Google Spreadsheets can autofill cells with sequential numbers and other related data, like rivers and countries. It’s still not an advanced Excel, but this feature can save you some time when you’re numbering a column.

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Getting rid of the items you don’t use can be helpful in navigating the sidebar—a cluttered navigation pane can make it more difficult to find the items you do want (especially if you have more than a few libraries). Technology blog Ghacks has put up a quick guide to hiding them, and all it requires is a bit of minor registry editing.

Windows Explorer’s sidebar comes with a few entries in it that not everyone uses, such as Homegroup or Libraries. If you’d rather keep your sidebar clean (or populate it with more useful items), here’s how to hide the defaults.

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Here’s a 10-Minute Guide to Setting Up Ubuntu for beginners. It will definitely help you to setup and use Ubuntu on a PC or a notebook. Follow the instructions below and enjoy Linux on your PC/notebook.

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Google Wave now gives bloggers, corporate intranets, and other potential Wave users a way to let the public watch what’s going on in a Wave and, for the truly daring, invite any Wave user to edit.

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Google’s webapps can translate uploaded Microsoft Office documents, but with many caveats involving file sizes and HTML formatting. DocTranslator, a Java-powered webapp, runs your Office and text documents through Google Translate and sends them back with the same formatting.

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Windows users can easily lock their computer when they step away by hitting Win+L; on the Mac, there’s no default keyboard-friendly system lock shortcut. Quick tip site One Thing Well offers a simple, no add-on workaround.

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Since the release of Time Machine, backing your Mac up has never been easier. If you want to back up different sets of files to more than one drive, though, this script will help you do so.

Time Machine, in typical Apple fashion, will seamlessly back up your data with little effort on your part. However, when it comes to doing something a little more advanced, Time Machine isn’t quite wired to do so. It can back up to multiple disks, for instance, but you’d have to change the preferences every time, which can be a pain. Thus, if you want to, say, back up your whole disk to one drive and only one subset of files onto other drive, you’ll need to automate it yourself.

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There’s more to Google Maps than a place you double-check your directions. Google’s data-stuffed site offers a lot of helpful tools for vacationers, spreadsheet nerds, bikers, and others. Today we’re digging into Google’s data-rich geo-tool and pulling out some helpful lesser-known features.

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