How To Show Full Header Titles In Your Gmail

Posted on February 3rd, 2010 by Dave Taylor

I’ve heard that I can view more information about where an e-mailmessage came from, by viewing the “full headers” of the message. Howcan I do that in Gmail?

How To Remove Cookies From IE

Posted on January 20th, 2010 by Dave Taylor

I’m becoming paranoid about people tracing what I do online and have decided that one proactive step I can take is to delete all of my “cookies” in MSIE [Microsoft Internet Explorer]. Will that work, and if so, how do I delete these pesky cookies?

Creating Custom URL For Your Facebook Fan Page

Posted on January 6th, 2010 by Dave Taylor

Now that I have read your splendid tutorial on how to create a Facebook fan page (see How to Create Your Own Facebook Fan Page) I want to take the next step and set a custom URL shortcut for the page. Can I do that, or is it reserved for just the big guys in the fan page world? If so, what’s the procedure, Dave?

How Do I Open Saved Email In Thunderbird?

Posted on December 22nd, 2009 by Dave Taylor

I’ve set Thunderbird as my default email program and set Apple Mail program preferences to use Thunderbird as the default program.

But here’s the thing. When I open saved emails from my hard drive the Mail program opens them and says it’s the default. But Thunderbird receives all emails and sends them?

Adding A Password To Mac Screensavers

Posted on December 7th, 2009 by Dave Taylor

My kids are driving me a bit crazy: they keep opening up my MacBook Pro and messing around with it, even when I tell them not to. Since I can’t hover over it like an eagle, I need a software solution: how do I require a password to be typed in - to password protect the computer - on either wake from sleep or going from a screen saver to the regular desktop on Mac OS X Snow Leopard?

How to Find Friends And Associates On Skype

Posted on November 23rd, 2009 by Dave Taylor

A number of my friends and business colleagues use Skype and I’d like to be able to chat with them while traveling, but I don’t know their Skype account names. Is there some directory of Skype names and/or some best practices about how to search for someone in the Skype universe?

How To Create A Twitter List For Personal Use

Posted on November 11th, 2009 by Dave Taylor

I’ve been hearing that all the follow Friday stuff is passé and that we should instead be creating Twitter lists. Um, okay, but I don’t see how to do that in Seesmic Desktop, which is how I interact with Twitter. What’s the big deal with these lists and how can I create one?

Easy Steps To Finding Your IP Address

Posted on November 2nd, 2009 by Dave Taylor

I want to know the IP address that has been assigned to my Microsoft Windows XP computer. How do I find out what my IP address is without going all uber-geek?

Exporting MP3’s Using Audacity

Posted on October 19th, 2009 by Dave Taylor

I’ve been recording my daughter’s singing with Audacity, a great open source audio recording and editing app, and it’s fun and makes it pretty easy to chop and organize audio tracks. Problem is, I want to save the output as an MP3, not as a WMA file. but when I try to export the audio file in that format, it just pops up an error. How can I fix it?

Building A Windows Connection To A Mac File Server

Posted on October 7th, 2009 by Dave Taylor

My computer network has an old Mac Mini running Mac OS X Tiger (10.4), acting as a file and network printer server, along with a number of desktop computers running the newer version of Mac OS X, Snow Leopard. For those computers, everything’s fine, but when a colleague hooked up his Vista laptop, he couldn’t see the file server at all. How do I enable that?

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