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24 April 2013
How-Tos: Unable to create bootable Windows 8 installation USB stick

Trying to create a Windows 8 bootable disk using the Windows 7 USB/DVD Download Tool? It should work with Windows 8, but if it isn't working our Helproom Editor can help.
23 April 2013
How-Tos: 6 Big Data Analytics Use Cases for Healthcare IT

Making use of the petabytes of patient data that healthcare organizations possess requires extracting it from legacy systems, normalizing it and then building applications that can make sense of it. That's a tall order, but the facilities that pull it off can learn a lot.
22 April 2013
How-Tos: How to use System Restore to fix a Windows 8 PC or laptop

System Restore is one of the features that makes Windows worth having - the ability to roll back Windows to a point where you know it was working well can rescue your PC or laptop from all manner of ills. Here's how to use System Restore in Windows 8.
19 April 2013
How-Tos: Renaming files, wireless syncing, and matching music ripped from vinyl

In this week's installment, the iTunes Guy looks at renaming files, syncing iOS devices wirelessly, matching music ripped from vinyl, and a couple of questions about tags and file names.
18 April 2013
How-Tos: Get social with OS X's Twitter integration

Beginning in Mountain Lion, OS X features social media integration options with both Twitter and Facebook, letting you post to the services from the OS itself, as well as sync contacts.
How-Tos: Introduction to Calendar

Mountain Lion can help you do more than organize your music library, compose and receive email, and work out the complex equations necessary to design a hamster capable of sustained flight. With the aid of a bundled application, it can ensure that you know about upcoming chiropractic appointments, a favorite grandchild's birthday, or the dreaded yearly visit from a particularly long-winded cousin. That application is Calendar.
How-Tos: Social Data Warehousing Is Worth the Trouble

Everybody knows data warehousing is big data. But when you want to understand what's really going on with your customers' social interactions, terabytes may seem small. It's a laborious process, but the insight it provides can reap big rewards.
How-Tos: How to use Pocket to read web pages, videos and more offline

You don't always have time to read a web page or watch an online video when you find it. Pocket lets you save it for later, and works on most smartphones and tablets as well as in a web browser. Here's how it all works.
17 April 2013
How-Tos: How to access your old Tweets - and why you might want to

Here's how you can read your old Tweets by month, or search your archive to find Tweets with certain words, phrases, hashtags or @usernames. We also tell you why you should know what you posted long ago on Twitter.
How-Tos: How to use Synergy to control multiple computers with one keyboard and mouse

Instead of buying a KVM, we explain how you can control several computers, even with different operating systems, from one keyboard and mouse using the free Synergy software
16 April 2013
How-Tos: Black Menu for Chrome puts all your Google services a click away

If you rely heavily on Google services, as so many small-business users do these days, you're probably familiar with the black toolbar that spans the top of various Google services. It provides quick and convenient access to apps like Search, Gmail, Calendar, and so on.
How-Tos: How to set the default language in Microsoft Word

If Word is set to a different language or region from the one you want to use, it will either try to autocorrect your 'mistakes' or underline what it thinks are incorrectly spelt words with wavy red lines. We show you how to set a default language and other settings in Word.
How-Tos: How to take meeting notes that really work

As a doctor, educator, and administrator, I attend a lot of meetings. That means taking lots of meeting notes and, after those meetings are over, making sure that all of the action items we've decided on get done. Over the years, I've tried many different ways to do so.
15 April 2013
How-Tos: Control Time Machine from the command line

Backing up your data is the most important thing you can do with your computer--even more important than tweeting or posting on Facebook. If you don't back up your Mac regularly, you may lose those photos that you want to share; you may find that your latest holiday videos are missing; and your music library may go poof!
12 April 2013
How-Tos: Bugs & Fixes: SandboxCleaner cleans up QuickTime component crashes

Do you use third-party Mac applications to access video or photo files? If you are using versions of these apps obtained from the Mac App Store, have the apps been crashing lately, often on launch? If so, here's what's likely going on:
How-Tos: How to improve smartphone battery life: 10 tips and tricks

Fed up with those low battery warning on your smartphone? We offer some simple tips and tricks you can use to eek out extra hours of use, including dimming the screen plus some other nuggets you probably don't know about. UPDATED: 12th April 2013
11 April 2013
How-Tos: How to manage your budget with Money Dashboard

We explain how to stretch your finances further with by managing your budget with Money Dashboard.
How-Tos: How to switch back to Firefox's old download manager

If you're a Firefox user, you may have noticed a few changes in the latest version of Mozilla's browser, which "turned 20" last week.
10 April 2013
How-Tos: How to use Stellarium: free astronomy software for your PC

We explain to use your PC to find star patterns and even planets with the free Stellarium software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. We also look at astronomy apps for smartphones and tablets.
How-Tos: How to use a BlackBerry as a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot

Quickly and easily set up your BlackBerry smartphone as a mobile Wi-Fi hotspot.

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