About two weeks ago I decided that I was just completely done with my Dell Latitude D630. I’ve had it for just under a year now and it had continued to disappoint me at every turn. I had had an Inspiron 8600 — which was a pretty darn good laptop — for about a year [...]
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Apple,
Dell,
iPhone,
iPod,
laptop,
Mac,
MacBookPro,
Windows
Looking for a way to clear some of your computer’s clutter? Getting rid of empty directories is a good start. I was looking for a file and realized that my machine was spending a long time searching through folders that I knew had nothing in them. A quick Google search returned a handy DOS trick [...]
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command line,
DOS,
folders,
hacks,
Windows
Can anyone tell me if I really need Java 2 Runtime Environment, SE v1.4.2_03 and J2SE Runtime Environment 5.0 Update 3? These things are ridiculous. Each one is over 100MB! What a waste.
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Internet Explorer,
Java,
Software,
Windows
For Christmas ’04 I got my girlfriend a shiny new HP Photosmart 7960. She loves it. It prints fabulous, high-quality images and it comes with some great photo-printing software. Sure you have to mortgage your house to keep the ink flowing, but you knew that was going to be the case when you bought the [...]
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Hardware,
Hewlett-Packard,
HP,
printers,
Software,
Windows
Here’s an interesting development: For some reason my browser is no longer displaying title tags for anchors! I have no idea how this happened. Has anyone else noticed this? Title tags for hrefs do not appear regardless of the site I am viewing. This is very strange.
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bugs,
Internet Explorer,
Windows
Wednesday February 27, 2002
Hey! I didn’t know you could have Desktop Themes in Windows 2000! That’s way cool. ActiveWin shows you how to do this and a ton more. There’s even a section of my favorite things: registry hacks! w00t! link via Lockergnome
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desktop themes,
registry,
themes,
Windows
Thursday February 7, 2002
Download tools and utilities that help you manage and support Windows 2000! Y’know. If you wanna. No pressure or anything.
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Software,
Windows