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Facebook Monitoring Options for Parents

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Facebook monitoring has almost become part of our required parenting skills and now we have to learn how to spy on a computer. Now days children as young as 10 years old have joined Facebook to socialize, share, or chat with friends and family.most of us are left wondering what age is too young for [...]

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How To Use Two Wireless Routers In The Same House

March 23, 2011

If you have a big house (or office), you may find it necessary to run two wireless routers (or more) to share the internet connection around efficiently. Although you can just plug in both routers and start using them, a bunch of little network problems caused by having two wireless routers will soon start to [...]

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Accessibility Options in the Windows XP Control Panel

June 4, 2010

The accessibility options are in the Windows Control panel to help people with disabilities use the computer. There are some simple settings that you can change to make your computer using experience more pleasant. For example if you have trouble pressing two keys at once to use the Windows Shortcut keys, you can use Stickykeys. [...]

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Change your cd auto play settings in Windows Vista

June 2, 2010

A nice feature in Windows Vista is that you can change your cd auto play settings in detail. For example, you can set a program or action to be performed with almost every type of media. So when you insert an audio cd it will automatically begin playing using the program you chose in the [...]

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How to turn Windows XP Firewall on or off

June 1, 2010

If you have another antivirus/ firewall program running, it is very important that you turn the Windows firewall and virus protection off. Otherwise it will interfere with the proper protection of your computer. Where is the Windows security settings, you say? Go to Start menu>control panel>Security Center (More about the Control Panel) To Turn the [...]

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Windows Seven Tips – Setup Parental Controls

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Windows seven has made it even easier to keep track of what your children do on the computer when you are not watching them by enhancing the parental controls feature. It is so easy to setup that a two year child could do it. (Well some could) Setting up parental controls is very important now [...]

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Windows Seven Tips – Find your computer IP Address in Windows 7

May 31, 2010

Windows seven is a bit different to Windows XP and Vista. When I investigated Windows Seven, I realised that some settings were not in the usual places and not even displayed the same. This video will show you how to see what your computers IP address is. This is very handy for networking your computers [...]

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Windows Seven Tips – Change your folder list view

May 31, 2010

Windows seven has a similar feature to the earlier versions of Windows for changing the way you view your files and folders. however it may have a few extra options and also the settings will be in a different area. This video tutorial will show you how to change the folder view in Windows Seven. [...]

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Backup your email local folders in Outlook Express

May 30, 2010

By Mitz If you want to transfer your email folders which include the inbox, outbox, etc to another computer or just back them up, I will tell you the hidden path to where they are stored. They are not only stored deep in your computer, but is also classifies as a hidden folder in Windows. [...]

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Hide Facebook Friends from Friends

May 28, 2010

If you’ve recently joined a biker gang or secretly become a regular customer at the local tattoo parlour, you may want to keep your acquaintances private. This task is easy in real life but in the virtual world of Facebook, your life is an open book. Perhaps Openbook would have been a better marketing plan. [...]

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