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Techhacks. Apple_mac_software. Software 1. Software 2. How to be a great boss. If you’re in charge of a company or team, small or large, you’ll want to do your best to keep everyone keen, engaged and productive. Being a great boss involves walking a fine line between friendship and leadership – but the rewards are immense: high employee loyalty, improved results, fewer wasted resources and the ability to go on vacation without worrying that everything will fall apart without you.

The top factor in determining workplace satisfaction is the immediate manager. In a study of 60,000 exit interviews, 80% of the employees who quit their jobs did so because of their boss. (from Blame it on ‘The Boss’, BtoB Magazine) Here are seven ways to build a great relationship with your team and to make sure that your employees stick around. Listen to Concerns and GrumblesMake sure that colleagues feel you’re approachable if they have concerns. Whether you are a boss yourself, or whether you have a great (or not so great!) How to delete accounts from any website. Deleting accounts you've created on Facebook, MySpace, AOL, and elsewhere on the Web isn't always easy. Here are the details on leaving 23 services behind. The words "I wish I could quit you" take on a whole new meaning when you want out of a relationship with an online service. Sure, you once thought you and Facebook or MySpace would be together forever, but eventually terms of service change, end-user license agreements mature, and, well, you're just not in the same place anymore.

Sadly, not all Web sites and social networks are created equal when it comes to breaking up. With some, it takes only a couple of clicks to say good-bye. No matter what you call it—deleting, canceling, removing, whatever—when you want to be rid of an online account, you'll find most sites don't feel obliged to make it too easy for you. Social Networks Classmates.com Even if you don't feel scammed, you may feel annoyed—maybe you hated high school. Can't get satisfaction online? Facebook Soldier on. Friendster. How To Say That Name.com. How to restart your computer over the internet. I am very obsessed with technology, and I like to push the limits of whatever technology currently exists. Personally, I think it’s very cool that there are lots of remote access tools out there, like the 7 free ones listed in Aibek’s article on Screen-Sharing and Remote Access applications or the remote mobile VNC app I wrote about recently that lets you access your computer with your mobile phone.

However, there are circumstances when connecting to a PC isn’t easy or even possible, yet you still need the ability to reboot your web server or file-sharing server at home because an application is locked up or the server isn’t responding. These days, doing a remote computer restart is fast and easy – and it’s now even possible to do so from any web browser or by using the popular micro-blogging tool known as Twitter. 1.

How To Perform a Basic Remote Computer Restart – Shutdown.exe Depending on your reason for remotely restarting, you’ll want to use these commands carefully. 2. 3. How to start a fire with your cell phone. How to use MS Paint for Windows like a pro. With MS Paint in Windows, you can create simple as well complex drawings. Let’s look at some useful Microsoft Paint tips and tricks that you may not know about. Do you find anything similar between the following two images? Well, both these images are from the Rialto Bridge in Venice but the one on top was captured using a digital camera while the one below is a drawing done entirely in MS Paint, the free and often neglected image editor that Microsoft has bundled with every edition of Windows since v1.0.

Interestingly, MS Paint will be part of Windows 7 as well though with a slightly revamped interface. Most Windows users think of Paint as a software that should be used only in a pinch when there’s no other alternative. Here are a couple of Paint features and tips that might just help you take a second look at this old performer. Tip #1 – Increase or Decrease brush size These are universal shortcuts: CTRL + NumPad (+) increases the size of tip while CTRL + NumPad (-) decreases the size.

Comment allumer un barbecue en 5 minutes. Comment voir les épisodes du Daily Show en intégralité de France. Où l'on a demandé à Canal+ si c'était sa faute Le Stewart Effect Par Romain Moktarama, gentil lecteur de Bienbienbien, a compulsé attentivement le forum du Daily Show et les quarante pages et quelques qui font suite à l’annonce de l’arrêt de l’accès aux épisodes complets en dehors des États-Unis et pointe le message d’un lecteur danois qui a contacté la chaîne locale (Danmarks Radio) détentrice de la licence du Daily Show en son pays.

La réponse est claire : les responsables n’ont jamais réclamé à Viacom de ne plus diffuser les épisodes en intégralité sur le site du Daily Show et, au contraire, ne s’y opposent pas le moins du monde. Un autre internaute, norvégien cette fois-ci, a eu une réponse différente : la chaîne locale pensait que c’était fait depuis longtemps et aurait fait une demande dans ce sens à Viacom. On a même un petit mot du chef de l’équipe de traducteurs de l’émission pour Canal+. Il n’y a pas à dire, Viacom a vraiment tout compris à l’Internet. How to make 17 cool magnet tricks. Here are seventeen of our favorite magnet tricks, projects and demos. Extract batteries from stubborn holders We’ve all got things that take batteries. Some of them are well designed, and some of them are not. The worst offenders are electronic toys that take (say) half a dozen AA batteries, all of which must be inserted with the correct orientation– spring side first– and pried out, well, somehow.

Rather than risk puncturing your batteries by prying them out with something pointy, just use a magnet to lift them out. Find studs in your walls Move a magnet over the wall until it finds a screw or nail head under the paint. Make a homopolar motor One of our favorite demos of all time is a homopolar motor. Make LED ThrowiesLED throwies are useful for many more things than graffiti. Demonstrate magnetohydrodynamic propulsion You can make your very own caterpillar drive like the one in The Hunt for Red October with this magnetohydrodynamic demonstration. Make a simple compass Make a fridge pen.