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Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Ways to Clean Up Your PC SAVE
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Whether it's remnants of that bag of Fritos you ate three years ago lodged in your keyboard or a registry full of broken entries, that old PC of yours could use a little cleaning up. Over time it's easy for Windows to accumulate cruft—like programs you never use but that automatically start up anyway, temporary or duplicate files, multiple desktop shortcuts or gigabytes of data you forgot about hogging up your hard drive. Scrub that old PC up all shiny and new again with today's top 10 ways to clean up your PC.TAGS
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Geek to Live: How to format your hard drive and install Windows XP from scratch SAVE
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How to format your hard drive and reinstall Windows XP from scratch to get back that shiny new operating system feeling untainted by years of wear, tear and added and removed programs.TAGS
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How To: The Idiot-Proof Way To Securely Use Public Wi-Fi SAVE
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We talk a lot on this blog about personal data and privacy, but not so much about how to secure that data on your own computer. That's because a.) we're not Lifehacker and b.) the solutions frequently bloat into crazy, jargon-filled recipes that scare away the non-IT crowd. Not this time! For all you novices, here is a single idea you should consider that will help keep your personal data personal, and make your identity that much harder to steal. Install a VPN program and run it every time you go online using a public Wi-Fi hotspot.TAGS
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08 OCT 08
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27 JUL 08
Ask Lifehacker: Save streaming media? SAVE
While the post instructions are good, the really tasty bits of info are in the comments. I love human filtering.TAGS
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30 JUN 08
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26 JUN 08
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations SAVE
Evaluates the significant role being played by technological advances on the formation and experience of modern group dynamics, citing such examples as Wikipedia and MySpace to demonstrate the Internet's power in bridging geographical and cultural gaps. RTAGS
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USC Interactive Media Division SAVE
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Has an awesome lab where people can project computer stuff onto screens along the wall, & are allowed one backchannel on the wall, to share online stuff. Awesome. As seen at Foresight 2020.TAGS
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13 MAY 08
Conversants and more stuff about library school students " Words For Nerds SAVE
I tried to comment on this post, but I kept getting a blank white page with the word "discarded" on it. With no contact form in sight, tagging it is my only option.TAGS
