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iPad side of life

It’s official I and family own an iPad, It was only a matter of time, and with that I am admitting that I was wrong. Never say never.

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Happy Diwali

To all of my friends, and readers who are celebrating Diwali I and my family wish you, yours and loved ones Happy Diwali. | May you share your triumph of light over darkness and knowledge over ignorance always.   [youtube id=”HrrW3rO51ak” width=”600″ height=”350″]   History The history of Diwali is replete with legends and these legends are […]

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How to Restart or Shutdown Windows 8 from Remote Desktop

You are looking for a way to restart Windows 8 from a remote desktop session. You have come to the right place. I’m going to help you get past missing the good old Windows 7 method of clicking Start > Windows Security > and Restart / Shutdown. For Windows 8 things have changed. The way […]

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gas rationing tips by Jermal

gas rationing tips by Jermal: 1. You find yourself on an odd number day and your plate ends with a even number and you need gas bad to get to work, get home. Find a friend or someone who is nice who will allow you to swap plates. The license plate swap should only take you […]

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How-To Software

disable uTorrent featured torrent banner

I downloaded the new uTorrent (µTorrent 3.2.1) client and was annoyed by this new banner for featured torrents to download. I looked up and down in the preference and after some extensive searching was able to find out how. by going to Preferences, and then Advanced. In the filter, type in “sponsored”. This will give you “sponsored_torrent_offer_enabled“. Set that to […]

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Issue: Outlook Address Book Not Updating

Symptoms: New users added to Exchange 2010 do not show up in global address book Tests Performed: 1. Searched for new users from Outlook – This failed 2. Searched for new users from OWA – This works 3. Put Outlook in non-cached mode and searched – this worked Suspected Problem: Offline Address Book Generation is […]