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A specific way to use a certain program or device better.
Wednesday, January 28, 2009 10:06 AM

Leave the Typing to Vista

Have you ever thought it would be nice to be able to talk to your computer and have it do the typing? If you have Windows Vista and a headset microphone, you can. Speech recognition has been around for quite some time, but Windows Vista is the first
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Wednesday, January 14, 2009 1:55 PM

Keeping Your Old Computer Running Longer

In light of the current economic conditions, many people are trying to save money by not making large purchases such as a new computer. Fortunately, technology isn’t advancing as quickly as it once did, so it is possible to keep computers for quite some
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Wednesday, September 17, 2008 9:00 AM

Setting Up VoIP

Setting up Vonage, or most other home VoIP solutions, is easy and straightforward. Today, I will explain two installation options. The first option is to connect the VoIP router, provided by the VoIP provider, to your internet connection and then connect
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Wednesday, September 10, 2008 9:00 AM

Syncing Mobile Phones

One of the great advantages of mobile phones is the ability to have all of your information at your fingertips. Keeping this information current on both your computer and your mobile device can be more difficult. Unfortunately, there is no easy answer
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:00 AM

Clearing Your Inbox

With the amount of business and personal correspondences taking place every day over e-mail, the volume of messages can become overwhelming. Fortunately, Outlook, and some other e-mail clients, provides tools to help automatically organize e-mail messages.
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Friday, January 11, 2008 12:00 AM

Free Advice Fridays

Friday is the day I have set aside to answer your questions free of charge. If you have a technology related question you would like answered, post it as a comment. I will try to answer as many questions as possible on next week’s Free Advice Friday.
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Thursday, October 18, 2007 12:00 AM

Tip of the Week: Pasting Tip

Sometimes, when copying text from one source to another, the formatting doesn't match, making reformatting necessary. There is a way to avoid this problem by pasting only the text and not the formatting. Here's how: Select and copy the text as normal.
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Thursday, August 02, 2007 12:00 AM

Tip of the Week: AutoCorrect

Microsoft Office features an automatic correction tool to correct common misspelling. Today's Tip will show you how to use that feature to save keystrokes with a long word or phrase you type frequently. For example, it may be useful that instead of typing
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Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:00 AM

Removing Backgrounds from Pictures in Office

Often someone will find the perfect picture to use in a Power Point presentation, but it will have a white background. This is fine unless the presentation has a blue background. Today's tip will show an easy way to make any one color in an image transparent
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Thursday, July 19, 2007 12:00 AM

Tip of the Week: Green Computing

There are several simple changes environmentally conscious home computer users can make to help reduce energy consumption and the impact of computing on the earth. Simple changes in usage habits and software settings can reap moderate returns. The
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Thursday, July 12, 2007 12:00 AM

Tip of the Week: Context Specific Menus

Throughout Windows the right mouse button is very useful for providing commands related to what is selected. When an item is right-clicked, a context specific menu appears. For example, in Microsoft Word, if you right click a misspelled word a menu will
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Thursday, June 21, 2007 12:00 AM

Tip of the Week: Sharing Files in Windows

Windows makes it easy to share files or devices with other computers on the same network. Through the use of shared folders, an old computer with inadequate hard drive space is still useful, because files can be stored on a different computer with excess
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