Tech-Recipes: A Cookbook Full of Tech Tutorials

PowerPoint: Create a Photo Album

Aaron St. Clair — Wed, 16 May 2012 03:36:16 +0000

You can use PowerPoint to create a photo album to display your photographs and pictures. PowerPoint makes it easy for you to insert pictures and customize them by applying themes and using special layout options. You can also change the appearance of a picture in the photo album by adjusting rotation, contrast, and brightness. As [...]

OS X: Flush or Clear the DNS Cache

Quinn McHenry — Wed, 16 May 2012 01:09:48 +0000

The command used to flush the DNS cache changed in OS X 10.5 Leopard and later versions. The new command is just as easy to run, if not to remember. This article has been updated for all current versions of Mac OS X. To improve performance in a networked operating system, DNS requests can be [...]

Customizing Date and Time in Windows 7 and Vista

Aaron St. Clair — Tue, 15 May 2012 00:34:00 +0000

Manipulating how the time and date is displayed within Windows is one of the first things that users tweak after installing the OS. This article describes in detail how to adjust the time and date format in Vista and Windows 7. This includes changing to 24-hr military time and displaying leading zeros. Please note that [...]

Easy Way to Embed and Customize Google Map without Using the API

Aaron St. Clair — Mon, 14 May 2012 09:25:24 +0000

Google has finally made embedding a google map as easy as embedding a YouTube video. By following these steps you are just a copy and paste away from placing a google map into your web site or blog. This article has been updated for the latest directions. One of the keys to YouTube’s popularity has [...]

Firefox: Delete History on Exit

Lê Hoàng — Sun, 13 May 2012 21:18:46 +0000

Firefox wants to remember all your browsing history, downloaded files list, searched keywords, cookies and active login information. Although this is a typically useful feature, it is not suitable when you are on a public computer. The best way to make sure your personal information is safe is to configure Firefox to clear all personal [...]

Word: Change Default Font

David Kirk — Sun, 13 May 2012 09:12:44 +0000

In the new version of office, the default font in word has been changed. Here is how to change the default font to whatever you wish. This includes Word 2007, 2010, and 2011. We have had many tutorials about changing Word’s default font over the years. This article combines them all for all known versions. [...]

Google Drive: How to Upload Files from your Android Phone

Jimmy Selix — Sat, 12 May 2012 12:37:46 +0000

Google Drive is Google's answer to other popular cloud storage services such as Dropbox and Box. Like any cloud storage service, Google has an Android client that you can run on your Android phone. You can in turn upload any document or file or photo on your phone to your Google Drive account using the Drive app for Android. Let's take a look on how to upload from your phone.

Android ICS: Safely Disable Built-in Apps without 3rd-Party Applications

Lê Hoàng — Thu, 10 May 2012 16:25:44 +0000

Many Android applications have the ability to start and run automatically in the background without your direct permission. Most of those apps are unnecessary will consume your battery or and Internet data usage. Using existing functions of your Android tablet or phone, you can disable these applications safely. Although there are many applications on the [...]

SQL Server: Useful Metadata queries

Vishwanath Dalvi — Thu, 10 May 2012 00:37:46 +0000

Metadata queries are really helpful in discovering information for a given database schema. Database information including the tables, views, columns names, data types, indexes, and table constraints are all available using queries such as these. During this tutorial, I want to explore some useful metadata queries. Let us start by finding the list of tables [...]

ThunderBird: Allow Windows Search to Search Messages

Lê Hoàng — Tue, 08 May 2012 00:32:07 +0000

By default, emails in the Mozilla ThunderBird’s database are not indexed by Windows. Therefore, users can not search through their mails from the Windows Explorer or the Start menu. Luckily, users can configure ThunderBird to make the emails indexed by the Windows search tool. After switching from Outlook to Thunderbird, I could not search for [...]