How to Use OneNote Printer to Extract Text from Images and PDFs

Heres how to do it. I selected the Unfiled Notes section. It will be converted and sent to OneNote. Once converted, OneNote will open and show you the document or image you have just sent. Right select it and select Copy Text from Image or Copy Text from the Pages of the Printout. OneNote will recognize the text in the inserted picture. And thats pretty much it! you’re free to now use it as you desire and paste it where you gotta....

May 13, 2011 · 1 min · 82 words · Diana Herrera

How to Tweak Your SSD in Ubuntu for Better Performance

We ran our own benchmarks with a few specific tweaks to show you the real difference. Benchmarks To benchmark our disk, we used thePhoronix Test Suite. Prominent Tweaks There are quite a few changes that people recommend when upgrading to an SSD. Enabling TRIM you’ve got the option to enable TRIM to help manage disk performance over the long-term. Tmpfs The system cache is stored in /tmp. Switching IO Schedulers...

May 11, 2011 · 3 min · 469 words · Antonio Peterson

Connect to Your Home Network From Anywhere with OpenVPN and Tomato

What is OpenVPN? Think of your router as the middle man between the networks that you’re connecting to. Typically, VPN software and hardware cost a lot of money to implement. Of course, OpenVPN won’t work right out of the box. It takes a little bit of tweaking and configuring to get it just right. For more information about OpenVPN, visit the officialWhat Is OpenVPN?page. To find out if your router is compatible with TomatoUSB check out theirBuild Typespage....

May 9, 2011 · 7 min · 1442 words · Phillip Crawford

Enable Editing for All Office 2010 Documents by Disabling Protected View

Here’s how to permanently disable Protected View for all documents in Microsoft Office. To fine tune your Protected View options have a look below. On the left column click Trust Center and then click Trust Center configs. Once you check or un-check the prefs you want you’ve got the option to end the windows. Repeat these steps for Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint if you want to disable Protected View there too....

April 25, 2011 · 1 min · 83 words · Donald Johnson

How to Save Paper by Highlighting and Commenting on PDFs

Related Update: Do not install Foxit. They are bundling search hijacking surfing app extensions that will ruin your day. The system well be using for this quick tutorial is Foxit Reader. This is an alternative PDF reader (alternative to Adobe Reader, that is). Its fast, lightweight, and free. And most importantly for us, it lets you annotate documents. For starters, download and install Foxit Reader. Then use it to open a PDF document youd like to annotate....

April 25, 2011 · 1 min · 115 words · Patrick Terrell

Beginner: How to Use Virtual PC to Install Windows 7 into a Virtual Machine

It’s a very simple process, but here’s the step-by-step guide for beginners. Now you will see you have two options to load your Windows 7 installation files. After loading the installation files, you should configure your language options. it’s possible for you to now choose Install now. you might select whether you want to make a custom installation or an upgrade. Since you won t have any previous operating systems installed, you should select Custom....

April 21, 2011 · 1 min · 180 words · Jesus Miller

How to Reset Any Changes to Your Ubuntu Computer and Add Kiosk-Mode

With Gofris, you’re able to accomplish this without complicated hard drive imaging. If youre like me, you want to keep this pristine. And these problems are where Gofris comes in. Gofris is a tool that seamlessly locks your system down. Installation As always, we love command-line installation. ppa:tldm217/gofris We need to add the above repository to install properly. Now, you might launch Gofris by going to Applications > System Tools > GOFRIS....

April 21, 2011 · 1 min · 183 words · Jacqueline Watkins

Boost Networking Performance by Installing Tomato on Your Router

Here’s how to unleash some of those features with an open source firmware. What is Tomato? Its a delicious fruit you eat that can help prevent cancer due to its high levels of Lycopene. Some people enjoy tomatoes on hamburgers and in salads. You wanted to know about Tomato as in the powerful, user friendly, full-of-features, alternative router firmware? Well, why didnt you say so? Prerequisites 1. This guide assumes you have a basic understanding of networking and using a Windows-based computer....

April 18, 2011 · 2 min · 422 words · Anna Andersen

How to Change the Virtual Machine Boot Device in Virtual PC

Here’s the quick and easy technique to change it. What we’re going to do is go into the virtual machine’s BIOS and tweak it there. Press Enter on Boot gear Priority and you will see a menu to select your primary booting gear. Use your + and keys to select your primary boot gear.

April 18, 2011 · 1 min · 54 words · Todd Mcdaniel

Use the Navigation Pane in Word 2010 to Easily Reorganize Documents

Quick Links Microsoft Word has a zillion features, and even after using it for a while, youre always finding something new. The Navigation Pane is a great feature that lets you easily skip between sections, but even more useful is the ability to use it to reorganize your documents. Reorganizing Documents with the Navigation Pane Simply head to the View tab and then poke the Navigation Pane option to fire up the panel on the left-hand side....

April 14, 2011 · 1 min · 175 words · David Gutierrez

Understanding Wall Wart Power Supplies [Electronics]

Wall Warts, You likely use them everyday without giving them much of a second thought. Read on to learn more.

April 12, 2011 · 1 min · 20 words · Cory Mcguire

Jailbreak Your Kindle for Dead Simple Screensaver Customization

Read on to learn how to apply a painless jailbreak to your Kindle and create custom screensavers. The important part of the filename is the found after the 0.4.N portion. The suffixes for each indicate what kind of Kindle it is within that subset. Start with your base model and grab the file with the suffix that matches your country and data connection. In our case we’ll be jailbreaking a Wi-Fi only Kindle 3 so we pickK3W_install....

April 11, 2011 · 3 min · 558 words · Bryan Davis

Stupid Geek Tricks: How to Display the Windows Version on the Desktop

Here’s how that “feature” is enabled or disabled. Obviously this isn’t terribly useful, which is exactly what makes it a Stupid Geek Trick. Either way, it’s a good learning experience to better understand how your OS works. Lets start by opening the Start Menu, pop in regedit then hit Enter. (The registry entry’s data will be “0” by default. In the screenshot below, we’ve already changed it to “1”.) A dialog will pop-up, change the Value Data field to 1....

April 11, 2011 · 1 min · 114 words · Joshua Jackson