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Clear Your Hard Drive
Michael Baker asked:
Every now and then, you need to clear your hard drive. Through normal everyday use, the drive becomes cluttered, sometimes even hard to navigate. You may even come across the error message that there is not enough memory or space to perform a certain function. This normally happens at less than 1GB of room on the hard drive. Luckily, there is one thing you can do to clear your hard drive.
When using Internet Explorer, and some of the other programs and software on your computer, the system starts making duplicates of everything you are looking at, or are doing. It calls some of these items temporary, and puts them into appropriate folders in the hard drive. The truth is, you do not need all of this stuff. And after a while, it just bogs down the computer, and fills up the hard drive. You need to remove this stuff.
The other non-telling thing this does is maintain a record of everything you have ever looked at or been on the internet. This includes pictures, videos, music, website addresses, cookies, hidden cookies, spyware, and certain softwares, like Office and the Yahoo! toolbar. All of these maintain a record of what you are doing. And even when you delete them like you normally would, it does not erase them completely. So you can imagine how much stuff can accumulate over the years.
There is software out there known as Internet Eraser software. This will run a scan on your computer, find all of the stuff you do not need, and get rid of it. When I personally ran it the first time, it removed 4.6GB of stuff. And I just replaced my hard drive 4 months ago. I can only imagine what yours might look like.
So, if you are looking to clear your hd of some clutter, and even get your privacy back, then you should use an Internet Eraser program. It not only keeps you private, but will also speed up the computer, and free up some more room.
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Every now and then, you need to clear your hard drive. Through normal everyday use, the drive becomes cluttered, sometimes even hard to navigate. You may even come across the error message that there is not enough memory or space to perform a certain function. This normally happens at less than 1GB of room on the hard drive. Luckily, there is one thing you can do to clear your hard drive.
When using Internet Explorer, and some of the other programs and software on your computer, the system starts making duplicates of everything you are looking at, or are doing. It calls some of these items temporary, and puts them into appropriate folders in the hard drive. The truth is, you do not need all of this stuff. And after a while, it just bogs down the computer, and fills up the hard drive. You need to remove this stuff.
The other non-telling thing this does is maintain a record of everything you have ever looked at or been on the internet. This includes pictures, videos, music, website addresses, cookies, hidden cookies, spyware, and certain softwares, like Office and the Yahoo! toolbar. All of these maintain a record of what you are doing. And even when you delete them like you normally would, it does not erase them completely. So you can imagine how much stuff can accumulate over the years.
There is software out there known as Internet Eraser software. This will run a scan on your computer, find all of the stuff you do not need, and get rid of it. When I personally ran it the first time, it removed 4.6GB of stuff. And I just replaced my hard drive 4 months ago. I can only imagine what yours might look like.
So, if you are looking to clear your hd of some clutter, and even get your privacy back, then you should use an Internet Eraser program. It not only keeps you private, but will also speed up the computer, and free up some more room.
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Amazon Kindle How-To Series: E-Mail With Your Kindle
Michael Piston asked:
The Amazon Kindle is a great e-book reader and audio-book player. Wouldn’t it be great if you could use the built-in wireless service for other things like surfing the Internet or sending and receiving e-mail? Well, actually depending upon the e-mail service you use, you can!
Not surprisingly, we’ve found that the Amazon Kindle (both version 1 and 2) work great with Google’s Gmail. However, “right-out-of-the-box”, you will not be able to use Gmail unless you make a few modifications to your Kindle’s settings. If you do not do this, you will get an error message when trying to get into your Gmail account.
Here are the steps you need to follow:
1. Get a GMail account if you do not have one already – very simple – visit www.gmail.com and sign-up. Gmail offers a number of great features including over 7GB of storage space, IMAP support, and easy labeling of e-mail.
2. Turn on your Kindle and go to Menu > Experimental > Basic Web. This will open the Kindle’s Web Browser. Keep in mind that the Kindle browser (even on the new Kindle 2) is VERY basic.
3. When your Kindle browser has opened, go to Menu > Settings.
4. Navigate to the Menu item “Enable Javascript” – Gmail requires Javascript to work. If Javascript is not enabled then you will get an error message when trying to access your Gmail account.
5. Close the Settings window.
6. Go to Menu > Enter URL and then enter www.gmail.com – this is important, if you use the Kindle’s default shortcut or bookmark for Google you will get the Google “PDA” or mobile edition. When you try to access Gmail from the Google mobile site it will prompt you to download an e-mail application. This application cannot be installed on your Kindle. Go direction to the gmail site.
7. Log into the Gmail site with your existing user name and password, or use the new one you created in Step #1. Click “Sign in”.
8. You should now be logged into Gmail and ready to read and send e-mail messages.
A few things to keep in-mind when using your Kindle for Gmail. First, don’t forget the “Next Page” and “Prev Page” buttons. You have to get-out of your computer mind and into your Kindle mind. Next, the screen quality is not exceptional because it is in gray scale vs. color. The Kindle 2’s screen is better than the Kindle 1, however you will not equal anywhere near the experience of using your computer for e-mail. Finally – you won’t be able to open attachments sent to your Gmail account, and you may not be able to see all of the images sent with your e-mails.
With all of this, it still is pretty neat that you can take advantage of the wireless “Whispernet” service to take care of some basic e-mail tasks while you are using your Kindle. Who knows? In the event that your computer crashes and you’re out on the road your Kindle might be just come in very handy!
Congratulations, now you know how-to use Gmail on your Amazon Kindle wireless reading device.
The Amazon Kindle is a great e-book reader and audio-book player. Wouldn’t it be great if you could use the built-in wireless service for other things like surfing the Internet or sending and receiving e-mail? Well, actually depending upon the e-mail service you use, you can!
Not surprisingly, we’ve found that the Amazon Kindle (both version 1 and 2) work great with Google’s Gmail. However, “right-out-of-the-box”, you will not be able to use Gmail unless you make a few modifications to your Kindle’s settings. If you do not do this, you will get an error message when trying to get into your Gmail account.
Here are the steps you need to follow:
1. Get a GMail account if you do not have one already – very simple – visit www.gmail.com and sign-up. Gmail offers a number of great features including over 7GB of storage space, IMAP support, and easy labeling of e-mail.
2. Turn on your Kindle and go to Menu > Experimental > Basic Web. This will open the Kindle’s Web Browser. Keep in mind that the Kindle browser (even on the new Kindle 2) is VERY basic.
3. When your Kindle browser has opened, go to Menu > Settings.
4. Navigate to the Menu item “Enable Javascript” – Gmail requires Javascript to work. If Javascript is not enabled then you will get an error message when trying to access your Gmail account.
5. Close the Settings window.
6. Go to Menu > Enter URL and then enter www.gmail.com – this is important, if you use the Kindle’s default shortcut or bookmark for Google you will get the Google “PDA” or mobile edition. When you try to access Gmail from the Google mobile site it will prompt you to download an e-mail application. This application cannot be installed on your Kindle. Go direction to the gmail site.
7. Log into the Gmail site with your existing user name and password, or use the new one you created in Step #1. Click “Sign in”.
8. You should now be logged into Gmail and ready to read and send e-mail messages.
A few things to keep in-mind when using your Kindle for Gmail. First, don’t forget the “Next Page” and “Prev Page” buttons. You have to get-out of your computer mind and into your Kindle mind. Next, the screen quality is not exceptional because it is in gray scale vs. color. The Kindle 2’s screen is better than the Kindle 1, however you will not equal anywhere near the experience of using your computer for e-mail. Finally – you won’t be able to open attachments sent to your Gmail account, and you may not be able to see all of the images sent with your e-mails.
With all of this, it still is pretty neat that you can take advantage of the wireless “Whispernet” service to take care of some basic e-mail tasks while you are using your Kindle. Who knows? In the event that your computer crashes and you’re out on the road your Kindle might be just come in very handy!
Congratulations, now you know how-to use Gmail on your Amazon Kindle wireless reading device.
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