Posts Tagged ‘Annoyances’
How to Make Gmail Play Nicely with Your Desktop Email Client
June 5th, 2010 | 
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How to Make Gmail Play Nicely with Your Desktop Email Client
If you use Gmail as your email backend but prefer a good old-fashioned desktop email client for handling your day-to-day email, you’re probably aware that many clients—like Outlook or Mail.app—don’t play that nice with Gmail. Here’s how to fix that.While Thunderbird no longer needs any extra work to become the ultimate Gmail IMAP client, mail clients, such as Mail.app or Outlook, do not exhibit normal behavior when using Gmail’s servers.Gmail ..read more
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WMP Plus Adds a Number of Customizable Tweaks to Windows Media Player
WMP Plus Adds a Number of Customizable Tweaks to Windows Media Player
If you haven’t learned to love Windows Media Player yet, free plug-in Windows Media Player Plus might change your mind. adding tweaks like find as you type, disabling group headers, a new tag editor, and the Explorer context menu within your library.
We’ve already learned that Windows Media Player’s performance is pretty darn good, but there are still a few things in the program that many count as annoyances. Thankfully, ..read more
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Speed Up Windows 7 Taskbar Navigation with a Registry Hack
Speed Up Windows 7 Taskbar Navigation with a Registry Hack
Windows 7’s taskbar is undoubtedly a great addition to Windows, but if you’ve got more than one application window open, you’ve got to either click twice or patiently hover to navigate to an open window. Reader Richard details how he fixed this:
I’ve been frustrated as of late with the Windows 7 taskbar (which led me to try hot-dogging it on the left-hand side as detailed here—by the way GREAT and useful ..read more
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Tags: Annoyances, Application Window, Current User, Default Settings, Eternity, Fundamental Problem, Hack Windows, Instances, Left Hand Side, Microsoft, Microsoft Explorer, Microsoft Windows, Navigation, Original Source, Registry Hack, Registry Windows, Software Microsoft, Speed Up Windows, Step In The Right Direction, Task Manager, Taskbar Icon, User Software, Windows Registry, Windows Taskbar |
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YouTube Auto Buffer Makes the Popular Video Site a Lot Better
YouTube Auto Buffer Makes the Popular Video Site a Lot Better
Firefox with Greasemonkey: The YouTube Auto Buffer Greasemonkey script tweaks the popular video sharing site to fix some of its most common annoyances. Specifically, it stops videos from automatically playing, turns on HD/HQ playback for all videos, and hides in-video advertisements.
All three of the tweaks YouTube Auto Buffer makes can be toggled, so if you’d really like to get rid of in-video ads but don’t want to always watch videos ..read more
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