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If you need a nice juicy supply of new tunes for your Summer vacation, you can use a 1 month free Spotify Premium subscription - easy to cancel before you actually get charged. Spotify Premium will let you download as much music as you like legally, for free, on your phone/tablet/laptop. You can cancel before the month is up and you will not be charged! Even if you've done it before, you can do it again, just sign up for Spotify using a different email address. So here are the steps (and some Tips!) Sign up for Spotify (NOT with Facebook but with an email you don't use much)  https://www.spotify.com/signup Then log on to your new Spotify account and opt for 1 month free Spotify Premium. Use PayPal to pay for it (other payment method also probably ok) Download Spotify on your phone/laptop/tablet, https://www.spotify.com/download  then open Spotify, browse the app and put all the music you like into PLAYLISTS. It's important to make playlists as this allows you t...

Problem You may get an error like this when trying to install something on Windows (Windows 7 in my case). You may assume it is caused by an inaccessible network drive (e.g. H in my case) and that disconnecting the drive will solve the problem. It didn't for me. Rebooting also didn't solve the problem. Then I found this Microsoft article , which was rubbish. Then finally I found this Microsoft Technet article and the top answer over there solved my problem. Solution The Technet article recommends checking the following 2 registry locations: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders In the first location I found this. Note how there is one reference to drive H, the rest are to a system var %USERPROFILE%. Simply modifying the path H:\Favorites to %USERPROFILE%\Favorites solved the problem immediately. The ins...

The provocative title is so that I can air a grievance that I have about the way internet providers (cable companies and mobile operators) are presenting the Net Neutrality discussion that is flooding the interwebz right now. Basically articles about Net Neutrality are way too long and are often misleading. I will try to continue in that line ;-) At least the way-too-long is almost unavoidable. Misleading I try not to be. I must admit I am still fully comprehending it myself, but the term Net Neutrality should speak for itself. To me it means what it says, but to add a couple more words to make it nice and clear. "Net Neutrality is about having a neutral internet." However, the EU likes to define it as: "the principle according to which all internet traffic is treated equally, without discrimination, restriction or interference, independently of its sender, recipient, type, content, device, service or application." ( citation ) Right, well at least my defin...

We often put documents into folders in Windows and then forget where they were. But that's what's great about searching. In Windows 7 you just type a search string in the top-right corner of an Explorer Window and it's pretty good at finding your files. If you often search for the same type of file across a broad folder structure, you may find this tip useful as it will show you how to create a Windows shortcut that immediately performs a custom search. It basically just launches a Windows search page and starts running your pre-configured search query straight away! The sources below helped me to create my first direct Windows shortcut as follows: To make a shortcut in Windows, just right click inside a Windows Explorer window or on the Desktop and choose New > Shortcut. Insert the following string as the shortcut path then click Next: %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe "search-ms:query=hello&crumb=kind:pics&" Give your shortcut a name and click ok Th...

Are you getting a whole load of notifications from a Facebook page that you have liked? To stop getting notifications do the following: 1) go back to the Facebook page that is sending you all the notifications 2) click the "Liked" button 3) from the drop-down menu simply remove the tick from "Get Notifications" by clicking it (See picture above.) You should now stop getting notifications from the page.