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How To Disable Audio Enhancements in Windows 7

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A popular post on Technically Easy is where I recommend disabling audio enhancements on Windows Vista to help reduce the CPU usage of the audiodg.exe process. Depending on the enhancements that were enabled, this can have a large effect or no effect on the CPU usage. While the above post covered how to disabled the [...]

10 Important Things I Learned About Blogging

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It has been over three years since I stepped into the blogging arena. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I first started, and while I have made many mistakes, I have learned from all of those mistakes. It was June 2007 when I decided to try my hand a blogging, and I am glad [...]

How to Secure the D-Link WBR-1310 Wireless G Router

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This article will explain how to secure the D-link WBR-1310 Wireless G router. It is important, regardless of which wireless router you use, to secure the router to ensure that unauthorized individuals can’t access your Internet connection, and local network. To prevent someone from accessing your wireless router, it is important to properly secure it. [...]

A List of Common Tags in a Blogger Blog Post Header

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There are many labels and fields that can be modified to change the look of your Blogger blog’s post header. You can choose to use all the available fields, some of the fields, or none of the fields. Since the fields are related to each blog post, you can even display them anywhere on your [...]

Router Configuration Pages Not Displayed Fully in Web Browser

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You may run into an issue where your router’s configuration pages may not display properly, or fully, in your web browser. I have recently seen this issue with a wired router after connecting the router from one computer to another. I reset the router a few times, but the configuration pages in the browser window [...]

How To Load the Contact Form 7 Script for a Contact Page Only

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You can stop the Contact Form 7 plugin’s script and stylesheet from loading on every page of your WordPress blog. While the plugin is a great one to install, since it makes creating contact forms easy, you probably don’t want to load the script and stylesheet on every page. For those that one to get [...]

Find RSS Scrapers with the CopyFeed WordPress Plugin

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A WordPress plugin called CopyFeed or ©Feed can help you track down any RSS feed scrapers that are copying your hard work and publishing it on their blogs. This is a common problem for anyone that authors a blog. While you can’t stop anyone from taking your content and publishing it on their own blog, [...]

Is Your Laptop LCD Becoming Dark?

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I recently had an issue with my wife’s laptop’s LCD slowly becoming dark. It started with the left side slowly getting darker, and soon the darkness would spread across half the screen. It became so bad that it was almost unreadable. This issue occurred regardless of whether the laptop was connected to an AC power [...]