Safely Unsubscribe From Any Mailing List

Wed, 10/27/2010 - 12:57pm — U2

Unsubscribe takes the effort out of unsubscribing from mailing lists. When you actually examine all the messages you receive, chances are that a good chunk of them are from mailing lists. As the months go by, we often forget how many times we've added our address somewhere online. While it's easy to delete them on the fly, an LA-based startup has created an even better solution.

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Video's from Defcon 18 talks

Fri, 10/22/2010 - 4:29pm — Smartmom

Did you miss Defcon 18 in Vegas but wanted to go? Are you curious to what the big talk was about that the FBI tried to shut down but didn't (the one on how to spy on cell phones)? Well now you can download and watch all of the videos of all of talks. These are not cheesy videos that someone took but the professional ones that were recorded professionally by defcon: CLICKY

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Help With Pulp Tunes

Mon, 10/11/2010 - 4:08pm — U2

I have downloaded PulpTunes and have been trying to configure it to work outside of their network, which is suppose to happen with port forwarding. I have done everything that I can think of to configure it with no success. If anyone has used this one, any help would be appreciated !

Also does anyone know of any other software like PulpTunes that will allow you to share your itunes collection over the web?

Thanks!

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How To Combine Multiple URLs Into One Short URL For Twitter, FaceBook, Or Anywhere

Fri, 10/01/2010 - 2:15pm — GeekDrop

How To Combine Multiple URLs Into One Short URL For Twitter, FaceBook, Or Anywhere

So let's say you have more than one, possibly many URL's that you want to put in as your URL on Twitter (or anywhere else) but since they only allow you to enter a single URL you're now scratching your head, trying to decide which one is the most important.

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How To Find Your Windows 7 or Vista Product Key

Thu, 09/23/2010 - 7:35pm — Smartmom

Have you ever had to re-install your operating system and either the sticker is not on the side of your computer or its worn and no longer readable? In older versions of windows you could easily retrieve the key with no issue. Now days Windows has made it more secure so if you go looking in the registry you will find it however its encrypted so its worthless to you. Never fear there are still ways to get it.

First the product key will look something like this on the back of your PC:

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How To Stop Your Mouse From Waking Up Your Computer

Wed, 09/22/2010 - 12:31pm — missb

Sometimes if you're going to be away from your computer for a little while, you may just put it in standby rather than shut it down. However because some mice are so sensitive, if you tip your mouse or even the desk the computer wakes up again. This is because your mouse is set up to wake the computer when it's touched.

To disable this feature take the following steps:

Windows XP:

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How To Use Regsvr32 To Register Or Unregister Files - (DLL - OCX - Etc)

Tue, 09/21/2010 - 6:06pm — GeekDrop

Manually Registering and UnRegistering Files Using RegSvr32

There are times when you might go to run a program, game, whatever, and you end up just getting an error message, or your might need to manually UNregister DLL's, OCX files, or other helper files. (OCX files are essentially DLL's and work the same exact way).

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Auto Insert www. and .com when typing an URL - great timesaving tip!

Tue, 09/21/2010 - 12:51pm — missb

Tired of typing in www (name of website) .com ? Here's another quick tip that will insert the www and .com for you in one easy step.

Just type in the name of the website you want in the url bar, e.g. "geekdrop" (sans quotes of course), then just hit Ctrl + Enter your computer will input the www. and the .com for you. Easy peasy! Big Grin