Have you ever been worming on something on the computer, only to look up and realize that you accidentally hit to Caps-Lock button? Sometimes if you’re lucky and catch it after only about 2 or 3 words. In a worst case scenario however, you may have already typed 3 for 4, or even more sentences before noticing. Now you have to go back and retype everything right? Wrong! There are some windows applications that have shortcuts to automatically do this. There are also web applications that will convert text as well

In Microsoft Word (I’ve heard Excel can do this too) all you have to do is highlight the words you want to change and hit Shift + F3. This will convert everything to lower case. Hitting it again will capitalize the first letter of the words. For example…

Text:

“AH CRAP, I JUST REALIZED I’VE BEEN TYPING IN CAPS THIS WHOLE TIME. NOW I GOTTA REDO EVERYTHING!”

Shift + F3 once:

“ah crap, i just realized i’ve been typing in caps this whole time. now i gotta redo everything!”

Shift + F3 twice:

“Ah crap, i just realized i’ve been typing in caps this whole time. Now i gotta redo everything!”

It’ll fix most issues, but you probably will have to go and fix little things like “i’ve” and proper names. It won’t do that itself for god knows why.

If you aren’t using Microsoft Word or are on a Mac, there are Web sites that can change the text for you. http://www.convertcase.net/ is a free site that will convert any text into Uppercase, lowercase, or sentence format. Check it out, I’m sure everyone has needed this at one point or another.

For those people out there that are looking for a good video card, but don’t want to pay $400 to get a top of the line one, then this may be the card for you. The card i on the market with a price tag ranging from $179 to $219. After a number of benchmark tests, it was found the card is just lightly behind nVidia’s budget friendly card, the GeForce 8800 GT. While both cards rank highly when compared to mid level cards, they just aren’t powerful enough to play a game like Crysis, reaching a minimum FPS of 7.

Here are a couple of sites that go further into detail about the card.
Read — Custom PC
Read — Hot Hardware
Read — TG Daily
Read — AnandTech
Read — ExtremeTech

Have you ever tried to delete a file but all you get is an error message like the following?

It usually shows itself as one of these lovely messages…

• Cannot delete file: Access is denied

• There has been a sharing violation.
• The source or destination file may be in use.
• The file is in use by another program or user.
• Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.

Sometimes you may have left the file open while you were trying to move it. But most of the time your sure its closed, for for god knows why windows has decided to hang onto it and make you go through the process of trying to GUESS(since it only says ‘A program’ and not which one) which one is hanging onto it.

Thanks to the program Unlocker Assistant, you can easily take care of this issue without any hassle. Simply install it and go. Whenever you get the error, Unlocker will come up and give you options to kill the program(s) it found using it, or attempt a force delete.

It also ads an extra option to the Right-Click menu called Unlocker, which brings to the menu of the program if you want to delete whole files that are giving the issue.

The program is of course free, and I have found no problem with it on XP. Don’t know how well it works on Vista though…

The program can be downloaded from here.

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