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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 ...

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...

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...

If you’ve ever written a document in Microsoft Office Word, chances are you’ve wanted to save it as a PDF for easy sharing.  Publishing to PDF isn’t included in the standard installation of Microsoft Office Word, but you can add it in a few easy steps which I will cover in this quick tip. Step 1: Head over to the Microsoft Save as PDF or XPS Add-in for 2007 Microsoft Office prog...

Many people are aware of the instant popularity of the Google Chrome web browser, taking just over 3% of the browser market share upon its release.  Opera, a competitor in the web browser market since 1996, has only achieved a 2% market share in the past 14 years.  The Opera developers aim to get back into the web browser market with the 10.50 release of the Opera web browser. The Opera 10.50 we...

If you’re like me, your inbox can get pretty cluttered with unread messages after being away from my computer for a day. Since I use multiple inboxes to split my Gmail inbox into several smaller inboxes, I can have unread messages all over the place on a particularly busy day. In this guide, I’ll show you how to turn a handy Gmail search query into a dedicated Unread Messages button. ...

I recently decided to part ways with my old LG Dare phone (VX9700), but before I got rid of it I wanted to back up the pictures that were still stored in its memory.  Unfortunately, you can’t just plug the device into a computer and make copies, and it takes a long time to send each picture from the phone one at a time.  This guide will show you how to quickly backup your pictures from you...

Windows includes only the most basic screen capture capabilities by default, but free software like Gadwin PrintScreen offers a solution that will add much more functionality to your computer. Using Gadwin PrintScreen Once you have downloaded and installed Gadwin PrintScreen, right click the newly created icon in your system tray and select Properties… from the menu.  Here you can see all o...

One of the most useful aspects of Twitter is that people tweet about everything - which means there is never a shortage of commentary about anything on the internet.  Twitter Reactions is a new extension for the Google Chrome web browser that displays what others are saying about websites you view in real-time. To get started, simply install the Twitter Reactions extension for Google Chrome.  Af...

Here’s a scenario: you’re about to leave work for the day and you have 9 important tabs open in Google Chrome.  You’d like to continue with that same session when you get home – but what can you do? FreshStart is a great extension for Google Chrome that allows you to save your browser sessions and reload them on multiple computers.  You can simply save all your open tabs ...