2007 July

Upon receiving the invite for this week’s Seattle-area blogger meetup with KOMO TV, Dave Newton put things into perspective for the community-at-large:
I’m flattered that I made a list of Seattle area bloggers, but not starry-eyed enough to accept the invitation to come and be cooed over by the TV people, no matter how sincere they […]

Capitalism II lets you build the empire of your dreams!
You become a corporate CEO and face real-world challenges as you build a business empire! It’s a comprehensive business simulation that gives you the power to manipulate the free market, with complex business strategies that might make you millions! Choose from over 60 product types […]

Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser that makes browsing more efficient than ever before. Firefox includes pop-up blocking; a tab-browsing; integrated Google searching; simplified privacy controls that let you cover your tracks more effectively; a streamlined browser window that shows you more of the page than any other browser; and a number of […]

Whether you work at a company or are self-employed, it’s almost a sure thing that you’re going to be involved in meetings and conference calls on a regular basis. After all, it’s the nature of the beast, so why fight it? Unfortunately, the time spent on organizing and setting up a meeting can literally be […]

When you create a new document, Word automatically uses a default font. If this is not the font you want to use, you can easily change it. If you are constantly changing the default font, you may want to change the default font permanently.
To set the default font in Word 2007:

On the Home tab, […]

PowerPoint is a great application to use for putting together wonderfully creative presentations. Imagine this though - you have just spent hours upon hours putting together the PowerPoint presentation of a lifetime only to find out that another user has come along and made some undesirable changes to it.
You can prevent this from happening […]

Heh. The Pownce identity saga continues - with this post from the Chris Pirillo proxy (who doesn’t appear to be malicious, and raises good points):
Why would anyone be the fake Chris Pirillo? Well, unless you are a Chris Pirillo, Leo Laporte, Robert Scoble or whoever… you will never be able to build up a network […]

This week’s PC World collection is for those occasions — such as when your Internet connection has broken for the fifth time, or when the stupidest person in the office has gotten your promotion — when nothing will do but a good, noisy, fiery ka-BOOM!

Scorched 3D
Missiles, multiple-warhead rockets, custom battlefields — who could ask for […]

With Emerald Tale, it’s your chance to be a hero!
Wander through amazing unexplored lands, solving a variety of puzzles and breaking runes in your quest to rescue a charming princess from a savage dragon! Find a myriad of enchanted items, artifacts, and treasures, each with its own helpful ability and mysterious story!
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When you search for something on most search engines, you’re placing your confidence in the algorithm that the engine uses to provide the best results. In the case of search engines like Google, this usually works fairly well, but the lack of a social element can begin to make you feel like the results don’t […]

A caveat, right off the bat: if you’re not running a Vista or Vista-ready machine with a fast processor and a lot of RAM (at least 1 GB) and Windows XP or Vista, don’t even watch this, because you’ll probably cry. If you are, read on.
Microsoft Live Labs bought Seadragon last year, a company […]

If you share a document with other users, you could be concerned about them making unwanted modifications to it. Word has a few different features you can use to prevent this from happening.
One way you can prevent document reviewers from modifying a file is by having it open as read-only. When a reviewer opens […]

Some people prefer to use single spacing instead of double spacing. You can easily configure Word to use either one. If you use the Line Spacing option in the Paragraph group, you can change specific text within a document to single spacing.
If you want Word to use single spacing as the default for any […]

This week’s winner is… gnomishtank!
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Interesting. Someone just told me that I was on Pownce - which is odd, because I never signed up for an account. Lo and behold, here “I” am. I’m not terribly upset about it at this point, but that’s pretty much my identity - and the people following “me” may not know that that’s “me” […]

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Wise Registry Cleaner is one of the safest Registry cleaning tools available in the market today. Its scanning engine is thorough, safe and fast. It is so easy to use, even the least experienced user can easily repair registry with this tool. It scans the Windows registry and finds incorrect or obsolete information in the […]

I don’t have to tell you that interacting with the visitors of your Web site and allowing them to interact with one another is a good idea because you already know that thanks to the abundance of social services that exist on the Internet today. Interaction helps to build an audience, and that’s something that […]

Q: I’ve asked many people whether I should leave my computer running or turn it off every night and everyone has a different opinion. What do you suggest? - Sandy
A: The reason that most folks have a different opinion is usually because everyone has a different reason for either leaving the computer on or turning […]

Normally you would move from slide to slide in a PowerPoint presentation by clicking the mouse button. An alternative is to configure PowerPoint to advance to the next slide after a specified amount of time. For example, you can have PPT progress to the next slide after two minutes. However, how do you know how […]