Category Archives: How-To

A Fix For Emesene 1.6 Launch Problem on Windows 7/Vista

By TheDeadBandit | Published: January 12, 2010
emesene is a great WLM/MSN alternative. Fairly lightweight, supports Linux and Windows and best of all, no bloat! This is a vast improvement over 1.5.1 and the new theme is great. For Windows 7 and Vista users, the installer method may cause problems. The Problem On Windows 7 and Vista systems, upon completion of installation [...]
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iTunes Switchless, No More Windows Bloat!

By TheDeadBandit | Published: December 21, 2009
Do you hate iTunes on Windows, but unfortunately need to install it because it’s necessary for the iPhone or iPod Touch? It really sucks since there is no choice when you install iTunes to stop it from installing all of its other “required” garbage: Apple Software Update, QuickTime, iTunesHelper, random bundled languages, MobileMe, Bonjour? Au [...]
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Encrypted Emails with GnuPG, Enigmail and Thunderbird

By TheDeadBandit | Published: December 11, 2009
These days it’s hard to tell who’s out for your information, but you could and probably should assume everyone is. Your emails get sent through a lot of different servers as part of the routing process to get the mail delivered. Since we have no way to verify that these servers are not collecting information [...]
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Backup Thunderbird

By TheDeadBandit | Published: December 9, 2009
Now that Thunderbird 3 has been released, we want to back up our old 2.x version settings and profiles in case something goes horribly, horribly wrong. Here’s how.
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