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Meryl K. Evans

Create And Use Watermarks In PowerPoint

Watermarks can do more than just add a faint logo on a background. It won’t serve as tamper protection because it simply acts like a lighter graphic in your presentation. It has no fancy data behind it to protect the presentation’s data.
For example, you give a presentation about publishing. You could weave the history of [...]

Calendars For Web Sites And Blogs

I manage three Web sites for three different PTA groups. All use a calendar tool and while building the latest Web site, I found Trumba. It was easier to use and had more powerful features than WebCalendar.
So I started a new account for the other two PTA Web sites and finally entered most of the [...]

Neologism: The Art of Creating New Words

Roy Peter Clark talks about neologisms — new words. In the article, he tells a story about a child who referred to something as “ginormous” because “It was bigger than gigantic. It was huger than enormous.” The child didn’t create the word as Clark points to the Urban Dictionary — so it’s not impossible for [...]

Build-A-Lot

I’m already ready for more and hope that Hipsoft, the company behind this brilliant addition to the tycoon genre, works on a sequel (could be same topic or something different with a similar concept). No one thing makes Build-a-Lot special — it just has the right amount of challenge, an easy to figure out interface, [...]

The Book Of No

We all know someone who, like Oklahoma’s Ado Annie, just “cain’t say no.” These folks accept every project. Every volunteer job. While everyone around them loves and appreciates them (or not), they’re often tired and do little for themselves. Some people who fall into this group may not even realize they’re on automated mode when [...]

Paste Special In Microsoft Word

Once I got out of automated mode, I woke up and realized that I often use Paste Special with unformatted text when working in MS Word. It became a habit like CTRL+V, CTRL+X, and CTRL+C. To do Paste Special without formatting, I clicked CTRL+V to paste, selected the Paste Special icon (smart tag) and selected [...]

Outlook 2007: Changing The Size And Shape Of Toolbars

The toolbars can move around Outlook, dock or float. You can also change the shape of a floating toolbar and change the size of a docked toolbar. Move any toolbar by selecting the move handle (four dots on the far left side of a toolbar) and moving the toolbar to its new location. For docked [...]

Escape From Paradise

Escape from Paradise with an island adventure includes five games to take a break from the beach grind. Beach and grind in the same sentences? When your people spend most of their time cutting trees (sorry, Al Gore and environmental activists — these aren’t real trees, y’know?), building huts and catching food, you’d call it [...]

Plagiarism Resources

We know Gnomies wouldn’t steal other people’s ideas, but it’s good to arm yourself with information about plagiarism as it affects many areas of our lives. Plagiarism has become a hot topic in recently years thanks to NY Times writer Jayson Blair plagiarizing. Then A Million Pieces writer James Frey who said the work was [...]

The Apprentice: Los Angeles PC Game Review

It’s no surprise the Donald has found his way into a computer game. The Apprentice: Los Angeles might not be what you expect. The game combines four Diner Dash style games taking place in different locations and a boardroom memory style game. Those not familiar with the TV show can learn more about The Apprentice [...]

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