If you want to start fresh and clear all of the data that’s stored on your Garmin Nuvi 200, 200w, 250, 250w, 260, 260w or 270 GPS, here’s how.

1. Turn the unit off.

2. Place your finger in the lower-right corner of the screen.

3. Keep your finger there and turn on the unit.

4. A prompt will appear to clear user data. Select Yes.

A factory reset has been performed. All custom user data that was added to the device will be removed.

If your Nuvi 800 Series GPS unit becomes unresponsive and doesn’t work anymore, it may be a good idea to reset it.

To do so, slide the Power key to the left. Hold it there for about 8 seconds. The device should then reset.

I made the mistake of adding too many artists and songs to my Memo Song Seek in my Sirius Sportster satellite radio. Now it beeps all the time to notify me of a song or artist it has found. Here’s how to remove Memo selections from the list.

1. Press and hold the Memo button for 2 seconds to enter the S-Seek mode.

2. Using the Up and Down buttons, highlight the song or artist you wish to delete. Press Select when it is selected.

3. Select Delete.

Are you getting tired of your Sirius Sportster 5 radio alerting you to songs or artists? You can enable or disable the Memo Song Seek feature using the following steps.

1. Press and hold the Memo button for 2 seconds to enter the S-Seek mode.

2. Press Select.

3. Highlight Song Seek on or Song Seek off using the Up and Down buttons.

4. Press Select to make your selection.

You might need to know the MAC address of your iPhone 3G phone if your router is setup for MAC address filtering. You can locate it by following these menus.

1. Choose Settings.

2. Choose General.

3. Choose About.

4. Scroll down to Wi-Fi Address, that is your MAC address.

My favorite feature of Sirius satellite radio is the ability for it to notify you if a certain song, artist or band is playing on one of the stations. You can store your favorites using the Memo function on your radio.

To store a song or artist:

1. When the song or artist starts playing on your radio, press and hold the Memo button on your remote or on the unit itself.

2. A menu will appear asking you to Store Artist or Store Song. Using the arrow keys select the option you’d like, and press the Select button.

Now you will be alerted to your selection if the radio senses that it is playing on one of the stations. It will usually notify you even before it starts playing so you don’t miss any of it.

I was playing in a MySQL database and wanted to only view the records that had odd numbers in the ID field. I was able to accomplish this by selecting SQL and using the following code:

SELECT * FROM ‘tablename’ WHERE id%2=1

You can also display even numbered records with:

SELECT * FROM ‘tablename’ WHERE id%2=0

Replace tablename with the name of the table you are using.

You may want to disable the firewall on your Linksys WRT54G Series Firewall if you have software firewall, or if you don’t want to deal with it blocking something you’re trying to do. Here’s how.

1. Login to your router my going to the IP address of it in your web browser. By default, it’s usually http://192.160.1.1

2. Click Security.

3. For Firewall Protection, check Disable.

4. Click Save Settings.

You might be tired of having to hit CTRL+ALT+Delete and login with your username and password every time Windows Vista decides to hibernate or go to sleep. You can disable it from prompting you for this information though.

1. Open Control Panel > System and Maintenance > Power Options.

2. Click Change plan settings for the plan that is selected.

3. Click the Change advanced power settings link.

4. Click Change settings that are not currently available.

5. Under the Power Options and Advanced Settings tab, click the plus sign next to Additional settings.

6. Click the plus sign next to Request a password on wakeup.

7. Change the value to No for On battery and/or Plugged in.

8. Click OK.

If you live in a house with a family, starting up your Mac can be a problem late at night. That startup chime can really wake people from their slumber. You can disable the sound though through the use of third party software.

1. Download and install StartupSound.prefPane.

2. Open System Preferences.

3. Click Startup Sound.

4. Click the Mute checkbox to turn off the startup sound completely. You can also just lower the volume if you wish.

See also: Control the startup chime’s volume

For a month now, I have been dealing with this AVG Safe Search 8.0 listing that appears in my Firefox 3 Extensions list. I can’t uninstall it because the button is grayed out. I am able to disable it, but it’s still annoying. I want it completely gone.

I searched high and low for how to get rid of it. I searched my Extensions and Plug-in folders, looking to delete this annoyance and couldn’t find anything. So I gave up my search for a while.

This listing was still bothering me though. I just hate software that crawls its way into every crevice of your system and leaves you no way out.

I launched REGEDIT and found a listing in the Registry at:

KEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Mozilla\Firefox\Extensions

It was labeled:

{3f963a5b-e555-4543-90e2-c3908898db71}
C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG8\Firefox

After deleting this registry key. The AVG Safe Search plug-in was then removed from Firefox 3.

See also: Adding Extensions using the Windows Registry

I recently was using iPhoto on my Mac Powerbook, and received an error:

An error occurred while trying to save your photo library.

It also said:

Some recent changes may be lost. Make sure your hard disk has enough space and that iPhoto is able to access the iPhoto Library.

I was lost about what to do. Luckily I found this post about the issue.

As instructed, I…

1. Downloaded BatchChmod.

2. Using this software, I applied the settings below to my iPhoto Library Folder.

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These steps worked great. I no longer have the annoying error message.

Months ago, I posted information about iPodExtract. It’s a great way to pull music off of your iPod if you have somehow lost your music library on your PC. The only problem is that it doesn’t work with many newer devices such as my 3rd generation iPod Nano.

Luckily I discovered a new method to save my precious music files. Music Rescue completely blew me away with the ease of use. When you install it, it detects your iPod automatically. You can then choose the folder you wish to extract the music to. Here’s the kicker. You’re files are rescued and restored to where you won’t know the difference. They will be in their original format as if they never were lost from your iTunes library.

I have only had a chance to play with the PC/Windows version, but there is a Mac version as well that I am sure is just as robust.

Are you tired of saving your PowerPoint 2007 files in a format that most people can’t read because they don’t have a version of the software that can view the file? Change the format that your PowerPoint 2007 presentations are saved in by default with these steps.

1. In PowerPoint, click the Office Button and select PowerPoint Options.

2. Click Save on the left.

3. For Save file in this format: select the format you wish to save your PowerPoint files in.

4. Click OK when you’re done.

A co-worker of mine wanted to view a presentation that was emailed to him. It was a video in AVI format. When he tried playing the file in Windows Media Player, he could hear the sound but the video did not play. This often happens when the correct codec for the video is not installed. The only problem was that we didn’t know what codec the file needed.

Luckily I came across a handy utility called qaviinfo. Here’s how you can use this utility to locate the codec that an AVI video file needs to have installed before you can view it.

1. Download qaviinfo.exe and save it to the same folder that your AVI file is located. Mine is at C:\Downloads for this example.

2. Open a DOS command prompt (Start > Run > CMD) and navigate to that folder. Type CD C:\Downloads.

3. The name of the video file in my case is presenta.avi. So I can now type qaviinfo presenta.avi.

4. A list of information about the file will be displayed. In the Codec column you can see what codec is being used. Here it is FMP4.

5. A Google search on FMP4 revealed to me this link. Which then led me to The Codecs where I found a download for a file that included the FMP4 codec.

Sucess! I could then play the file and see the video.

See Also: How do I find which codec is needed to play an AVI file?