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Gramlee
Writing is a skill that takes time to develop, and those of us who write regularly or even professionally aren’t perfect. Blogging has enabled people to write what they want in the way that they want without having to follow a set of rules, and unless you’re writing for an important publication, it’s generally acceptable [...]
Emergency Preparedness Part 1
We’ve all learned a lot about disasters and emergencies over the past several years. Many of us, especially along the coastlines, learned from personal experience, and the entire world by proxy. The devastations of hurricanes, cyclones, tornadoes, earthquakes and tsunamis should have left little doubt in anyone’s mind about the need for at least a [...]
Look Up A Word Or Phrase In The Word 2007 Dictionary
By default, Word includes its own dictionary, which you can use to look up words and phrases. You can add your own words to the dictionary and also create a custom dictionary. To look up a word or phrase in the dictionary: From the Review tab, click Research. Do one of the following: To look [...]
PC Mall's Memorial Day Sale
PC Mall is having its Memorial Day sale with amazing deals on everything from notebook and desktop computers to smartphones to iPods to LCD monitors to GPS devices to routers to… well, we could go on and on, but you might as well have a look for yourself! The sale runs from now until May [...]
DeskSlide v2.1 Build 2.1.0.12
DeskSlide is a utility for automating wallpaper changes on your desktop. You can schedule the wallpaper to change at intervals of seconds, minutes, hours, days, or logon. In Task Scheduler mode, you can create complex schedules. Specify how your images are displayed: auto fit, full bleed, center, align, tile, random position, and stretch. [732K] [Win98/ME/2k/XP/Vista] [...]
FuelFrog
With gas prices the way they are, it’s easy to see why so many people are concerned about the cost of filling up their vehicles. I’m not that old, but even I remember when gas was well under one dollar per gallon. Nowadays you have to count the cost of driving anywhere, and when you [...]
Historic Senate Vote Rejects FCC's Rules
Stop Big Media reports: In a near-unanimous voice vote tonight, the Senate passed a “resolution of disapproval” that would nullify the Federal Communications Commission’s latest attempt to dismantle longstanding media ownership limits. Last December, the FCC voted to remove the “newspaper/broadcast cross-ownership” ban that prohibits one company from owning a broadcast station and the major [...]
Turn Off A Rule In Outlook 2007
Rules in Outlook can be used for a number of different things. Many people use rules to keep their inboxes clutter free and organized. For example, you can have all messages from a specific sender placed in a separate folder. In a previous tip I showed you how to create a rule in Outlook 2007. [...]
Hide The Recycle Bin In Vista
When you first install Vista, all other icons, such as My Computer and Internet Explorer, are hidden. However, the one icon that always appears on the Windows desktop is the Recycle Bin. If you prefer not to have the Recycle Bin on your desktop, you can easily hide it using the steps listed below. To [...]
BookmarkSync v2.3.2
BookmarkSync is unlike other Web-based bookmark utilities. It is a unique system that enables real-time automatic bookmark synchronization between all your different browsers, computers, and operating systems. Add a bookmark to Internet Explorer at work, and it will automatically update your Firefox browser at home and your Safari browser on your Mac. It supports Unicode, [...]
