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 with [...]

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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 on [...]

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When it comes to dummy text, I always go by the eternally useful Lorem ipsum sequence. That means that I have to use its own generator or the text sequence saved comfortably in a text file ready for my use. However, for Microsoft Word users, you don’t have to pull up any other generator just [...]

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If you’ve neglected cleaning and organizing your files for some time, you may be in for one tough job. Ever wondered where all of those bytes went? While most of the “lost bytes” in Windows are due to the shadow files and restore points, some of the overlooked ones are due to empty directories. So [...]

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At long last. After working a while with Windows Vista, it finally crashed on me! Yes. I do seem like I’m ecstatic about the matter and, indeed, I am. I’m still a bit pissed off since fixing the darned thing took around ten minutes of my productive time. But at least I now belong to [...]

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I usually just rip the movie off the DVD first and then keep the DVD sealed and in pristine scratch and smudge free condition. Personal use only, and I’m not sharing it via P2P. At least I can watch my movies in my laptop without having to pop in the DVD all the time. Recently, [...]

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How-to Geek apparently doesn’t find a need for the Caps Lock key so why not disable the darned thing. Come to think of it, I haven’t really used it for a very long time. I prefer to use bold or italicized characters for emphasis and I always tend to just hold down the Shift key [...]

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Hmm… a precursor to SP1 perhaps? Oh well, I think these have been long overdue, especially for those experiencing a lot of problems after shifting to Vista. Billy’s boys have released, not one, but two update packs for their “best” OS so far. These two update packs aim to improve compatibility and reliability and performance.

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As always, Billy Gates is out for global conquest. And he wants to keep hold of his control over computers worldwide by pimping his new OS to every new PC user. They are now expecting to reach a milestone of one billion by the end of a year’s time. Now here’s one story I failed [...]

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I’ve been catching up on unread items on my feed reader and I probably have skipped this item from ComputerWorld (undoubtedly one of my favorite reads for tech stuff). I am now a Vista user and I’m still contemplating hard on whether I’d upgrade to XP or just . I’m even using Home Basic and [...]

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Seems like I’m making up for not getting to post that many tech tips for the past week and pardon me if I’ve been focusing on Word 2007. Doing all of these academic writing had me staring at Word 2007 for a good number of hours lately. Long enough for me to see some of [...]

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This is a rarity but for some reason, I’m loving Office 2007′s styles. I’ve been writing a short paper on some topics in linguistics and I used them to format. And do they look neat and professional. Some of them even mimic layout styles you find in books giving your work a classy look. However, [...]

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For those of you who are still adjusting to the new look and tools arsenal of Microsoft Office 2007, here’s a couple of things that you can do to tweak the way Office 2007 looks. Probably another GUI “concept” aside from the Ribbon that you now notice is this thing called the Quick Access Toolbar: [...]

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One of Vista’s security features is a thing called User Account Control (UAC) and one of it’s more family-friendly capabilities is Parental Control. It allows the parent (or administrator) to control what certain accounts in the computer can do – limit surfing capabilities, set program access and control, even set time limits. And what’s best [...]

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After a week or so of dealing with Office 2007, I’ve started to be settle with the Ribbon thing. The Ribbon is Office 2007′s replacement for the layers of toolbars that were previously found in 2003 and older. While I do miss the novelty, it now has struck me that the Ribbon has made it [...]

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