This is the fifth in a series about Geek Facts. Today’s topic is the Geekiest Month. Each day last year, I posted a Geek Fact for that day. A Geek Fact is something geeky that happened on that day in history. I have to say […]
It doesn’t matter which operating system I have loaded… … I love to use custom icons, and there is no shortage of them available for download… so why not? If you also like to step outside the box and make Windows your own, this is
Is this good news for the males out there? Maybe not so good news for the ladies? According to a report recently published by networking giant Cisco; malware is more likely to come from advertisements on seemingly legitimate sites than from those sites traditionally considered
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A lot of folks are not aware of the pattern matching capabilities of the Find and Replace feature in MS Word. You can, for instance, specify that you only want to match at the beginning or end of a word by using the < and
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There are two ways to work with dates in Excel, the hard way where you do all the work or the easy way where Excel does all the work for you. If you work with monthly sheets e.g. Jan, Feb, etc. then this tutorial may
These days it is not unusual for a computer to have two or three USB storage devices plugged in at the same time. Windows assigns drive letters in the order in which you attach a device, so the same memory stick might be drive J
I like my computer to automatically log me off after a period of inactivity for a very good reason – I don’t want anyone messing with my files, especially my two young grand-daughters, if I forget to Log off manually! If you would like to
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Do you favor a dual screen setup? If you do, Windows 8 provides four options for dual screen systems. To access these options; go to the Start Screen, slide your mouse into the bottom right hand corner to bring up the ‘Charms’ bar and select
I don’t know about you, but I have on more than one occasion had a footnote so long that it did not fit in the footnote space on my page. If this has happened to you as well, you noticed then that MS Word will
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Over-Clocking… the beginning Now, I don’t pretend for a minute to be an expert in over-clocking a computer. To the contrary, I am a newbie. I have made a few feeble attempts in order to not only experiment but to learn and, hopefully, get
Man, these cybercrooks are good; clever and very quick to seize on any opportunity to relieve unsuspecting users of their hard earned cash or personal information. This most recent scam, brought to notice by Trend Micro researchers, clearly targets users’ innate attraction for bargains and ‘free’ offers. Windows 8
Suppose you would like to link fields in two different documents. As an example, let’s say you have a document wherein your client enters their name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, and date. Also suppose that you would to be able to lift that information
