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How to Set Up Earthlink Email in Outlook

By eHow Computers Editor

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Microsoft Outlook has been responsible for sending, receiving and managing billions of email messages around the world. You can setup Outlook to check your Earthlink email for you... more »

How to Set Up Thunderbird in Windows Vista

By Cric

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Mozilla Thunderbird is free e-mail client, which offers excellent way to customize your email to suit your specific needs with powerful security and privacy features. It supports POP and IMAP communication protocols. Before you can use ... more »

How to Set Up Your Thunderbird Email in Windows Vista

By Daethian

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Install Mozilla Thunderbird email client on your Windows Vista system... more »

How to Shop for Chemical Engineering Software

By eHow Computers Editor

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The chemical engineering profession is the domain of intelligent professionals with a wealth of knowledge. Until the advent of engineering software, chemical engineers had to determine chemical reactions and measurements in long hand. Today, you ... more »

How to Shop for Sheet Music Designer Software

By eHow Computers Editor

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From the most basic sheet music program to integrated systems that "read" your music and transpose it while you play, sheet music designer software has taken the art of composing music into the digital age. Before you buy a sheet music designer ... more »

How to shortlist CRM vendors?

By Pathikrit

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Mid Sized Businesses are increasingly finding it hard to shortlist the CRM vendors before they start the technical and commercial evaluation. I have listed some points which may serve as a roadmap to CRM vendor shortlisting... more »

How to Show or Hide Palettes in Adobe Photoshop

By msmarymac

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While Adobe Photoshop may seem intimidating to the novice user, it is easy to learn some of the simple functions on an individual basis. If you are struggling with a small amount of work space on your monitor, or need more space to work with a ... more »

How to Sign Up for SBCglobal Email

By eHow Computers Editor

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SBCglobal has become one of the largest providers of Internet service in the USA. Recent purchases and mergers have made this subsidiary of AT&T even bigger than it was just a few of years ago. Every week, thousands of people sign up for ... more »

How to Sort a Text, Date, or Number List in Word 2003

By SeventhSibling

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Excel isn’t the only Microsoft product that can sort. You can sort one or more columns of text or numbers in Word, and in ascending or descending order... more »

How to Sort Files and Folders From Open Screen in Word

By SeventhSibling

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From within Word, when viewing the dialogue box to open a file, you can sort the items displayed by any of the headers.. more »

How to Speed Up Adobe Photoshop

By ChrisClark

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There are a couple of simple steps you can take to speed up your Adobe Photoshop experience. While these won't turn an obsolete computer into a speed demon, they can help get the most out of Photoshop... more »

How to speed up your adobe acrobat reader

By animationeasy

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Do u get irritated when acrobat reader takes 5/10 seconds to load when you want to open a pdf document. There is a way to speed up the loading... more »

How to Spell-Check a Web Page With Dreamweaver

By eHow Internet Editor

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Spelling errors can make your page seem amateurish and unprofessional. Always use the spell-check feature before publishing a page. This tutorial uses Macromedia Dreamweaver 3.0... more »

How to Start a DVD Menu Using Adobe Encore

By msmarymac

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If you have finished your movie and are ready to create a DVD, a great program to use is Adobe Encore. The first thing you will need for your DVD is a menu. Here are a few steps on how to start a Menu for your DVD... more »

How to Start Using BitTorrent

By eHow Computers Editor

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BitTorrent has rapidly come to prominence among downloaders because of its easy to use programs and fast download speeds. BitTorrent shares many of the best features of server-based and peer-based downloading in one simple package. File records ... more »

How to start using Moot

By howtoto

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This is an introduction to how you easily start using the location based social software - Moot. Moot is a mobile and laptop application that lets you discover your digital landscape through other users... And please let me know if any of you are ... more »

How to Start Your Computer in Safe Mode, For Windows XP

By RLRhodes

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There are times when you may want to start your computer in "safe mode". Safe mode only loads a limited set of drivers, so you may not access the internet, and your computer screen resolution will probably be coarser. Safe mode is ... more »

How to stop junk email

By candctroll

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While eliminating all junk email is impossible there are ways to considerably reduce the number you receive each week. Read below for 4 simple tricks to help stop junk email... more »

How to stop Mozilla Firefox from asking to remember passwords

By Hank Beasley

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By default Mozilla Firefox is set to ask you if you want it to remember various passwords as you use the internet. If you are like me you have so many online accounts that require a password that this password remembering prompt pop up becomes ... more »

How to Submit An Article After Digg Says Your Topic Is Not Valid

By RLRhodes

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Have you ever tried to submit an article to Digg, only to get a message saying that "The topic you chose is not valid"? I've had times were I entered one or two articles, only to have Digg refuse to accept the topic of the following ... more »

How to Submit Your Site To Top 66 Search Engines

By dovinea

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Learn how to get a free program that allows you to submit to top 66 search engines at once... more »

How to surround in warcraft 3

By biohazardpwns

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Basic techniques on surrounding hero's in warcraft 3... more »

How to test regular expression (regex) online

By colossus

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Regular expression (regex) is powerful. It is almost supported by all modern programming languages. It is important to master regular expression. It will improve your productivity once you master the powerful tool. However, it is sort of hard to ... more »

How to To Change the Frame Rate of a File in Adobe Premiere Pro

By msmarymac

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you begin your initial edit with your imported clip files, you may discover a clip or two that needs its length adjusted. You can do that by changing the frame rate of the clip, or by adjusting its speed with Adobe Premiere Pro... more »

How to Track Weight Watcher Flex Points in Excel

By eHow Computers Editor

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Weight Watchers is one way to help you reach your ideal weight. The plan uses a point system for foods to calculate the amount of food you can eat per day. The Flex Point system gives you additional points to use as you want every week. While ... more »