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January 1

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 1

1. Electromagnetic/electronic interference?
2. Why is 'How to tie a tie' the first autosuggestion for Google
3. Recording background music while reading poetry
4. IE freezing when I try opening a new tab
5. e-mail malware
6. Issue with flash/custom mouse icons.....
7. IP addresses
8. Expandable Vector Animation

January 2

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 2

1. Subtitles in download
2. Firefox 3 and the cache: can i force websites into it?
3. "Found new hardware ACPI Uniprocessor PC"
4. meta tag problems with <meta name="keywords"...
5. Google and Youtube serious security flaw?
6. Computer user interface and grammar of commands
7. urls
8. hjsplit

January 3

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 3

1. Media center help
2. When sending a .JAR (Java ARchve) file with gmail. Can it somehow be rendered useless?
3. Is there a standardized scanner interface that one may use in Java? (Scan to PDF application)
4. Hard drive
5. two networks, additive bandwidth?
6. is the iPhone alarm problem over?
7. Twitter
8. Youtube

January 4

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 4

1. Virtualization for python
2. BitTorrent media ratings
3. UH OH,,, SOMEONE GOT A HOLD OF MY IP ADDRESS
4. Videos
5. Is there scientific research on Dvorak?
6. What heavily-visited auction sites give better selling experiences than Ebay?
7. Microsoft Windows in Russia, China, North Korea, Iran?
8. 1944 metadata

January 5

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 5

1. is there a name for this type of computer hacking/stalking?
2. Troubleshooting sound problems
3. WEP Password Revelation
4. Kaspersky Antivirus Services Could Not Start
5. When was 'bigint' introduced as a data type in Microsoft SQL Server?
6. Connecting to internet on my laptop via mobile data-cable
7. android phone site
8. Backing up Hotmail
9. Webcam for a mac
10. finding diffs in sound files

January 6

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 6

1. 802.11g issues
2. HDMI Cable Prices
3. Mapping a peculiar keyboard key to start program
4. Torrent: starting impossible, downloading possible
5. Couldn't type edit summary or search or turn text blue to copy and paste
6. File manager
7. AOL mail ad problem with Firefox
8. Necessity of Antivirus Software
9. URL for MSNBC mobile site?
10. Fan (?) problem on HP G60 laptop
11. Loading and buffering times
12. OS
13. Freeware to reduce the size of PDFs
14. External HD Unix backup

January 7

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 7

1. Compiling applications for NT4 MIPS?
2. Is this spam/a virus?
3. What would you learn after you learned how to program?
4. Task manager

January 8

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 8

1. Restoring a Windows XP user profile
2. 3G
3. Eh, where am I?
4. What is Binary Package?
5. Video
6. How to make a "clean link" to a video on youtube.com ?
7. Restoring iPod touch Firmware without iTunes
8. QIF to CSV conversion
9. BBC
10. radiant

January 9

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 9

1. Could intermediate networks alter my data?

January 10

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 10

1. 3g video calling architechre
2. how to Assign Structure Address
3. cmd capture
4. Number of unique colours in a digital photograph
5. Non-English glyphs in programming
6. What is the efficiency of human sorting?
7. LC220EM1 emerson does not turn on
8. Comprehensive Scrabble word list needed

January 11

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 11

1. PPT keyboard shortcuts
2. Handwritn recognition software for tablet
3. Turning the menu bar back on in Firefox
4. operating system from 'scratch'
5. Internet
6. Free vs. Open Content

January 12

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 12

1. blurred (censored) image appearing un-blurred, personal information
2. skype
3. Is there such a laptop with a 22 inch screen?
4. Firefox not saving cookies
5. tor
6. W3C suggestion box
7. 5stars
8. Control-shift-J in chrome?
9. Two users simultaneously using one computer
10. Archiving webpages for wikipedia

January 13

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 13

1. distinguish sound files
2. Big files and Fraps!
3. Flash 8 (ActionScript 2.0) question
4. Copy (file differences)
5. Developing Native iPhone applications on Windows
6. 200 Apple
7. remove duplicate lines
8. Twitter Terms of Service
9. Screen saver with own pictures
10. Running out of memory when using IE on YouTube

January 14

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 14

1. Google docs arrow keys
2. USB media - hard disk or not?
3. Full Screen Games Minimizing On Start
4. Ubuntu
5. iPod touch Backup
6. Keyboard shortcut for the back button
7. Hotmail has started delivering spam not addressed to me

January 15

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 15

1. Another Flash 8/AS2 question
2. Browsing OpenJDK source
3. Windows 7 information to XP computer
4. Updating DirectX 9.0
5. Database backup
6. Acrobat Reader X monitoring pdf files - how to stop?
7. Ubuntu dual-boot troubles

January 16

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 16

1. How to keep sockets alive in Java
2. The application was unable..
3. iPhone to monitor streaming
4. Find word and beep
5. electronics (ripple)
6. Seeking Basic program code to copy folders and files
7. insert copyright into a digital photo
8. Free video surveillance software.
9. Theoretically possible to browse iDevice file systems without jailbreak

January 17

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 17

1. android tablets
2. Old laptops
3. Problem with number rounding error
4. [SOLVED] Auto config messed up display
5. Weird noise from hard-drive
6. Professional Website for Under 500$?
7. capacitive touch or resistive touch.....?
8. Is android worth it?
9. Can iTunes application on Windows play purchased movies?

January 18

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 18

1. Mac folders icons?
2. Filters for Ted Notepad
3. Mac Program most similar to coffeecup?
4. External monitor on a netbook
5. Unicode assistance
6. Counteract jpg compression artifacts
7. Resetting Default Search Engine in Firefox 3
8. Slim "Information Organizer" for Windows
9. Firefox's internal default start page
10. Extra Windows 7 Installation

January 19

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 19

1. Where i can find tutorials for Bing App Development?
2. Swapping functions of F keys
3. Quick question
4. Paper jam and cheap scanners
5. Installing hard drive -- does it matter which way is up!
6. Verifying Windows XP copied files
7. Retrieve data from old Macintosh and floopy disks
8. stylesheet

January 20

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 20

1. Laptop
2. COMPUTER SCIENCE ENGINEERING
3. Internet Explorer RSS feeds
4. Linux calendar sync
5. CPU examples
6. Is a PDF-file in some way more portable than a ZIP-file containing .PNG images?
7. Dual-boot system

January 21

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 21

1. Web search engines that allow wildcards?
2. Interference with Browsing
3. ncis
4. Vista - Permission to Put things in Folder I Just Made
5. Size of Wikipedia
6. Command prompt
7. Personal information misuse

January 22

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 22

1. Ubuntu
2. wget -- downloading to a directory and renaming a file
3. New components for an older PC
4. Caps lock
5. Smart phone prices
6. WiMAX and competing 4G phone service

January 23

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 23

1. NFC and RFID
2. Presenting numbers in descending order in VB list box
3. Future 128-Core Processor
4. What is the Typical IDE - and "virtual WIndows or Linux environment" - used to develop application code for Android-based mobile phones or iPhones?
5. Starting a program, wait a defined time period and then gracefully close in Windows
6. Wikipedia Main page on newest Opera

January 24

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 24

1. Mac OS X weirdnesses
2. Future 1TB DIMM
3. Wgetwin mass download
4. Where to post an idea of improving WikiMedia engine?
5. ocropus examples
6. Compiling Darwin (NOT Mac OS X) or XNU (Darwin's kernel) on Linux

January 25

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 25

1. Apple compatible
2. Finding weev at bop.gov
3. What font?
4. How to download and join together text from webpages?
5. LibreOffice or OpenOffice Writer file formats
6. Searching huge number of files, don't want to hang server (grep?)
7. Coding puzzle

January 26

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 26

1. Intel Xeon Processor 7500 Series
2. Qualcomm Brew Jailbreak
3. Trackbacks for Wikipedia articles
4. YouTube comments
5. Cross-compiling C++ programs for Mac OS X on Linux host
6. Ubuntu and Wubi recovery
7. Taking out line breaks en mass in Word

January 27

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 27

1. Please help me find a laptop that's meant to withstand the rigors of travel, and a lot more abuse than this current one.
2. Most Open Android Carrier and Manufacturer
3. job graphic web designer
4. Is apple superior to XP2?
5. Firesheep
6. nokia price range
7. ASP.NET problem with MaskedEditValidators
8. MechWarrior
9. Gold used in electronics
10. what's Windows 7 Starter price?
11. Generic XML Configuration editor?

January 28

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 28

1. Slowness
2. Hard disk failure
3. wlan printer
4. Calendar of worldwide events/days/festivals/occasions etc.
5. Storage capacity of 480i SD video on Blu-Ray
6. Unprintable symbol in firefox (iceweasel)
7. Phones as modems

January 29

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 29

1. Legacy pan-European variable-width character encodings
2. Google
3. Internet Explorer active even though I have not used it
4. What companies (aside form Google) keep the exact number of their servers a secret?

January 30

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 30

1. Wikipedia cybersquatting by yeah.com
2. How to enable the speakers
3. Blender 3D Particle System
4. Windows command shell stops responding, sort of
5. burning dvd

January 31

Wikipedia:Reference_desk/Archives/Computing/2011 January 31

1. Blu-ray discs
2. "AES 256
3. Advanced bluetooth / windows functions
4. Dual Boot Windows 7?
5. Power issues
6. Windows XP install media