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Windows 7 Tips: Start Windows Explorer From My Computer



Windows Explorer opens in the Libraries directory by default. Most of us are used to see the My Computer page instead.

To change it to My Computer, press the Windows Key, then type “explorer”, select Properties and in the Shortcut tab type “%SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /root,::{20D04FE0-3AEA-1069-A2D8-08002B30309D}”.

Now you have to right-click the Explorer icon in the Taskbar and hit “Unpin this program from the taskbar” and then drag it back from the Start Menu.
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Windows 7 Tips: Problem Step Recorder



The Problem Step Recorder is a great tool that can be used in many circumstances. You can turn it on by pressing the Windows Key, then typing “PSR.exe” and click Record.

Now it will record all your moves and save them as a HTML document that you can view or write descriptions to it. This can help you with troubleshooting or when writing a guidance or tutorial.
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YoVille Tips and Tricks: How To Get More Money in YoVille

YoVille Tips and Tricks: How To Get More Money in YoVille

To get more money on YoVille, visit friends often. Each time you visit a friend, the game will give you a few extra points. Think about it, if you have 50 friends, and just bounce around from one house to the next, you can quickly accumulate points in the game. With more money, you can buy more home furnishings, plants, and other accessories you need to get your home designed just the way you want it.




Adding friends will also let you accumulate more points on YoVille. Add all of your Facebook friends, even if they are currently in an offline status. You will still get a few points for each Facebook friend you add.

Dropping water balloons on friends is yet another way to get more money on YoVille. Each water balloon you drop on a friend who is not looking will earn you a quick 20 points, and considering this is a very entertaining part of the game, you should have no trouble dropping water balloons often, leading to a quick accumulation of points.

You can also make money at the raceway on YoVille. Each time you win a race, you will get an added 10 coins. You can continue racing for up to 20 races, which means if you are the winner of all 20 races, you have a quick 200 coins to spend.

Enjoy the trick! Have fun!
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Windows 7 Tips: Open A Folder In A New Process



Windows 7 opens all folders in the same process in order to save resources, but this means if one folder crashes, they all crash. So if you feel like that’s a risk you don’t have to take, then you have to open them all in their own processes.

In order to open a window in a new process, hold down Shift button, right-click the drive and “Open in New Process”. Now you will be safe.
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Chrome Extension For Twitter: Twitter Stream



Chrome Extension For Twitter: Twitter Stream

You can make Twitter streams whether they are your homepage stream or a search stream refresh automatically. Tweets pour fluidly down the page, saving you from having to bother with the “X new tweets” clickable bar.
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How To Change If Your Homepage Is Set To Ask.com



Question: My homepage is set to Ask.com, how do I change it?

Internet Explorer and Firefox allow you to change your browser home page at any time.

Internet Explorer allows you to change your browser home page at any time. In the Internet Explorer browser address bar, select "Tools" and then "Internet Options" from the drop down menu. Type your desired home page in the "Home Page" section in the top of the window. Once your desired homepage has been entered you will then need to click "Apply" to ensure all changes have taken place.

In the Firefox browser address bar, select "Tools" and then "Options" from the drop down menu. Navigate to the "Main" tab and then type your desired home page in the "Home page" form at the top of the window. Once your desired homepage has been entered you will then need to click "OK" to ensure all changes have taken place.
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Windows 7 Tips: How To Turn Off Send Feedback Tool



If for some reason, you’re still using the Beta version of Windows 7 and if you feel disturbed by “Send Feedback button”, there is a way to turn it off. Press the Windows Key and type ‘regedit’, then go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop and set Feedback Tool Enabled to 0.

After you restart the computer, it shouldn’t be there anymore. Also, if you want to turn it on again, set the Feedback Tool Enabled to 3.
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Chrome Extension For Twitter: Twitter Watch (Real Time Twitter Update)



Chrome Extension For Twitter: Twitter Watch (Real Time Twitter Update)

This tool is very useful for anyone wanting a lightweight way to watch keywords and topics, especially if they are topical memes.

Installing it will place a little blue “t” button on the right-hand side of your browser bar, which, when clicked, lets you manage your keyword phrases.

Once you’ve set up the words you want watched, a tiny number will appear on the “t” letting you know how many mentions the word has racked up. Clicking it again will let you see the mentions in full.
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Windows 7 Tips: Turn Off Smart Window Arrangement



If you don’t like Windows 7’s new features that arrange your windows intelligently, there’s an easy way to turn it off.

To turn off smart window, press the Windows Logo Key, type “regedit”, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop and set WindowArrangementActive to 0. After you reboot your system the smart arrangements will be turned off.
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Cafe World Tips and Tricks: Cafe World Free Renovation Goals

Cafe World Tips and Tricks: Cafe World Free Renovation Goals

The Free goal series is 3 parts and by completing them you win tons of stainless steel kitchen supplies for your cafe. Complete the goals below to get cool stainless steel prizes. If you have any suggestions please comment below.




Free Renovations.
* Serve eggs Benedict (7)
* Serve bacon and eggs (7)
* Ask for 5 ladders (5)

Reward:
Stainless Wall Oven

Free Matching Set
* Serve 7 Fish n Chips (7)
* Ask for 7 Lunchboxes (7)
* Ask for 7 coolers (7)

Reward:
Stainless Steel Cabinet
Stainless Steel Sink

Free Steel Counter
* Serve Ginger Plum Pork Chops (35)
* Ask for 9 Bibs (9)
* Ask for 9 Serving Bowls (9)

Reward:
Stainless Steel Counter

Hope you like this tip! Enjoy!
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Chrome Extension For Web Designers: Web Developer Toolbar



Chrome Extension For Web Designers: Web Developer Toolbar

Web Developer Toolbar was originally a popular Firefox extension, but it’s available for Chrome now, too. It does a myriad of things with CSS, HTML, forms, and images. You just click a button in the top-right corner of the browser to view all the options. Consider it a jack of all trades extension; you can view CSS or disable CSS styles, resize things and more.

Chris Pederick created Web Developer Toolbar for Firefox, and he’s working on the Chrome version now. “It’s still in the early stages of development, but it’s a good start to move some of the features from the Firefox version of the plugin over to Chrome,” he admitted. “I’m working on the next release right now in fact which will include the ‘Edit CSS’ functionality.”
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Windows 7 Tips: How To Turn Off Security Messages



To turn off security messages you have to go to Control Panel -> System and Security -> Action Center -> Change Action Center Settings and you can turn off the following notifications: Windows Update, Internet Security Settings, Network Firewall, Spyware and related protection, User Account Control, Virus Protection, Windows Backup, Windows Troubleshooting, Check for updates.
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Ask.com Features Not Accessible When AskEraser Is On

What features of Ask.com are not accessible when AskEraser is on?

When AskEraser is on, you will not be able to use a number of personalization options available on the Ask.com site. The primary reason for this is that each of these options requires us to set cookies, requires you to log-in, etc.




Some examples of key personalization features that you will not be able to use when AskEraser is on are:

  • Homepage Theme: You will not be able to choose a background, or "theme", for your homepage.
  • Ask.com community: You will not be able to use or log in to Ask.com community while using AskEraser.

If you have turned on AskEraser and try to use a personalization option, you will prompted with a pop-up to let you decide whether you would like to turn off AskEraser.
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Cafe World Tips and Tricks: Cafe World Valentine’s Day Dinner

Cafe World Tips and Tricks: Cafe World Valentine’s Day Dinner

Cafe World Valentine’s Day Dinner is the 23rd Catering Order. “The story here is Be Cupid’s Helper and cater a romantic dinner!”

You don’t need Catering Points to unlock this catering order!

Like the rest of the catering orders you need to complete this in a certain amount of time to get a reward with the longer it taking the less the reward is.




In order to complete this order you need to cook and serve the following :

Recipe Amount Cash Time (Hours)

Oyster Shooter 120 35 01:00

Sauteed Turbot 85 40 06:00

Creme Brulee 51 50 20:00

You can get up to 18 additional Neighbors to help for a crew of 19. You can also add extra slots by completing Get the Proper Gear.

Reward:
Time : Cater Points: Cafe Points: Coins: Item:
less than 5 days 15 7,140 160,650 Love Cake
between 5 and 7 days 10 5,100 114,750
more than 7 days 5 3,060 68,850

Reward Love Cake
Love Cake was first introduced with the 23rd catering order above. To unlock this dish you need to complete Valentine’s Day Dinner with a 3 star rating.
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Crime City Tips: Coin Farming And How To Earn Money

First of all, not many people who play Crime City, put very much focus into monetizing their 'hoods and coin farming, but doing a little bit of coin farming can earn you huge monetary bonuses. Buildings are cheap, and buying the right buildings can earn you huge amounts of extra dough.

The single best coin-farming building to buy is the basketball court, which takes up 4 times the space of a house or a laundromat, but earns you 315 coins every 24 hours, and costs just 260 coins and 1 steel to build. Build multiple basketball courts, and upgrade them for cheap (upgrading a building increases its earnings potential by half the amount of coins that it earned you to begin with - for example, upgrading a building that earns you 10 coins, will cause it to earn you 15 coins - upgrading it again will earn you 20 coins, and upgrading it again, 25 coins - etc). Upgrading one basketball court 3 times causes it to earn you 787 coins every 24 hours. Upgrading it 4 times causes it to earn you 945 coins every 24 hours.




If you need to make room for even more basketball courts, go to your store, go to "eraser", click "buy", and then erase as many roads as you need to erase to make room for building basketball courts in close proximity to each other. You don't need roads at all - they are just for decoration, and erasing them lets you build more buildings, coin farm effectively, and overall earn more money.

When you level up, you can use your allotted points to increase either energy, attack or defense. Use about 90% of them on energy, as energy is the most important asset in the game as it allows you to do that much more jobs. Increase energy as much as possible.

Follow the goals on the left side of the page in order to know which jobs to do when, and in what order to do them. Following goals maximizes how much money you make for the energy, as more goals completed earns you more bonus money and experience. When you're in an area, any job location with a green arrow pointed at it is one that counts toward your immediate job goal.

Take advantage of free gifts from defeated opponents as much as possible, especially strong ones. Fight tough area bosses (I.E. Big Daddy Remi) over and over to increase your chances of winning free weapons and armor (Remi especially has some strong loot, such as Remi's Little Friend and Remi's Beret).

And very importantly, and this is where all of the extra coin-farming cash comes in, buy as many different types of weapons and armor as possible. Each one your purchase will increase your attack and defense by the applicable amount, as well as your total of weapons and armor owned. Buying more than one of the same kind of weapon or armor, though, will do absolutely nothing for you.

Hope this helps. Thanks for reading.
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Windows 7 Tips: How To Turn Off System Notifications



System notifications are usually disturbing and aren’t always useful, so you might want to turn some of them off and do not use this function. Turning off system notifications can be done in Windows 7 by double clicking the Notification Area Icons in Control Panel.

Form there you can change notifications and icons for the Action Center, Network, Volume, Windows Explorer, Media Center Tray Applet, Windows Update Automatic Updates.
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Call of Duty Black Ops Tips and Tricks: How To Use The Edges Of The Map

This a good tutorial on how to use the edges of the map in Call of Duty Black Ops game. The center of the map, especially in objective-based modes like Domination and Headquarters, is a merciless meat grinder. Those who run through are basically asking to be shot at from all sides and killed before they can accomplish anything positive for their team.


Covering the middle of the map, as a lot of top players know, is a great way to get a ton of kills, taking out those who fail to heed the advice in the first paragraph of this section. If you need to get from one side of the map to another, and you’d like to arrive alive, your best bet is to move around the edges of the map. Out here, chances are there’s only one way for an enemy to come at you, and you can pay attention to that approach as you move. In the center of the map, there are just too many potential hiding spots and approaches to cover.

Move around the outside, stay alive, and take or defend that position you’re headed for, rather than dying before you’re halfway there. Got it?

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Ask Power Tools Add On For Mozilla Firefox



Ask Power Tools Extends Firefox with Ask.com features.

How to Use it:

Select text on page, right-click, then expand the "Ask Power Search" option to see specific Ask.com features you can send your query to.

Currently supports the following searches: Web, blogs, dictionary, encyclopedia, images, MyStuff, maps (and driving directions), news, products, and thesaurus. The driving directions feature shows any locations you previously saved in your Ask.com profile.

If you don't like the additional real estate consumed by toolbars, this is the extension for you!

Hope you like it!
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