How to Use Windows

One of the biggest annoyances for those going straight from XP to Windows 7 is that the backspace key no longer moves you Up a folder like it used to—now it moves you Back in the folder browsing history. If you’ve used the key a couple of times, you might think I’m wrong—but you can easily test it out by going into one subfolder, then hitting Back, then going into another subfolder and hitting Back, then going into a third subfolder and hitting Back twice. You’ll end up in the previous subfolder. If you want to go Up a folder in either Windows 7 or Vista, you can use the Alt+Up shortcut key, which will always go to the parent folder. The Awesome AutoHotkey Fix Now that we know the shortcut key that actually works in Windows 7, we can use a small script to make it work the way we really want it to

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Have you been waiting for IE Tab integration in Google Chrome? Now you can easily add it in with the IE Tab Classic extension. Installation & Settings Installation is quick and easy… All that you will need to do is click “Install” when the confirmation window appears.

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Are you looking for an application launcher with built-in extra functionality for your computer and the web? Then join us as we take a look at Blaze. What Blaze Looks Like Blaze is simple to set up on your computer and once started, this is what it looks like. To access Blaze, use the hotkey sequence…the default is “Alt+Ctrl+Space” but can be easily changed to better suit your needs in the settings

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Is your computer in an odd place where you sometimes find yourself accidentally hitting the power button and it shuts down in the middle of using it? Here we take a look at how to remedy the problem by instructing the power button what to do when it’s pressed. Open Control Panel and select Power Options, then on the left side click on Choose what the power button does .

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Are you tired of the default New Tab Page in Chrome and wanting something different? Then join us as we take a look at getting an iGoogle-styled New Tab Page in Google Chrome. Before Here is the current default “New Tab Page” in Chrome… Sure, you have thumbnails of recently visited sites and a listing of recently closed tabs but it is not very exciting or customizable. What if you could replace it with a little bit of iGoogle-styled functionality? Installation Installation is quick and simple.

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The powers that be at Twitter have always skirted questions concerning the three-year-old social media company’s lack of a revenue model. With them focusing solely on wooing more and more people to the microblogging platform, profitability seems improbable, if not impossible. But Twitter has managed to do the unthinkable.

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Tesco Mobile has announced that it will be stocking the iPhone 3GS from next week, from the 14 December. It’s a slightly different price structure to the normal iPhone deals handed out by O2 and Orange. The new phone will be available on both PAYG and contract deals, with the price for the pre-pay version starting at £342 for the iPhone 3G 8GB version and heading up to £538 for the 32GB iteration of the 3GS. And on the contract side of things, a 12 month deal will cost you £20 per month, with ‘unlimited’ web and Wi-Fi

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Black Friday. It’s big. There’s a lot of shopping going on. You can acquire goods and services for far below the actual cost of the items. Unless you can catch said deals online, you will likely spend a lot of time fighting your peers for low-priced products

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The guys and gals at Woot have added another portal to their stable of daily deal sites . The deals.woot site is a bit of a departure for Woot. All their preexisting sites feature a product chosen by Woot employees, but deals.woot is a user driven site akin to a Digg for bargain shopping.   Woot has made waves in the tech/geek community by offering a daily deal, which is sometimes an insanely good value. More recently, Woot has expanded to various specialized portals like shirt.woot, wine.woot, and sellout.woot.

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