Tech-Recipes

Windows 7: How To Enable the Numberic Key Pad on the Onscreen Keyboard

shamanstears — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:21:25 +0000

By default, Window 7's Onscreen Keyboard has the numeric key pad disabled. If you use numbers a lot, you will want to enable the key pad to make it easier to input numbers.

Firefox: Enable AutoFill in URL (Address) Bar

shamanstears — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:46:01 +0000

By default Firefox has AutoFill disabled for the address bar, but if you like this functionality, you can enable it by following these steps.

Firefox: Enable Case Sensitive Searches When Using Find (Ctrl+F)

shamanstears — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:29:37 +0000

If you use Firefox's Find (Ctrl+F) to find a term or name on a web page, you might try using case sensitive searches to make things easier. This is disabled by default but can easily be changed by taking the following steps.

Windows 7: Enable Print Screen for Media Center’s Full Screen Mode

shamanstears — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 06:03:06 +0000

If you are running Media Center in full screen mode, the Print Screen key's output will only be a black screen. To enable print screen functionality while in the Full Screen Mode in Media Center, follow these steps.

Firefox 3.6: Enable Visual Previews When Using Ctrl+Tab (Windows Only)

shamanstears — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:41:42 +0000

By default, Ctrl+Tab will switch between open tabs in Firefox. But if you are running Windows 7, you should enable Visual Previews for a sexier way of navigating your open tabs.

How to Enable the Preview of PDF Files in 64-bit Windows 7

shamanstears — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:11:26 +0000

If you are running the 64-bit version of Windows 7 (or Vista), you will find that your PDF files do not preview in Windows Explorer as they do in the 32-bit versions. Instead, all you see is a message stating that This file can't be previewed. To enable this functionality on your 64-bit operating system, follow these steps.

OS X Snow Leopard: How To Securely Empty Trash

shamanstears — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 04:06:05 +0000

When you normally Empty Trash, the files deleted aren't actually removed from the computer, their space is just available for other files to occupy. This means that data recovery tools can give someone access to these files. Using Secure Empty Trash will overwrite the deleted files, making sure that the file is gone for good.

Google Talk: How To Block Someone

shamanstears — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:32:52 +0000

What if you're no longer friends with one of your Google Talk contacts, how do you block them so that you don't have to keep your status as Invisible? By following these steps, you can take away their option to chat with you without having to keep hiding.

Facebook: How To Get Only Status Updates on Your FB Home Page

shamanstears — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:29:48 +0000

Facebook's News Feed (and Live Feed) tend to be way to much information to sift through. Everytime that one of your friends becomes someone else's friend, it ends up on your home page. In fact, it seems that each time any of your friends does anything on Facebook, it is thrown onto your homepage. Here's how to tame it down to only Status Updates.

Windows 7: How To Disable Live Preview for Taskbar Thumbnails

shamanstears — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:15:59 +0000

When you place your mouse cursor over the taskbar button of a running application, a small thumbnail of the application will appear. By placing your cursor over this thumbnail, you will see a live preview of the running application and all other applications that are running will become transparent. If you find this feature to be annoying, you can disable it by following these steps.