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By default, Apple Wireless keyboard is not functioning at all. In order to make the Wireless Keyboard workable, follow the following steps to setup it: Install the Apple Wireless Keyboard and Mouse software that came with the keyboard. Insert the CD, double-click the installer, and follow the onscreen instructions. Turn the keyboard over, install the batteries as illustrated and replace the battery cover. Open the Bluetooth Setup Assistant. Click Continue . At the Select Device Type panel, select Keyboard. Do not click Continue yet. Using the power switch on the bottom of the keyboard, turn the keyboard on. The light above the power switch should begin to flash. Click Continue . The keyboard's name should appear in the device list of the Search pane. Select the keyboard in the Setup Assistant listing, then click Continue . The assistant will try to pair with the keyboard. When the Setup Assistant prompts you to do so, type the passkey shown in the Setup Assistant on the Apple ...

What is Malicious Software Removal Tool? Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal is a tools to checks computers running Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000 and Windows Server 2003 for infections by malicious software. This tools will helps to remove any infection found and remove it. How to run this tools? Here is the step: Click Start->Run->mrt.exe->ok

If you want send the same email to several people, you might feel frustrated cause you need to enter a lot of email address on the same time even the people are in the same group. To solve this problem, you can try set up a mailing list. With this list, you can email several people at once without choosing each email address separately. To set up a mailing list using Outlook Express: . Select Tools | Address Book... from the menu in Outlook Express. Select File | New Group... from the address book's menu. Type the name of your mailing list in the Group Name: field. Eg: ITDept Click the "Select Members" button on the right. Click a name from your "Contacts" list. Click the "Select" button. Click another name from the list and click "Select" again. Continue choosing names until you complete your list. Click the "OK" button at the bottom of the box when your selection is complete. Click "OK" if you are finished.

I accidentally drag my finder icon off the dock and unable to drag it off the dock.How?? Solution: A quick fix is to force quit the dock in Activity Viewer. re-launching the dock or restart the system

1. Open command prompt. Go to Windows, then Run, and type "cmd" . Press enter. 2. Type "cd\" and press enter to get to the root directory of c:\ . 3. Type "attrib -h -r -s autorun.inf" and press enter. 4. Type "del autorun.inf" and press enter. 5. Repeat the same process with other drives and restart your computer. 6. Restart your computer and it's done. Enjoy the freedom to open hard drives on a double click.

Sometimes, when you try to open the C: or D: drive in your computer, you will get a warning about low disk space. Even when you try to delete files, you may still get the same message. Here's what to do. Run the Registry Editor (REGEDIT.EXE). Open HKEY_CURRENT_USER\ Software\ Microsoft\ Windows\ CurrentVersion\ Policies\ Explorer. If it's not there, create a DWORD value and call it NoLowDiskSpaceChecks. Double-click on NoLowDiskSpaceChecks, and enter the value 1, and press OK.

In Apple mail, when we start to email the old email address. It will pops up even though the address not in address book. Can we clean this email address from computer. The answer is yes. Below are the step: in Mail go to Window menu->previous recipients. delete the unwanted emails from there and they won't show up in the autofill anymore.

How to setup a web server on Ubuntu 8.10?? Now I'll be showing how to install Apache, php, MySQL and phpMyAdmin (one by one) on Ubuntu 8.10 using Terminal. Installing Apache2 Open terminal to type this command sudo apt-get install apache2 When the setup is complete you can check if the Apache is working properly by pointing your browser to http://localhost . If you see the text “It works!”, it means Apache is working. Installing php5 sudo apt-get install php5 When setup is complete, you have to restart Apache so that php5 will work on Apache. sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart Installing MySQL sudo apt-get install mysql-server Towards the end of the installation you will be prompted to set your root or admin password Installing phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin is an interface for access mysql server. To install it, enter the following command from terminal sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin During the installation you will be asked to select the webserver that would be used to run phpMyAdmin. Sele...

To create group, user this command # groupadd itdept To add a new user called ken to group itdept # useradd -G itdept ken Setup password for ken # passwd ken To check whether user in a group or not # id ken Add existing user to a group # usermod -a -G itdept ian

For those too dependent on GUI may facing a lot of problem when they turn to Command Line Environment. When user want to add user in command line, a lot of question mark will come out from their mind. How to add user without interface. Code: useradd techcare Setup a password: Code: passwd tech123

Use wget. Code: wget -c http://www.nameofsite.com/path/abc.tar

If you are Firefox user, you must be experience your Firefox slowing down. Firefox slowing down because of Firefox will record down the date and sited that visited when we use Firefox to browse Internet. Here is a quick tip to speed up your Firefox speed. Goto Preferences > Privacy > History and set the time limit to a couple of days.( Recommend set to 5-10days) After done this setting, clear the history and restart your Firefox. Firefox loading speed will be increase.

You can re-create the Show Desktop Icon by yourself, below are the steps: 1. Click Start, click Run, type notepad in the Open box, and then click OK. 2. Carefully copy and then paste the following text into the Notepad window: [Shell] Command=2 IconFile=explorer.exe,3 [Taskbar] Command=ToggleDesktop 3. On the File menu, click Save As, and then save the file to your desktop as "Show desktop.scf". The Show desktop icon is created on your desktop. 4. Click and then drag the Show desktop icon to your Quick Launch toolbar.

In order to save paper, can we generate all the document in PDF format on Windows? The answer is yes!! One of the free tools that i use to generate PDF is called PDFCreator. Once you install this software, it serve like your printer. It will generate PDF file once you click print and select PDFCreator to print you documents. To download

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Type following command to edit DNS (Primary DNS/Secondary DNS) server: sudo vi /etc/resolv.conf Add/modify your ISP nameserver as follows search isp.com nameserver 202.188.0.133 nameserver 202.188.1.5 After save and exit

Drag its icon to the trash can. OR Right click on the file that you to delete, select Move to Trash

Most of the beginning Mac User sure will ask question about how to shutdown Mac. Here are the steps: Go to Apple Menu Choose Shutdown

You can initiate a Spotlight search any time by click the Spotlight icon on the right of the menu bar or using the Command-Space bar keyboard combination. The Spotlight search is so fast that the results will actually change in real time as you type in your search query.Selecting an item from the results will open it immediately.

I believed most of the Mac OS user see this screen before. Most of your will feel panic when u see this screen. After this screen appear, your just need to press power button off and on your Mac. Your system will back to normal. But i think your do not know what was happening. It is because the kernel of an operating system receives an instruction in an unexpected format, or that it fails to handle properly. A kernel panic may also follow when the operating system is not able to recover from a different type of error. A kernel panic can be caused by damaged or incompatible software or, more rarely, damaged or incompatible hardware.

Press the keys Shift, Command (Apple) and 3. There will be an icon on your desktop called Picture 1. This is your screen capture. Open Picture #1. Follow your normal procedure for printing out.

Option-Commnad-Esc = Force quit applicaiton(s) Command-1 = View as Icon Command-2 = View as List Command-3 = View as Columns Command-4 = View as Cover Flow (Mac OS X 10.5 or later) Command-Tab = Switch windows Command-N = New Finder window Shift-Command-N = New folder Command-Q = Quit application Command-Shift-Q = Log out Command-S = Save Command-W = Close windows Command-E = Eject Command-A = Select all Command-C = Copy Command-X = Cut Command-V = Paste Command-Z = Undo Command-P = Print Command-M = Minimize windows Command-F = Find Command-I = Get Info Command-K = Connect to Server Option-Command-Y = Slideshow (Mac OS X 10.5 or later) Option-Command-I = Show Inspector Command-Delete = Move to Trash Shift-Command-Delete = Empty Trash Shift-Command-Q = Log Out Option-Shift-Command-Q = Log Out immediately Command-Space = Show or hide the Spotlight search field Option-Shift-Command-Delete = Empty Trash without confirmation dialog...