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By MatthewA - May 1, 2015

How to add wave effects to images in Paint.NET [Tip]

This post covered how to add wave effects to text. You can also add wave effects photos in Paint.NET. With Paint.NET’s SinWaves plug-in you can add waves to images. Save the plug-in’s ZIP from this page. Click Here is ...

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By MatthewA - May 1, 2015

How to add gradients to images in Paint.NET [Tip]

Paint.NET is a freeware image-editing package that already has a built-in gradient tool. However, you can add better gradient options to it with a couple of plug-ins. One is the Gradient plug-in that adds alternative color gradien...

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By MatthewA - May 1, 2015

How to add slinky effects to images in Paint.NET [Tip]

Red ochre is a Paint.NET plug-in pack that includes a variety of options. Among those options is Slinky, which adds rendered ellipses, or circles, along a line. With the plug-in you can add colorful, rendered line effects to image...

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By Kent - May 1, 2015

How to create desktop shortcuts for Google Docs in Windows [Tip]

If you often create and edit documents using Google Docs, then you’ll definitely want an easier way to create new documents. By default, Google Docs isn’t like MS Word. It doesn’t have a keyboard shortcut for creating new document...

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By Kent - May 1, 2015

How to translate documents in Google Docs [Tip]

When working on a document, it won’t be difficult for you to translate some words or phrases into another language. After all, there are a wide range of free online and offline translation tools that you can use such as Google Tra...

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By Kent - May 1, 2015

How to add more fonts in Google Docs [Tip]

Google Docs is a great alternative especially if you do not have any access to other word processing tools like LibreOffice or MS Word. The thing with Google Docs is that it only offers a few fonts by default. As a matter of fact,...

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By MatthewA - April 30, 2015

What’s new in VLC Media Player 2.2? [Guide]

VLC Media Player is one that VideoLAN has recently updated with version 2.2, which you can add to Windows, Mac OS X and Linux platforms from here. Version 2.2. is a notable enhancement that includes new resume playback video optio...

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By MatthewA - April 30, 2015

How to set a custom Windows 7 Start button [Tip]

This article told you about Windows 7 Button Changer. However, that software only switches the Start button to alternative orb templates. With StartOrbz Studios you can add custom Start buttons to Windows 7 that include your own i...

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By Kent - April 30, 2015

How to set a daily word goal when writing articles and short stories [Tip]

If you want to make writing a daily habit, the best way to start it off is by setting a daily word goal. For example, you can set a goal of at least 500 words per day. In order to achieve that goal, you must write about anything t...

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By Mathew Diekhake - April 30, 2015

How to fix slow WiFi on Samsung Galaxy S6 [Tip]

Last year’s Galaxy S5 was enough of a flop for the head of design to get fired. The South Korean smartphone giant hasn’t made the same mistake again in 2015 with the S6. Many are calling the S6 the best smartphone of t...

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By MatthewA - April 30, 2015

How to organize extensions in Chrome [Tip]

When you add lots of extensions to Google Chrome, the toolbar overloads with add-on buttons. Sure, you can always remove the extension buttons from toolbar, but then you lose the direct access to them. To remove the buttons, but r...

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By Kent - April 30, 2015

How to resize app icons for multiple Android screen sizes [Tip]

In certain instances, you might not feel quite satisfied with the quality of your app icons. You may think that they don’t fit really well with your phone or tablet’s screen. You might want to make them look sharper or better yet,...

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By Kent - April 30, 2015

How to easily select and copy rows, columns and tables in Chrome [Tip]

When browsing in Chrome, you can highlight and copy an entire table but you cannot really select and copy specific cells, columns and rows. If you wish to select and copy certain data in tables just like the way that you do in spr...

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By Kent - April 30, 2015

How to easily get data out of web pages into spreadsheets in Chrome [Tip]

Let’s just say that you’re doing web research and you need to get some important data from web pages. With that being said, you also need to input each data into a spreadsheet before you can finally present or submit your project....

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By Kent - April 30, 2015

How to insert clipart images in Google Docs [Tip]

If you are editing a document in Google Docs, you might want to consider adding some interesting images. You can insert photos of all sorts. You can even insert clipart images. Speaking of the latter, this post is meant to guide y...

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By Kent - April 30, 2015

How to sort a list alphabetically in Word [Tip]

In another post, we covered a topic on how to sort out lists in alphabetical order in Google Docs. Now, what if you wish to do the same but in MS Word? Well, if that’s the case, just feel free to read and follow the steps listed b...

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By Kent - April 30, 2015

How to sort a list alphabetically in Google Docs [Tip]

In Google Docs, it’s easy to create lists and tables. The thing is what if you have a lengthy list that you want to sort out or organize in alphabetical order? If you do it manually, then it will definitely take a lot of time. For...

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By MatthewA - April 29, 2015

How to add separators to Windows Explorer Jumplists [Tip]

You can pin folders and applications to the Windows Explorer Jumplist on the Windows 7 taskbar. However, there aren’t any options you can select to add line separators to the pinned folders and applications section of that J...

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Galaxy A3
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By Mathew Diekhake - April 29, 2015

How to root Galaxy A3 A300F on Android 5.0.2 (XXU1BOD5) [Guide]

The Samsung Galaxy A3 is the cheaper device out of the A-Series, but that often means it’s the best to tinker with the OS. If you’ve already installed the latest Android 5.0.2 Lollipop software update, you might be loo...

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XOLO Q3000
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By Mathew Diekhake - April 29, 2015

How to install a Custom Recovery on XOLO Q3000 [Guide]

So you have unchained your XOLO Q3000 away from the factory restrictions by following our tooting guide, but you don’t yet have a custom recovery installed. All you need to do now is follow this guide below to equip your XOL...

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XOLO Q3000
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By Mathew Diekhake - April 29, 2015

How to root XOLO Q3000 on 4.2 Jelly Bean and 4.4 KitKat [Guide]

Have you already played with the Android 4.2 software on the XOLO Q3000 and are looking for something extra? Opening the ports with root access and flashing a custom recovery image, followed by a custom ROM will help with that. Ch...

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By Kent - April 29, 2015

How to quickly open current tab in a new window in Chrome [Tip]

If what you want is to quickly manage your open tabs in Chrome without ever using your mouse, you can always rely on keyboard shortcuts. Speaking of which, this post will teach you how to quickly open your current tab in a new win...

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By Tu Nguyen - April 28, 2015

How to set default install location for Store apps in Windows 10 [Tip]

In a previous post, we showed you how to move installed Windows Store apps to a different drive on your device. If you haven’t noticed yet, Windows 10 additionally has a setting to allows users to set the default location for inst...

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By Tu Nguyen - April 28, 2015

How to change Start Menu and Action Center color in Windows 10 [Tip]

Earlier last week, Microsoft released a new build for Windows 10 Technical Preview, numbered 10061. There aren’t many new features except some improvements here and there. One change I think will satisfy many users is the ability ...

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By MatthewA - April 28, 2015

How to check system resources without third-party software in Windows Vista/7/8 [Guide]

There are plenty of third-party software packages that you can use to check your Windows system resources. But remember that Windows also includes its very own tools to check and optimize RAM, CPU, etc. These are four of the tools...

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By MatthewA - April 28, 2015

How to customize the default Firefox theme with about:config [Tip]

There are plenty of themes you can add to Firefox. You can also customize the browser’s default theme with a few about:config settings. With about:config you can switch the default theme to a dark alternative and remove the ...

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By MatthewA - April 28, 2015

How to automatically close idle tabs in Firefox [Tip]

Browser tabs hog RAM. As such, it’s best not to open too many tabs. There are various extensions you can add to browsers to reduce tab RAM allocation such as Dustman – autoclose tabs. That’s a Firefox extension which a...

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By MatthewA - April 28, 2015

How to add new window icons in Firefox [Tip]

The Mozilla Firefox logo is the default icon on Firefox’s windows. However, you can customize the icons included at the top of the Firefox windows with Change Profile’s Window Icons. With that you can add new icons to ...

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Samsung Galaxy S6
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By Mathew Diekhake - April 28, 2015

How to root Galaxy S6 G920F on Android 5.0.2 Lollipop (XXU1AOCV) [Guide]

The Samsung Galaxy S6 is finding a new Android 5.0.2 Lollipop software update rolling out over the air. The new edition updates to the XXU1AOCV build number. Today I’ll show you how to root XXU1AOCV Android 5.0.2 Lollipop on...

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By Mathew Diekhake - April 28, 2015

How to install Windows XP or Linux OS on iPhone and iPad [Tip]

If you are using an iPhone or iPad and want to try out some traditional computer operating systems, you can now do that with Windows XP and Linux. The earlier hack of a third-party developer learning how to install Windows 95 or 9...

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By Mathew Diekhake - April 28, 2015

How to jailbreak iOS 8.1 on iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and install Cydia [Guide]

If you own the iOS 6 or iPhone 6 Plus you might want to downgrade back to iOS 8.1 and jailbreak that since no third-party developer has a public jailbreak for the latest iOS 8.3. Both iPhone 6 devices can use this guide, as well a...

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By Mathew Diekhake - April 28, 2015

How to Jailbreak iOS 7.1.2 on iPhone 5S/5C/5 [Guide]

Even though the iPhone 6 is by far the hottest iPhone out there today, many people still have secondary iPhone’s sitting on their shelves which are great for hacking and checking our jailbreaks. There’s no limit to wha...

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By MatthewA - April 28, 2015

How to search tabs with Vivaldi browser [Tip]

Vivaldi is a new browser that this article covered. One thing this browser includes, which some of the others don’t, is a tab search tool. With that you can quickly search page tabs open in Vivaldi and your bookmarks. To ope...

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By MatthewA - April 28, 2015

How to add tab toolbar buttons in Firefox [Tip]

Firefox, like all the other browsers, has back and forward buttons so that you can flick through pages opened in the same tab. However, there aren’t any toolbar buttons to select pages on the tab bar with. The Active Tab Swi...

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By MatthewA - April 28, 2015

How to replace bookmarks toolbar with a bookmarks menu in Firefox [Tip]

Firefox’s Bookmarks Toolbar gives you more direct access to bookmarks. However, it can also take up a more space on the Firefox UI. As an alternative to the Bookmarks Toolbar, add the Bookmarks menu extension to the browser....

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