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Stop fake accounts!
Stop fake accounts!: This service can be used by website owners to find out instantly if a subscriber tries to use a one-time fake email address to register or not.
How to Find Digital Copies of Your User Guides | PCWorld
How to Find Digital Copies of Your User Guides | PCWorld
User Manuals for Consumer Electronics at the bottom of the page. http://www.retrevo.com/samples/index.html
User Manuals for Consumer Electronics at the bottom of the page. http://www.retrevo.com/samples/index.html
Friday, February 24, 2012
Wishbox: Get User Feedback with Annotated Screenshots
Wishbox: Get User Feedback with Annotated Screenshots: - Sent using Google Toolbar
Home – TagMyDoc
Home – TagMyDoc: - Sent using Google Toolbar
TagMyDoc is a web service that helps you share your documents with people quickly and more conveniently. The site lets you upload and tag digital documents; it then generates download URLs for these documents. The URL is encoded into a QR code that you can share with smartphone owners. People who own a smartphone can easily scan the code and download your document.
TagMyDoc is a web service that helps you share your documents with people quickly and more conveniently. The site lets you upload and tag digital documents; it then generates download URLs for these documents. The URL is encoded into a QR code that you can share with smartphone owners. People who own a smartphone can easily scan the code and download your document.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
Start Menu user guide; tips, etc.
The Windows Start menu super guide — Part I
Woody Leonhard By Woody Leonhard
Since the debut of Windows 95, the Start menu has offered an easily navigated and extensible haven for all the programs we don't use every day.
In Part 1 of a series of stories on getting the most out of Windows' Start menu, we start with the basics: pinning applications, folders, and files.
Future installments will cover just about everything you need to know about the Start menu — how to use it, change it, gussy it up, and dress it down. The Start menu is something we use dozens of times a day. Take a few minutes and make it look the way you want it to!
Although Win7's Start menu has a slightly different look from Windows XP's classic design, in many ways they work the same. And though the techniques covered in this series focus on Win7's version, you'll find that many of these tips apply to XP's Start menu as well.
Classic version or new, the Windows Start menu has three major sections (shown in Figure, below), each giving different approaches to navigating Windows.
Left column: This section holds items (programs, folders, and files) that you use frequently. Those above the faint line are items pinned there by the user; those below the line are recently invoked programs — at least those programs started via the Start menu — and automatically added by Windows.
Right column: This list provides shortcuts to many of Windows 7's predefined folders and libraries plus quick access to key features such as the Devices and Printers panel and the Control Panel. Most Windows users probably think it's a fixed list, but it's not — you can customize it.
Bottom: In addition to the Shut down button found in Windows XP, the bottom of Win7's Start menu now has the always-useful Search programs and files box.
The Windows 7 Start menu
Figure 1. The Windows 7 Start menu is made up of three sections to make finding applications, folders, files, and system tools easier.
Let's start by taking a look at how you can change the left-hand list of programs, folders, and files. If you want to make the changes apply to different user accounts on a PC, you have to be logged in with administrator rights.
Making simple changes to the Start menu
First, a note about terminology. All versions of Windows between Win95 and WinXP had a button in the lower-left corner of the desktop emblazoned with "Start." In Vista and Win7, Microsoft replaced the classic square Start button with a frilly (and unlabeled) round button, which practically everyone except Microsoft refers to as the "orb." (Surprisingly, you can even change the orb.) To minimize confusion, I'll tell you to click Start — which on Win7, of course, means to click the orb. Fair enough?
Changing much of the Start menu is a cinch. Here's a review of how to make several of the most common Start menu changes:
To change the picture of the current user (the picture in the upper-right corner of the Start menu — a daisy by default), simply click it. Windows takes you through the necessary steps.
To remove a program from the pinned list in the upper-left corner or the most recently used list below, right-click the entry you don't want and choose Remove from This List.
To add a program to the pinned programs list, navigate to the program (by clicking, say, Start/All Programs), right-click the program and choose Pin to Start Menu.
If you bought a new computer with Windows 7 preinstalled, the computer maker might have sold one of the spots (or maybe two or three spots) on the Start menu to another product vendor. You can always delete those pesky Start menu advertisements by right-clicking them and choosing Remove from this list.
Amazingly, that covers about 80 percent of the questions I get about the Start menu.
Pinning to the Start menu — the rest of the story
There's much more to the pinned list than first meets the eye.
The All Programs menu is the easiest place to find and pin applications, but you can also use Windows Explorer or the Start menu's Search box. Once you've found the program file, simply right-click it and choose Pin to Start Menu.
If you want to pin a program currently on your Taskbar onto the Start menu, the simple right-click trick doesn't work. When you right-click a Taskbar icon, you get the jump list — and there is no option to Pin to Start Menu. But there's a trick. All the items on your Taskbar are stored as shortcuts in the folder
c:\users\your name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar.
Navigate to that folder in Windows Explorer, right-click on the item you want to put on your Start menu, and choose Pin to Start Menu. Voilà !
If you pin a program on the Start menu by right-clicking on it and choosing Pin to Start Menu, Windows creates a separate, pinned copy in the Start menu. Your original — the program you right-clicked — stays where it was. If you right-click a program listed in the recently used section of the Start menu and move it to the pinned section, again: the original program doesn't move, but Windows does take the entry off the recently used list.
You can put pinned programs into any order you like. When the program, file, or folder gets pinned, it appears at the bottom of the pinned pile. To change the order, just click-and-drag the program to any other spot in the pinned list.
Even better, you can give your pinned programs names that you prefer. Right-click the program and choose Properties. On the General tab, change the name in the top box to whatever you want to show on the Start menu.
Pinning folders and files to the Start menu
Many online help sites tell you that you need to edit the Registry or create a complex shortcut to pin folders to the Start menu. In Windows 7, you don't need to do any of that. Just click and drag the folder to the pinned list as I explain here, and you're done. The same trick works for files, too. While the technique I mention here isn't exactly undocumented, it's certainly not well known.
To pin a folder or file — or just about anything else — to the Start Menu, navigate to the folder or file and left-click it. Now drag it down to the Start orb. Hover for a moment or two, and the Start menu opens. Keep dragging the file or folder up to the pinned list. Settle on the location you'd like, and drop the file or folder. (There is, unfortunately, not a simple way to pin a folder to the taskbar.)
If you pin an Office template file to the Start Menu — a Word .dotx or Excel .xlt file, for example — every time you select the template in the Start Menu, Windows will start the application (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, whatever) with a new document based on that template. That's the fastest way I know to work with form letters.
The drag-and-drop trick also works on programs that don't show Pin to Start Menu when you right-click on them. It's really that easy.
In Part 2 of this series, I'll show you how to take control of your most recently used programs list and change the All Programs menu. In Part 3, I'll look at changing the items on the right side of the Start Menu.
Have a favorite Start menu trick? Post it! Drop by the Lounge and show us your stuff.
Woody Leonhard By Woody Leonhard
Since the debut of Windows 95, the Start menu has offered an easily navigated and extensible haven for all the programs we don't use every day.
In Part 1 of a series of stories on getting the most out of Windows' Start menu, we start with the basics: pinning applications, folders, and files.
Future installments will cover just about everything you need to know about the Start menu — how to use it, change it, gussy it up, and dress it down. The Start menu is something we use dozens of times a day. Take a few minutes and make it look the way you want it to!
Although Win7's Start menu has a slightly different look from Windows XP's classic design, in many ways they work the same. And though the techniques covered in this series focus on Win7's version, you'll find that many of these tips apply to XP's Start menu as well.
Classic version or new, the Windows Start menu has three major sections (shown in Figure, below), each giving different approaches to navigating Windows.
Left column: This section holds items (programs, folders, and files) that you use frequently. Those above the faint line are items pinned there by the user; those below the line are recently invoked programs — at least those programs started via the Start menu — and automatically added by Windows.
Right column: This list provides shortcuts to many of Windows 7's predefined folders and libraries plus quick access to key features such as the Devices and Printers panel and the Control Panel. Most Windows users probably think it's a fixed list, but it's not — you can customize it.
Bottom: In addition to the Shut down button found in Windows XP, the bottom of Win7's Start menu now has the always-useful Search programs and files box.
The Windows 7 Start menu
Figure 1. The Windows 7 Start menu is made up of three sections to make finding applications, folders, files, and system tools easier.
Let's start by taking a look at how you can change the left-hand list of programs, folders, and files. If you want to make the changes apply to different user accounts on a PC, you have to be logged in with administrator rights.
Making simple changes to the Start menu
First, a note about terminology. All versions of Windows between Win95 and WinXP had a button in the lower-left corner of the desktop emblazoned with "Start." In Vista and Win7, Microsoft replaced the classic square Start button with a frilly (and unlabeled) round button, which practically everyone except Microsoft refers to as the "orb." (Surprisingly, you can even change the orb.) To minimize confusion, I'll tell you to click Start — which on Win7, of course, means to click the orb. Fair enough?
Changing much of the Start menu is a cinch. Here's a review of how to make several of the most common Start menu changes:
To change the picture of the current user (the picture in the upper-right corner of the Start menu — a daisy by default), simply click it. Windows takes you through the necessary steps.
To remove a program from the pinned list in the upper-left corner or the most recently used list below, right-click the entry you don't want and choose Remove from This List.
To add a program to the pinned programs list, navigate to the program (by clicking, say, Start/All Programs), right-click the program and choose Pin to Start Menu.
If you bought a new computer with Windows 7 preinstalled, the computer maker might have sold one of the spots (or maybe two or three spots) on the Start menu to another product vendor. You can always delete those pesky Start menu advertisements by right-clicking them and choosing Remove from this list.
Amazingly, that covers about 80 percent of the questions I get about the Start menu.
Pinning to the Start menu — the rest of the story
There's much more to the pinned list than first meets the eye.
The All Programs menu is the easiest place to find and pin applications, but you can also use Windows Explorer or the Start menu's Search box. Once you've found the program file, simply right-click it and choose Pin to Start Menu.
If you want to pin a program currently on your Taskbar onto the Start menu, the simple right-click trick doesn't work. When you right-click a Taskbar icon, you get the jump list — and there is no option to Pin to Start Menu. But there's a trick. All the items on your Taskbar are stored as shortcuts in the folder
c:\users\your name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch\User Pinned\TaskBar.
Navigate to that folder in Windows Explorer, right-click on the item you want to put on your Start menu, and choose Pin to Start Menu. Voilà !
If you pin a program on the Start menu by right-clicking on it and choosing Pin to Start Menu, Windows creates a separate, pinned copy in the Start menu. Your original — the program you right-clicked — stays where it was. If you right-click a program listed in the recently used section of the Start menu and move it to the pinned section, again: the original program doesn't move, but Windows does take the entry off the recently used list.
You can put pinned programs into any order you like. When the program, file, or folder gets pinned, it appears at the bottom of the pinned pile. To change the order, just click-and-drag the program to any other spot in the pinned list.
Even better, you can give your pinned programs names that you prefer. Right-click the program and choose Properties. On the General tab, change the name in the top box to whatever you want to show on the Start menu.
Pinning folders and files to the Start menu
Many online help sites tell you that you need to edit the Registry or create a complex shortcut to pin folders to the Start menu. In Windows 7, you don't need to do any of that. Just click and drag the folder to the pinned list as I explain here, and you're done. The same trick works for files, too. While the technique I mention here isn't exactly undocumented, it's certainly not well known.
To pin a folder or file — or just about anything else — to the Start Menu, navigate to the folder or file and left-click it. Now drag it down to the Start orb. Hover for a moment or two, and the Start menu opens. Keep dragging the file or folder up to the pinned list. Settle on the location you'd like, and drop the file or folder. (There is, unfortunately, not a simple way to pin a folder to the taskbar.)
If you pin an Office template file to the Start Menu — a Word .dotx or Excel .xlt file, for example — every time you select the template in the Start Menu, Windows will start the application (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, whatever) with a new document based on that template. That's the fastest way I know to work with form letters.
The drag-and-drop trick also works on programs that don't show Pin to Start Menu when you right-click on them. It's really that easy.
In Part 2 of this series, I'll show you how to take control of your most recently used programs list and change the All Programs menu. In Part 3, I'll look at changing the items on the right side of the Start Menu.
Have a favorite Start menu trick? Post it! Drop by the Lounge and show us your stuff.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
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Friday, February 17, 2012
Tumblr Music Player - place a music player in your blog easily
Tumblr Music Player - place a music player in your blog easily: Tumblr Music Player - place a music player in your blog
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i2Speak - Free Online Smart IPA Keyboard
i2Speak - Free Online Smart IPA Keyboard: - Sent using Google Toolbar
Round Labels in a vintage style design | Worldlabel Blog
Round Labels in a vintage style design | Worldlabel Blog: - Sent using Google Toolbar
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Giveaway of the Day - free licensed software daily. JuniorWatch Standard (1 year service) - JuniorWatch is the ideal software tool to monitor your children’s computer usage and online behavior.
Giveaway of the Day - free licensed software daily. JuniorWatch Standard (1 year service) - JuniorWatch is the ideal software tool to monitor your children’s computer usage and online behavior.: February 15, 2012JuniorWatch is the ideal software tool to monitor your children’s computer usage and online behavior. If there is any issue you will notice it in the very beginning. JuniorWatch allows you capture screens, take webcam pictures, log key strokes, log clipboard, and log browser histories.
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Evernote Clearly: Simplified & Clean Online Reading Experience
Evernote Clearly: Simplified & Clean Online Reading Experience: Evernote Clearly: Simplified & Clean Online Reading Experience
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- Sent using Google Toolbar
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want!
Shapecatcher: Draw the Unicode character you want!: - Sent using Google Toolbar
ThinkUp: Social Media Insights Platform
ThinkUp: Social Media Insights Platform: - Sent using Google Toolbar
Language Labs - Translator Bookmarklet
Language Labs - Translator Bookmarklet: - Sent using Google Toolbar
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Ext2 IFS For Windows
Ext2 IFS For Windows
It provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access). This may be useful if you have installed both Windows and Linux as a dual boot environment on your computer.
The "Ext2 Installable File System for Windows" software is freeware. Thanks, Steve.
It provides Windows NT4.0/2000/XP/2003/Vista/2008 with full access to Linux Ext2 volumes (read access and write access). This may be useful if you have installed both Windows and Linux as a dual boot environment on your computer.
The "Ext2 Installable File System for Windows" software is freeware. Thanks, Steve.
Friday, February 10, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
HELLO, MT. VIEW CALIFORNIA
I used to live in Mt. View many years ago. Lots of tech there at that time, but now I'm sure Mt. View is clogged with traffic and smog and even more tech.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
vyu.me - Very social URL shortening
vyu.me - Very social URL shortening: - Sent using Google Toolbar Shorter URL w. comments.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Trace Email Address Source
Trace Email Address Source Find Email Address Source
This tool attempts to locate the source IP address of an email based on the email headers (Where did the email come from). Just copy and paste the full headers of the email you've received into the box below and press submit. When the page reloads scroll down to the bottom for the email header analysis and results.
This tool attempts to locate the source IP address of an email based on the email headers (Where did the email come from). Just copy and paste the full headers of the email you've received into the box below and press submit. When the page reloads scroll down to the bottom for the email header analysis and results.
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Pancake.io
Pancake.io Anyone can learn to make a pancake. And now anyone can make a web site. We're the easiest way to create and maintain a web page.
All you need to do is create a text file, and save it into the special Pancake folder in your Dropbox account. We'll turn that file into a web page for you.
The best part? Updating your page is as easy as opening the text file up in Notepad, TextEdit or your favorite text editor, making the changes you want, and saving the file. Your website gets updated automatically.
We'll even take care of the formatting for you if you follow a few simple rules.
All you need to do is create a text file, and save it into the special Pancake folder in your Dropbox account. We'll turn that file into a web page for you.
The best part? Updating your page is as easy as opening the text file up in Notepad, TextEdit or your favorite text editor, making the changes you want, and saving the file. Your website gets updated automatically.
We'll even take care of the formatting for you if you follow a few simple rules.
Saturday, February 4, 2012
New Staff.
We had to fire the whole tech support staff because of their drinking bouts and rudeness to customers. We hired a new staff this morning:
Friday, February 3, 2012
Make Switching From Windows To Linux Easier With Zorin OS
Make Switching From Windows To Linux Easier With Zorin OS
I installed 64 bit version on my main desktop via CD, temporarily. Easily installed, ran fast and clean. Good distro. -tp
I installed 64 bit version on my main desktop via CD, temporarily. Easily installed, ran fast and clean. Good distro. -tp
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
SSDownloader | Free Security & Utilities software downloads at SourceForge.net
SSDownloader | Free Security & Utilities software downloads at SourceForge.net: SSDownloader or Security Software Downloader is a small, easy to use download manager specially designed for security software. [Thank you, Steve.]
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3+ Stickies Shortcuts You Should Use [Mac]
3+ Stickies Shortcuts You Should Use [Mac]: - Sent using Google Toolbar
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