May 23rd, 2007
Every once in a while, Windows Explorer hangs on my machine. (I’m running Windows XP. ) I’ll be able to switch between programs using alt+tab and all my running software still runs, but nothing I do will get Windows Explorer going again. In previous versions of Windows I could kill the Explorer using the task manager and the operating system would restart it. XP doesn’t do that anymore, which really surprised me the first time I did this. “Now what?” I thought. The only thing left to do is hard reboot, right? Nope!
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May 23rd, 2007
Cell phone networks provide e-mail addresses that correspond to the cell phone numbers. For example, to send an e-mail message to a Cingular cellular phone, simply address your e-mail to nnnnnnnnnn@cingularME.com, where nnnnnnnnnn is the 10-digit phone number.
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May 22nd, 2007
The Windows Explorer allows files to be renamed easily, by single clicking on the name and then editing it; however, this can be quite tedious if there are many files to be renamed. (Attempting to select a range of files and then using right-click + Rename doesn’t work. Only the last file in the range is renamed.)
Command Prompt to the rescue. This tip will show you how simple it is to use the REN command in the command prompt to do a wildcard rename. Continue Reading »
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May 21st, 2007
Many software programs allow you to split the screen to give you two different views into the same document or spreadsheet — Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, and TextPad 5, to name three. For this demonstration, I will be using Microsoft Excel.
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May 17th, 2007
Previously, in 100’s of RSS Feeds to Monitor? No Problem (part 1), I touched upon the plethora of RSS Reader choices available to us and divided them roughly into four groups: Online Aggregators, Offline (Standalone) Aggregators, Built-In Aggregators and Plug-Ins, and Pre-Reader Filters. Let’s now take a look at some of the differentiating features as well as some resources for comparing specific readers feature by feature.
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May 16th, 2007
With Web sites (and therefore Web updates) multiplying into existence every day, savvy members of the online news and blogging world have been keeping their updates streamlined with RSS feeds. RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, lets you subscribe to as many automated update feeds as you like; RSS aggregators let you gather all those newsfeeds into one place.
RSS is a great tool when you don’t have time to visit each and every one of the sites you’d like to keep up on, and there are plenty of options out there to read and organize your newsfeeds. Here’s a little help differentiating among the various sizes and shapes of RSS aggregators.
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