Archive for the ‘Computer Advice’ Category
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
Are you tired of trying to keep up with all of your passwords? Wouldn't it be nice if you only had to remember one password for all your accounts? Now you can do exactly that with this great little free program, KeePass. It will work with either Windows ...
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Tuesday, May 29th, 2007
This is one of those articles that you run across every now and then that makes you think - now that's cool. If you happen to be a Mac user like me, you are probably using some of these mouse scroll wheel techniques already, others you may have heard ...
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Monday, May 21st, 2007
If you are in charge of preparing the budget for your agency or administering a grant, you may have to set up or enter data into a Microsoft Exel spreadsheet. If your spreadsheet involves a division formula, you may experience a problem if the you try to divide by ...
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Thursday, May 17th, 2007
Have you ever wanted to print a list of files that are inside a folder using Windows Explorer? Good luck!
Thank goodness there are software developers like No Nonsense Software to do what Windows does not. They have written a handy little utility that permits you to print or ...
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Friday, May 11th, 2007
If you haven't stopped by the Get a Mac site at Apple.com, surf on over and check it out. Even if you aren't interested in switching, the series of Get a Mac ads are really well done and pretty cute. Apple has just added three new Get a ...
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Saturday, April 28th, 2007
I am proud to say in middle school (we called it junior high school back then), I successfully completed two years of Spanish. However, the extent of my fluency now is counting to twenty and saying, "Mi casa es azul." The funny thing is I have never lived in ...
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Thursday, April 19th, 2007
PowerPoint's AutoShapes feature enables you to insert items such as lines, connectors, basic shapes, arrows, flowcharts, stars and banners, callouts, and action buttons. You can draw almost any shape you need using the AutoShapes feature by simply clicking and dragging. You can also move, resize, and delete AutoShapes ...
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Thursday, March 29th, 2007
I have written about free, open source software alternatives in past but I thought it might be time to bring up the topic again since Microsoft recently introduced Office 2007. Open source projects are cooperative efforts to develop a variety of software alternatives. The software is developed by highly qualified ...
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Sunday, March 25th, 2007
Every now and then you want a special font style to add just the right touch to a document, report or special project. Purchasing a commercial font program can be very expensive - and you know how I hate expensive. So what should you do? Turn to ...
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2007
My wife recently attended an art conference in New York and she took a bunch of digital photos using our Sony Cybershot camera. She was using a 128 MB memory stick but the camera has a little "bug" that will let you take more photos than the card had ...
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Wednesday, February 28th, 2007
Here are a few more basic Google tricks to help you get the most out of your web searches. If you are doing a search and you want to match just Cardinal Academy use quotes as in "Cardinal Academy". If you don't want to use double quotes, you ...
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Sunday, February 25th, 2007
As most of my regular readers know by now, my computer of choice is an Apple Powerbook. However, I have been trying to figure out what to do with my old Windows computer. It is such a pain to keep the virus protection and anti-spyware software up to ...
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Friday, February 23rd, 2007
Google is so ubiquitous that it is listed as a verb in the dictionary. However, if you are just using it to do phrase searches, you are missing out on a lot of its power. Here are a few hints for getting the most out of your Google ...
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Saturday, February 3rd, 2007
I know this article is a little like "inside baseball" for many of my readers since most of you probably do not maintain your own blog. I have been blogging for quite some time now and I usually don't have a problem expressing my opinion or coming up with ...
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