyboard Shortcuts

    Getting used to using your keyboard exclusively and leaving your mouse behind will make you much more efficient at performing any task on any Windows system. I use the following keyboard shortcuts every day: Windows key + R = Run menu This is usually followed by: cmd = Command Prompt iexplore + “web address” = [...]

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