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  • 24 May 2013

  • How-Tos: Control noise of web pages when listening to radio

    Do you find that ads and videos disturb your web radio listening? Our Helproom Editor explains how to listen to web radio, music or a podcast on one web browser window or tab without being disturbed by noises from the rest of your web browsing session.

  • How-Tos: How to use Microsoft Word's online app

    The Word Web App is Microsoft’s online tool that gives you a recognisable version of Word to use wherever you can get online

  • 22 May 2013

  • How-Tos: Saving Google Maps destinations for easy navigation

    Saving a destination in Google Maps makes it easier to navigate to and also lessens the chance for error when entering or trying to remember an address.

  • How-Tos: Font free-for-all: Where to get free and low-cost fonts

    Back in ancient times--throughout much of the 1980s and 1990s when just 1000 or so fonts were available for desktop computers--designers had a tongue-in-cheek saying among themselves: The one who dies with the most fonts wins! It made sense at the time because fonts were coveted by every designer as a creative resource of unparallelled importance, and prices were astronomical. While supply has risen and prices have dropped in more recent eras, one thing remains true today: Fonts remain incredibly important and valuable to anyone who puts words on paper or pixels.

  • How-Tos: Syncing calendars between Mountain Lion and Snow Leopard

    Reader Ron Sharp has a question that continues to puzzle some Mac users. He writes:

  • 20 May 2013

  • How-Tos: Clearing up Mac App Store confusion

    Reader Jack Sanford is being lied to by the Mac App Store and would like to do something about it. He writes:

  • 17 May 2013

  • How-Tos: Get Adobe Flash Player for Windows 8

    If you have a Windows 8 then you might want Flash Player to fully appreciate some websites on the internet. Here's how to get Adobe Flash Player for Windows 8.

  • How-Tos: What to do when you have more content than room on your iOS device

    This week, I take an in-depth look at just one question. I get a lot of emails about syncing music to an iOS device, and many people find it difficult to sync when their music library is larger than the space available on their iOS device. So here's a question about checked tracks, playing albums, and syncing.

  • How-Tos: Add bookmarks to home screen on iPhone, iPad

    Here's how to bookmark a website on iPhone and iPad. Put a website bookmark on your iOS homescreen.

  • 16 May 2013

  • How-Tos: Change Safari's search engine

    If you're using Apple's Safari web browser on a Mac, you may prefer to use a more familiar search engine than its default Bing. In just a couple of clicks you can change the default search engine to Google or Yahoo, or you can do so on the fly for individual searches. Here's how.

  • How-Tos: Change default search engine in IE

    Here's how to change the default search engine in Internet Explorer from Bing to Google.

  • 15 May 2013

  • How-Tos: How to install Linux on a vintage 68K Mac

    If you're like me and happen to have a bunch of vintage Macs powered by Motorola 680x0 CPUs lying around, then you probably like to tinker with them. And what better way to tinker with obsolete hardware than by installing an obsolete version of Linux on it? It's a difficult and time-consuming procedure with no practical purpose, of course, but when has that ever stopped us?

  • How-Tos: 5 New Gmail Tips for Power Users

    Gmail's newest features include ways to search for old emails, quickly add meetings to your calendar, send large files and more. Here's a look at five of Google's latest email features to help you make the most of the popular Web-based service.

  • How-Tos: ESB Persists As Application Integration Tool

    The tried-and-true enterprise service bus--long the foundation of now-dated service oriented architecture deployments--is back in style thanks to the increasing need to integrate disparate applications. The secret to ESB's future success, some say, is a close tie to API management tools.

  • How-Tos: Edit default search engines on Firefox

    Here's how to change the search engine Firefox uses by default, both in your browser's search bar and the main address bar.

  • How-Tos: Set default search engine in Chrome

    We explain how to change the default search engine in the Google Chrome web browser.

  • 14 May 2013

  • How-Tos: How to watermark images

    Not everyone owns a copy of Photoshop, or Photoshop Elements, so here's how to add a watermark to batches of photos using the free uMark Lite utility - no need to upload your photos to a website: this tool runs in Windows.

  • 13 May 2013

  • How-Tos: Take a screenshot in Android

    If you want to take a screenshot on your Android smartphone or tablet, forget what you may have read online: if you're running Android 4.0 or later (that's Ice Cream Sandwich or Jelly Bean) then the ability to capture, edit and share screenshots is built directly into the mobile operating system.

  • 09 May 2013

  • How-Tos: How to create a Flipboard magazine

    iOS users have long been able to read personalised news, but now they can curate it too. We explain how to use the new features in Flipboard 2.0 to create your own personalised magazine.

  • How-Tos: Stop programs launching when Windows 8 boots

    Stop programs automatically loading when you boot your Windows 8 PC or laptop and PC and it will launch a lot quicker. Here's how to launch your Windows 8 PC faster by removing unwanted programs from the bootup process.

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