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Yahoo Gets A Facelift

So if you happened to visit Yahoo or if your home page is Yahoo then you may have noticed a change. At the very top it will ask you if you want to check out the new look of yahoo. So the question is do you change or not change? Well here is what the change will bring you and the "new" look.

First the OLD Yahoo look (click to resize)

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10 Ways To Prank Your MAC Friends

Nope its not April fools but why not prank your MAC friends early, catch them off gurard. I saw this article and some of them are just great:

10 OS X Pranks That'll Get You Beat Up--or Fired

check the article out to see how to do these but here is the run down of them

1 - I Know Where You Are... Always

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start menu

I am in dire need of assistance. You know on the right bottom corner, there's the time and then a slew of little icons? I want them OFF! There's like 15 of them! I can't figure out how to remove them. I disable them by right clicking, but whenever the computer starts back up, they're there again. I have windows xp.

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Snag a video off of a news site

Ok I need to snag a video off of a local news site that did a story that had my office in it. I want to be able to keep it and use it (it was great clip on my office). I tried to Snag It with the program "Snag-It" but no luck (it would get the images but no audio).

Does anyone know of any good programs or addons that will snag videos off of sites? Not just youtube snagging ones (tried those too).

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Learn To Type Upside Down

ʎsɐǝ ʎɹǝʌ ʎllɐǝɹ sʇı ˙ʇıɥ ɐ sɐʍ ʇı puɐ ʞooqǝɔɐɟ ʎɯ uo ʎɐpoʇ sıɥʇ pıp ı ˙uʍop ǝpısdn ǝdʎʇ oʇ uɹɐǝl unɟ ǝɯos ǝʌɐɥ oʇ ʇuɐʍ noʎ os (or....So you want to have some fun learn to type upside down. I did this today on my facebook and it was a hit. Its really very easy)

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How To Clear Your Cookies and Cache

Many times I receive messages from others asking "How do I clear my cookies and cache?". I thought I would do a little tutorial to explain (complete with pictures). Its really quite easy and its a good idea to go though and clean them out every once in a while. You can even set it up that it auto clears them upon log out if you wish. Now when ever you clear your data you should always check your settings. With the click of one button you could delete your passwords so better safe then sorry to check first. So here is how to do this (directions

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How To Make $500. - $800. A Month Online

Who wouldn't want to earn $500 to $800.

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5 Tips & Tweaks To Help Your Computer Run Faster in Windows XP

1. Keep Only One Browser

You may have several browsers installed on your computer, Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, etc. You're better off to go with Mozilla Firefox. If you still want to keep Explorer you can do that from within Firefox, just download the IE Tab add-on, you can get that by clicking here. Using that you can access Internet Explorer.

 

2. Disable Desktop Shortcuts

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Computer Wallpapers

Sometimes its fun just to decorate your desktop or laptop with some new wallpaper. Sure there are alot of sites with some cool looking ones but I thought we could share the sites that we like to use and maybe give a example or two of what we like and what the site has to offer. The examples below and the links below are all from FREE sites.

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How To Limit Firefox Memory Usage

If you think Firefox is slowing your computer down by taking up lots of memory, (which it can do) here's a way to stop it from guzzling it all.

Go to about:config in the address bar

Filter browser.cache and select browser.cache.disk.capacity.

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