I’ve been busy turning in an update to my PCs For Dummies, so I didn’t have time to blog. 🙁
May 20, 2009May 18, 2009Fill in the Blanks with WordA common thing people do with a word processor, especially in business, is to create a form. One of the most annoying things in Word is the way that it handles tabs. Combine the two, and you have just oodles of fun! May 15, 2009Sending ElephantsIt seems silly, but most e-mail accounts have an upper limit on the size of a file you can send. For some accounts, the size is a puny 5MB.
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May 13, 2009Computer Buying AdviceWhen people discover that I’m into computers, inevitably the question arises, “Which computer should I buy?” May 11, 2009The Lure of the Soft ReturnWord 7 changed a lot of word processing things. One of the most odd (some would say annoying) is its standard paragraph format which seems to always add a puff of space between the lines of each paragraph you type. When you’re trying to type an address, that extra space can be a real pain.
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May 8, 2009Show Them Extensions!Unless you tell it otherwise, Windows hides the important part of a filename, the extension. I guess Microsoft does that so as not to confuse to bewilder beginners, though in my opinion it merely reinforces the fault in default. May 6, 2009May 4, 2009Google Killer
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May 1, 2009AutoPlay No MoreHere’s a security tip for you: Utterly disable Windows ability to display those annoying AutoComplete dialog boxes.
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April 29, 2009NVLDDMKM.SYSI thought I had met my enemy and its name was
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