Happy New Year, and welcome to 2009! Tutorial Ninjas is proud to introduce this new year with many different changes. As you can tell, a nice eye-opener for all our visitors is a theme update. Its not perminent, but its a nice change to introduce the new year. Most of you probably noticed we have been “updating” for the last 6 hours. Don’t get me wrong, alot of ‘behind the scenes’ work has been changed. Because we don’t want to leave people hangin’… heres whats changed- inside and out!

Tutorialists-
Prepare to be greeted by a brand new back-end to posting tutorials. Need I say more? Go check it out for yourselves!

Everyone else?

• Optimized theme and major improvements. (Many previous bugs in the theme are now fixed.)
• Forum has been upgraded.

Ok, it might not seem like a lot- however I can assure you it wasn’t a cakewalk. However, don’t fret the upgrades- after all, remember what happened last time we updated?

Anyways- lots more to come in 2009- stay tuned!

Microsoft doesn’t necessarily promote the customization on Internet Explorer, however that doesn’t mean that you can’t modify it to your taste. In this tutorial, we’ll be showing you how to change the window title in IE Version 7. (This might work with Version 6, however, it has been not tested out and is not recommended.)

The window title is the program’s name that appears after the webpage’s title.

If you’re worried that this simple registry tweak might somehow mess up your system, back up the registry before you start.

1. Open the registry editor: To do this in Vista, hit Start and search regedit.exe.
   In XP, press the Start button, click Run, and type regedit.
2. Navigate to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
3. Create a new string named Window Title by going to Edit > New > String Value.
4. Call it “Window Title” (no quotes).
5. Enter the window title you would like to see in IE.
6. Restart or start up Internet Explorer to see your changes.

Some ideas for window titles:

• Internet Exploder
• This browser sucks
• Netscape Navigator 7

That’s it! Have fun.

From all the staff here at Tutorial Ninjas, we would like to take a brief moment to thank all the members of the community for supporting us, spreading their wealth of knowledge, information, and opinion, and being such great people!

Enjoy your holiday season! Stay warm, safe, and ninja!

Welcome to Winter Edition of Tutorial Ninjas! (notice the different theme?) In order to kick off this winter season-which for some is a little late- we are going to share with you some cheap winter solutions to your survival on the road!

Lets first look at winter at a glance. Words that relate to winter are: cold, ice, snow, car crash. Ok, maybe I exaggerated? Here’s a list of some items you can buy, and their competitors. Save some cash in this time of economic struggle! All prices are compared to common hardware store retail prices.

Get a Grip – On Ice
If your car is stuck in an ice patch, sand is the ultimate solution. The goal is to completely surround your cars tires that have lost grip, in sand. Then when you go in reverse (or forward- but most often used for reverse), your tires will get just enough grip to move your car out of its stuck position. A 50lb bag of sand at a hardware shop will cost you around $5 + tax.

If you ran out of sand, another solution is to use (my personal favorite- and what saved me today when stuck in an ice patch)… 20 Mule Team Borax! Borax is actually a multi-purpose cleaner and laundry booster. It has similar properties to sand, however might cost a bit more, while receiving less. A 76oz box of Borax (which converted to lbs is only 4.75 lbs), costs about $4. It might not be a cheap solution to sand, however in a time of need- its a great sand substitute! (You also gotta love the fact that a ‘team of 20 mules’ are going to help you out of an ice patch- after all, I drive a Mustang.)

Hot as Ice – Just Melt It!
If you have some time to spare, and believe me- people will, when they realize they cant get out of their driveway- then melting the ice is another solution. It is most often marketed that consumers buy name-brand (or purpose specific) items. For instance, every retailer you go, will be selling 10 lb bags of “Ice Melt” (which is often Calcium Chloride and Potassium Chloride). They use these chemicals because they reduce the potential damage to cause to your grass. One of these bags (10 lbs) will cost you at least $20. Simple solution: Stop throwing rock salt on your grass!

Whats the cheap solution? Well- you could buy a marketed bag of “Rock Salt” which is also made to melt ice, but that will cost you about $10 for a 40 lb bag.

The best solution? Buy yourself an 80lb bag of (rock) water softener salt for $7. This can be found at most anywhere: Lowes, Home Depot, or Walmart (and many other places). You might not be able to find an 80lb bag, but they also sell 40lb bags of water softener salt (also called Solar Salt) for $4. Melt the ice, and keep it away. This rock water softener salt also provides enhanced traction (because when its crushed it will have similar features of sand).

Non-Monetary Solutions – Its all about technique!
Sometimes, things in life can’t have a price on them. You cant spend any money to stop them, so you have to use technique to prevent them. Winter driving technique- lets recap some of it!

• Drive Slowly and Cautiously! Instead of driving 5 over (or more), drive the speed limit. Pay attention to the road. Keep at least a single cars distance from the car in front of you. There is no way to control your car on ice. Once you lose control, its hard to regain. That brings us to the next bullet…
• Taking control of your car when it skids out of control (not effective on ice- lets say… no technique will work on ice) is something all drivers should practice (in an open lot). The tip is, steer your car in the direction of the way you are skidding. In simpler terms, point your front tires where you want to go. Avoid using the break, however if you need to, then apply them gently.
• Use a low-gear when driving on weathered roads. If there is snow or ice on the road, then put your car into a gear like 2 or 1. They are commonly found on automatic car shifters, listed as D3, D2, and D1. Putting your car in a low gear forces the transmission to hold back the wheels from spinning. Think of it as a more “direct-drive”. You can try this out if your at a stoplight on a hill, put your car into D2 and release the break. The car will not roll back.

So, we have covered quite a few things. Monetary and non-monetary winter road solutions. Now, we would love to hear what you have to say? Do you have any economical, or free winter driving solutions? If you do, we would love for you to share them with us in the comments! Happy Holidays, and wish you all a safe winter, and driving!

If you have a slow boot speed, and slow system performance. It is probably because you have too many processes running at the same time that aren’t visible to you and just take up RAM and CPU usage.. Follow these steps to disable these processes on startup…

1. Start -> Run and then type in ‘msconfig’ and click OK.
2. Then click the ‘Startup’ Tab.
3. Start to uncheck list items. Make sure you do NOT accidentally disable your anti-virus software. So far, your page might look similar to this: [View Picture]
4. After you are done unchecking programs in the Startup tab, proceed to the Services tab.
5. At the bottom-left, make sure you CHECK off where it says “Hide all Microsoft services”
6. Once again, uncheck programs you KNOW, or you could create problems. It should look like this: [View Picture]
7. After you are done, click Apply, then click OK and you will receive this message… It might look something like this: [View Picture]
8. Click ‘Restart’ and your boot and system performance should be much faster! *Depending on how many services and applications you disabled.

So the holidays are coming up and money is tight, and all this leads to one thing: STRESS.

To help you with this, the members of our forums have made a list of activites you can try to reduce your stress levels-

• Listen to your favorite Music
• Play video games ’till your hands fall off
• Excercise for a while
• Play an instrument and share your song with a friend
• and last but not least is a nice relaxing game of Tetris

Just remember, have fun and keep cool when you think you might explode.