How to get around Internet Blocks
January 8, 2008
Have you ever been in a situation where you have access to a computer but due to excessive restrictions, access to Internet or Internet Explorer blocked? Here is a cool tip on how to get around Internet Blocks. We are going to get access to internet and get past Internet blocks using a hidden Internet Explorer in Windows calculator.
How to get around Internet Blocks
1. Open the Calculator on your computer by pressing <Windows Key> + R. In the run prompt, press calc
If you liked this article, click here to buy me a beer!Dear visitor, thanks for dropping by. If you enjoyed reading this post, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. It could could win you some great prizes this month. Thanks for visiting!
Online Time Tracker using TimeTracker for Firefox
January 8, 2008
Are you one of those people like me who are always online so much that you cannot get anything done? Well, now there is an online time tracker which you can use to keep track of how much time you spend online. Keep track of how much you browse with TimeTracker. …
If you liked this article, click here to buy me a beer!Email Tips and Tricks using Google GMail
January 7, 2008
Google’s GMail is one of the dominant free email providers on the internet along with Microsoft’s Hotmail and Yahoo! Email. However, GMail is more popular in the scientific and the current student community which grew up with computers and technology.
If you don’t have a GMail account, I would highly recommend that you open one right now. You can use all your fancy nicknames with Hotmail and Yahoo but I would recommend a firstnamelastname@gmail.com email. I mean when you graduate and sending out resumes to potential employers, you want your email to be alexsmith@gmail.com and not koolkat2288@yahoo.com.
If you liked this article, click here to buy me a beer!Online Calculator using Firefox
December 27, 2007
For users of Mozilla Firefox, you have an inbuilt Google Search box on the top right corner of your browser. This Google Search box, based on Google suggest feature, can be used as your personal online calculator.
Online Calculator using Firefox
To use Google’s built-in calculator function, simply enter the calculation you’d like done into the search box and hit the Enter key or click on the Google Search button. The calculator can solve math problems involving basic arithmetic, more complicated math, units of measure and conversions, and physical constants.
Now, with the Online Calculator using Firefox, you don’t have to press Enter or anything else to get the Google Calculator results.
How to access Yahoo! Mail using Microsoft Outlook
November 23, 2007
You can use Microsoft Outlook with many email accounts. Most Email providers such as Google’s Gmail, Microsoft’s Hotmail and many other providers provide free POP and SMTP access which allows you to use and integrate all your Email Accounts using Microsoft’s Outlook Express. The only exception is Yahoo’s Yahoo! Mail. In this day and age it is really unfortunate that Yahoo does not provide free POP and STMP access to the users of its free Yahoo! mail.
Note: Yahoo does provide free POP and SMTP access to its premium Yahoo! Mail Plus which requires a paid subscription. If you are one of those who has a Yahoo! mail Plus account, scroll down to the bottom of this article on how you can access Yahoo! Mail using Microsoft Outlook.
If you liked this article, click here to buy me a beer!Disable Automatic Reboot after Windows Update
November 13, 2007
Have you seen the message
“Automatic Updates
Updating your computer is almost complete. You must restart your computer for the updates to take effect.
Do you want to restart your computer now?”
Automatic Windows updates are very good for computer security. However, when these Windows updates are downloaded and installed on your computer, if the updates require a reboot of your computer, Windows keeps prompting you to reboot your computer.
Now, Windows XP Pro users can disable automatic reboot of the computer after a Windows Update. In order to do that, follow these steps
If you liked this article, click here to buy me a beer!How to Save Word doc as PDF
September 14, 2007
The full version of Adobe Acrobat allows you to save Word docs as PDF files. However, this software is very expensive. How about a free 2007 Microsoft Office Add-in which allows you to export and save word doc as PDF for eight different Microsoft Office 2007 products which include Microsoft Office Access 2007, Microsoft Office Excel 2007, Microsoft Office InfoPath 2007, Microsoft Office OneNote 2007, Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, Microsoft Office Publisher 2007, Microsoft Office Visio 2007 and Microsoft Office Word 2007.
You can also send files as e-mail attachments in the PDF format in a subset of these programs.
For this add-in , the Operating Systems supported are Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista and Windows XP Service Pack 2.
How to Save Word doc as PDF
Click here to download the Microsoft Office 2007 add-in which lets you save Word doc as PDF. Once you click, your version of Office would be verified for genuine Microsoft Office software. Click the Continue button in the Validation Required section above to begin the short validation process. Once validated, you will be returned to the download page with specific instructions for obtaining the download.
If you liked this article, click here to buy me a beer!
Recent Comments