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Firefox No Longer Showing the Title at the Top of a Page? Here’s How to Get it Back

So you updated Firefox, and now Firefox is no longer displaying the titlebar at the top of a page? Here’s how to get it back.

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How to Preschedule a Gift Delivery with Amazon

Say you’re on Amazon, and you happen across a perfect gift for someone, and you want to order it for their birthday, anniversary, or other gift-giving occasion – but the occasion is months in the future. How do you schedule an Amazon order for delivery in the future? Here’s how.

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How to See Examples of All of the Fonts on Your Mac

You know that your Mac comes with all sorts of cool fonts – Apple fonts and otherwise – but where can you see a list of all of your fonts, with samples? Why, you can see examples of all of your fonts right on your Mac, with Apple FontBook, which is on your Mac right now!

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How to Capture and Record Streaming Video on Your Mac

Wouldn’t it be cool if you could watch something on your Mac, and capture and record the streaming video while you were watching it? Well you can, and you don’t even need a special program! Here’s how to capture streaming video on your Mac.

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How to Make and Answer Calls on Your iPhone from Your Mac or iPad

Did you know that you can make calls from your Mac laptop or computer, or your iPad or iPad Mini, and have it dial out on your iPhone? Your Mac or iPad can dial numbers from your contacts, and even from websites, by dialing out on your iPhone. Here’s how to make calls from your Mac or iPad, through your iPhone.

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How to Make Your Mac Stop Using Your iPhone Keyboard Shortcuts

Wondering how to stop your Mac from using your iPhone keyboard shortcuts? If you are trying to prevent your keyboard shortcuts from being synced from your iPhone to your Mac, here is everything that you need to know.

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How to Fix the Mac OS X Java Runtime Environment JRE Error

So you just upgraded your Mac (probably to Yosemite) and now you are getting annoying browser errors that say “To view this web content you need to install the Java Runtime Environment.” More annoyingly, after clicking through to Oracle’s Java.com to “Download Java for Mac OS X” and installing it, you still get the error! Here’s why, and how to fix it.

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How to Find Those Big Files Taking Up Space on Your Mac Hard Drive

If you are suddenly finding your Mac hard drive much more full than you think it should be, you may also be wondering how to find the big files that are taking up so much space. Simply sorting your files in finder by size doesn’t cut it, because you may need to go through dozens or even hundreds of directories. What you want is a way to see all the files, across your entire Mac, that are huge. Here’s how to find all of the really big files on your Mac hard drive.

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How to Download Private Facebook Messages from One Person

Wondering how to download and archive all of the private Facebook chat messages you have exchanged with one particular person? Facebook does not make it easy to figure out how to save your entire private Facebook message chat thread with one particular person, so we will. Here’s how.

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How to Fix Out of Space Insufficient Storage Problems on Your Samsung Galaxy S2

It can be really frustrating when trying to install an app, or do something else on your phone, to get an ‘insufficient storage’ out of space error. But what’s even more frustrating is knowing that you should have plenty of space. When this happens on a Samsung Galaxy S2, the problem is likely due to cache saturation or excessive log files, and to fix it you need to do a dumpstate clearance by deleting the dumpstate and logcat (don’t worry, this will make sense in a moment). Here’s how to free up that space on your Galaxy S2.

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How to Resize Your Default Column Width in Mac Finder

If you are anything like us, you may find it a bit frustrating having to constantly change the size of the columns in Finder in OS X on your Mac. You would think that Apple would have built in automatic sizing or resizing based on the length of the file names in the directory, but no. So here is how to resize to make the default column size (width) for your finder wider (or, for that matter, narrower).

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All about Apple’s Mac MobileBackups and How to Disable It

Starting with OS X 10.7, Apple caused your Mac to start making “Mobile Backups” of “Local Snapshots” to the MobileBackups directory (technically .MobileBackups) on your hard drive. It does this whenever your Mac is away from your Time Machine backup drive, such as your Time Capsule.

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How to Find a List of All of the Facebook Pages You Have Liked

We recently posted an article on how to find (and remove) all of the Facebook groups to which you belong. In response, one of our readers asked us how to find a list of all of the pages you have liked on Facebook. So, here you go.

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How to Turn Off or Disable Location Tagging and Tracking on Facebook

Recently we discovered that somehow Facebook had started including our location in posts, even though we were sure we had location tagging turned off. So we started searching for how to disable location tracking on Facebook. And guess what. At the time of this writing, there is no way on Facebook to set Location by default to “off”. That’s because you have to turn it off on your computer or smartphone, not on Facebook.

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How to Make it so that People Don’t Need Your Email Address to Connect on LinkedIn

If you are on LinkedIn and want people to be able to send invitations to connect with you without them having to know your email address, you may be frustrated at trying to figure out how to remove that restriction. Here are step-by-step instructions, with pictures.