Windows
Set Up Your Own Sort Order In Excel
You can instruct Excel to sort the data in a worksheet. If the sorting orders within Excel do not meet your requirements, you can create your own sorting order. For example, if you type in Red, Green, Blue, and Black, Excel would normally sort them in alphabetical order. However, if you do not want them [...]
Customizing The Bullet Type In Word
You can easily create a bulleted list in your document by clicking the Bullets button on the toolbar. Word will automatically insert the bullets into your document. By default, the bullets are a predefined character (small, round, black dots). However, you can customize Word to use any character you want for your bulleted lists. Here [...]
No IE7 Support For Win2k
Microsoft doesn’t plan to support IE7 on Win2K, which is ironic considering the same blog entry says that Microsoft is extending supporting for Win2K beyond June 30, 2005. There are two important events that will happen to the support policy for Windows 2000 after June 30th of this year.
PowerToys For Media Player – We Have A Winner!
Tireless Microsoft afficianado Ken finally came up with the REAL download link for the MS Windows XP Bonus Pack, which includes the PowerToys for Media Player for Windows XP. He beat the Microsoft representative, who may or may not ever reply to the ‘missing link’ complaint I sent in.
Digging The Desktop Heap
Far from being that pile of icons you keep up in the top lefthand corner, this is a limit imposed by Windows on how many discrete desktop windows you can have open at any one time. It can stop you dead in your tracks if you’re really into a heavy-duty project of some kind that [...]
Quixotic Qwesting Quells Quibbling Qonnection Qonundrum
Oh, this is a fun Friday… I’ve got nothing better to do than to sit around the house and wait for the phone guy to show up and install a few lines for the show. This is almost like waiting for Godot – only a lot more exciting. We should be able to start taking [...]
ImageMagick v6.2.3
ImageMagick is a powerful command-line tool to create, edit, and convert images in various formats. The program can be used from the command-line or used from other programs, including Perl, ASP, and PHP scripts. ImageMagick supports more than 90 image formats, including GIF, JPG, JPEG-2000, PNG, and many others. It offers a wide variety of [...]
Tile Machine
One of the things that I love about the Internet is that there’s never a shortage of goofy stuff you can do to waste time. That may sound like a stupid statement, but that’s because it is. Using the Internet for worthwhile purposes is great, but when you feel like you can’t do anymore serious [...]
An Investment In The Status Quo
Several people had comments about my unexpected frustration over being forced to change keyboards for a short time. For all the consideration given to various designs for pointer control such as a mouse, trackball, eraser, touchscreen, etc., the personal nature of a keyboard is often overlooked. That is strange because we certainly spend more time [...]
Include The File Name In A Header Or Footer
Headers and footers can contain different information such as page numbers, author name, date, and so on. At some point you may be required to include the name of the document in a header or footer. This is also a good way of quickly recalling the file name for a printed document. In any case, [...]
