2006 May

Ponzi felt compelled to write about a laptop case that someone offered to send her for review. Upon reading her review, I felt compelled to share it with you. As to whether or not the review is compelling, that’s for you to decide. WARNING: the word “cute” is used in her review. Of course, she [...]

I usually dump all my music into one folder. I guess it was a bad habit that I never really broke myself from. With all these music files dumped into one big folder, my naming of all the files wasn’t exactly neat. I needed to find a free program that would help [...]

Video gaming has gone from a casual distraction to a blockbuster industry that entices all ages in a very short amount of time. When you think of video games these days, you probably think of the mega-super-huge franchises such as Halo, Zelda, and so on. True, those titles do have a lot of money [...]

There are two ways that you can number the cells in a table. You can manually number each cell which is fine if you have a relatively small table. Alternatively, you can number the cells automatically using the Numbering button on the toolbar.
To automatically number the cells in a table:

Select the cells you want to [...]

There are many different ways that you can spice up your Word documents. You can add graphics, tables, charts, backgrounds, borders, and so on. Another way that you can make you document look more visually attractive is to add horizontal lines to create sections.
To add a horizontal line to your document:

Place the cursor where [...]

A wonderful yet poignant human interest story, of particular relevance if you are both a woman and librarian, is the life of the last great librarian of classical civilisation, Hypatia of Alexandria. This heroic woman’s story, if nothing else, will put the stresses of the current era and your particular working environment into perspective.
A basic [...]

“I have Windows XP and the system has gotten very slow and flaky. I would like to learn how to reformat the drive. Can you teach me in simple English how to completely format the drive and then re-install the operating system?”
Yes, but… you might want to think about some alternatives first.
Be forewarned, formatting a [...]

Perhaps you were watching baseball in mid-May and noticed that some of the players were using pink bats.
Now what could THAT be all about?
Well, some major leaguers volunteered to swing pink Louisville Sluggers in order to bring the public awareness of breast cancer.
And I’m not going to swing a pink bat, but I am doing [...]

First, it came time for a hard drive upgrade. Then, we told you about a great new Internet hard drive. Now, we’ve got more hard drive software feedback than we can humanly handle!
Bob Kubichek - I would use Acronis because; (1) It is much easier to use than the latest version of Norton Ghost or [...]

Perform common tasks - like opening Web sites and applications and typing commonly-used text - just by typing a regular word. For example, no matter what you are doing on your computer, in any application, you could just type “word\” and immediately Microsoft Word would open.
Similarly, type excel\ and gasp in amazement as Microsoft [...]