How to Read Popular Magazines on your Desktop for Free (4)
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This is a very simple & non-geeky trick to help you read the latest issue of popular magazines like PC Magazine, MIT Technology Review, Popular Mechanics, MacWorld, Lonely Planet, Reader’s Digest, etc without paying any subscription charges. You will also get to read adult magazines like Playboy and Penthouse. Best of all, these digital magazines are exact replicas of print and served as high-resolution images that you can also download on to the computer for ...
Set a Blank Password in Windows XP To Protect the Computer from Internet Attacks (3)
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Some useful information. Your Windows XP computer is more safe if you don’t set any password at all than using some weak password like "abc123" which can be easily guessed by hackers. Using a blank password (or no password at all) makes your computer more secure because Windows XP accounts, that are not protected by a password, cannot be accessed remotely over the network or the Internet. You have to be physically infront of the ...
Find Files in Large Folders More Easily with Windows Vista Explorer (3)
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Windows Explorer in Vista makes it very easy for you to manage large folders that have hundreds of files and sub-folders (e.g. Program Files or the Windows installation folder). Earlier, if you were to hunt for files that end with a .log extension or are larger than 2 MB, Windows search was the only option but things get much simple in Vista Explorer. Just navigate to the relevant folder in Windows Explorer, click the drop-down ...
Make Your Desktop Icons Smaller or Larger with the Mouse Wheel (2)
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When you right-click on the Windows desktop, there’s an option to change the default size of desktop icons - you could either choose medium, large or the default "Classic" size. Now if you are looking for something extra and don’t want to limit yourself to these three default sizes, try this trick: Left-click anywhere on the desktop, hold the ‘Control’ key and move the scroll wheel on the mouse - the desktop icons will grow ...
Make Your Windows Vista Computer Faster with this free PDF Book from Microsoft (16)
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Windows Vista users should download this free PDF ebook - Vista Performance and Tuning Guide - as it discusses several tweaks that will help a computer feel more responsive. Thanks James. Some Windows Vista tips that you won’t find in the guide include: 1. Slipstream Windows Vista DVD with SP1 2. Delete Junk Files from Vista SP1 I was reading through the book and found this particular recommendation very handy where they say that you ...
JPG, PNG or GIF: How to Choose an Image Format for Screenshots (30)
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The quality of screenshot images and illustrations used on your website can make a difference. You may use the good-old Print Screen key or any of the professional screen capture tools to grab your desktop but the basic requirement remains same - the output image should be sharp and that the file size be well within a reasonable limit. Now PNG, JPG and GIF are the three most popular image formats for sharing screen captures ...
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djcramer said:
In summary, use JPG for screenshots of photos or videos, PNG for Desktop shots, PNG or GIF for text
Microsoft Offers Free Tech Support to All Windows Vista Customers (16)
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Got a problem finding the correct printer driver for your Windows Vista computer? Or did some of your software programs and hardware devices stop working after you installed SP1? Or are you facing trouble while installing Vista SP1? Well, you may stop hunting blogs and web forums for solutions and contact Microsoft directly over phone, email or web chat as they now offer free and unlimited tech support to all Windows Vista customers worldwide who ...
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Clay said:
wow.. I wonder if I can call them up and ask how to do obscure things to my OS?regardless this is pretty sweet.
Identify Software Programs & Hardware Devices That Work (or Don’t Work) with Windows Vista (5)
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Microsoft has long offered desktop tools to help you check compatibility of existing software programs and hardware devices with Windows Vista. For instance, you could run the Upgrade Advisor on an XP computer to know if that old machine can afford to run Vista. The problem is that you can check Vista compatibility of only installed software or hardware that’s already attached to the computer. How do you know if that printer & scanner lying ...
Go Back & Forward When Editing Lengthy Documents in Microsoft Word (8)
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This tip will come very handy if you are editing a document inside Microsoft Word that spans more than a couple of pages. Say you are writing something on Page 9 of a Word document and then scroll down to some place on Page 16. Now if you were to go back to the previous location on Page 9, just press Shift + F5. Microsoft Word remembers the last location of your cursor on the ...
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MERc said:
Just like the swap button on your TV remote. Very handy :-o)
Close All Websites in Firefox Before Boss Approaches the Cubicle (2)
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Panic is like the perfect boss key for Firefox. It will not just prevent you from getting into an embarrassing situation but boss may even leave your office cubicle totally impressed. You press a keyboard shortcut and all website tabs open inside Firefox will close automatically. To give boss an impression that you weren’t wasting time, you can configure Panic to replace all open tabs with a single work-related website like your company’s intranet homepage ...
Learn 101 Photoshop Tips & Techniques in a 5 Minute Video (1)
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This is simply awesome. Adobe Photoshop guru Deke McClelland has done an entertaining but very helpful video where he shares 101 Photoshop tips and techniques in a five minute video. You will enjoy watch this video even if you are no Photoshop enthusiast because Deke’s style is impressive and very innovative. The Photoshop tips video is also available for download (.mov file 52.3Mb) at O’Reilly. Learn 101 Photoshop Tips & Techniques in a 5 Minute ...
Quickly Remove Formatting when you Copy-Paste Text In Office (1)
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Here’s a very useful keyboard shortcut for Microsoft programs like Word, Outlook, Windows Live Writer, etc. When you cut, copy & paste text from a web page into an email message or a Word document, the associated formatting styles also get copied along with the text. If you like to clear this formatting, just select the text again and press Ctrl key followed by space bar. The selection is converted into plain text without requiring ...
Slipstream Windows Vista with SP1 & Create a Bootable Vista SP1 DVD (1)
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This guide illustrates the various steps required to integrate Service Pack 1 files into Windows Vista installer via a process commonly known as slipstreaming. Once the Vista SP1 slipstream pack is ready, you can burn those files to make a bootable Vista Service Pack 1 DVD. Before we get started, here are four things you need to slipstream Windows Vista and Service Pack 1 files: a. Windows Vista Installer DVD and Windows Vista Service Pack ...
Finished Installing Windows Vista SP1 ? Now Remove All The Junk Files (1)
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When you install Windows Vista Service Pack 1 on your computer, the SP1 installer will not remove the older versions of Vista files from the hard drive. This is because the older files may be required in case you decide to uninstall SP1 later from the system. Naturally, these files occupy important disk space. If you are satisfied with the performance of Windows Vista SP1 and unlikely to remove it later, why not reclaim some ...
