Windows
Use Straight Quotes Instead Of Curly Quotes In Word 2002
When you add quotation marks, Word 2002 can automatically change them from straight quotes to curly quotes (referred to as smart quotes). If you prefer to use straight quotes, you can easily prevent Word from changing them. To accomplish this in Word 2002: Within Word, click the Tools menu and then click AutoCorrect Options. Click [...]
Resnooze
There are people who try to say that e-mail is a dying form of communication, and with the amount of spam that we’re seeing, it’s easy to understand why there are concerns about that. Other more advanced methods of content delivery have seen the light of day in recent years, but many of us still [...]
Top 5 Tips For Improving Your Windows Experience
Gnomie RazerSauber writes: Hey, Chris! As an avid user of Windows operating systems, I have come across a few tips which can improve the overall feeling of Windows — this includes XP, Vista, and the new Windows 7. Turn off unnecessary animations. When maximizing and minimizing windows, Windows does a little animation before the window [...]
A Geeks Peek
If you’re looking for geeks, we’ve got just the place for you! Now with a membership nearing 13,000, our community site is looking for you! Join us! Here’s some of the stuff being talked about there today: Blog Posts Two years after its initial release, can we give Vista a fair look? What would a [...]
Fenix LD01 Flashlight – A Great Holiday Gift (For Me)
A couple of weeks ago, I got a surprise holiday gift from Gary Lee at EliteLED.com. He wrote, …When I first learned about this stainless special edition LD01 from Fenix, I told myself this would be a perfect holiday gift for my friend Bill. I know you are the AAA light person and you would [...]
A Monday Most Geekly
If you’re looking for geeks, we’ve got just the place for you! Now with a membership well over 12,000, our community site is looking for you! Join us! Here’s some of the stuff being talked about there today: Forum Threads How hard can it really be to convert WMV files to display on a DVD [...]
Automatically Hyphenate A Document In Word 2007
Hyphenation prevents a word from breaking if it falls at the end of a line. Word supports both automatic and manual hyphenation. With automatic hyphenation, Word inserts hyphens where required and updates them when changes are made to the document. To automatically hyphenate an entire document in Word 2007: On the Page Layout tab, within [...]
Show Document
I never cease to be amazed by how the Internet enables me to work with people all over the world in new ways. Many of the early online collaboration tools were complicated and slow, but these days they’re so streamlined and simple that we don’t even realize that we’re using them. Everything on the Internet [...]
Spreed:News
Reading is an activity that I enjoy, however, if I have a choice, I usually prefer to read from a printed publication instead of a computer screen. Since I’m on the computer a lot, it’s nice to give my eyes a break and look at paper on at least some occasions. Of course, sometimes you [...]
BillShrink
It’s not any fun to sign up for something and pay money for it when you know that you could have probably landed a better deal with another option. I have to say, I’m a fairly lazy consumer. I tend to purchase first and ask questions later, which isn’t exactly the smartest way to shop. [...]
