In the Old days I used to place my most used folders as menu items in my Window Taskbar. And I recently re-discovered this function and fell in love with the idea all over again. If you have one folder that you constantly access it can be annoying to always “go look” for it or to have it waste space as an open folder in your taskbar – so why not add it as a taskbar item.

As I’m spending a lot of time here on mintywhite, writing, there is one folder I am constantly saving images and other useful items into, now I can access that folder without leaving what ever it is that I’m working on.

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You may find that, using your ISP’s DNS (Domain Name Servers), sites can take a while to load. OpenDNS is the answer to that! From the mouth of OpenDNS, “OpenDNS is the world’s leading provider of Internet navigation and security. Make your network safer, faster, smarter and more reliable without the cost and complexity of traditional security services.” OpenDNS also has “typo correction”, in which, if you were to type craigslist.og, it’d automatically redirect you to craigslist.org. It also has a phishing site blocker, which wouldn’t let you go to any sites known to be fraudulent. One of the other many features is that, from the control panel online, you can configure it to block different categories of sites (so maybe you want pornography and social networking sites blocked, and it gets done!), even better, it won’t let you through to proxies, so you can’t bypass it!

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I’m sure a lot of you have seen the new mockups for Firefox 4.0, and I’m sure you agree with me when I say that it looks wonderful.  Well, would you like to see how to get all of those cool new features now?  Well, with this collection of addons, you can get all of those cool new features and the brand new look.  Please note, that the exact look is determined by StrataBuddy, and most of these are needed to get this working properly.  So install away and enjoy the brand new features.

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This week I’ve showed you how to share files and stream media on your home network. This is pretty cool stuff; however, you may want to take this one step further and share your files anywhere in the world. In this guide, I’ll show you how to do this in one of the most simple ways possible–by using a program called Orb.

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If you – like me – have certain programs you prefer to always run in a maximized window (filling the entire screen) you are probably wearing out your Maximize button each time you run it. Here’s a small tip for you on how to make single applications always open maximized.

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After you’ve had your computer for a while, and have visited a lot of websites, you are (unfortunately) bound to have malware on your system, which can both slow it down, and invade your privacy. Malwarebytes’ Anti-Malware is the most effective anti-malware utility I have ever used!

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