VisiPics - My Favorite Duplicate Photo Finder

Finds multiple copies of photos across your hard drive. Free program that gets thumbs up across the web. Both CNET editors and CNET readers give the program 4 out of 5 stars. Fantastic program.

VisiPics - Free software downloads and software reviews - CNET Downloads

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Easy Way to Keep HTML in Blog from Executing

Here's how to keep code from executing in your blog post when you are trying to show what the code looks like (rather than have it execute):

Instead of the left pointing caret, put this: & l t ; (put all 4 characters with no spaces) to produce: <
Instead of the right pointing caret, put this: & g t ; (put all 4 characters with no spaces) to product: >
EXAMPLE:

To produce this:

<form action="/search" method="get">
<input name="q" type="text"/>

<input value="Search" type="submit"/>

</form>

I typed this (although this is a picture here):

Good basic HTML

http://www.websitetoad.com/html-basic-code.htm

How to remove the Spaces left in your RSS Feed after removing AdSense

What worked for me was to unsubscribe from the feed. Then subscribe again. No more big white space in my feed! Yes, that really worked.

Of course all of your followers would likely have to do the same. Really, Adsense needs to fix this.

Update 7/31/2011--
Perhaps you can try this email address for Google AdSense: adsense-support@google.com Don't know where that will get you but found it here: Google AdSense Terms and Conditions

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SMS Message Retrieval from Blackberry

Great tool to retrieve text messages from your phone. Thanks to http://code.google.com/p/ipddump/. Please refer to that site to download the utility.

"The ipddump is a utility that enables the user to... extract records from a Blackberry backup, which is an IPD (Inter@ctive Pager Backup) file."

Digital-QA is also posting the steps below (to be performed after downloading the utility) in case something happens to the site:

Desktop Version 6.0.1.18:

1.Connect your Blackberry and open the Desktop Manager.
2.Click Device > Backup
3.Select the data you want to save (SMS Messages).
4.Give it a file name and tell it what directory to place the file.
5.Click "Backup".
6.Open the ipddump application.
7.Select File > Open and open the file that you just downloaded.

I like to save as .CSV files and open via Excel. Then you can sort on any attribute (e.g. phone number that sent the text) and delete what you don't want to keep.

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How to Remove Apps from LinkedIn

1. Click your name in upper right hand corner and select "Settings".
2. Click "Groups, Companies & Applications" (in the body mid-to-lower left)
3. Under "Applications" click "View your applications".
4. Click to delete the Apps to be removed.

Where do I Remove Facebook Apps?

Select "Account" (upper right hand corner) > "Privacy Settings" > "Edit your Settings" under "Apps and Websites" (lower left hand corner) > "Remove" under "Apps you use" and remove any you don't want by clicking the little x beside "Edit settings" for that App.

Run Program as an Administrator

Right click the app you are trying to use and select "Run as Administrator".

How to Make the Long Dashes

There's the En dash, the Em dash, and the plain old hyphen. When to use them and how to make them.

Never use a hyphen when you mean a dash. Mostly hypens are for making a word (like X-ray) or for writing out numbers (twenty-one). 

To make the Em dash (which is the more popular between Em and En):

On a laptop, press the NumLk key then hold down ALT and type 0 1 5 1 (these are the numbers on the keys that were alpha-characters before you pressed ALT—not the row of numbers across the top of the keyboard) and release ALT. As soon as you lift your finger off the ALT key the Em dash will appear. Tap the NumLk key again to return to alpha characters. Of course if you have a keypad, you don't need to press the NumLk key. (On the Mac I understand it's shift, option, hyphen - but haven't verified)

The En dash would be ALT and 0 1 5 0 (generally used to separate two numbers, such as in a date (2011–12) or score (5–0).

In Microsoft Word, Excel, etc., it's easier:

First try typing two dashes one after the other—this works sometimes.

Otherwise, for the Em dash, you still need to press the NumLk key, then CTRL+ALT+Dash (the one that's available because you pressed the NumLk key—mine is on the same key as my colon/simi-colon).

For En dash, press the NumLk key, then CTRL+Dash

If you can't be bothered, simply cut/paste:
- (hyphen)
– (en-dash)
— (em-dash)

...there you go.

Let Grammer Girl tell you when and how to use them!

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Excel - How to Customize the Quick Access Toolbar

Click on the Office-logo Button at the top-left, then click on the "Excel Options" button (at the bottom right of that dialog box), then choose "Customize". Here you can add/remove commands.

Excel 2007, 2010.