2007 March

I really love finding neat programs that are simple in nature and just do a job really well. One program I ran across the other day that fits that description is Hot Corners. What is Hot Corners all about? Well, it allows you to set specific actions depending on which part of the screen your [...]

MySpeed PC Advanced edition is an Internet speed test program that accurately measures your connection bandwidth, and provides an easy to understand report of your download, upload speeds, and connection quality.
You can test your Internet connection on-demand, or schedule speed tests to run automatically and view results of all tests to see how your [...]

Statistics seem to make the Internet tick. People are always wondering which blog has the most traffic, who makes the most advertising revenue, who’s the most popular, and so on. Some of these statistics are important for business reasons, but a lot of people take certain statistics too far and use them as the basis [...]

After my Scan Dog article ran in Windows Fanatics, I heard from some of you out there that were in the same boat as I was and had older Epson scanners that did not, and would NEVER have, drivers to use the scanner while using Windows Vista as the operating system. One comment that [...]

In a previous tip I described how to apply one of Word’s built-in styles to your table. You can also create your own table style, with your own borders, shading, font and so on. You can save the style and apply it to tables you create in the future.
To create your own table style [...]

You can easily change the alignment and position of your bulleted and numbered lists within Word. You need to open the Bullets and Numbering window and change the Number position and Text position.
The Number position values determine the position of the list is relation to the margin or indent. The Text position values determine the [...]

The computer security experts at Agnitum Ltd. today unleashed Spam Terrier, which protects users of Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express from spam.
The software is free.
“Spam Terrier is your new best friend,” said Mikhail Penkovsky, global vice-president for Marketing and Sales at Agnitum.
“Are you sick and tired of email offers for generic sex drugs and replica [...]

This video interview features MSR’s Jasha Droppo:
I have been with Microsoft Research since July, 2000. My primary task has been to explore different techniques to make ASR more robust to additive and channel noise. Other projects I’ve worked on include general speech signal enhancement, pitch tracking, multiple stream ASR, novel speech recognition features, MiPad multimodal [...]

This week’s collection of PC World Picks includes an IE shell, a spam filter, a news and blog reader, Microsoft’s anti-spyware tool, and a Google search tool for your desktop.
Windows Defender
Spyware fighter lets you examine Windows startup programs.
Maxthon
Beef up Internet Explorer with needed features like ad-blocking.
SpamBayes
Free anti-spam tool uses Bayesian logic to separate good mail [...]