Archive for the ‘Computer Issues’ Category
Friday, June 24th, 2005
Tired of having to run to Walmart to pick up graph paper for those rare school assignments? In addition to inconvenience, you have to buy a whole package for an assignment that only uses a sheet or two. This website will come to the rescue. You can ...
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Wednesday, June 22nd, 2005
If you are one of the millions of people who have purchased an iPod Shuffle, you probably noticed that it came with very limited instructions. This is because the device is very simple to operate. However, there are some little tricks that are nice to know which will ...
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Saturday, June 18th, 2005
Can't make up your mind on which search engine to use? Don't bother. Try Gahoo!Yoogle, a search site that returns links from both Yahoo! and Google. Your your search item is returned on a split screen with Yahoo! on one side and Google on the other. Keep ...
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Tuesday, June 14th, 2005
Probably most PowerPoint users know that they can set the default format for the title or objects (such as bullet-point text) in the body of a slide using the Slide Master. Simply move to the Slide Master (use the View/Master Slide Master command) and format the objects on the ...
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Monday, June 13th, 2005
Lets talk a little about using templates. Templates are very useful since they eliminate repetition and save you time. In addition, if you are working in an office environment, they will help standardize documents among many users.
To create a template, start with a blank document. Enter the repetitious information you ...
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Saturday, June 11th, 2005
For those of you who can't resist playing the triangular peg game when you are waiting for your meal at Cracker Barrel, this is your ticket.
The game is similar to checkers ? you use the marbles to jump over other marbles. The goal is to end with only one marble. ...
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Wednesday, June 8th, 2005
You can check your hard disk space any time. Click Start>>My Computer. Right-click your hard disk drive (usually drive C). Select Properties from the pop-up menu. Select the General tab to see your disk space.
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Tuesday, June 7th, 2005
Sometimes when you install a new program, it will change your files associations in Windows. For example a music playing software may change your associations so that when you click on an mp3 file the new program opens as the default player. Be careful when you are installing ...
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Friday, June 3rd, 2005
Google supports several advanced operators, which are query words that have special meaning to Google. Typically these operators modify the search in some way, or even tell Google to do a totally different type of search. For instance, "link:" is a special operator, and the query [link:www.google.com] doesn't do a ...
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Friday, June 3rd, 2005
Any good backup solution should have three key properties: it should be used regularly, it should be reliable, and it should make recovery easy. Check out this article for the full story on developing an effective backup strategy.
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Friday, June 3rd, 2005
A couple of beers and a few sports fans will almost always result in an argument over which team was the greatest in history. This site will let you find out. You can choose your teams and add some factors that will make the game interesting and the site ...
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Sunday, May 29th, 2005
This is a really nice feature to add to your "right click" short menu. Remember, messing with your registry requires extreme care. Back up the registry before you make the change. If you don't know what a registry is, don't try this at home (or at work).
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Tuesday, May 24th, 2005
The American Automobile Association (AAA) has a web page that estimates how much it costs to drive from one location to another. Just enter your starting city, destination and your car's year, make and model. If your car isn't listed, enter your car's average miles per gallon. The ...
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Monday, May 23rd, 2005
Clicking and dragging the Select Objects pointer in a big rectangle over your slide selects everything within that area. But you can accomplish the same task by pressing [Ctrl]A ([command]A in v. X). This trick works not only for selecting everything on a slide in the Slides tab in ...
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