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View RAR and Zip File Contents in Google Docs

admin — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 11:03:06 +0000

Zip and RAR files are notorious for hiding viruses.

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Share Files via the Cloud the Easy Way

admin — Sat, 28 May 2011 11:59:34 +0000

Box, Dropbox and Skydrive are all great cloud-based ways to share files. Each has its advantages and disadvantages, but the one commonality between these popular sites is the need to sign up for an account to share a file.

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Share Files via the Cloud the Easy Way

Master — Sat, 28 May 2011 11:59:34 +0000

Box, Dropbox and Skydrive are all great cloud-based ways to share files.

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Share Files and Screenshots from Your Desktop the Easy Way

admin — Thu, 26 May 2011 11:26:19 +0000

Online file sharing and storage is becoming easier than we ever imagined with the trend towards cloud computing. Services like Dropbox, Box and even SkyDrive allow us to access our files on any computer with a browser. But, uploading these files often requires opening a browser, then choosing the file and waiting for it to Post from: Share Files and Screenshots from Your Desktop the Easy Way

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Encrypt a Zip File

Master — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:50:50 +0000

Cracking a password-protected zip file is no problem thanks to the many free applications available to remove the password. If you have information that requires another layer of protection, encryption is necessary

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Recover Text from Corrupt MS Office Files

admin — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 11:29:51 +0000

As if hard drive failures or virus attacks are not devastating enough on their own, these electronic catastrophes often corrupt valuable files, rendering them useless, and leaving us at the mercy of expensive software which might or might not recover data from the files.

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Copy File Names from Windows Explorer to a Text List

Master — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 11:53:17 +0000

If you have a list of file names in a directory you want to copy to a spreadsheet or text document, normally you would copy and paste each name individually. However, you can easily copy all file names to a text document for free using the command prompt in Windows. No need to download other software.

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Add Special Effects to Images

admin — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:45:08 +0000

Finding new, wacky ways to impress friends with photos and other images is a popular use of our favorite social networking sites. While new ideas appear every day, most image enhancing Web sites are one-trick only, leaving them easily forgotten after a user uploads an image or two.

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Use Google Cloud Connect to Share and Backup Microsoft Office Files

Master — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 12:23:41 +0000

Google Docs is one of the most popular ways to share and collaborate with others on documents.

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Use Google Cloud Connect to Share and Backup Microsoft Office Files

How to Resize Images using GIMP

admin — Tue, 01 Mar 2011 11:17:47 +0000

The GNU Image Manipulation Program, is a free program that does most, if not all, of the things that can be done using Photoshop, which is great. The down side though is that a lot of people find GIMP a little difficult to use, which is too bad, because once you get used to how things work, GIMP is well worth the time invested.

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How to Resize Images using GIMP

Share a Word 2010 Document Simultaneously with Multiple Users on Windows Live Skydrive

Master — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 11:22:40 +0000

You’ve no doubt seen it advertised either online or on television, Microsoft’s Windows Live product that allows two or more people to edit one Word document at the same time. It works just as advertised, though the process is anything but easy, simple or streamlined.

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Save Documents Directly to Windows Live SkyDrive using MS Word 2010

admin — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 12:23:21 +0000

Microsoft has made a lot of noise of late about the benefits of moving to the “cloud,” but hasn’t really done much in the way of showing users just exactly how to do so. One of the ways is by using Windows Live SkyDrive, which in reality is nothing more than an online storage facility that Microsoft has made available for free to anyone who signs up for a Windows Live account; which is also free – see another post Windows Live SkyDrive – 500 MB of secure online storage from Microsoft . To save a document you’ve created in Word 2010 to the SkyDrive, use Word’s Backstage Area via File : Click on it to reveal the backstage area: Look down past the usual menu choices to where it says Save & Send ; when you click on that, you’ll get: Next, click on Save to Web.

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Export Delicious Bookmarks to an XML File

admin — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 11:16:15 +0000

Yahoo! made many Del.icio.us lovers upset a couple weeks ago when they announced an end to the service was in sight, then just as quickly announced that Delicious would continue for the indefinite future. Obviously, Delicious users need to back up their bookmarks, just in case Yahoo! changes their minds again and pulls the plug on the bookmark service

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Export Delicious Bookmarks to an XML File

Find a Information about File Extensions the Easy Way

Master — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:14:03 +0000

Even those of us who have been using computers since the Tandy and Apple IIe days encounter unknown file extensions from time to time. When this happens, we scour the web for any information that may possibly open the file. One site that consistently provides good information about file extensions in Wotsit.org

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Open and Modify Google Docs in MS Office

Master — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 11:18:29 +0000

Using the cloud for word processing is gaining popularity with the announcement of Oracle’s Cloud Office and the fairly recent addition of Microsoft Web Apps. Google Docs has been around for awhile, and offers many of the same features as these programs, plus a user-friendly collaboration feature

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Open and Modify Google Docs in MS Office

Bulk Convert, Rename, and Resize Images with MS Office Picture Manager

admin — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:42:34 +0000

Converting, renaming, and resizing pictures one by one is a tedious task. If you’re a graphic or web designer, or just the usual computer user, you should try the Microsoft Office Picture Manager to do these tasks. This software is the successor of Microsoft Photo Editor (bundled in Office XP edition), Microsoft Office Picture Library 2003, and Microsoft Office Picture Library.

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Convert Document, Image, Music and Video Files the Easy Way

Master — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 11:38:19 +0000

File converters are essential in a world where countless software programs are available for any one task. But, most file converters only work for a certain type of file—video converters only convert video file types (FLV, AVI) and document converters only convert documents (DOC, RTF). FileMinx is a different kind of file converter and it might be the last one you ever bookmark

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Convert Font File Types the Easy Way

Master — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 11:19:49 +0000

The Internet is loaded with free fonts, but the file types for these free fonts are not always compatible with our favorite software. Even more, if we decide to change from PC to Mac, or vice versa, it is hard to move our font collection without file type conflicts. A great service called FontConverter.org converts fonts from one file type to another almost instantly.

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Use Windows Explorer’s Preview Pane in Windows 7

admin — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 12:23:54 +0000

Few would argue that Windows 7 is a major improvement over the bugs, crashes, and annoyances of Windows Vista.

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Use Windows Explorer’s Preview Pane in Windows 7

Robust Super-Peer-Based P2P File-Sharing Systems

admin — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 15:59:27 +0000

This paper presents an efficient approach for improving file availability in super-peer-based peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing systems.

Recover Lost Data Using Excel’s Automatic Backup Feature

admin — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:39:24 +0000

If you often work with large spreadsheet files, you know how frustrating it can be to lose data because of a stupid mistake or because your computer crashed while you were working with your data. Using Excel’s automatic backup feature, you can recover your lost spreadsheet data and continue working as if nothing happened. A few of the most useful features found in the Microsoft Office suite are underused because they are hard to find

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Recover Lost Data Using Excel’s Automatic Backup Feature

Master — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:39:24 +0000

If you often work with large spreadsheet files, you know how frustrating it can be to lose data because of a stupid mistake or because your computer crashed while you were working with your data.

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Convert Video to iPad Format

admin — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:46:11 +0000

The iPad plays videos only a handful of video formats, none of which are overly common for standard sized videos (.mov, MPEG-4). Most torrents are AVI videos, and it would be easy to lose the HD quality of a Blue-Ray when converting to MP4 format or other accepted formats

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Download Torrent Files Without P2P Sharing Software

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 12:31:15 +0000

If you are ever in a position where downloading a P2P file-sharing client is not an option, you can still download torrents with a service called Torrent2Exe. As always with downloading torrents, make sure your virus protection is up to date and running properly before downloading files from unknown sources

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Print the Contents of Any Windows 7 Folder

admin — Thu, 13 May 2010 11:35:24 +0000

Since Windows 95, there has been a missing feature in the operating system that frustrates many users. Microsoft has never given us an easy way to print the contents of a folder. There are several workarounds to this problem but some solutions are easier than others are

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