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FedEx Office (formerly known as FedEx Kinko’s or just Kinko’s) is a 24-hour-a-day shop in most places where you can walk in to do a quick scan, print, fax or any other number of office-related stuff.
To note: FedEx Office is just one example of a store like this. Even the sleepiest of small towns in the USA have some kind of local office store when you can run off a copy, print something, get something faxed out, etc. They’re usually located in the busier part of town. Read More
Over the years I have noticed people love to just drop everything onto their desktop. Be it shortcuts, pictures or files they are actively working on, the desktop is the common gathering place. While this may work for helping you get your work done it also increases the amount of time your computer takes to [...]
In this article I’ll show you how to use really simple PHP so you can create a free hit counter for use on your web site to track hits on web sites in a very basic sense.
This script tutorial uses a flat file database so you don’t need to mess around with MySQL or anything [...]
Situation: You use an app that requires Adobe AIR but decide you don’t want it anymore and uninstall it. The app was easily removed by going to Add/Remove Programs, but AIR is still installed and there appears to be no way to uninstall it.
Update: The latest version of AIR does have an Add/Remove entry after [...]
It is the end of an era. PC Magazine was founded in 1982. It brought the then brand new world of PC enthusiasm to the masses. A lot of computer users subscribed to the magazine, including myself. I am still a print subscriber to the magazine and enjoy it.
Well, all good things come to [...]
If you do not already have a utility to monitor your system’s vital statistics (or are just looking for another one), then a utility you might want to check out is CoolMon.
CoolMon is a free utility that can monitor (among other things):
Processor usage
Number of active threads
Used/Free/Total Memory
Used/Free/Total page file
Used/Free/Total disk space
Network read and write speed
Overall, [...]
This series is dedicated to specific e-mail providers on the internet. In this installment, the service provider concentrated on will be Google’s Gmail.
Gmail, launched in March 2004, has grown to be one of the most-used free e-mail services on the internet. While it doesn’t have a large of a userbase as Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail, [...]
I discovered this on a goof. On my laptop I had installed the latest version of WinAMP to listen to MP3s and so on and it had associated itself with FLV extensions (I just did a standard install that auto-associates instead of a custom which it why it happened).
I downloaded a few FLVs as backups [...]
The Iphone is just cool. Calling it a phone is almost a disservice because what it really is is a full mobile computing platform. And in that vein, it can also be a mobile GAMING platform.
Now, I’m not a big gamer (my regular readers know that). But, I did spend a little time playing around [...]
Some people are confused (or just have the wrong idea) about what a computer server actually is.
The technical definition is that a server is a computer dedicated to providing a specific service or services.
Concerning what you would use in the home, the most common example is a file server, i.e. a computer where its sole [...]
I am always looking for ways to make my computer quieter, cooler and consume less energy (usually they are all one in the same). On that note, here is an interesting walkthrough on how to build your own hard drive silencing enclosure.
The idea is quite simple: sandwich a hard drive between two layers of gel [...]
This series is dedicated to specific e-mail providers on the internet. In this installment, the service provider concentrated on will be Google’s Gmail.
Gmail, launched in March 2004, has grown to be one of the most-used free e-mail services on the internet. While it doesn’t have a large of a userbase as Yahoo! Mail or Hotmail, [...]
Every now and then, a little fad shows up on the Internet. It lasts a day or two, raises eyebrows around the world, then quickly fades. It happened again, and this time it involved a bunch of online mothers taking offense to an ad by Motrin.
How did it progress?
Most people will see the title of this article and think "Um… forwarding an e-mail is like the easiest thing in the world. How could you possibly do it wrong?"
Trust me there’s a right way and a wrong way.
I am very much against anyone forwarding me jokes and/or chain letters in e-mail. However there are [...]
If you’ve ever delved into the world of having your own web site, you will inevitably have a need to send and retrieve files from your server via FTP.
FTP is really (and I mean really) old and still widely used. While it’s true you can send or receive files from the command line in any [...]
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