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Drag and Drop Items on Your Windows Task Bar.

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

More and more programs these days are using tabs in one form or another, web browsers and Firefox and IE have had tabs for a long time. Most of these programs now also allow you to drag and drop the tabs to re-order them. The drag and drop feature lets you organize better and helps [...]

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Giving a Technical Presentation soon?

Sunday, May 18th, 2008

If you have to give a technical presentation check out Scott Hanselman’s “11 Top Tips for a Successful Technical Presentation“. He offers some excellent things to think about prior to your presentation. Some of the tips are general enough that they apply to any presentation, not jut a technical presentation.
One of the tips he seems [...]

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Safer Computing

Saturday, February 9th, 2008

This months PC Magazine features “72 Tips for Safer Computing“. 72 tips sounds like a lot but they’re short and make for a relatively quick read. The information is great and easy to understand for non-techies so I suggest taking a quick look to see if there is anything you may have left out of [...]

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How To Move A Window That’s Off The Screen

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Here’s a windows tip for you:
Everyone has run into the situation where part of a window is hidden off the screen and you can’t access the title bar to move the window back into view. This can be quite frustrating but it’s actually quite easy to fix.
All you have to do is right click on [...]

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Quick PC Maintenance Tip #1

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

Here’s a quick maintenance tip for you:
Use CCleaner once a week to keep your computer running fast and smooth.
CCleaner is an optimization and privacy tool that will free up temporary files, erase your Internet tracks and clean up excess registry keys. They tool is easy to run and most people can get by with the [...]

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Tip: Use Google to search any site!

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Here’s a little search tip for you:
Imagine your doing some research for your boss and you remember reading this perfect reference article that would allow you to complete the research in no time an meet your deadline. You could remember the address to the home page of the website (websiteExample.com) where you read this article [...]

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