Windows
Adam Finley, We Miss You
I first met Adam Finley at the Merle Hay Mall Applebee’s in Des Moines, Iowa. We were discussing Lockergnome writing assignments, for which he was so perfectly matched. His humor was dry, and his demeanor was generally reserved. Just about everything he wrote for us made me laugh out loud. Take, for example, this review [...]
Cryptainer LE v7.1
Cryptainer LE is totally free, 128 bit disk encryption software. It’s a simple, easy to use encryption application that creates encrypted “vaults” where one can store any kind of data. Cryptainer LE allows you to encrypt any file or folder on any Windows PC. Protects all types of media and any type of data. Password [...]
Mint
We all need it, but sometimes we don’t enjoy working for it. Yes, money is a necessary evil in life. People who have a lot of money sometimes don’t find it to be so bad, but those of us who are continuously in debt and just one lost paycheck away from financial ruin may see [...]
You Can Fool Some Of The Spiders Some Of The Time…
Gnomie Sean Norton writes: I just thought of something and I’m not sure if it’s an original idea, but I haven’t found it online except for the Yahoo! answers page where I posted it. Email addresses, as we all know, are vulnurable to discovery when posted on Web sites (in contact information or in forums, [...]
Prevent Table Rows From Breaking Across Pages In Word
Word automatically inserts a page break when you reach the end of a page so you can continue onto the next page. However, what if you are working on a table and reach the end of the page? Word will insert the page break and move to the next page but this will likely result [...]
Use The Driver Rollback Feature Of Vista
The driver Rollback feature is handy when you encounter problems after installing a device driver. For example, such problems include error messages when you access the device, faulty behavior of the device or even the inability to start Windows. To use the Roll Back feature with Vista, open the Device Manager and follow these steps: [...]
Two Places To Stay So Very Far Away
Informal though these may be, I thought it was important to share my thoughts not long after staying at two separate hotels in Frankfurt, Germany. First, the Frankfurt Westin (formerly the Arabella Sheraton): Our bathtub had a mold spot in it (Ponzi says it was rather large, but she’s a total mold freak). The shower [...]
xplorer2 Lite v1.6.5.3
xplorer2 Lite is a free version of xplorer2, a tabbed dual-pane Windows Explorer replacement with integrated quick previewer. Compared to the professional version it lacks customizability and the powerful search command. Version 1.6.5.3 includes hotkey customization, a user friendly settings editor, improved Vista shell integration, and better breadcrumbs. [1M] [Win95/98/ME/2k/XP/Vista] [FREE] [tags]windows explorer, freeware[/tags]
Smiley Has A Birthday — Emoticons Turn 25 This Week
This week marks an iconic moment in Internet history: the “invention” of the ASCI smiley face, whose descendants have become known as emoticons, by Scott Fahlman of Carnegie-Mellon University. On Smiley’s 20th birthday, Dr. Fahlman posted some remarks on his site at CMU, including links to the original bboard transactions that led to its birth [...]
Use Drop Caps In Word 2007
There are different ways that you can spice up your documents. One such way is to use Drop Caps at the beginning of a paragraph. So what is a drop cap anyways? If you pay close attention to how some documents are formatted, you may have noticed that the first letter of some paragraphs is [...]
