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Sometimes, you may want to be able to take your torrenting capabilities along with you. There’s an easy way to do this – and the program itself is barely 1 mb! You can keep torrents, keep partially completed downloads (assuming your flash drive is large enough), or whatever, all in your thumb drive. To find out how to do this, keep reading.

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If you have ever used WordPress on any of your websites, you may have noticed that it likes to take over everything that’s in its subdirectories and redirect any error 404’s (file not found) to its own custom error page. This is a very big problem when you try to password protect a directory using an .htaccess file (or through cPanel). WordPress will grab that page and redirect it to “file not found”, since it asks you to log in (but WP doesn’t like that). Thankfully, there are two solutions that may work for you. Keep reading to see them.

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If you are a television aficionado, you probably have noticed that there are more and more TV shows that have captured your interest, and it’s getting difficult to keep track of when each show is airing (and if it’s even on that week). You may have already read about our article on How to Automatically Download Your Favorite TV Shows, but for one reason or another, TED may not be enough. Sometimes, you just want to know if there is an episode that will air this week just so you can either look forward or… not look forward to that day.

You may also have embraced Google Calendar or iCal to keep track of your life’s daily activities and be your personal secretary (I know I have), and so here’s a great way to automatically update your gCal or iCal with the airdates/airtimes of your favorite episodes with no interaction from you. It’s a good-old set-it-and-forget-it. Keep reading for the info.

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With the recent release of Firefox v3.5, I’m sure many people have upgraded their old versions of Firefox to take advantage of some of the new features that were placed in this release. However, there also seemed to be some “downgrades” (or maybe just bugs) in the release that I’m surprised that the developers/testers didn’t catch. For example, if you click a link in an external program (like an IM client such as AIM for example), and you have Firefox set as your default browser, the link will open up in the last tab you have open (rather than opening a new tab). In older versions of Firefox, the setting under Tools -> Options -> Tabs -> “Open New Windows in a New Tab Instead” would allow you to open external links in new tabs. However, now, it does not. Thankfully, there is a simple fix for it – keep reading for the solution.

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If you are just going into college, you probably just received your college email account – and it most likely uses some ugly webmail based client. (This also applies to jobs, etc that supply you with email addresses.) You probably also have a Gmail account that you use (since Gmail is so awesome). If you don’t you can sign up for one at the Gmail website. If you absolutely hate your online web email account and yearn for the ability to send and receive your college emails to with your Gmail account, fret no more! There is a very simple and straightforward method of doing this. Keep reading for the step by step guide.

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If you are in the market to purchase a new computer or laptop (especially for those college-bound freshmen!), you are in great luck. Windows 7 is the next Windows operating system (like Windows XP and Windows Vista), and it is tremendously better than Vista ever can be. Not only is it much faster and streamlined, but its user interface is also much better. It has multiple features for backwards compatibility for Windows XP programs.

However, nowadays, almost all computers (and laptops) come with Windows Vista. In fact, companies charge you extra if you want to downgrade to Windows XP. Being a computer geek myself (as are many others out there), I have absolutely refused to touch Vista ever since it was released. I tried out the beta for Windows 7 and I was blown away – I can’t wait for the actual release of that amazing operating system. I also happen to be in the market for a laptop, but I found that all the good laptops seem to ship with Windows Vista preinstalled (which I can’t stand). Rather than having to dish out $100 or more when Microsoft finally releases Windows 7, I did some research and found out how to get a free upgrade from Vista to 7 (when it comes out). Keep reading for the simple, official, and legal way of doing this.

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If you’ve browsed websites, you may have seen certain links or images that indicate an “RSS Feed”, but may not have any idea what that means. An RSS feed basically is a link to a file that updates whenever the site itself updates, and you can use this feed with other websites or softwares to alert you when there is an update to the original site. However, not everybody has access to some sort of RSS reader (whether it’s Google Reader or simply Google Personalized Homepage).

However, if you still want to be alerted when there is an update to a specific site, there is a very simple way. Keep reading for the guide.

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If you have ever used a digital camera before, you probably have noticed that there is some sort of “Format Memory Card” option, which basically deletes all the pictures on the memory card. However, this can be painful if you accidentally format your memory card (or even if you accidentally delete one or two pictures that you really wanted).

The first and most important thing to keep in mind if this happens is DO NOT TAKE ANY MORE PICTURES, OR USE THE MEMORY CARD AT ALL. All recovery programs that can undelete your files rely on the fact that when a file gets deleted, the actual data isn’t erased (at least until something overwrites the section where it is written/saved). Keep reading for the guide on how to recover your deleted or formatted files.

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If you have always wanted to have a blog, but have been frightened that somebody who shouldn’t read it may read it, have no fear. There are always ways to protect your content. Sure, you can always use the .htaccess file to password protect the entire blog directory, but that looks ugly. You can also password protect individual posts, but then you have to do that for each one, and also your titles are not hidden. The most effective way to protect your blog would be to just allow access to only registered users, and then disable user registration (so that you have sole control of who reads your blog). You can do this without even installing a plugin, but by simply making a small tweak of one of your theme files. Keep reading for the guide.

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The leading website in streaming television is currently Hulu.com, as you probably know. It hosts a wide variety of different TV shows as well as movies, and one can spend days simply watching everything. However, It can become difficult keeping track of what you have already watched, and also keeping track of when new episodes are watchable online (since it takes a few days between the actual airing and the online availability of the show to occur). However, Hulu has incorporated an extremely useful feature that can assist in all your woes. Keep reading for the full information.

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