Installing a printer in Windows 8

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The team behind Windows 8 have really pushed the limits with the operating system and out done themselves. It brings a lot of innovations and makes things a lot easier for the user, when comparing with now ancient versions like XP or Vista.

One of the reasons why I’m saying this is because the process of installing a printer in Windows 8 is now really easy. To be more specific, there are two ways of doing this and I’m going to detail both of them below.

The ‘easy does it’ way.

Your first move here is to… Continue to Installing a printer in Windows 8

Save battery using black wallpaper on devices with AMOLED screen

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With today’s mobile devices going bigger and bigger with each new model, one aspect that everyone is interested in is improving the battery life, due to a high power consumption of handhelds with large screens.

A tweak that you can easily apply if you own such a device is to use a black wallpaper instead of one with living colors. Another advantage of doing the tweak is that you will also be able to view the icons better, as a dark background will make them stand out more.

What is important to know here is the fact that… Continue to Save battery using black wallpaper on devices with AMOLED screen

Add XML Sitemap To A Blogger Platform Blog [How To]

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One of the first things you should do after you create your blog using Google’s Blogger platform, is to add a XML sitemap file on it. This file helps search engines like Google or Bing to find content pages on your blog, which may have been missed by the automatic bots crawling websites on a scheduled basis.

In general, the XML sitemap file is a list, or directory, which contains all the data regarding your pages of the blog like the URL, date when it was update or posted. If we’re talking about blogs hosted and created using the… Continue to Add XML Sitemap To A Blogger Platform Blog [How To]

Add Metro UI Style To New Tab In Google Chrome [How To]

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If you are a Windows 8 Consumer Preview or just looking forward to the upcoming operating system from Microsoft, you can now have the Metro UI style in Google Chrome with the help of an extension. MySites is a browser extension which will add the Metro UI style to the New Tab in Chrome, displaying most visited websites or bookmarks in a live tile style.

The Chrome extension will allow you to access your favorite websites in both a stylish and useful mode as the New Tab in Chrome has them arranged in colorful and organized tiles. They come… Continue to Add Metro UI Style To New Tab In Google Chrome [How To]

How To Avoid Facebook Viruses And Threats

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This article will teach you how to avoid your Facebook account to be infected with different viruses, threats, malware, malicious software or to be a victim of a scam.

Facebook has become an environment where different viruses and threats can be found. That’s because this social network has become the most popular one. We will show you which are te best protection measures you can take in order to avoid this unpleasant situations.

Most of the time a virus infection on Facebook is being done because of the different users lack of attention, or because they are in… Continue to How To Avoid Facebook Viruses And Threats

How To Remove Facebook Timeline (Disable Tutorial)

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You will learn here how to disable your new Facebook Timeline. It will also be removed from your friends profiles (only in your view), too.

Are you annoyed by the new Facebook Timeline interface? We will show you in this guide all you have to do in order to remove/ disable it. Your profile will use the old interface.

Last year, Facebook has presented Timeline which is the new interface that all users will use and see on their own profiles on this popular social network.

Facebook Timeline has been received with great joy by many users… Continue to How To Remove Facebook Timeline (Disable Tutorial)

How To Change The Wallpaper Daily: Bing Desktop (Download)

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Bing Desktop (download link provided below) will change your wallpaper daily and it will also provide you with a search bar.

Together with Windows Vista, we have been introduced with the option to have daily changed wallpapers. Many people have found this feature as being and excellent idea for decorating their desktops with new wallpapers on a daily basis.

Therefore, many applications have been released since then, and they all have the same scope, even if the images provided as wallpapers are better or worse: to provide a fresh new look to your Windows desktop, daily.

Another… Continue to How To Change The Wallpaper Daily: Bing Desktop (Download)

Start Outlook 2010 In Safe Mode [How To]

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Outlook 2010 is the most advanced e-mail exchange client ever released by Microsoft but even so, it sometimes encounters an error and needs to close. Nothing out of the ordinary so far as what you would usually do is to reopen Outlook 2010 again after such an error and continue with your work. What happens when you try to open Outlook 2010 but it still fails to start and closes due to an unexpected error?

Well, in this case you have to learn how to open or start Outlook 2010 in safe mode to find out what exactly caused… Continue to Start Outlook 2010 In Safe Mode [How To]

Merge Multiple Outlook Inbox / Accounts Into One [How To]

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Accessing or managing more than one account in Outlook 2007 or 2010 is not an easy task, especially because each account has a separate database file on the hard drive. This happens due to the fact that the account creation wizard from Outlook 2007 automatically creates a database file for each one.

In order to save some screen space and to organize inboxes in Outlook 2007 or 2010 you have to first merge all the inboxes into one global inbox and obviously a single outlook database file on your hard drive. Moreover, by merging multiple accounts in Outlook you… Continue to Merge Multiple Outlook Inbox / Accounts Into One [How To]

How To Backup All Instagram Photos After Facebook Acquisition

By Clarkson in How To No Comments Tags: acquisition, backup, download, Facebook, Instagram, photos

As we have announced last night, Facebook has paid a lot of money for purchasing Instagram. For those which still don’t know what Instagram is, we have prepared a few words as description.

Instagram is a photo sharing social network which, until a while ago it was accessed mainly by iOS users. However, the guys behind this network have developed a client for Android OS, too, making it possible to be accessed by other users than just iOS owners.

Using the Instagram client application is very simple. It is in fact a camera app which offers you the… Continue to How To Backup All Instagram Photos After Facebook Acquisition