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List Of Useful Microsoft Office Shortcuts
I tend to use a laptop a lot and using keyboard shortcuts are essential if you don’t have a mouse.
Here are some useful ones I’ve learnt. Please share any others that you know.
SHIFT+F10: Display the shortcut menu
HOME or END: Select the first or last command on the menu or submenu
F1:Displays the Help task pane.
CTRL+F1: [...]
Download Shockwave Animations
How many times have you visited a website and seen a cool Shockwave Animation that you wanted to save but you couldn’t?
Quickonlinetips have produced a great little guide with images which will walk you through the process of downloading and saving animations.
To see the full guide follow this link.
Receive Reminders On Your Cell Phone
Are you always late for important dates? Do you forget to call that important person? Forget to pick up the kids? Well, you will never forget an important event again if you use ‘Oh, don’t forget’.
This great site lets you create text message reminders just by entering your cell number, the date [...]
Make Your Own Ringtones
Making your own mp3 ringtones is easy when you know how. All you need is to download a great little application called Audacity.
First off download and install Audacity and also download and extract Lame_enc (this is essential)
Once you’ve done this open up Audacity
Step 1: Go to ‘File’ then ‘Open’ and find and select your [...]
10Oct2006 | Tony Williams | 1 comment | Continued
Reduce Firefox Memory Usage
Firefox’s memory leakage problems are well documented. What tends to happen is the longer you browse using Firefox it uses up more and more memory until your PC virtually stips.
This tip from gHacks should reduce Firefox’s memory usage to under 10MB. It’s very simple to implement:
Write ‘about:config’ in your firefox address bar and hit enter
Right [...]
Easy Way To Copy DVDs
Copying DVDs can sometimes be very hard - even if they are yours and you just want to make a backup. If you want to archive your DVDs to your PC without losing any quality at all then try out the great free DVDFab Decrypter.
This great piece of Freeware copies the complete disk including [...]
How To Capture Screenshots From Windows Media Player
Whatever you may think about Microsoft, they do make some good software. One of their best is Windows Media Player which is free and is installed on all Windows PCs. Capturing screenshots from your favorite videos can be difficult, but here’s a quick way to do it:
Open Window Media Player
Then go to ‘Tools [...]
Personalise Your iTunes Library On Shared Computers
Using a shared Windows PC can be annoying sometimes. Take using iTunes for example. I may think a song is fantastic and may want to rate it a 5, but the next person to use the PC may hate that track. Because of the way iTunes stores its settings it’s impossible for [...]
6Oct2006 | Tony Williams | 0 comments | Continued
Faster Windows XP Menus
Sometimes making your PC ‘run’ faster is just about changing the way programs run e.g disabling splash screens. This tip will make your machine feel faster, by increasing the speed with which menus load, by removing the delay between clicking on a menu and that menu being displayed, which is enforced by XP.
To enable [...]
Quicker Way To Remove iTunes Duplicates And Dead Tracks
If you have a big iTunes library it’s very easy to have duplicate files and dead tracks which are taking up space on your PC. This can also happen when you move files between folders or between PCs as iTunes can get confused. Removing these can be a pain but there is a [...]
4Oct2006 | Tony Williams | 11 comments | ContinuedSubscribe For Tips!
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