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filed in Tips, Windows Vista on Apr.27, 2010
Has your escape key stopped working (most of the time)? Yeah, that happened to me too. If you’re an artist or developer, chances are you’ve probably got Photoshop installed. For some reason some of Adobe’s applications prevent the Escape key from working normally. So, if you’ve got any Adobe applications running, try closing them and [...]
Tags: Adobe, Keyboard, Shortcut, windows
filed in Tips on Aug.07, 2009
For some reason or another, OpenDNS decided that it would replace my default search functionality in FireFox (which, of course, is google). Here’s an add-on that overrides this neusance. Feeling Lucky Fixer ~Enjoy
Tags: browser, Firefox, google, hijack, opendns, search
filed in Tips on Jun.25, 2009
If you’re like me, you may forget how much Ram, Harddrive Space, or Video Memeory you have, after having used your computer for a longer period of time. Hey- it happens. We forget. You ever forget? I forget.. How to Check with DirectX – Start->Run – Type in DxDiag There you! You’ve got everything you [...]
Tags: computer, Information, Specifications, Specs, System, windows
filed in Tips on May.15, 2009
If you ever need to find something on a site that doesn’t have it’s own search function, Google has a feature that allows you to specifically target a single site for search results. All you need to do to use this search feature is type site:example.com before your search string and your results will only [...]
Tags: google, search, site:
filed in Tips, Windows Shortcuts, Windows XP on May.13, 2009
If you’ve ever had to close many instances of a program at once and task manager just isn’t cutting it, there’s a simple command you can use to close them all at once, even if they are not responding. If for example you have multiple instances of Notepad.exe running: Open your Start Menu and click [...]
Tags: end process, not responding, task manager, taskkill
filed in Networking, Noobs, Tips on May.11, 2009
If you ever need to register an account somewhere and you don’t entirely trust that the site you are registering at wont send you spam, there’s a simple trick you can use if you have a Gmail account (and some other email providers) to help you organize and weed out any spam you receive down [...]
Tags: email, filter, gmail, register, spam, tip