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clear your browser's cashe (firefox 1.5/2.0/3.0)

Every web browser stores a cache of the websites you visit (e.g. HTML pages, images) to reduce bandwidth usage and server load. This is called the browser's cache. Clearing it occasionally can free up space on your computers hard drive if it's running low. Since every browser is different, the following sections will outline the steps involved in clearing the cache for several popular web browsers.


Click the Tools menu, then select Clear Recent History.

Choose the time range of cache you'd like to clear.

Click on Details and make sure Cache is checked.

Select Clear Now.





create a password you can remember

In our modern society just about everything is password protected. Coming up with a password which is both easy to remember and safe is no easy task. Try one or all of these different techniques to create a secure but memorable password. 


01. Use software or, less reliable but usually effective enough, simply jot down letters and numbers as they come to your mind.

02. Take the name of the website and then add the last four digits of a friend's home phone number to the end. (Don't use your own phone number, since a clever hacker could try the same algorithm in a dictionary attack.) The password for wikiHow might be "wikiHow4588". This is by way of example only because it is too easy for others to figure out but you would add your own personal twist. Maybe you would spell wikihow backwards. The more steps in your algorithm, and the more unpredictable each step is, the more secure your password.

03. Choose a favorite number (or two), a favorite word (or two), a favorite symbol (or two). Add the first one (or two) symbols that come to mind when you see the website address or the most prominent words on the sign-in page. Choose an order and put them all together into one long string (for example, four and crazy and _ could change into four_crazy or _crafourzy)


04. Take a word or phrase and remove the vowels from it (for example, "eat the cheeseburger" becomes "tthchsbrgr").
 

05. Combine. A smart way to develop an easy to remember password is to combine three small words to make a single password. For example, you can use "howstopyes" or "earpengold". If you want an even easier to remember password, you can use words that are related to each other like "yesnomaybe". Be aware, however, that this is much less secure! It adds more security to capitalize the first letters of the different words: "ballzonecart" becomes "BallZoneCart".


06. Choose two words and combine their letters to create the password, choosing one letter of the first word and one letter of the second word, and repeating this until you get to the last letter of each word. An example could be: Words: house & plane Password: hpoluasnee




"train" a cellphone or a laptop battery

A cellphone or laptop battery that has lost it's "staying power" or ability to hold a charge for an extended period is a nuisance and can be costly to replace. There are steps you can take to help return some life to those old batteries, with a little patience and an adherence to these steps.

Make sure the battery is completely exhausted. Let your electronic device turn off by itself once the battery is "dead". It is important to start the process from this position because what you are really doing here is calibrating your device to know how much "juice" is in the battery. Your device needs to know what an exhausted battery "feels like", to know what the battery's range of charge can be.

Plug your device in and let it charge until it signifies you have charged it "completely". Four bars on a cellphone, full battery on a laptop, whatever it may say, it is probably wrong- and you should be able to tell because the device will not hold a charge for as long as you would like.

Take the device off of it's charger.

Remove the battery from the device. You should allow a few (5-10) seconds to pass to let any static charge in the device to dissipate before you put it back in.

Replace the battery in the device.

Reattach the device to it's charger. In most cases the device will again tell you that it is charging. Depending on the degradation of the battery, this charge MAY take as long as the initial charge did, or longer. Patience is paramount to success. Once the device again tells you it is fully charged.

Remove and replace the battery until the device only takes a few seconds to tell you it is fully charged after plugging it into it's charger. Each time you replace the battery and begin charging it again the time it takes for the device to tell you "Fully Charged" should be decreased. This is really where your patience is needed. You should not let the device stand idly telling you "Full Charge" for too long during this process. Try to stay involved with the device and your execution of these steps.

'Turn on the device and let it exhaust the battery through normal usage. Once you reach this point your battery should already display new life and last longer than before you started this process. Again it is important to let the battery fully "die" before you reattach the charger. Once your device has "died" and you "Fully Charge" it again, you may repeat steps 3-6 to determine whether or not the device is actually "Fully Charged".