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Do you use Adobe Dreamweaver to create and design websites? Is Dreamweaver no longer automatically uploading all dependent files when you save a page? We use Adobe Dreamweaver to create methodshop.com and this always seems to trip us up everyone couple years or so. Chances are you probably were messing around with your Dreamweaver Preferences …
Microsoft Windows assigns drive letters to disk volumes to help tell them apart. For example, the default letter assigned to your computer's hard drive is probably 'c.'
Here are a few tips and techniques on how to get rid of duplicate songs in your iTunes Library as well as some precautions you should take before deleting duplicate tracks.
Can Skunk Off and Nature's Miracle Skunk Odor Remover save the day? Here's how to remove skunk smell from your pets.
After a lot of troubleshooting, I was able to fix my AVI no audio problem on Mac. Here's what I did.
Get ready for some 1980s computing to meet Web 2.0. A guy named Johan Van den Brande has made a Twitter client for Commodore 64 (C64).
Can’t fully express yourself with Twitter‘s 140-character limit? It can be tough. And sometimes plain text just isn’t enough. Luckily services like TwitPic and Ping.fm allow us to embed picture links in our tweets. But what about video? There are actually a few services helping bring video to Twitter and BubbleTweet is one of the …
Have you tried making a celebrity Mii on your Nintendo Wii yet? Instead of being some generic character in a game, you can be a celebrity like Oprah, Borat (pictured above), Charlie Brown or even Dwight Schrute from the American TV show The Office. This tutorial will give you plenty of celebrity Mii ideas and …
Is the monitor on your Macintosh computer inverted? Are you seeing black where it should be white? Does everything look negative? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you accidentally enabled a Macintosh feature for people with impaired vision. We’ve heard of people doing all sorts of crazy things to fix this …
Here's a step-by-step MethodShop tutorial on how to download video files off YouTube and convert them for an iPod or iPhone.
Is your iPod or iPhone frozen? This can happen for a number of reasons and does not necessarily indicate a serious problem. Sometimes they just need a reset much like the way your computer needs a restart once in a while. Restarting an iPod or iPhone is a simple procedure that will not erase any …
Is your Apple TV freezing when you launch Boxee? Do you see a quick flash of the Apple logo and then just a blank "black screen"? You aren't alone!
The streaming video site Hulu and the streaming-video-on-your-TV service Boxee spent all of last weekend fighting. Again. In late February, Hulu asked Boxee to remove the special Hulu browser from the Boxee software. Boxee complied with Hulu’s request, but Boxee users were very upset. Then last weekend, Boxee figured out a way around the Hulu …
This tutorial will show you how to convert iTunes songs to MP3 and other audio file types.
This week Apple released a very minor firmware update for the Apple TV. The 2.3.1 update only adds a “Network Test” option to help users troubleshoot Internet connections. That’s it. Seriously, it’s hardly worth the trouble. But the update does do something we weren’t expecting… it disables and deletes the Boxee software. Boxee is a …
Autofollowing people on Twitter just got a whole lot easier. Last month we wrote a detailed tutorial on methodshop.com that walked you through how to setup up your Twitter account to autofollow anyone who follows you using a service called TweetLater. Part of the process involved making an autoforward rule in Gmail. But after getting …
Over the years, we've gotten a bowl-load of these "Help! I dropped my iPod in the toilet!" emails from MethodShop.com readers looking for help. It's an epidemic!
