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Change the Orientation of Text in an Excel Worksheet

Master — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:14:13 +0000

Excel allows you to keep track of data using a grid so it is easy to make calculations, edit data, and find the information you are looking for. However, there are times when Excel’s neat and tidy arrangement of data just doesn’t fill our needs as a way to make information easy to understand. Using the text orientation feature in Excel, you can make the text in your worksheets rotate in just about any direction you want

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Listen to Twitter Tweets While Surfing the Web

Master — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 11:07:54 +0000

As Twitter gains popularity, the amount of feeds we read everyday grows, increasing our time spent twittering from a few minutes to potentially hours. Since we are unlikely to give up Twitter any time soon, one way to at least multi-task while twittering is to have our favorite feeds read to us while we work, shop or play games on the Web. To listen to tweets, navigate to TweJay.com.

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Assign Mouse Gestures to Launch Applications

admin — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:03:28 +0000

Shortcut keys are the fastest way to launch programs, open menus, and apply special formats to a certain object. However, hotkeys are not that comprehensive and most of the time, it’s hard to memorize all of those keyboard combinations. What we remember are the most basic and the commonly used ones such as the CTRL + B, CRTL + C, and ALT + F.

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Make PDF Files Display in a Web Browser with Adobe Reader 9

admin — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:18:36 +0000

Adobe Reader 9 is the most popular PDF viewer worldwide. Part of Adobe’s line of Acrobat PDF creation, editing, and viewing software, Reader 9 is the most feature rich and user friendly version of the application to date. One of the reasons Adobe Reader is so popular is that it is versatile as a means to view, save, and share documents

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Quickly Make a Web Site Smartphone Compatible

Master — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:36:51 +0000

Smartphones grow in popularity with each passing day—much faster than cellular providers can upgrade to faster, 3g and 4g networks to support the amount of data streamed by these phones. The most successful Web site owners realize the potential of mobile phone consumers and create a mobile version of their Web sites.

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Unlocking/Jailbreaking a Cell Phone Explained

Master — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 12:23:32 +0000

If you have ever browsed the interwebs for tips and tricks for your smartphone, you may have noticed the terms “unlock” or “jailbreak” pop up quite frequently in forums, tech websites, and mobile phone sites. Upon reading about some of the cool things that you can do with your phone, you may have also noticed that many of these things require you to unlock or jailbreak your phone

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Stop Wasting Time Waiting on Hold

Master — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 11:27:11 +0000

Calling any utility or other service provider is a cringe-worthy nightmare. We are forced to navigate through multiple menus, pressing 1 for this department, 2 for that department, all the while hoping not to click the wrong number and plummet into a recorded message telling us to solve the problem online (which is brilliant when calling the cable company due to a non-responsive modem).

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Format Numbers to Display as Fractions in Excel

Master — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:15:44 +0000

Among the twelve basic formats available in Excel for displaying numbers and text, the fraction is one of the least used. Some floating point representations of numbers can become unwieldy unless you limit the precision displayed in a cell.

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Format Numbers to Display as Fractions in Excel

Monitor Your Internet Bandwidth Usage

Master — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:46:23 +0000

If you want to monitor your internet bandwidth usage without the complicated settings and the extra tools you normally don’t need, the ShaPlus Bandwidth Meter is ideal for you. It does what it does in a most straightforward way — monitor your current, daily, and monthly internet bandwidth usage. The program can also compile all monthly statistics (grouped according to year)

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Find Duplicate Photos on Your Computer

Master — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:23:36 +0000

Digital pictures have a way of multiplying on our hard drives over time. We start with a few photos from our cell phones, and before we know it, we have 100+ GB of digital photos. In all those photos, there are bound to be duplicates, but finding them is a procrastination-inspiring fete

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4 Essential Items to Carry in Your Laptop Bag

admin — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 12:36:54 +0000

We buy laptops with the intention of being able to work, study or play on our computers from absolutely anywhere.

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4 Essential Items to Carry in Your Laptop Bag

Scan Web Sites for Viruses and Malware

Master — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 11:32:24 +0000

New malware appears every day, often from sources we do not expect. Web sites can infect our computers just as well as torrents and email attachments

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Scan Web Sites for Viruses and Malware

Install A Hard Drive and CD/DVD Burner Drive For Your Custom PC Build

Master — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:54:43 +0000

Installing a hard drive and CD/DVD burner is quite easy, and only takes a couple of steps to complete. If you have been following along with our custom PC build series, then you are nearing the final steps to assembling the PC.

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Install RAM Memory and Mount a Motherboard For Your Custom PC Build

admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:02:36 +0000

Previously in our custom computer build, we covered how to properly install a CPU and install a heat sink . Now, it’s just about time to get the motherboard installed into the case and get to the core of the build.

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How to Sort Text in Word

Master — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:12:43 +0000

When most people think of sorting text in an application, they think of sorting cells in an Excel spreadsheet. However, you can sort text in Word as long as there is something that tells Word where the different parts of text begin and end. Sorting Lists in Word There are three types of lists you can sort in Word

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Freeze Panes to Make Excel Spreadsheets Easier to Use

Master — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 11:21:28 +0000

Excel is one of the most popular applications for both the home and office in Microsoft’s suite of productivity software.

Completely Uninstall Antivirus Software Down to the Registry

admin — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:33:09 +0000

Did you know that with a usual system, uninstalling a program will not totally remove all its components including some of the data stored in the registry? This is especially true with antivirus, security tools, PC boost, spyware removers, and the likes. If you want to completely uninstall a security-based application and replace it with another one, try AppRemover.

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Completely Uninstall Antivirus Software Down to the Registry

Start in Private Browsing Mode in Chrome, Firefox, IE 8, and Opera by Default

Master — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:31:45 +0000

Private Browsing Mode is a mode for web browsers in which details, such as cookies and browsing history, aren’t stored. Once you close the browser, the data gets deleted automatically and all traces of your browsing session no longer exist. This post shows you how to alter the shortcuts for Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer 8, and Opera with a command line switch that will enable you to open these browsers in private mode by default, using desktop shortcuts.

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Start in Private Browsing Mode in Chrome, Firefox, IE 8, and Opera by Default

5 Easy Ways to Speed Up a Slow Windows 7 Computer

Master — Fri, 28 May 2010 12:23:17 +0000

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5 Easy Ways to Speed Up a Slow Windows 7 Computer

Master — Fri, 28 May 2010 12:23:17 +0000

In terms of optimizing your computer, Help Desk Geek’s 99 Ways to Make Your Computer Blazingly Fast is tough to top; but if you don’t have the time to initiate all of those helpful fixes in one session, there are some quick and easy steps that you can take to rejuvenate a slow computer, all in under an hour. Check out the top 5 ways to speed up a slow Windows 7 PC. Most of these fixes and maintenance procedures are common practice for a computer geek, but may be a gold mine for a beginner PC user looking to make their computer fast again.

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Play Corrupted and Damaged Videos

admin — Tue, 25 May 2010 12:54:48 +0000

It’s always a pain in the a*# when your favorite movies or video files are corrupted or damaged. You can recover it using a sophisticated media recovery program.

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Repair Internet Explorer 8 Freeze or Fail to Load

Master — Fri, 21 May 2010 12:03:45 +0000

Internet Explorer 8 (IE8) freezing often or failing to load could be happening because of several probable causes. For the most part, fixing Internet Explorer 8 is easy to do, but it may require that you check and diagnose several different areas in order to pin point the exact cause of the slow load times or freezing

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Repair Internet Explorer 8 Freeze or Fail to Load

Convert Text to MP3 Files

Master — Thu, 06 May 2010 11:18:45 +0000

If you are overwhelmed with a large amount of reading, one way to plow through the reading is to have someone, or something, read it to you. Finding someone to read it to you is tricky, though.

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Convert Text to MP3 Files

View Members-Only Content without Registering

Master — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:09:25 +0000

One of the Web’s biggest annoyances is being forced to register on an endless number of individual Web sites. Worse than the constant regurgitation of your email address and a password you may or may not remember later is when a site charges you a fee for a service that should be free.

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Find Plagiarizers of Your Content the Easy Way

admin — Sun, 02 May 2010 11:56:10 +0000

Charles Colton once wrote that “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” However, when you write for a living, imitation means lost revenue.

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Find Plagiarizers of Your Content the Easy Way