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How To Make The Background Of Desktop Icon Text Transparent

Welcome back!If your desktop is set to display a wallpaper graphic, there will still be a border around the captions for your icons that is the color of the solid background. Here’s a quick way to remove the border.
In Windows XP:
Open the Control Panel and choose “System Properties” then choose the Advanced tab. Click [...]

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Review of webhostingchoice.com

 Powered by Max Banner Ads For anyone looking for web hosting for their site, webhostingchoice is a good place to get some input. It starts out with a top ten list but there’s actually quite a bit more to the site than just the top ten list.
The site has a clean, easy to follow layout. [...]

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The Safe Way To Delete Suspicious E-mails

 Powered by Max Banner Ads I was recently asked how could a suspicious email be deleted safely. The question arose of of the fact that when an email is clicked on to delete it, the email in question opens up and the user was concerned that if that happens anything in it could start executing [...]

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Freeware App: AdwordsDigger Makes Placement More Effective

Placement targeting is a way to make the most out of an Adsense campaign by driving lots of traffic for the best possible price. The placement targeting system also allows you to run a CPM campaign to get you click-throughs at a much lower rate than you’d be paying for a CPC campaign.

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Something Really Cool About to Happen

 Powered by Max Banner Ads I’s going to happen to this blog sometime this morning.
Back in Nov, 2006 I added Statcounter tracking to this blog because I had discovered that it gave much better stats than the sitemeter I had been using.
Sometime this morning, Statcounter will record the 100,000th page load since I installed the statcounter [...]

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8 Sites To Watch TV and Movies Online

No longer are we required to watch tv ON the tv. More and more sites are popping up all over the place that make it possible to watch just about anything online. Offerings range from full episodes of popular shows, movie clips, full length movies, news and more.

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How To Fix Forms That Don't Allow AutoComplete

One of the features that I really appreciate about Firefox and other modern browsers is their password managers. They take a lot of hassle out of username & password entry fields, saving you the trouble of having to open and decrypt your “just in case” password file (you DO keep it encrypted, Right? If not, you should).

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Jumping The OS Gun

Not long ago I posted about how I’d had it with Windows and the way it’s buggyness cost me a mountain of files and ended up inspiring me to go Microsoft free in a move to Ubuntu linux. I discovered that making a move like that mostly out of anger and frustration, with almost no advance preparation, was not the way I should have migrated from one OS to another.

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Genetic Science Makes For Dangerous Ideas

In one of those “life imitates art” situations, there’s now a shot, however thin it may be, that somebody with the money to throw at the project could actually arrange for extinct animals to be re-created by engineering DNA from samples of the long dead critters

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A Nightmare On HelpDesk Street

Then there’s the other side of the coin, support bots and phone droids that are good for little more than wasting your time and raising your temper to the boiling point. I’ve spent a serious amount of time over recent days dealing with a collection of them gathered at the Centurytel Internet support desk.

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