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So you want to create an iTunes account to download the latest free iPhone apps from Apple’s App Store? The only catch is that it requires you to enter a credit card number. If you prefer not to give Apple your credit card info at this time (or some other way of getting your money), [...]

As you are traveling around the world, knowing a bit about your host country can be valuable. It can help you avoid embarrassing situations or it can help you close that business deal. This is where websites like Travel Etiquette (via Lifehacker) or Buzzle come in handy. The descriptions for the countries and cultures I [...]

Changing the extension on a file can be very useful, but Windows does not make it easy. However, if you turn on “show file name extensions” in Windows, you can change the extensions by simply renaming the files. Microsoft explains how to show or hide file name extensions on Vista. And Media College explains how [...]

Symbolic links are used all the time on Linux and Unix systems, but I didn’t know they existed on Windows. It turns out, however, that Windows 2000 and higher also supports symbolic links — or junctions as they are called. You can use the program Junction v1.05 to create a link between two directories. This [...]

Now that computers have become so powerful, it is possible to simultaneously run multiple operating systems on a single computer. I like to use Windows as my main operation system, but sometimes I need access to a Linux system. Dual-booting Windows an Linux is possible, but often I want to juggle back and forth between [...]

New York Times has an interesting article about where to go for tech help online. The article mentions a lot of good websites. Personally, I normally rely on Google to find solutions for me, but targeted websites like FixYa and TechIMO can be very useful. We have earlier covered Nodevice.com, which lets you search for [...]

The Microsoft Office Word Team has a blog post on How to Make the Formatting in Your Document Consistent [via Lifehacker]. If you have every worked on a Word document with multiple authors, you know how completely messed up the formatting is when you get the document back. It lacks consistency. The Microsoft Office Word [...]