If you insist on continuing to use those heathen Windows computers, I guess you should have the tools and knowlege necessary to keep your system limping along. The Personal Tech Pipeline site offers a quick tutorial on how to clean out virus and spyware infections from your Windows computer.
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Of course you have virus protection and spyware running on your Windows computer, right? Well if you start to notice that your system is slowing down, you will have to do some troubleshooting. If your antivirus and spyware programs don’t find any problems, try checking to see what processes are running. Click Ctrl+Alt+Del. This will open the Windows Security window. Click Task Manager. Select Processes. If you see any processes you don’t recognize, check them at Uniblue’s WinTasks Process Library. If you find anything bad programs, do a Google search for removal instructions.
One of the problems you may run into from time to time is trying to e-mail a large file. At best, you will clog up the recepient’s e-mail if the file actually goes through. Unfortunately, many e-mail systems won’t even let you send a large file.
So what is a techie to do when he just has to send his buddy that large video file. Just head over to Mailbigfile and a couple of clicks later your file will be on the way. The recepient simply receives an e-mail with a link from which he can download the file.
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The latest trend in the IT world is to move software to the Web. Of course if you are like me, you can think of a bunch of reasons not move in this direction. However, I think you will be surprised to find that some of them work just as well as the ones on your computer.
If you want to give one a try, take a look at ThinkFree Office. It is an office suite that works just like Microsoft Office and they give you 30 mb of storage space for your files. All you have to do is complete the free registration process to start using it today. Unfortunately, they are still working on the Mac and Linux versions that they expect to have available shortly.
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Having trouble playing movie or sound files on your computer. You may want to try an alternative media player with a different CodecC. Codec is short for Compressor-Decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video.
The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play all the popular movie formats and even some rare formats.
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Have you ever accidentally text that ended up on the page every time you open Word. What you did was save the text in the Normal.dot template. All Word documents are based on that template.
The quickest way to correct the problem is to delete the template. A new one will be created when you next open Word. The default location is C:\Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Microsoft\Templates.
Are you one of the many AOL Instant Messenger users? You can’t beat it for sending or receiving quick messages but what happens when you aren’t near your computer? Try IMCourier.
IMCourier is a free service that lets users of AOL Instant Messenger and ICQ
check their IMs from anywhere in the world! This means that when you put up an away message and leave your home or office, you can keep tabs on what?s been sent to you through a simple web interface, free of charge!
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With tax time closing in, don’t forget to gather up your used clothing and other items that are just taking up space around the house and donate them to Goodwill, the Salvation Army or some other charity. Our rule is if you haven’t used it in two years, donate it.
The Salvation Army publishes a list of acceptable values for used item on its website. Just make a donation list that includes the item desciption (men’s shirt, etc), the quantity and the value for your tax records. Don’t forget to donate the items and get a receipt by December 31, 2005 if you want to use the deduction for this year. Every little bit helps.
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Qliner hotkeys is a free and open source keyboard productivity environment. It is the first product of it’s kind that is usable by computer geeks and non geeks alike.
Key features:
Hotkeys builds on the concept of Windows shortcut keys but takes this concept to a whole new level. Do you think key combinations are hard to remember? Just hold the Windows key for three seconds and up pops a Onscreen Keyboard with icons on the keys that are configured. This you can you use , not only to remind you of hotkey combinations, but also for Drag and Drop Configuration.
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Do you find yourself doing a lot of research using the internet. You may not realize that each search engine has its own strengths and weaknesses. With jux2 you can search Google, Yahoo! and Ask Jeeves all at once and it will show you the best results. You can also do a side by side comparison
of the results to see how each engine works for your particular search.
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If you must give a speech or read in public, this post from the AIRDaily list might be useful. Although it is intended for podcasters, some of the tips will be useful for anyone who is tasked with a public speaking assignment that involves reading from a script. (I have edited it slightly to make it more readable).
Script Preparation:
Underline each operative and use forward slashes to indicate breath locations.
Warm Up:
Read one page two different ways to stretch mouth
1) Open your mouth as wide as possible
2) Spit out each consonant
Voicing:
1) Operatives-change tempo on operatives or pause after each one
2) Keep mouth open laterally
3) Breathe through mouth
4) Be in story (see it while saying it)
5) Use hand on stomach to feel air pulled in and then pushed out over cords
Reading Effectively
The key thing to remember when you’re on the air is that radio is an intimate medium; each listener feels like you’re talking directly to him or her. So your voice quality is a lot less important than your delivery. And as long as you’re being recorded, don’t worry too much about making mistakes; even veteran broadcasters sometimes stumble. We can edit out fluffs.
Tips for Reading Well
Don’t stress too many words in a sentence. In their effort to sound authoritative, many beginners get in the habit of stressing almost every other word: “President Bush said today the United States will not give in to the demands of terrorists, even at the cost of the hostages lives.” If you stress too many words, the listener doesn’t know what to focus his attention on. Usually there are only a couple of new ideas in each sentence; those are the ones you should emphasize: “President Bush said today the United States will not give in to the demands of terrorists, even at the cost of the hostages lives.”
Keep up your energy. Inexperienced broadcasters are sometimes so concerned about misreading a word, that they forget they’re reporting a story. Before you start reading, think about the way you’d tell someone the news you’re about to deliver if you met him outside the studio. Or recall the enthusiasm you had for the subject when you pitched the story originally. Bring that energy to your delivery.
Vary your pitch naturally. At the same time that you want to sound interested in your own story, you don’t want to lose the natural tonal variations of your regular speaking voice. For instance, it’s easy to fall into the habit of making your voice higher in pitch every time you want to emphasize a word. Be careful not to get into a sing-song pattern. Also, when people are behind a mic their vocal chords sometimes tighten up, making them talk in a higher register than their usual speaking voice. (That’s why it’s smart to warm up before you track a piece, or to track it twice.) A good exercise is to record yourself when you’re in a conversation, just telling a story about your day, or something you saw on the way to work, or an incident that a friend related to you. Then try to imitate yourself when you read your script.
Suit your pace to the sentences you’re saying. If you’re explaining something technical, or describing something sad, you may want to slow down. If you’re repeating the name of someone who’s been identified clearly and repeatedly earlier in your report, you can speed up. Again, if you record yourself in conversation [see the previous tip], you’ll hear that you don’t always speak with exactly the same cadence in every sentence, or in each part of a sentence.
Remember to pause. Many broadcasters don’t use even commas in their scripts… they use three dots instead… simply to remind themselves where to pause. Pauses allow listeners to take in what they’ve just heard before they’re hit with a new idea.
If you repeatedly have trouble reading a word or phrase out loud, change it. Do you find yourself running out of breath? If so, shorten your sentences. Can’t say, “Susan Sheffer says she’s sheltering sea lions”? Re-write it. Even the pros make edits in the studio when they discover they’ve written themselves a tongue-twister. You should always feel comfortable reading what you’ve written.
Thanks to NORAD, The North American Aerospace Defense Command in Cheyenne Mountain, CO, you and your kids can track Santa?s progress again this year.
This great site will provide you with update videos, satellite images and live audio reports. Just surf over to the site early Christmas Eve and watch the little fat man work his way to your house.
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FolderShare is great service designed to share folders. First, you must sign up and download the free software then you can share folders over the internet.
You can create a peer-to-peer network to share photos or files with your family and friends. If you use multiple computers, you can also use it to synchronize files between computers. Another option would be to keep your data is kept private so only you can access it.
This is definitely a site that you will be able to use everyday.
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