2007 March

There are naked ladies in my bathroom!
Ha! Get your mind out of the gutter. I’m talking specifically about one of my favorite bands, Barenaked Ladies - although they’re not really in my bathroom. Still, they’re in someone’s bathroom - and they’ve recorded a handful of hits (forevermore known as ‘The Bathroom Sessions’).
What’s your favorite BNL […]

Chickens. For centuries we have oppressed them, grilling, roasting, stewing, and stuffing them in buns. The time has come for us to pay!
Intergalactic chickens are invading Earth, seeking revenge for the oppression of their Earthly brethren! It’s time for you to fight through 120 waves of chicken invaders for our ancestral right to omelettes. […]

Gmail Space is an extension to the Firefox browser that turns your Gmail account into a Web drive so you can share your content from several systems through a simple-to-use interface.
[59.76k] [Win95/98/Me/2k/XP] [FREE]

One of the most exciting and disturbing things about the Internet is that it makes it very easy to keep track of what people are doing. So many of us are openly volunteering information on our blogs, social networking profiles, etc., and because of this, as long as a person is familiar with Google and […]

Q: I heard there is a new way for hackers to get into my home network called “farming” or something like that. Is this true? - Julian
A: The bad guys are always looking for ways to infiltrate “easy targets” and residential customers are perceived as “low hanging fruit” by those with malicious intent.
The primary reason […]

Sometimes you need to work on two sections of a document at the same time. Scrolling back and forth between the two sections is inefficient. Instead, you can split your document window into two horizontal panes.
To split you document into two panes:

From the Window menu, click the Split option.

Drag the split bar that appears […]

If someone sets up Outlook on your behalf, which often happens in businesses, you may not even know what your email address is. There is an easy way that you can quickly find it in Outlook without having to do too much digging.
To find your email address in Outlook 2003:

Open Outlook.

From the Tools menu, […]

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In response to Is OpenOffice Open Enough For You?, Gnomie Michael B. Johnson writes:
Short Answer: Yes.
Long Answer: Yes, but… I don’t like OpenOffice’s styles, compared to Microsoft Word Outline view and auto-format - probably because I haven’t used it enough to get used to it. On my Linux machine at home, I use OpenOffice exclusively. […]

Do you want to impress (or depress) your friends with your digital photos? Present your most important digitally-captured moments (embarrassing and otherwise), people (embarrassing and otherwise), and places (like Nevada, Scotland, or Graceland) in a Sci-Tek 3D virtual gallery!
Every time you stop working on the computer because you’re a slacker and your boss has […]

Cooliris eliminates the hassle of having to click back and forth between your searches and resulting pages and losing context of what you’re searching for. With Cooliris, you can conveniently preview links on any Web site, including Craigslist, eBay, Google, and Google Images.
You won’t have to open every single page. Just mouse over any […]

Besides video, images can be the hardest files to organize and search and browse through. Text is always the easiest type of data to store and sort, but once things get visual, it can get tricky. Even at this very moment, I have a bunch of pictures from my digital camera on my computer that […]

Did you know that Word includes a tool called the Document Map? It displays a list of headings in your document in a separate pane. This is useful for quickly navigating a document, particularly if it is large.
Using the Document map is simple. Once it is open, all you have to do is click […]

Premiered last night at the annual Radio and Television Correspondents Dinner, musical romp features more than 100 broadcast personalities singing about the ridiculous stories of our time.
Video Available for Free on JibJab.com and MSNVideo.com.
JibJab, a branded digital comedy network, today released its latest musical satire entitled “What We Call the News.” The original video, […]

Journey across majestic Celtic ruins as you create potions and harness magic in this match-game of enchantment.
Help Monarch, the Butterfly King, rescue his friends from the clutches of a mysterious wizard bent on freezing his kingdom in magical amber. Explore mystical glades on 150 levels, and download more levels online, playing in either Relaxed […]

The quick launch tool provided by the task bar in Windows is outdated and just does not do the job for me anymore. I have too many programs I like to use, and for me, quick launch just seems less efficient than some of the other options out there. To launch my programs quickly, I […]

To give my clients a sense of control over their computers, I like to help them add or change features to meet their needs. The value of the exercise is increased if they learn how to download something, install it, and use it in a way that enhances their computing experience, but that is not […]

Word makes it very easy for you to combine multiple lists (bulleted or numbered) into one. Once you append one list to another, Word should take care of applying all the formatting to the second list so it matches the format of the first one. If this does not happen, it is likely because the […]

Word lets you sort data, such as text, numbers and dates, in a table column or cell. You can have Word sort the data for you automatically using instead of doing it manually. This can save you a lot of time, especially if you are working with a large amount of data.
To sort data […]

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