2006 June

There may be times when you do not want all your slides to appear in a slide show. If a slide is incomplete, or not relevant to the audience whom you are presenting to, you can prevent the slide from being displayed in the presentation without having to delete it from the file.
Hiding a [...]

Google recently announced a number of new services at Google Press Day.
They included Google Trends, Google Desktop, Google Co-op, and Google Notebook. Below is an overview of each one and what they might mean for you.

So, how do you do that, anyhow?
Fill in the blank with anything you like.
Have you ever wondered about how things that others seemingly know intuitively are done?
Well, that’s what the Internet is all about. And specifically, that’s what today’s Family First site is for.
It’s called How Do I? Briefly, here is its mission:
Do you have [...]

I remember having to buy a Voodoo card for 3D video acceleration back in the day - like, when Pentium IIs were fresh and new! Fast forward to 2006 and it seems you can’t even play Solitaire without 256 megabytes of video RAM on a PCI-Express card. I was brand-loyal to Matrox for years, and [...]

Your PC knows a lot about you.
Which Web sites you’ve visited. What you’ve seen and downloaded. Your passwords, personal preferences, files you’ve used, programs you’ve installed, your usage habits, and more. It’s an open book for all to see - and exploit.
With a simple mouse click, award-winning Privacy Restorer permanently removes the history of your [...]

Even if you are stuck in a suburban jungle, it is still OK to feel like you need to get in touch with your inner street thug. Now you do not need to steal a car or beat up an old person to get your thrills. You can do it right on your [...]

My continuing journey with Microsoft Windows Vista Beta 2 has gotten nowhere in the last few days. We have been grounded until further notice.
If you live near here, Murphy, NC, or along the East Coast, you have some idea of the weather we have been having. Here we have had cloud to ground lightning every [...]

Microsoft may just get its arse handed to it on a plate by the European Union according to BBC News. It was reported six months ago that Microsoft had complied with the rulings in filing plans and reports, so it would seem that the reason the EU is coming down on Microsoft so harshly is [...]

Outlook 2003 allows you to configure an expiration date for your email messages. This can be useful if you are sending a sensitive or confidential email to someone else and you are concerned about it being read by someone else. Once the expiration date passes, the message will not longer be available. One catch to [...]

There may be times when you compose an email message but do not want to send it right away. You could save the message to your Drafts folder and send it later. Alternatively, you can configure Outlook to send the message for you on a specific date at a specific time.
To configure an email [...]