Apr 13

Hello readers!  Who here hates their cable company? :)   I do. I hate them so much that I cancelled my cable service 2 years ago and only subscribe to internet services now. Why pay for cable TV when you can watch TV online for free, and without commercials?

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Apr 04

Tired of people putting junk URLs into your Wordpress comments?  Why not just remove the URL field and give them one less avenue for spamming your site :)   It’s fairly easy and only requires you to edit one file.

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Mar 20

This has been a long-time issue, and someone from Reddit recently brought it up and it’s good enough to share here. Have you ever tried to cancel a print job in Windows, just to have it sit there forever and partially print anyway? What a pain! The best way to immediately cancel a print job without waiting is to stop/restart the spooler service. You can do this several ways:

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Feb 28

So you’ve created a new website, and you want to make sure Google finds it so that you can get search traffic. Back in the day, you had to submit your website to the search engines and it could take months. Luckily, there’s now a much faster way to make this happen.

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Feb 09

If you’re not using Firefox and AdBlock Plus, you can still block a good number of ads from showing in your web browser. Not only that, but you can use a hosts file to prevent your software from “phoning home” as well.  I personally use a combination of Firefox, AdBlock Plus, a custom hosts file, a firewall, and PeerBlock to lock down my PC. Between all these, I feel pretty secure :)

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Jan 30

This little trick is not only useful, but it can also save you money.  Pandora.com lets you listen to music and it will play the songs you like, learning from your likes and dislikes.  I find it pretty ingenious, but the constant registration pop-ups are both annoying and frustrating.

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Jan 30

We’ve all been there.  We’re listening to a song on Lala.com, click to play a new song, and bam!  A sign-up box appears and won’t let you listen to any more music until you create an account.

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