Windows
Block Messages in Outlook Express
If you have an e-mail address, you have more than likely found spam in your inbox at some point in time. Spam is what you would refer to as unwanted e-mail and there are a few ways in which you can keep it out of your inbox. In Outlook Express, one of the ways in [...]
Backing up Personal Computers
As a result of the Back up, back up, back up! entry, several have asked what and how to back up stuff on a personal computer since the article focused on business computers. Backup on business computers is typically not the user’s concern unless it’s a small business. A business should have a policy in [...]
Comdex Scare Yields Brilliantly Stupid Marketing Idea
While Comdex is kaput – at least this year – trade show marketing remains an important aspect of the high-tech world. The sands have shifted to smaller, more focused events. It’s not surprising, with Comdex imploding as the tech economy cooled off. High-tech trade show marketing had to take a different course to survive. Trade [...]
Print Preview in PowerPoint 2002
Have you ever needed to print a PowerPoint presentation but wanted to preview it before actually sending it off to the printer? Well PowerPoint does give you that option through the Print Preview feature. You can find this option by clicking File and clicking Print Preview. Using the drop down arrow beside the Print What [...]
Protect Your System, Part Deux
Picky Disclaimer and Stuff: As with the first try at finding something worthwhile to block bad crud from infecting our systems, this article is always meant FIRST as a reminder that security is not just something you find around the President or your local bank. It’s the responsibility of each of us to keep our [...]
Clipboard Extender
Clipster allows people to copy and paste text and images across your LAN, the internet, from one computer to/from another remote computer, etc.. basically on different computers. You might want to call it a network clipboard. Here’s a true clipboard extender! I bet you could’ve used this sucker before today, eh? When you copy / [...]
Make Your Own Photomosaics
AndreaMosaic is a little program for to [sic] create mosaics made with photographs. To create such kind of mosaic you need a collection of images to use for the tiles of the mosaic and you also need an image to use for the original, as a matrix for the mosaics. Then you can set the [...]
Microsoft's Tweakomatic
The Tweakomatic is a nifty new utility that writes scripts that allow you to retrieve and/or configure Windows and Internet Explorer settings. So what, you might ask. Well, think about it. Because these are WMI scripts, they can be used to configure settings on remote computers. Need to change something on a remote machine? Then [...]
I'm the Scrabble Champion
Nothing like a game of Scrabble to BOLSTER (double letter score on the B, triple word score total, plus I just used all of my letters) a relationship. We’ve only played one or two rounds in recent months, but I have a feeling this classic word game is going to trump all evening activities. It’s [...]
PC Tools' Registry Mechanic v3.0 Delivers
The people at PC Tools were kind enough to provide me with a full working copy of their popular system utility, Registry Mechanic v 3.0, so I took it for a test drive. You can download an evaluation copy of the program; it’s identical to the full version ($29.95) except that you can only clean [...]
