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How to Calibrate your Macbook Battery on the Quick

January 3, 2010
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Don’t you love it when you get a new laptop and less than a year later when you are running on juice instead of the 2.5 hours you are suppose to have magically turns into 30 minutes?  Well as I was studying for my A+ certification (which I need to take soon) I came up [...]

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Customize MediaWiki into Your Ultimate SMB Collaborative Website

November 22, 2009
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Can’t convince the boss to shell out some bucks for Sharepoint server? Oh what’s that…He doesn’t trust Google with company resources? Ok well, you still need to figure how to set up a collaborative website/cms/wiki whatever you want to call it. In this case we will use the term “wiki” because that is the solution [...]

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Open source Adobe Reader alternative Sumatra PDF Speeds things up

November 20, 2009
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Lee Mathews over at DownloadSquad hit another home run:
“Adobe has done a lot to improve Reader in recent versions. I’m more than happy to run an open source alternative, however. Sumatra PDF is ridiculously small (a 1.2Mb download), lightweight, and handles the PDFs I throw at it without skipping a beat.
Today, Sumatra has finally hit [...]

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How to Password Protect any Image File in Windows

November 18, 2009
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Amit Banerjee over at Techie Buzz found a cool little Windows App called Lock Image:
You can lock any image file with a password just as you lock files and folders in your computer. Lock Image is yet another portable application for windows that converts an image into an exe file and password [...]

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Slow Bandwidth? Remove Unused Protocols to Improve Speed

November 10, 2009
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Ken over at The Network Zone writes
I’m always looking for easy and effective ways to improve network performance. When I’m unhappy with network performance I try removing unused protocols to help lower traffic and increase network speed.  To give this one a try, check the default network protocol settings used when installing operating systems and [...]

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Building a NAS? Skip the Performance Drives

November 9, 2009
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Chris Jacob over at Gizmodo wrote an interesting article about building your own Network Attached Storage device.
A while ago I was considering putting low-powered 5400 RPM drives into a NAS. I was worried about performance, but Tom’s Hardware shows us that drive speed isn’t the bottleneck, and how slower drives can even beat faster ones.The [...]

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10 tech mistakes small businesses make (and how IT consultants can help clients avoid them)

November 1, 2009
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Small businesses must concentrate their time and energy on knowing their own industry — and that often means that effective technology practices get overlooked. Erik Eckel over at Tech Republic explains the most common tech missteps he’s encountered, along with preventive measures to protect businesses and prevent serious problems.
“In today’s microwave society — in which [...]

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Video: Five Windows command prompt tips every IT pro should know

November 1, 2009
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The Windows GUI may be easy for the average user to navigate, but power users and IT pros alike still recognize the usefulness of the command prompt. Bill Detwiler shows you five tricks that will help you become a command-prompt ninja.

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20 Windows 7 Tweaks & Tips

November 1, 2009
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Earlier this year Norman Chan over at Maximum PC put together a great article around the now new Windows 7.

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Upgrading: 7 Money Saving Secrets some IT Vendors don’t want you to know

September 20, 2009
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With Windows 2000 Professional becoming close to ‘end of life’ (March 2010) it is about time you go and talk to your Head Hancho(s) about UPGRADING (probably their least favorite word…unless it is for him/her).

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