Slow Firefox Tabs?
I am a great fan of the Firefox browser but every now and again I find something that niggles me. I usually have quite a few tabs open and when I wanted to close one or more of them found that Firefox was taking a […]
The Latest Microsoft Office – Rent or Buy?
Okay, so it’s not exactly a rental system, but Microsoft’s new pay-as-you-go subscription plans for its latest Office iteration are certainly close. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has labeled the sales approach “an entirely new way to think about the productivity experience“, and predicted that the
How To: Add Right Click Power Options in Windows 8
One of the things I don’t like about Windows 8 is the messing about just to log off or shut it down. If you think the road to shutting down your Windows 8 system is a little long winded as well then you will know
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How to Choose a Quality Motherboard for Your Computer
Perhaps no component is more influential on the quality of your computer than your motherboard. Sure, components like your processor and memory determine how fast your system runs, however, the quality of your processor and memory (and every other components for that matter) is directly
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So How’s the Weather at Home?
Have you been at work or out of town and wondered what the weather was doing at home? Netatmo’s Personal Weather Station might be just what you need to find out. The concept behind it is that there are sensors that you place in
O&O Giveaway: O&O DiskImage 6 Family Edition
O&O DiskImage 6 Family Edition includes three O&O DiskImage 6 Professional licenses, for installation on up to 3 PCs. **NOTE: This is NOT the latest version of this software, O&O DiskImage Pro is currently at version 7. However, considering this is the next to current
Geek Facts Retrospective – The Geekiest Month
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
Customizing Your Icons
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
Online shopping more dangerous than surfing porn?
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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Matching Patterns at the Beginning or End of a Word
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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Working With Dates in Excel
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
Assign Labels To Storage Drives/Cards
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
Automatically Log Off or Shut Down Windows 7
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
DCT Giveaway: Ashampoo 3D CAD Architecture 4
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