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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 Make Money Online: Elance.com
18 Mar 2011 by Derek Johnson / 1 Comment
Literal, Shiny Couch Cash In the last episode of “How to make money online” I covered possibilities offered from being a Cha Cha guide. Well, since then not a lot has changed. I still enjoy money, still have none, and I am still very fond of sitting on my couch. Since then, I’ve done a little research, a little experimenting, and found that McDonald’s $1 McChicken is far tastier than Burg...
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How To: Find Large Files On Your Hard Drive With WinDirStat
22 Mar 2010 by Dustin Patterson / 5 Comments
Have you noticed that you hard drive space has decreased and don’t know what files are taking up the space? If so, you can use WinDirStat to help find those large files taking up space on your drive. To start, download WinDirStat from http://windirstat.info/. You can select either the installation download or the standalone executable. When first running the program, you are asked to s...
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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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WordPress Fix: How to Properly Align Images in RSS Feeds
12 Mar 2010 by Evan Wondrasek / 3 Comments
This image is on the right here, but in the RSS feed it would appear without formatting. One of the only complaints I’ve ever had about WordPress is that images didn’t maintain alignment in our RSS feed. RSS feeds are used to offer subscriptions to visitors and can be used with applications like Google Reader. When adding an image to an article in WordPress, you have the option to al...
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How To: Easily Resize Images in Windows
12 Mar 2010 by Evan Wondrasek / 2 Comments
Windows only: If you’re like me, you’ve needed to resize batches of images and wished there was an easy way to do so without launching a full image editor. Although Paint.NET and Picasa offer quick image editing, neither of them add resizing functionality to your operating system. Image Resizer Powertoy Clone provides the solution, adding a highly useful “Resize Pictures̶...
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Gmail Tip: How to Quickly View Unread Messages
24 Feb 2010 by Evan Wondrasek
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. ...
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How to Download and Backup Pictures from an LG Dare Mobile Phone (VX9700)
23 Feb 2010 by Evan Wondrasek / 8 Comments
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...
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Create Goo.gl Shortened URLs in your Browser – Now without Google Toolbar
12 Jan 2010 by Evan Wondrasek
Full-length URLs have nearly become an internet faux pas since the advent of sites like Twitter where character restrictions reign supreme. Sending a normal URL in a tweet is the digital equivalent of tripping over your own shoelaces, and most people have adopted a “favorite” URL shortening service like bit.ly, tinyurl, or is.gd. Google recently entered the URL shortening business of...
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How to Setup Internet Connection Sharing in Fedora 12
01 Jan 2010 by Dustin Patterson / 16 Comments
If you have a computer with two network interfaces, one wired and one wireless, it can sometimes be beneficial to share an internet connection from one interface to another. In Microsoft Windows this is called Internet Connection Sharing (ICS). This guide will show you how to setup the equilivant of ICS in Fedora 12 by sharing a wireless connection with a wired port of a computer. 1. Right-cli...
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