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17 September 2013
How-Tos: Speech recognition, the new PC power tool

The Siri effect is spreading. Starting this fall, Nuance, a company that makes advanced speech recognition and transcription software, will bundle its Dragon Assistant, a Siri-like, vocal sidekick, with select Intel-powered Ultrabooks and All-in-One desktops.
How-Tos: 10 tips for managing minimized windows

Do you minimize your windows with abandon, crowding your Dock with miniature documents? Do you rarely minimize anything, crowding your screen with multiple windows? Knowing the big and small options for this basic window-wrangling feature can save you both time and space.
16 September 2013
How-Tos: Share files between Windows 7 and XP

Our Helproom Editor explains how to share a new Windows 7 laptop with an existing Windows XP computer and wireless network.
12 September 2013
How-Tos: Rotate videos shot on smartphone

How to rotate video clips that come out upside-down. And how to shoot video on your phone the right way around.
09 September 2013
How-Tos: Your Twitter account has been hacked! Here's what to do about it.

Kirsty woke up to find that someone else had taken control of her Twitter account. I tell her how to get it back.
How-Tos: How to make your Chrome extension icons visible again

What is it with software developers making user-interface (UI) changes that serve no purpose other than to confuse users?
06 September 2013
How-Tos: More on playlists and syncing music to an iPod shuffle

I get lots of questions about playlists: how to create them, how to work with them, and how to organize them. In this week's column, I look at several questions related to playlists, and I also tackle a bonus question about syncing music to an iPod shuffle.
04 September 2013
How-Tos: Force YouTube to buffer your entire video

Back in the good old days, when you started watching a YouTube video, the entire thing would download (or "buffer") in the background, thus ensuring a relatively smooth playback experience.
03 September 2013
How-Tos: 4 Client-Side Web Storage Options That Replace Cookies

Several standards exist for storing large amounts of data in a user's Web browser. Each has its benefits, tradeoffs, W3C standardization status and level of browser support. All are better than cookies.
02 September 2013
How-Tos: Backing up and restoring musical instruments

A musician who wishes to remain anonymous finds his instrument suddenly silent. He writes:
28 August 2013
How-Tos: Automator workflow of the month: Automatically file downloaded items

Like all good Automator workflows, this one is hatched from something I find to be an annoyance. I download a lot of files--disk images, songs, pictures, and books. All of them go into the Downloads folder within my user folder. After downloading them I don't always retrieve these files, but rather let them molder away for days or weeks. When I finally get around to using them, I rummage around in this folder, which now contains hundreds of files. Wouldn't it be easier if all the disk-image files were in one place, pictures in another, and so on? With Automator you can make that so. Here's how.
How-Tos: Hands-on: Parallels Access runs your Mac apps on your iPad

Parallels is best known to Mac users as one of the handful of companies--including VMWare and a couple of others--that make apps enabling you to run Windows on your Mac. Now the company is entering a much more crowded niche: Its new iOS app Parallels Access lets you connect to a remote Mac from your iPad and so "run" Mac apps on your tablet. In doing so, it joins the likes of GoToMyPC, LogMeIn, TeamViewer HD, and [SplashTop
21 August 2013
How-Tos: Downgrade from Internet Explorer 10 to IE 9

We explain how to uninstall Internet Explorer 10 and return to Internet Explorer 9 when using Windows 7.
16 August 2013
How-Tos: How non-Dropbox users can send files to your Dropbox account

As any Dropbox user knows, it's pretty easy to share a cloud-stored file with someone; just click the share icon to get a link you can distribute as needed.
13 August 2013
How-Tos: Why CRM Implementation Needs Training Wheels, Not Racing Gear

If it's true that the best CRM systems are built, not bought, then which features should you be building? And how should you build them? As with riding a bike, implementing a CRM system gets much harder once you take off the training wheels--or, in this case, the out-of-the-box features.
How-Tos: Solving Apple ID frustrations

If you use the iTunes Store, or any other Apple online service such as iCloud, you have an Apple ID. This is the email address associated with your Apple account. I get lots of questions about Apple IDs, and in this week's column I answer a number of them.
How-Tos: Get rid of malware from PC

We explain how to remove malware from your PC. Get rid of virus, spyware from your PC or laptop.
12 August 2013
How-Tos: Run an old program on a new PC

John P. wants to continue playing a game he bought when running Windows 98.
How-Tos: Save copy of web pages

How to save a copy of a web page to your local hard drive.
09 August 2013
How-Tos: Paint Shop Pro launches when I use memory stick

How to stop Paint Shop Pro launching every time you insert a memory stick.

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