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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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CyanogenMod 10 now with File Manager

For those using CyanogenMod 10 nightly builds. The popular custom Android distribution now comes with an in-house file manager. CyanogenMod 10 File Manager allows the use of elevated permissions (“root”), to perform various file operations and access all items available on the internal and external storage. What does that mean for me. One less app to […]

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Windows 8 Shortcuts Key Combos

Rather than being an interpreter, the scientist who embraces a new paradigm is like the man wearing inverting lenses. – Thomas Kuhn Hello Friends, so you found your way to Windows 8 and have found some of the many shortcuts. Well I have also, and would like to share this long list that most of us […]

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How to clear Internet Explorer cache in Metro

If you need to clean the browser cache / history in the Metro version of IE 10 do the following: Press the Windows key to get into the Start Screen. Then run Internet Explorer Metro Press Windows + C key combination to open the Charms bar. You can also display it by touching the right […]

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Windows 8 VPN Error 812

I recently bumped into a little issue when connecting to my companies corp network using the VPN Client built into Windows 8. I haven’t run into this issue on XP, Vista, or Windows 7 so I wondered if something was new that may have prevented this. And I guessed it right. After getting the following error: Now […]

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Installing WinPcap on Windows 8

I ran into a little issues while attempting to install Wireshark and Go Deep into my network. In the middle of the install I encountered issues where Wireshark would not capture traffic from my network adapters. The cause of this is due to WinPcap not yet being fully compatible with Windows 8. Knowing this little fact I wanted to install it […]