Choosing A Word View (Part I)

Dec 11, 2006 | No Comments

Word includes different views that change the parts of your document that are displayed on the screen and determines how much of your system’s resources are used. Knowing the purpose of each view will help you to select the correct one. Word includes the following views: Print Layout Normal Web Layout Outline The Print Layout [...]

Working With Indents In Word (Part I)

Dec 11, 2006 | 6 Comments

Several Lockergnome readers have asked for help with indenting paragraphs in Word. There are a few different ways that text can be indented, depending on what you want to indent. For example, you can increase or decrease the indent of an entire paragraph. Increasing or decreasing the left indent of a paragraph is a simple [...]

O-Day!

Dec 11, 2006 | No Comments

Overstock.com’s last O-Day Sale of the year is coming up – 12% off and free shipping! From Sunday, December 10 through Thursday, December 14, you can save 12% (12/10/2006 at 12:01 am MST – 12/14/2006 at 11:59 pm MST)! Some other stuff Gnomies might find of interest (Expiring Friday 12/15/06): Save an EXTRA $15 on [...]

Keeping Up With The Joneses

Dec 8, 2006 | 4 Comments

Chris and Ponzi’s big wedding day is tomorrow, so Chris is taking a much-needed break from Lockergnome today. Here’s a little something from his show a few weeks ago that you might enjoy! If I drink anything, it’s usually either soda water or coffee (but seldom simultaneously). I decided to exceed my palate’s comfort level [...]

3D Dancing Hanukkah Teddy Bears Screensaver

Dec 8, 2006 | One Comment

Two darling teddy bears in yarmulkes dance to the dreidel song as symbols and objects float down in front of the teddy bears. Select from falling snow and snowflakes, stars of David, dreidels, menorahs, coins, the Hebrew letters of the dreidel, symbols, none, or all. Demo contains full set of features: sound mute, volume control, [...]

KidRocket Web Browser v1.0

Dec 8, 2006 | No Comments

KidRocket is a free Web browser designed for kids to safely surf the Internet’s top children-related Web sites. Each human-edited, hand-picked site offers many fun, educational, and interactive activities for children and parents alike. Password-protected lockdown mode and parental admin area, new GUI, interactive math flashcards, art section, games, and Internet filter. Children will find [...]

Menutopia

Dec 8, 2006 | One Comment

Above everything else, one of the most frequent social activities that we as human beings participate in is going out to eat at a restaurant with some friends and family. Many of us eat at least three meals a day, and not all of those meals are going to be at home, so when it [...]

Remote PC Access Inbox

Dec 8, 2006 | One Comment

Q: I want to be able to access my office computer from my house on the weekends and have been told that I need to setup a VPN. What is it and how do I do it? -Jeff A: The Internet has made it very easy to remotely access computers from just about anywhere in [...]

Change The Location Of The Documents Folder In Vista

Dec 8, 2006 | 7 Comments

The all familiar My Documents folder in Windows XP has been renamed the Documents folder in Vista. Vista creates Documents folder for each user that logs onto the computer and stores it in the appropriate profile folder. The default location for this folder is c:\Users\\Documents (assuming of course that you have installed Vista on your [...]

Join A Workgroup In Vista

Dec 8, 2006 | 3 Comments

Resources on your computer can be shared with other computers in the same workgroup. To join a computer to an existing workgroup, know the name of the workgroup you want to join and you must change the workgroup name that is currently assigned to the computer. Once you’ve identified the name of the workgroup to [...]