This is nothing new, especially for PC gamers out there. I’ve been revisiting some of my old games while waiting for the holiday crunch (and the bouts of laziness) to finally pass. While a lot of PC games out there are really built for PCs (strategies and simulations) where you get to use the [...]

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Year-end list and year-end awards. I stumbled upon CyberNet News’ Tiny Program award. It was the first time I’ve read about Pitaschio but heck, after checking it out, I’d have to say that I’d give it the same props too. Tons of features to help you manage Windows and yet it just takes up [...]

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The Geek (over at How-to Geek) wrote about how you can make the Task Manager run in the system tray at startup. It’s a great tutorial only it requires too many steps to accomplish. It gives you a great step-by-step tutorial on how you can do it manually in Windows, though. Here’s our version [...]

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Just like the AutoCorrect feature, one of the most underrated and underused features of Word is the Replace function. If you think that the Replace function is only good for changing text items, then you’re sadly mistaken. If you’ve made a mess of formating or styling your document, Replace can pretty much help you [...]

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I’m glad, that among my circle of computing friends, keyboard ninjitsu is now becoming a standard skill. As with many cases, not having to lift your hand from the keyboard to fiddle with your mouse (or any other pointing device for that matter) to execute commands is a lot quicker.
If you’re using Word and [...]

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Creating design accents and borders in PowerPoint need not be too complicated. A pattern of default shapes can easily do the job. Creating a pattern of evenly-spaced and symmetrical shapes can create a nice effect for your template. If you’re not too experienced in using the mouse, it is quite difficult to create even [...]

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For some obsessive-compulsive geeks out there, there’s nothing better looking than a clean desktop - especially if one wants to flaunt a great wallpaper. However, even if one really tries to keep the desktop organized, eventually, a darned icon will pop up somewhere.
If you really want to have a clean desktop, you can actually [...]

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Here’s one for the keyboard ninjas on Vista. Much like with XP, you can combine the Windows key with other keys to access the most common tasks and launch Vista features. It’s probably one of the most abused keys on my keyboard since I’m an avid keyboard ninja practitioner. Here’s a list of the [...]

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Sometime, you just don’t want to be bothered by the pesky alert noises from the applications you run. One such application that uses such annoying sounds is Yahoo Messenger and some of the other IM clients out there. Sometimes when I’m doing some audio editing, I need to shut Windows up so that the [...]

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If you’re a sort junkie, then you might find this new feature of Vista’s Windows Explorer a handy one. The new Preview Pane allows you to preview the contents of the more common files and documents that you have in your computer. You get instant preview (and not that wee pansy of a thumbnail [...]

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I receive update notifications from Microsoft at least once every two days. I’m perpetually online so all I have to do is to allow the updates and let Windows Vista do its thing, mostly they’re Windows Defender updates anyway. The alarming thing is, everyday, I lose around 1.5 GBs of space since Windows automatically [...]

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One of the features of Word 2007 that I like is search highlighting. Actually, this isn’t really that unique a feature. The Google toolbar has had this feature and it’s probably one of the great things with the Google toolbar. In any case, I digress. This post’s about Word 2007.
The feature’s called Reading Highlight [...]

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The administrator confirmation pop-ups are quite annoying. And I really don’t get it why the guys from Microsoft decided that the best security for your computer is to bother you with all their nagging. In any case, while you can do some serious spelunking in Vista to override the damn thing, you might just [...]

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One thing about Word is that, once you type in something that has “http://”, “www.” and a “.com” in a sequence, it automatically creates a hyperlink pointing to that specific URL. While keyboard ninjas would swear by Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V combo. There are still more ways to create hyperlinks in Microsoft Word. Here’s a nifty [...]

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There’s not much you can do in terms of some creep stealing your laptop physically from you. Unless, of course, you try to strap it to yourself with cuffs and shackles. But sometimes, all the security you need is from that bozo from the next cubicle who’d like to mess with your computer when you’re [...]

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