October 19th, 2007
It’s Friday and you don’t know what that means - it’s Pimping Bookmarks day! It’s that special day of the week where I compile some great links to articles, tools, and other digital trinkets that will definitely pimp your work. Of course, readers are encouraged to contribute links that I’ll probably miss. You can submit […]
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August 23rd, 2007
I don’t know how many times I’ve seen computers at people’s offices and homes where several people are using a computer, but all under the same account. I’m not even get into if it’s an admin level account or not, just looking at the overlap, confusion and organization of this drives me batty.
From a practical […]
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August 6th, 2007
Did you know you could save all open documents by just holding down the shift key when selecting the File menu? Yeah, Save turns into Save All (okay not in Word 2007 it appears)! Web Worker Daily has six more tips in their article:
Many of us writerly types spend a lot of time in Microsoft […]
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May 25th, 2007
Got that spiffy new (Windows) machine? Cool. Vista? Nice. Wait, what about your old one? Got stuff on there? Well as GHacks reminds us, Windows has some great migration tools on both XP and Vista:
It is possible to transfer the following information:
User Accounts
Folders and Files
System Settings
E-Mails and other personal […]
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May 7th, 2007
There has been a bit of discussion about Vista and laptops lately. The big gripe is that battery life takes a major hit.
I believe that the myth of Vista using more battery life came from the first people that installed it in their machine and did not configure properly the Power profiles. And a proof […]
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May 1st, 2007
Man I’ve been dying to blog about this for over a month. I’ve been in the private beta test of the new MindManager 7 Pro. If you’re a MM fan, this is a good upgrade. Must upgrade? If you use Office 2007, I’d say yeah.
The new MM 7 Pro is officially coming out May 30. […]
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April 26th, 2007
Diana Huggins who contributes to Lockgnome’s Windows Fanatics blog always seems to have those tips and how tos that people need. Whether it’s watermarks in Word or new lines in Excel cells, Diana has posted them.
Sure, you might think they are simple, if you’ve already spent time trying to figure out how to do it […]
By Tris Hussey -- 0 comments
April 25th, 2007
I’ve been testing EverNote 2 beta for some time now, just a little while ago (last week I think), I got a ping that EverNote 2 was final and I should download the new version (actually throughout the beta period I received notices to update, which I very much appreciated). Here a portion of the […]
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April 14th, 2007
We’ve been complaining, we’ve been trying to do what we can to improve things (including disabling most fun plugins), but Outlook 2007 has been dogged with performance problems since it debuted (actually in complaints started in beta). Microsoft has finally released a patch for Outlook 2007 that is supposed improve the performance issues:
Microsoft indicated that […]
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April 13th, 2007
My computer crash/panic problems are well documented here. Sure sometimes it’s been my fault, sometimes not. Regardless of the cause, there are tools out there to help you out. Lifehacker’s list is great and believe me, I’m downloading most of the Windows tools (the ones that I don’t already have) asap:
Which one of these tools […]
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