HOWTO Open Links in Outlook Emails with Firefox

I have recently started using Outlook with my Gmail account. I use Outlook at work, and am very comfortable with it. However, I don’t like it that my links open in IE rather than Firefox.
Solution:
1. Open a Windows Explorer folder
2. Select Tools and then Folder Options
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HOWTO Sort Start Menu Items by Name

When you install new software or manually reorder items on the Start menu, it is no longer alphabetized by Windows. To keep the programs on your start menu sorted in alphabetical order, here’s what to do:

Click Start -> Programs
Mouseover an item on the Programs list
Right-click or hit the context menu button (or Shift+F10)
Select “Sort by [...]

Windows Command Line Auto Completion

Having explained this to a number of people in as many days, I thought I’d share this tip for working with long paths on the command line.  The easist way to expalin this is to jump in feet first:

Open a command line (<Windows Key>-R, CMD<Enter> is engrained in my hands at this point in my [...]

Cool Notepad Trick

This neat trick came across on an internal alias.  I hadn’t seen this before, but I’m guessing it isn’t new. Pretty handy for notetaking (if you’re a plain text sort of guy/gal).

Open a blank Notepad file

Write .LOG (in uppercase) in the first line of the file, followed by Enter. Save the file and close it.

Double-click [...]

Rapidshare Hacks, Downloads, Tools and Searches

Rapidshare hacks, downloaders for rapidshare, no timelimit, unlimited downloads, free premium accounts. Those are some of the keywords that users are looking for. I thought it would be nice to write a definite guide about rapidshare. Which rapidshare hacks, tools and tricks are working, which are not. Rapidshare imposes a download and timelimit on non [...]

How to use RSS Feeds

This topic might not look interesting at first glance but I promise it will be worth reading it. More than 900 readers subscribed to the feeds of ghacks.net using feedburner alone while many more are using different services to read my feeds. But what are feeds ? They are a short abstract of every article [...]

A Beginners Guide to the PC

A Beginner’s Guide to What Goes on Inside that PC published by extremetech a few days ago tries to explain the components of a personal computer without the “geek” language. It aims at a audience that did not have the time or desire to understand how a pc is working. The eight-parts article begins with [...]

Howto convert Avi, Divx and Xvid to DVD

This guide might be useful for you if you have some avi / divx / xvid movie files and want to watch them on the big television screen. I don´t like watching long movies on the computer, can´t exactly describe why but it feels out of place somehow. A nice way to watch those movies [...]

How to add a Google Map to any web page in 30 seconds.

1) Go to WikiMapia.org site and find a part of the map that you need.2) Click WikiMapia at the top right corner and choose map on your page link.3) Move and resize frame you see to desired view, adjust view setting if needed and copy given html code to your page or blog.
That’s all.
Here is [...]

How Google Indexes Content From Your Web Directory

In a fluke, I was able to notice something about the way Google indexes content from web directories. Excluding your template, the most important line of code is the first title you add to your main body.
Search through Google and see for yourself!
Try searching for “something” in “yourcity”,”province/state” and look for a web business directory [...]

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