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Tips and Tools for Better, Faster Writing
11 Jan 2012 by Brian Nelson / 1 Comment
I’ve been writing here at Techerator for over a year, but only recently have I decided to take steps to improve my writing and time efficiency. You probably know the drill: sit down at your desk, check out Twitter, open your word editor, Tweet something, check out Facebook, decide on a title, Facebook about how hard it is to write, go reward yourself with a cup of coffee, I wonder what’...
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Holiday Gift Guide 2011: Build a Gaming PC Edition
19 Dec 2011 by Kevin Ivanca
This year I decided to use my holiday wish-list to build an entire desktop PC. I mean, as long as a majority of the parts needed to build a high performance machine are gifted to me over the holidays, in the end all of them can be combined for the common goal of playing Skyrim for 100+ hours with the maximum refresh rate and graphics settings. So from one PC gamer to another, here are a few essent...
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How to Create an Audio Podcast with Professional-Quality Sound
17 Oct 2011 by Brian Nelson / 1 Comment
Podcasting is a fun and increasingly popular form of online entertainment that has seen steady gains in the number of viewers in recent years. Companies like TWiT and Revision 3, homes of Leo LaPorte and Kevin Rose of Tech TV fame, have shown that fully web-hosted television is a viable business model. Interestingly, many of the most popular podcasts are nothing more than a few people at a desk, a...
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How to Block Advertisements in Opera with Fanboy’s Adblock List
18 Feb 2011 by Dustin Patterson / 3 Comments
When I first considered switching to Opera as my primary web browser, there were a couple of criteria that had to be met. One major condition was that Opera needed to have the ability to block advertisements. In Firefox, advertisements are easily blocked with the Adblock Plus add-on. The Adblock Plus add-on keeps an updated list of known advertisement sources and removes their content from a pag...
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How To Change Default Font and Document Settings In Microsoft Word
11 Feb 2011 by Dustin Patterson / 6 Comments
The release of Microsoft Office 2007 brought some major changes to the popular office suite. Many did not care for these changes at first, but users soon started to enjoy the newest features of Word, Excel, and other Office 2007 programs. One feature in Office 2007 still seen in Office 2010 is a change in the default font from Times New Roman at Size 12 to Calibri at Size 11. While the new fon...
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How To Add Greasemoney and Other Scripts To Opera 11
07 Feb 2011 by Dustin Patterson
When I recently made the switch from Firefox to Opera, there were a couple of things I had to work out with my new web browser of choice. One of my favorite add-ons for Firefox was Greasemonkey, which allows for the installation of scripts that modify and enhance web pages on-the-fly. There is no version of Greasemonkey for Opera available since custom user scripts are supported out-of-the-bo...
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Holiday Gift Guide: Snowboarding and Skiing Edition
10 Dec 2010 by Derek Johnson / 4 Comments
Do you have a skier or snowboarder on your Christmas list, but have no idea what it means to shred the gnar or hit the deep pow? Worry not, because buying them anything on this list is sure to give them the same tingly feeling as making first tracks on virgin snow (it’s a good thing, trust me). GoPro HD Hero The GoPro HD helmet cam is an indestructible, waterproof, go-anywhere-do-anything kind o...
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How To Take Screenshots On An iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad
22 Jul 2010 by Dustin Patterson / 2 Comments
Writing guides like we do here at Techerator often involves screenshots of software, settings, or anything else pertinent to the article at hand. We’ve previously covered taking screenshots of your Android device, but what about your iOS device? Fear not, for that’s what I’m about to show you. Taking a screenshot of your iOS device is quite easy and doesn’t involve the ...
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How To: Quickly Open Accidentally Closed Tabs in Firefox
15 Mar 2010 by Evan Wondrasek / 2 Comments
Firefox only: Tabbed browsing in Firefox is incredibly useful and can improve your entire browsing experience; recovering an accidentally closed tab, however, isn’t particularly intuitive. Firefox does keep a record of your recently closed tabs (which are available under History –> Recently Closed Tabs), but this guide will show you how to recover a closed tab with a single click...
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Get A Visual On Your Hard Drive with Disk Space Fan
11 Mar 2010 by Dustin Patterson
As your computer gets older, chances are that your hard drive will be filled with many unused and unnecessary files. If you’re starting to run out of space on your hard drive, it can often times be the result of old “junk” files piling up. A great way to get your computer back into shape is to delete some of those files (especially the large ones). Disk Space Fan is a free pr...
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