Windows
Visiting Asheville, North Carolina
“We are planning on going up to Asheville tomorrow morning and meeting up at Panera Bread on Hendersonville Hwy at 6pm. We’d love it if you would pass that along to any of your Asheville friends.” That message was sent to me a few minutes ago by Ponzi. If you’re a blogger or a geek, [...]
SaferSpace v1.0 beta
SaferSpace is a simple but effective program that allows parents to block access to the MySpace.com Web site. SaferSpace runs as a service and can optionally log all blocked access attempts to a file. The user will be notified with a dialog box whenever a MySpace window is blocked. You can choose to block MySpace [...]
Frucall
I’m not exactly the smartest shopper in the world. When I see something that I want, I usually can talk myself into justifying the purchase, no matter what the price is. This is definitely a problem that I need to work on; patience is required if you’re going to be a successful shopper. It’s important [...]
Save Your Word Document As A PDF (Word 2002)
One question that Lockergnome readers often ask me is ‘How do I save my Word document in PDF format?’ It is possible but many people try to do a ‘Save As’ only to discover that PDF is not in the list of possible file types. This is because you need to use the ‘Print’ function [...]
Determine The Number Of Times A Word Is Used In A Document (Word 2002)
Using the Word Count feature of Microsoft Word, you can easily find out exactly how many words are in your document. All you have to do is click the Word Count option from the Tools menu. What if you want to find out how many times a specific word is used in a document? The [...]
Why Does IE Now Require "http:" In The Address Bar?
My IE address bar will not respond when you type in, say, “www.yahoo.com.” you have to put http:// in front of the address. This just started happening tonight, 4/15/2006. What’s up? To put it bluntly… Microsoft messed up. I’ve gotten a flurry of reports of this behavior… all starting on 4/15. Right after Windows automated [...]
Surviving The Group Project: A Note On Working In Teams
Groups can be wonderful or terrible, productive or stagnant, imprisoning or freeing, conformist or creative. In our personal lives, when a group doesn’t satisfy our needs, we can often walk away. But in our work world, this is usually not the case. This site will help you develop the skills you need to make sure [...]
Linux For Windows Problems
If you’ve been following my personal tales (including my dad’s broken wrist), you’ll know that I’m currently visiting Ponzi’s family in North Carolina. This is my first trip to North Carolina, to my knowledge – and I even crept into South Carolina while driving around with her mom today. We just got back from her [...]
Hotkeys
As far as on the screen keyboards go, you either love them or hate them. Hotkeys is a little different than the others you might see out there. It takes the idea of Windows shortcut keys and gives it a kick in the pants.
cl1p.net
Sharing information on the Internet can sometimes be easier said than done. A lot of services exist to help with storing and transferring large photos, videos, music, and so on, but if you just need to transfer a line or two of text to someone, then you’ve probably become used to either sending out an [...]
