From The Microsoft Office Blog: "The holiday season is upon us! Looking for creative, thoughtful, and inexpensive ways to make friends and loved ones feel special? Want to kick the New Year off with a new job? Here are 10 ways to Do-It-Yourself this holiday season with Office 2010."
Friday, November 26, 2010
Wednesday, November 24, 2010
Windows 7: Checking USB Device Power Usage
Posted on 9:10 PM by Unknown
Did you know that there's preset limit on the available amount of power on a USB bus? If you have several USB devices plugged into your computer's USB ports, you need to be aware there is only a small amount power available for them. Most computers have multiple what are known 'USB root hubs', and each hub can deliver a maximum of 500 milliamps of power to attached devices. If the energy
Monday, November 22, 2010
Software: Adobe Reader X
Posted on 9:24 PM by Unknown
Over the last few years the Adobe Reader has been plagued with several security exploits. To address this problem, Adobe has released an upgrade called 'Reader X'. This update includes a sandbox design (called 'Protected Mode') to guard users from PDF attacks.For those that don't know about the security term 'sandbox', it's a technology that tries to isolate system processes, and prevent malware
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Windows 7: Windows Explorer - Changing the Icon Views
Posted on 6:11 PM by Unknown
In Windows Explorer you can quickly change the file and folder icons size and appearance by using the slider in the Views drop-down menu in the toolbar. For example, some of the View menu options include extra large to small icons sizes (from 16x16 to 256x256 pixels), as well List, Details, Tiles, and content views.
Another way to achive the same results is by holding down the CTRL key, then
Another way to achive the same results is by holding down the CTRL key, then
Windows 7: Resizing Desktop Icons
Posted on 1:33 PM by Unknown
Want to easily change the size (larger or smaller) of the icons on the desktop? All you have to do is click on an empty part of the desktop, hold down the CTRL key, then using the scroll wheel on your mouse, scroll up or down to re-size the icons.
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Firefox: Moving Your Cache to RAM (Performance Tip)
Posted on 10:32 AM by Unknown
For a long time browsers have kept local copies of web page objects (such as HTML files, graphics, flash, and other files) on the hard drive. This allows the browser to access these files much more quickly if they're needed again without having to download them from the Internet.
Firefox has a setting that allows the browser's cache to be moved to RAM instead of the hard drive. Since RAM can
Firefox has a setting that allows the browser's cache to be moved to RAM instead of the hard drive. Since RAM can
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Dell Inspiron duo coming soon
Posted on 2:33 PM by Unknown
A sneak peek at the new Inspiron duo, Dell's first convertible tablet, from touch to type in seconds. It should be available on Dell.com before the end of the year.
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Internet: Using Windows Explorer to Manage Your SkyDrive Files
Posted on 9:47 PM by Unknown
Microsoft Windows Live SkyDrive offers 25GB of free Internet based storage. However, uploading files via a web browser can be cumbersome. Without any extra software, there's a way to connect SkyDrive via Windows Explorer.
Follow the steps below to map a network drive (e.g. X:\ drive) to a SkyDrive folder.
Go to http://skydrive.live.com/ in your web browser.
Sign in to the Live.com site with
Follow the steps below to map a network drive (e.g. X:\ drive) to a SkyDrive folder.
Go to http://skydrive.live.com/ in your web browser.
Sign in to the Live.com site with
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