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Secure your iPhone if it gets lost or stolen


With the hot property the iPhone is it’s quite possible that your iPhone could get stolen. You could even misplace it or even lose it. When any of these discomforting scenarios happen, on top of the frustration of losing such a valuable device the most daunting thought would be that what would happen to all the data that’s on the iPhone.

Will it end up on the wrong hands and could wreck a havoc on your privacy and identity? Take precautionary steps to make sure your iPhone is secured and can kind of destroy itself if it ends up on the wrong hands.

Learn from this article on how to secure your iPhone with Passcode protection and to erase its data when multiple failed attempts are made to unlock the passcode.

Written by askars on July 14th, 2009 with no comments.
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Use a USB Flash Drive to install Windows 7 Beta


If you don’t have an optical drive, like a CD or DVD Drive, on your laptop and you want to install software that typically comes with a CD or DVD then you might be inclined to buy an external CD or DVD drive to get the job done.

Well, not really, if you already have an USB Flash Drive. These days flash drives are cheaper per gig and the prices keep going down. If you already have or if you can get a hold of an USB Flash drive then you can use that to install software on your computer. It might require an extra step to prepare the Flash Drive to be used as an installable media but once that’s done you can pretty much make use of it to install software.

Read from this detailed article at DemoGeek.com to learn how to prepare a USB Thumb Drive to install Windows 7 Beta from an USB Flash Drive. It’s a 10 step process but the steps are pretty simple and well explained.

      

Written by askars on February 2nd, 2009 with no comments.
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Keep track of your kid’s computer activities with Windows Vista’s Parental Controls


Windows Vista has implemented the Parental Controls the right way and it makes it so easy to configure parental controls to keep an eye on your kids’ computer activities. The list of things that you can keep track of ranges from the type of programs that your kids are allowed to run on a computer, the websites that your kids are allowed to visit and time limits so that your kid can only use the computer on certain times.

Read from this article at DemoGeek.com on how to make use of Windows Vista’s Parental Controls to keep track of your kids’ computer activities.

      

Written by askars on January 15th, 2009 with no comments.
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Print only what you want with HP Smart Web Printing


If you think you are wasting quite a lot of paper printing the whole webpage along with all its advertisements and things that you really don’t need to print then you should read this article at DemoGeek.com to know about a fantastic tool that helps you save the environment by reducing the paper usage by printing only what you want on a webpage. HP Smart Web Printing tool is a simple tool that plugs into Internet Explorer or Firefox and helps you print what you want on a webpage rather than the whole web page itself.

      

Written by askars on January 9th, 2009 with no comments.
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Turn off UAC annoyance in Windows Vista


One of the major annoyances of Windows Vista is its User Account Control (UAC) feature. I understand that it’s a way to secure the operating system but it is definitely a major annoyance of Windows Vista for sure. Learn from this article on how to turn UAC off in Windows Vista.

      

Written by askars on January 3rd, 2009 with no comments.
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How to speed up Firefox?


Learn from this article at DemoGeek.com on how to speed up Firefox with these simple tweaks.

      

Written by askars on December 28th, 2008 with no comments.
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