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| Having trouble viewing parts or all of the newsletter? View the entire newsletter here! Facebook Sort Options Facebook is a constantly evolving (or devolving, depending on your outlook), Internet entity – ever experimenting with options and features. Problem is that most of the time we never knew something existed until it's old news. Take the Sort option, for example. Up until recently I didn't know you could sort your feed by Top Stories or Most Recent, but as it turns out, you can! Just look for the Sort option (located at the top of your feed), click it, choose your preferred method of sorting, and your feed will adjust accordingly. That was easy! I only hope it doesn't change before people have had a chance to try it out! ~Andrew Click here to rate this tip | Printer friendly version
Remember the old saying, "Too Much of a Good Thing…"? You could have too much light in your yard! Stop blinding yourself, and waking up your neighbors whenever you need to see out at night! Sure, there may be plenty of occasions when you need your flood lights to, well, flood your yard with light! BUT NOT ALWAYS! Wouldn't it be nice to have a softer light that offers protection and the ability to see all night long without making the neighbors squint! NOW YOU CAN! This SOLAR, LED LIGHT is the perfect soft light alternative! Haven't we all had at least one of these experiences... The dog needs out at 2 o'clock in the morning! You realize you left the shed doors open just as your heading to sleep! Or you wish you could lounge on the deck with enough light to read, but not so much that it looks like it's daytime! This light provides that perfect amount of soft light! AND it's Solar-Powered and Automatic! At dusk the sensor turns on the light and at dawn it turns it back off. All through the day it recharges itself for the next night! CAN YOU SAY ECO-FRIENDLY? There is no hard wiring needed! It is fully portable to any location! In fact, you can simply CLIP this guy to your gutter wherever you need the light! A giant, heavy-duty, spring-loaded metal clip is provided so you position it anywhere. Don't worry about scratching up any surfaces with this clip – it's got rugged rubber caps to prevent damage! And don't worry about the weather – it's resistant to it! You'll have endless nights of soft light come rain or shine! Besides hanging from the gutter, this light is perfect for over entry ways, on decks and patios or farther out in those dark corners of your yard. You can even bend the metal arm on the clip to adjust the angle of the light! Once it's set up, forget about it! The sun will do the rest! If you want enough light to see where you're going, and to make yourself feel a little more secure, this might be just what you've been looking for! Today's deal for this guy is a mere $14.97! http://store.worldstart.com/product/8216 And shipping in the US is absolutely FREE!
Ron from IL writes: Why not just reinstall from the "D" drive for Vista or Win 7. The "D" drive has a copy of the system as it existed when it came from the factory – doesn't it? I did not get any set up disks when I purchased my HP with Win 7 on it a year ago. I was told that the vendors now use the "D" in place of disks. Hi, Ron. I agree… why not? It's probably the easiest way to do it, and the vendors who told you that computer manufacturers are now using a partition, called a "restore partition" on your hard drive to restore now rather than optical discs are correct. Probably the most important reason for this (from the manufacturer's point of view) is that it costs less to use a restore partition than it does to manufacture optical discs. The reason that it's good for us as computer users is because we frequently lose our restore discs. I can't speak for anyone else, but the only way that I've really been able to keep track of them is when HP produced a PC that had a storage area for them on the computer case itself. Here's how you restore from a restore partition. Be sure to back your computer up before you do this. Odds are that you'll be able to do what's called a "non-destructive" restore that will allow you to keep all of your files intact, but it's always better to be safe than sorry. You'll want to check and make sure that your computer includes a restore partition. All HPs and Dells manufactured within about the past five years or so include them, as do most other computers these days. You do this by clicking START and then COMPUTER. What you're looking for is labeled "restore" or "recovery". Next, click START and then enter "recovery" into the search box. Click on RECOVERY MANAGER. When you run the recovery manager, you'll see a screen that looks something like the following. This is an HP screen, so if your machine is a different manufacturer, it may look different, but the options should be virtually identical. If one of the original programs that came with your computer has become corrupt, you use SOFTWARE PROGRAM REINSTALLATION. MICROSOFT SYSTEM RESTORE will close the recovery manager and launch Microsoft's system restore program to fix broken Windows. The final option here is REALLY the final option. SYSTEM RECOVERY is for when your system has become hopelessly corrupt and you need to start from scratch. COMPUTER CHECKUP will check your system for errors and problems. If you're not sure what's wrong, this might be a good place to start. RECOVERY MEDIA CREATION is for those who have a hard time leaving the 20th century and are just not comfortable unless they have a disc to lose. All kidding aside, this is a way to create external restore media, which should then be secured somewhere climate and moisture controlled where you won't lose or forget them, just in case something happens to your recovery partition. In other words, total hard drive failure or destruction. RECOVER REPORT is pretty self-explanatory. I'm not entirely sure why the REMOVE RESTORE PARTITION option exists. If you're that hard up for hard drive space, it might be time to invest in a larger hard drive. I hope that this helps! ~Randal Schaffer Click here to rate this tip | Printer friendly version Do you have a question for us? Ask it here!
Charles from GA writes: I just bought a Toshiba Thrive tablet 32 gb. With my computer I delete cookies and temporary files and do a defrag. Should I do the same with a tablet computer? Tablet's are such a new device type that many people have the same question: "What should I do to maintain it?" Well here is a bit of good news: Not a lot. Tablet computers use flash memory and do not require any form of defragmenting. Most tablet operating systems also automatically clear out temporary files stored after a certain limit is reached and intelligently manage the storage space available. Having said that, what kind of maintenance should you perform? Find out here! (Want these tips in their entirety? Sign up for Premium!) Gaining Screen Space in MS Excel Do you struggle in a constant battle with Excel and your computer monitor? Do you always feel like you can't see enough at one time… whether the problem is a small monitor or a very large worksheet? Either way, you want to see more without shrinking everything – the eyesight is bad enough – we certainly don't need to be squinting to read tiny print all day. Learn how at Worldstart! (Want these tips in their entirety? Sign up for Premium!) Fred from NY writes: Is there a way to password a flash drive? The most reliable way to password protect a flash drive is to encrypt it, and the best free program currently available for encryption is TrueCrypt. This program features a powerful form of disk encryption which allows an entire drive to be encrypted (or a specific file created on a disk which will be "mountable"). Mounting allows a virtual drive to be created and stored inside one encrypted file on a disk which you can access by a drive letter on your computer. There's much more at this link! (Want these tips in their entirety? Sign up for Premium!) For stories, jokes, quotes and cartoons every day, sign up for our Just for Grins newsletter.
Are you tired of wasting paper trying to print off the information you need from a website? I know I've run into this problem a lot already this fall while trying to print off information from different college websites about how to apply (talk about convoluted!), but no more! Print What You Like lets you put in the URL and then select the portions of the site you want to print thus saving you paper and ink! To see how it works watch the video on the main page, it is under 2 minutes long, and helps make it very clear how to work the site. Then check out the demo where you can try it out to get more comfortable with using the elements, resizing them, isolating them, so that when you go to print what you want off a real website it isn't confusing. Now you're ready to try it out on a website you want to print, just type or paste the URL to the website into the Enter a URL area and click the green Start button. I think you'll be impressed and amazed with your control over what you print out. I know I was. If you're using it on site like WorldStart to print out tips make sure you click into the article you want and paste in that address, or you'll just have the site's homepage. This is a great site that helps save you ink, paper, and eliminates the frustration of having to print 7 pages when you only wanted 1. Go check it out for yourself! http://www.printwhatyoulike.com/ ~Amanda Click here to rate this tip | Printer friendly version Do you have a cool, non-commercial site that you want to share?Send it to Amanda at amanda@worldstart.com Yeah Baby! Bigger. Faster. Stronger. Sick Of A Slow, Weak WiFi Signal? Your LAN Adapter Just Not Cutting It?!?! Kiss Your Old LAN Adapter Goodbye - FOREVER! This Is The Answer You've Been Dreamin' About! OH YEAH! Get Wicked Fast Speed & Extended Coverage! Super Low Price! Just $19.97! So you just set up your new wireless router at home so you can enjoy wireless anywhere in the house. There's only one problem... "anywhere" isn't quite right, is it? What always seems to happen? There's the one spot in your home that you enjoy relaxing and browsing the Internet...but that seems to be the spot where you just can't get quite enough signal. It's just a little too slow and too weak. My one question to you is - Why should you have to put up with that slow, weak, crappy internet connection? Huh?? Or - how about when you're at a hotel that brags about having "wireless internet"? Yeah, we've all been there - they ALWAYS seem to stick you in a room that's juuusssst out of reach of that wonderful "wireless internet" they claim to have. So, what if there was an ANTENNA you could plug into your laptop or desktop computer that would give a little extra coverage that your lookin' for?? Well, we found one! This blazin' fast 300Mbps 802.11n adapter with a 5dBi antenna...is gonna give your signal that extra ump that it needs!! So - last weekend I took the family to one of my favorite hotel resorts and decided to bring this bad boy along. I had my laptop in my hotel room and was only gettin' between 1 and 2 bars. I plugged this little sucker in an WA-POW....I had 4 bars!!! Talk about a boost!!! I'm always bringing this little guy everywhere my laptop goes from now on!!!! This surfin' is smokin fast too!! In the bad old days (like last month), if you had an 802.11g adapter, you'd be stuck cruising along at 54Mbps - this does a whoppin' 300Mbps! You don't even need to know that Mbps means Mega Bits Per Second to see it's nearly 6x's faster! Setup is super easy too! - it's just a wireless USB internet adapter with a powerful antenna, so just plug it into your computer, run the software, and a few minutes later you're surfing! You can be up to 1600 feet away and STILL pull in a good signal! Now THAT'S impressive!! Bottom line - if you are sick and tired of weak WiFi signals and surfing the net at super-slow speeds, it's time to upgrade the Lamborghini of LAN adapters!!! Your price? Just $19.97 and US shipping is FREE! Heck, you can't buy a standard wireless internet adapter from the big box stores for that kind of money, let alone one with extra coverage at insanely fast speeds!!!! http://store.worldstart.com/product/8228 CAREFUL! We only have so many of these available, and they go FAST! The crazy deal on these goes up to $28.97 on Wednesday so don't miss out!
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~ Steve
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