For those of you who are new to Office 2007, you might notice the Quick Access toolbar that’s available at the topmost left corner of your window. By default, it features the Save, Undo and Repeat commands. However, if you want more control of your interface, it’s a good thing that Office lets you [...]

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WordPress users, rejoice. The much awaited WordPress 2.3 release is now here. Dubbed “Dexter” (as a tribute to saxophonist Dexter Gordon). It now features goodies like tagging support, plug-in update notification, and URL handling improvements for starters. Anyway here are the highlights of the latest release:

Native tagging support - Tags! Finally! And best of [...]

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If you’re an Office 2007 user, probably one of the things you found different in the new interface is the elimination of the those toolbars that suddenly pop up when you select a particular tool. However, Microsoft has just found something else to annoy use with - the Mini Toolbar. And you just have [...]

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Those who have purchased Microsoft Office 2007 might be feeling sucker punched now. Alternative Office suites have really become a force in shifting the balance of power in the market, especially with the popularity of free (like OpenOffice and Star Office) and web-based office suites (like Zoho and Google Docs).
The latest company to join [...]

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I have to admit that I haven’t really gotten to play around with Windows Vista since I’m just using it straight up as an OS to launch all my other applications. In fact, I’d have to say that I haven’t really been impressed by Vista. However, now that I’ve gotten to tinkering around some [...]

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Documents nowadays contain metadata - pieces information that are embedded into a file. These often help you in organizing your files or to easily search or share them over the Internet. However, with this, you might just be handing out a lot of information about yourself without even knowing it - just by sending [...]

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If you’re an Excel user, you might have been familiar with its data entry quirks. By default, Excel automatically points your cursor one cell down when you input data and press the Enter key. Now depending on how you are structuring your data, this behavior can be quite annoying. It’s a good thing that [...]

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There may be times when you need to get some media embedded in a PowerPoint presentation and use them externally as media files). Well, they can actually be individually saved as images inside PowerPoint (just right-click on the image and save it as an image). Amit of Digital Inspiration give us this great workaround [...]

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While many websites have moved towards interoperability and multiple-browser compatibility, some are still too stubborn that they still prescribe Internet Explorer. So much so that they require IE for their site to function.
For Firefox users in Windows, this hasn’t been much of a problem since if we need to launch stuff in IE, we [...]

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I have to admit that with all the hype on web standards, usability and accessibility that I’ve practically scrapped WYSIWYG editors in favor of text editors (PSPad’s my choice tool). At least I have full control over the code. However, I also have to consider that coding is one tough cookie to crack, especially [...]

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Microsoft has really shifted its attention from building “quality” operating systems (like they’ve really accomplished it all of these years) to web services. Windows with the Windows Live services is really trying to play catch-up to Google is you ask me. Live Search. Live Messenger. Now Windows Live Translator. It’s still in beta but [...]

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Perhaps one peeve of mouse ninjas is, if they want to open several links in a page, they have to click on each and everyone of them. While the middle mouse button provides a bit of comfort by opening links in a new tab, it doesn’t solve the problem of multiple clicking. And again, [...]

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Shopping on eBay is one thing that you can really consider. Some things you can really get cheap online. However, if you’re trading internationally, you might have a bit of problem keeping track of dates especially if you’re in a different and distant timezone. In fact, that can even make you totally forget about [...]

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Google Reader is one service that I keep constantly open in a tab in my browser. And a lot of wishes about it have just come true. The new improvements were announced a day ago but it’s only now that Google has finally given me an opportunity to try it out. In any case, [...]

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Ever since download managers have become popular, the auto shutdown feature has become standard with these managers. Even peer to peer software have featured this option. While Firefox integrated a relatively better download manager (compared to IE), it doesn’t carry that feature. But at least you can install an extension that lets you do [...]

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