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Nov 22 2012

Beware of Scam or Phishing emails!

By Jim Hillier / 3 Comments

In all the time I’ve been computering I’ve never actually received any phishing or scam emails myself. Sure, I’ve seen plenty of examples across the net and on computers belonging to my clientele but I’ve never actually had one come through my own inbox… until […]

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Nov 22 2012

Specify the Page Printing Order in MS Excel

By Carol Bratt

When the information in your worksheet will not fit on a single page, Excel will break it up for you at row and column boundaries, and then it will print your data on multiple pages. You cannot control the order in which Excel will pring

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Nov 21 2012

Geek Fact for November 21st

By Judy Novotny

In 1877
, Thomas Edison announced the invention of his “talking machine.” Later dubbed the phonograph, the “talking machine” recorded and played sound using a tin-foil cylinder. Learn more at http://lightandsound.net.au/HistoryOfTalkingMachine.htm .

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Nov 21 2012

Windows 8: reports of sluggish sales

By Jim Hillier / 3 Comments

Stories of Windows 8’s poor showing in these early weeks following official release are inevitably doing the rounds. One such story which has been propagated across the net claims a Microsoft “insider” has divulged that sales to date have been “disappointing” and “well below projections”.

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Nov 21 2012

Save your Document as Read Only in MS Word

By Carol Bratt / 1 Comment

There may be occasions where you want to send your document to your colleagues, but you don’t want them to edit  your work. There are more than one way to make your document read only. The easiest way to accomplish this is to create your

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Nov 20 2012

Geek Fact for November 20th

By Judy Novotny

In 1889, Edwin Powell Hubble was born. A pioneer in extragalactic research, he died on September 28th, 1953. Learn more at http://www.biography.com/people/edwin-hubble-9345936.

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Nov 20 2012

Fraser Island: A natural wonder

By Jim Hillier

This has absolutely nothing to do with computers or technology so I do apologize in advance for that. My lovely wife and I recently spent several days on Fraser Island and I thought some of you might be interested in learning more about this little

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Nov 20 2012

Inserting Pictures in your MS Word Documents

By Carol Bratt / 1 Comment

Many folks insert pictures into their Word documents. If you are one of those people inserting JPG images, you should consider using the Picture option on the Insert tab of your Ribbon, rather than copying and pasting and I will tell you why. Word handles pictures differently when

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Nov 19 2012

Geek Fact for November 19th

By Judy Novotny

In 1981, 
Radio Corporation of America (RCA) launched the SATCOM 3-R satellite. This satellite was a replacement for SATCOM 3, which vanished upon firing of the apogee motor. SATCOM 3-R was the first of two RCA satellites to be exclusively dedicated for use by the

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Nov 19 2012

Fix The Windows 7 Amnesia Problem With ShellFolderFix

By Richard Pedersen / 3 Comments

Windows 7 Amnesia I was excited about the Windows 7 release and purchased a license right away. It didn’t take long for me to  notice that it no longer remembered window Sizes and Positions. XP didn’t have that problem. I thought for quite awhile that

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Nov 19 2012

Quotation Marks Not Printing Properly?

By Carol Bratt / 1 Comment

I have have readers write to me in the past because when they print their document, they notice that the quotation marks are not printing properly even though they look fine on the screen. There could be a couple of causes of this behavior.  To

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Nov 18 2012

BlazeVideo Giveaway: VideoFlick FREE for everyone

By Jim Hillier

BlazeVideo is currently running a Thanksgiving giveaway for its very good VideoFlick software… giveaway ends 30th November. 1) Visit the GIVEWAY PAGE and click on the “Get it Free” button: 2) Download and install the software. 3) Register the software using the license code from

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Nov 18 2012

Digiarty Giveaway: WinX DVD Ripper Platinum FREE for everyone

By Jim Hillier / 2 Comments

Digiarty is currently running a Thanksgiving giveaway for WinX DVD Ripper Platinum… expires 27th November. WinX DVD Ripper Platinum is a Windows-based DVD ripper software capable of ripping both DVD disc and DVD ISO image to mainstream videos, such as rip DVD to AVI, DVD

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Nov 18 2012

Geek Fact for November 18th

By Judy Novotny

In 1962, Danish physicist Niels Bohr died at the age of 77. Neils Bohr is best known for his model of the atom. With his model, Bohr explained how electrons could jump from one orbit to another only by emitting or absorbing energy in fixed

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