Friday, June 18, 2010

Lenovo ThinkPad X100e
Netbooks are great for performing basic tasks. If you like the small size, but need more power, check out Lenovo's hybrid ThinkPad. It's halfway between a business machine and a high-end Netbook.

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Apple iPhone 4
The latest iPhone incarnation features a high-resolution display, a faster processor, and video calling, but it also sports unexpected additions like a new antenna and a gyroscope. It will be available exclusively with AT&T starting June 24.

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With extra features like a 50-sheet auto document feeder, a legal-size scanner, and a gorgeous 3.45-inch touch screen, this all-in-one is truly set up to handle almost any task with ease.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Mozilla Firefox

There is unfortunately no simple way to have a custom Google search with operators in the search bar in Firefox. The popular Add to Search Bar add-on, while easy, cannot be used to add in custom searches with operators, and it’s the operator you need in order to make this work.

Instead what you have to do is use a bookmark activated by a keyword.

There are a ton of different ways to do bookmarks in Firefox, but this is the simplest way to describe how it’s done:

1. Add a bookmark in Firefox and edit it.
2. Input "Location" as http://www.google.com/search?q=%s%20-wikipedia
3. Input "Keyword" as nw for "No Wikipedia".

When you want to search Google without Wikipedia results, enter "nw [search term here]" in your Firefox address bar. For example, if I wanted to search Google for computer without Wikipedia results, I would type nw computer in the address bar and press Enter.contact hifatty92@gmail.com
Said honestly, it annoys me that whenever I perform a search on any search engine that Wikipedia results show up first so often.

How to get Wikipedia Google search results to not show up can be done the manual way or the fancy way.
Manual Way

Simply add -wikipedia to any Google search term. The dash in front of wikipedia must be included. This tells Google, "Don’t show results with that term in them."

Here’s an example searching for the term computer:
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Sunday, June 13, 2010

reinstalling your Windows 7 upgrade edition is not going to be a problem. As a matter of fact, you can reinstall the Windows 7 upgrade edition as many times as you want; as long as you have a legitimate qualifying previous version of a Windows OS, you can do a clean install of Windows 7. However, a few have advised that before doing so, you should run Windows 7 upgrade adviser to make sure that your hardware can handle Windows 7, just in case.

instructions on how to proceed with this task, but before you do, back up all your important data; once you wipe that hard drive clean, there is no turning back to retrieve the data. As a good rule of thumb, it's always better to do a clean install of the Windows OS rather than taking the upgrade route where you install the OS over the existing version. I've selected a few members' answers for you in the Q&A section to start you off, many other great tips and advice. Good luck to you and happy upgrading. Have a safe weekend everyone, and thank you for your invaluable contribution to this community.

Cheers!
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