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By macslocum : Today, 05:04 AM

When it comes to Facebook, do you unfriend or filter? It's funny how a question that had zero relevance five years ago is now so important. Anecdotally, I know a number of people who have really strug...

By adfm : Yesterday, 04:15 PM

Do you need to know how to restore from a backup set or create a system image backup? This excerpt from Bott, Siechert, and Stinson's Windows® 7 Inside Out will explain how to do these things and ...

By msilver : Yesterday, 03:52 PM

I was looking around today for some information on what to do about a friend of a friend's problem with a potential keylogger on their computer and I came across this handy PDF from the NSA on som...

By macslocum : Yesterday, 04:41 AM

The Android Market has upped its success rate in recent months. When I search for an app I've used on the iPhone/iPod Touch side, I typically find an equivalent Android application around 50 percent o...

By adfm : Yesterday, 08:50 AM

Do you need to build a custom Windows Recover Environment disk? In this excerpt from William R. Stanek's Windows® 7 Administrator's Pocket Consultant you'll learn what it takes to build a recovery...

By macslocum : 04 March 2010 - 12:00 PM

(Updated 3/22/10 with instructions for getting native HTML5 video to play in Firefox.) Ever since I ran across this example of HTML5 video, I've wanted to tinker with my own variation. This recentl...

By Alasdair Allan : Yesterday, 03:46 AM

Before your application attempts to make a network connection you need to know whether you have a network available, and depending on what you want to do you might also want...

By snowgirl : 21 March 2010 - 06:01 PM

Video Converter for Mac is a feature-rich video converter that supports virtually all audio and video formats like avi, wmv, 3gp, flv, 3g2, mov, vob, mpg, asf, swf, rm , rmvb, mp4, mkv, tod, mod, DivX...

By kbnotes : 21 March 2010 - 10:06 AM

I'm always surprised when people ask me if there's a way to create their own PowerPoint templates in order to share them with others at work. By "surprised," I mean I assumed everyon...

By kbnotes : 21 March 2010 - 09:37 AM

I've been reading a lot of blog posts recently that ask how "sandboxed solutions" are addressed in the next version of SharePoint. I thought I'd share this introduction to the topic,...