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How to use your Home folder as your Desktop in Ubuntu

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2008-08-26 12:44:22 by Ross McKillop in Simplehelp
If youre at all like me, your desktop can become rather cluttered with files over time. One way to at least have files stored in your /home folder rather than your /home/Desktop folder is to set your /home folder as your actual Desktop. This is particularly helpful if you use a separate larger drive as your /home folder Its probably worth...
 
Tags: desktop, home folder, ubuntu, linux desktop, actual desktop, desktop manager, files, gconf-editor, enter gconf-editor
 
 
 
 
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How to silence a loud video card fan

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2008-08-26 11:00:19 by Ross McKillop in Simplehelp
About a month ago I decided I was going to do something about the insanely loud noise coming from my PC. I incorrectly assumed it was one of the large fans at the back causing what sounded like a jet-engine noise. Turns out, it was the tiny little fan on the video card creating all the ruckus. Thanks to The Shadow over at the How-To Geek forums...
 
Tags: fan, video card fan, card, loud video card, video card, card heats, super-fancy card, phillips head screwdriver, machine oil
 
 
 
 
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Sequential - a better image viewer for OS X

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2008-08-26 04:30:07 by Ross McKillop in Simplehelp
Sequential is a free image viewer for Mac OS X. It was originally designed for opening a folder of images and displaying them in order. It works well for viewing comics. Sequential can display folders and archives (ZIP, RAR, CBZ and CBR) of images (including JPEG, PNG, and GIF) and PDF files. Keep reading for a brief overview Theres nothing...
 
Tags: command-, command-shift-a, command-g, command-shift-o, command-f, command-delete, command-r, command-1, command-plus
 
 
 
 
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How to install WordPress on your Windows PC

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2008-08-25 12:31:56 by Ross McKillop in Simplehelp
Though Ive previously covered How to install WordPress in Windows Vista , that method used a BitNami stack, which comes with a few drawbacks. The method outlined in this tutorial will leave you with a perfect WordPress installation on your PC - which is great to use as a development and testing environment Before you install WordPress, make sure...
 
Tags: wordpress, wordpress installation, perfect wordpress installation, click, click install wordpress, extract, extract wordpress, install wordpress, enter
 
 
 
 
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How to install and setup Apache, MySQL and PHP in Windows

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2008-08-25 11:00:06 by Ross McKillop in Simplehelp
...software Firewall installed, it will probably pop up and warn you that Apache wants to accept incoming connections. Depending on your specific Firewall the button to click may be different, but it will be something similar to Unblock . Do not click Keep Blocking click to enlarge Leave the SMTP: server set as localhost (more on this later)...
 
Tags: php, php mcrypt, php editor, save php, edit php, select php, server, media server, local smtp server
 
 
 
 
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Review: Spotify

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2008-08-24 23:22:32 by Ross McKillop in Simplehelp
...software. It took about 2 months from the time I signed up until I received the email saying I could create an account. But good things come to those who wait The interface is painfully user friendly (and identical for Windows and OS X). Once you sign in, youre presented with the home screen click to enlarge Use the search box to find...
 
Tags: music, streamable music, music fix, click, right-click, double-click, online music services, ctrl-click, windows
 
 
 
 
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What Ive learned in my second year of blogging

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2008-08-24 09:04:10 by Ross McKillop in Simplehelp
When I did this last year it was fairly well received. So here I am, a year later, doing it again. As usual Ill share pretty much every statistic about this site (except specific financial details), and more importantly, everything Ive learned (the highlights anyway) in the last year Im going w/ the same format again, for the same reason (Im...
 
Tags: complete site re-designs, site, page, page views, seo site, seomoz blog, blog, posts, popular posts
 
 
 
 
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Using Elisa as your Ubuntu media center

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2008-08-23 03:46:54 by Ross McKillop in Simplehelp
...software. At this point you may want to look into updating your video card to use the latest drivers. The Ubuntu Community Documentation Video section is a great place to start If you didnt get an error, Elisa will launch in full-screen. Use the arrow keys to navigate from section to section. Hit Enter on your keyboard to select a specific...
 
Tags: elisa, download, elisa download page, launch, launch elisa, ubuntu, elisa media center, ubuntu media center, playpause button
 
 
 
 
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How to resize twhirl when the sizing corner is off-screen (OS X)

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2008-08-23 02:59:57 by Ross McKillop in Simplehelp
Usually re-sizing twhirl is a walk in the park. Just grab the bottom-right corner and drag it to your preferred size. What happens when that corner moves itself off-screen and you cant get it back? (eg. you opened a Virtual Machine in Parallels and went full-screen - then when you returned to OS X your apps decided to resize themselves). This...
 
Tags: corner, twhirl, bottom-right corner, bottom, twhirl icon, corner moves, reset twhirl, bottom corner, single mouse-button folks
 
 
 
 
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Automatically display drives in your OS X Dock or Menu

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2008-08-19 02:09:50 by Ross McKillop in Simplehelp
Using the small and free app Volumizer , you can have your hard drives (internal, external, flash etc) and DVD/CD drives displayed in your Dock or Menu. Keep reading for brief usage instructions and more screenshots To get started, download and unzip Volumizer . Double-click Volumizer.prefPane to install it to your System Preferences . Select...
 
Tags: menu, dock, men