Windows
Change The Location Where Word Looks For Pictures
If you have a picture on your computer, you can include it in your document. From the Insert menu, point to Picture, and click From File. You will probably notice that Word defaults to the My Pictures folder. If you do not store your pictures here, you’ll have to browse to the folder that does [...]
Editing Your Headers and Footers
As you probable know, you can add headers and footers to your Word documents. You can accomplish this using the Headers and Footers option from the View menu. Type in the text you want to appear or insert any of the available auto text. Once you have headers and footers in your document, you may [...]
Copying Music FROM Your iPod
Part of the charm and popularity of iPod and iTunes is that they just make storing and listening to music so easy. However, for some reason, Apple seems determined to make copying songs from your iPod to your PC more and more difficult. With earlier versions of iTunes, there’s a useful utility called “iPod Download” [...]
Watch Downloaded Movies On DVD Player?
Gazette reader Barbara B. writes: Hi Dennis, Again, thanks for all of your hard work on your great newsletter, which is so much help for so many people. Now, my husband has a question regarding playback of downloaded DVD videos, movies, etc. He can download and burn these videos and can play them back on [...]
New Netscape Better Than Firefox & IE?
It has been many moons since I have had a Netscape browser installed on my computer. I was not really that big of a fan of it the first time around but this second time, I have to say I am interested. Netscape grabbed my attention by saying that it’s going to use the best [...]
Newton, Iowa – Screwed
I defintely raised the ire of countless Iowans the other day; nobody likes it when their home turf is poo-pooed, especially when one speaks from experience. It’s impossible to fight stereotypes, isn’t it? But it seems that I was partly right. An old fraternity brother sent word: “On the Iowa post I agree with you [...]
PowerToys For Windows Media Player (XP)
I know that most of you (I should hope!) are familiar with Microsoft’s PowerToys. We should all have TweakUI, for one, installed on our systems! But this is a new one on me. I came across it while chasing something else. I think the Internet is a playground for serendipity.
Brainboost
Receiving answers on the Internet is kind of like swimming upstream. There is just so much information out there that it’s difficult to find real answers to your questions. Some people just throw out false information and get a kick out of confusing massive amounts of people. On the other hand, there are various search [...]
Garage Sales Yield Cheap Tech
This weekend, a nearby homeowners association had its annual group garage sale. For those unfamiliar with the concept, the HOA normally forbids individual households from holding garage sales. Besides, it would be difficult to have one since the community sits behind locked gates, and that cuts down on the potential customers passing by. But since [...]
Message Rules Not Working For Spam
Lee writes: I keep getting a particular spam e-mail selling pills (with the) same name of the pills. I have gone into my message rules in Outlook Express and put a block to these words, but it doesn’t work. I can’t block the address or subject because it’s always different, but the message is always [...]
