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2006

Don’t Let A Data Disaster Ruin Your Holiday Gift

This holiday season, iPods, digital cameras, and other digital media players are expected to dominate the consumer electronics holiday gift market. With iTunes selling over 1.5 billion songs so far (including 1 million videos per week) and digital camera sales expected to top the 26 million mark, there’s a lot of digital content on laptops [...]

Cameras And Computers And Hard Drives, Oh, My!

PC Connection Deals

Save with our Hard Drive Deals - starting at just $62.95 - Valid until 12/18/2006.

Fuji FinePix V10 Digital Camera ONLY $179.95 - High sensitivity to take beautiful shots. Full-back LCD to enjoy viewing them together. Valid until supplies last.

Sony VAIO with FREE Battery ONLY $999 - The VAIO FS Notebook combines a full-size [...]

My Dad’s Reaction to Windows Vista

My dad saw Windows Vista for the first time this weekend (as family was up for my wedding). To him, it was more than just a bit foreign. He wanted to show me how Lockergnome was showing up in his Web-based inbox - and yes, we’re quite aware of the formatting problems as of late [...]

Popular Files From November

Tune-up utilities, file restoring tools, multimedia tweakers, and a desktop theme were among the most popular downloads from PCWorld.com in November.
DVD Shrink
Make a backup of your DVD disks, saving the output to your hard drive.
Windows Movie Maker
Use your PC to create, edit, and share home movies.
Restoration
Recover deleted files - or delete them for good - with [...]

Diner Dash: Flo On The Go

Flo trades in her apron for a passport to paradise! But will our hard-working waitress get a chance to relax?
Join Flo and her sidekick Darla as they embark on the vacation of their dreams. But when Flo’s suitcase suddenly spills into the water, she must rely on her table-serving talents to get her vacation [...]

PikiPimp

Unless you’re a skilled graphic artist, you probably use design programs such as Photoshop in a very random way. I can fake knowledge of the program to some extent, but I can only keep it up for so long. The interface is designed well, but even then, if I want to make a fairly substantial [...]

Setting Up The New PC

First of all, the new system is kickin’, and thanks for asking. Systemax did a first-class job of putting it together according to specifications; it was delivered promptly via TigerDirect and UPS, and everything was satisfactory out of the box. Performance is all I could want. You can’t really appreciate Google Earth [...]

Choosing A Word View (Part I)

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 view shows you exactly how [...]

Working With Indents In Word (Part I)

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!

nbsp;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 West Wing: [...]

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