Snap App Windows to Pre-Defined Screen Sections with Acer GridVista

Note: Acer GridVista works with Windows XP, Vista, & 7. It will also work with dual monitors. Once you unzip the enclosed folder you will need to double tap on Setup.exe to drop in the program. Here you might see the Context Menu… The only menu command that you will likely use most of the time is the Grid Configuration Command. Notice that for our single monitor setup that it lists Display 1....

April 9, 2010 · 1 min · 201 words · Deanna Schmidt

Get Pop Up Notifications for Your RSS Feeds with Feed Notifier

Are you looking for a way to get updates from your favorite websites right to your desktop? If so, youll want to check out Feed Notifier. Download and install Feed Notifier. (Download link below) When you are finished installing, the Feed Notifier Preferences window will open. press theAdd…button to add an RSS feed. Copy and paste the Feed URL into the text box and clickNext. Choose your polling interval. This is how often your feed will be checked for new items....

April 8, 2010 · 2 min · 215 words · Sharon Hoffman

How To Completely Disable Subtitles in VLC

Here’s the quick tip to disable them entirely. That should do it, unless the subtitles are forced in the video for some reason. it’s possible for you to choose to only uncheck the autodetecting of subtitles instead if you’d prefer. Note: this only works if the “enable sub-pictures” option is still enabled. And thus ends the tale of disabling those fracking subtitles.

April 8, 2010 · 1 min · 62 words · Elizabeth Miller

OCR anything with OneNote 2007 and 2010

Heres how you’re free to use OneNote to OCR anything on your machine. OneNote is one of the overlooked gems in recent versions of Microsoft Office. One way it is better is its high quality optical character recognition (OCR) engine. OneNote takes this further, and instantly OCRs any text in images you add. Then, you could use this text easily and copy it from the image. Lets see how this works and how you could use OneNote as the ultimate OCR....

April 8, 2010 · 2 min · 422 words · Carlos Rowe

Search Alternative Search Engines from within Bing’s Search Page

Note: These user scripts may also be added to other browsers as well (i.e. Iron, Opera, etc.). Another possible frustration for some people may be knowing just how many search results that they have looked through. Well, both of these small problems are easy to fix with two wonderful user scripts. Click “Install” to get started… Note: For our example we had the Greasemonkey extension installed. When the confirmation window pops up press “Install” to finish adding the user script to Firefox....

April 8, 2010 · 1 min · 170 words · Tiffany Shelton

Change The Windows 7 Start Orb the Easy Way

Want to make your Windows 7 PC even more unique and personalized? It contains the app along with a selection of alternate start button orbs you could try out. Before changing the start button, we advise creating a system restore point in case anything goes wrong. Enter System Restore in your Start menu search, and select Create a restore point. That said, it is always prudent to make a restore point just in case a problem did happen....

April 7, 2010 · 2 min · 253 words · Denise Washington

Enjoy How-To Geek User Style Script Goodness

If you are curious then join us as we look at these two scripts at work. Here it’s possible for you to see everything set at the normal width. On the right side of the page is the good part though. Notice that the script is available for other browsers as well (very nice!) As above we have the Firefox/Greasemonkey combination at work so we installed as a user script....

April 7, 2010 · 1 min · 90 words · Brent Sanchez

Increase the size of Taskbar Preview Thumbnails in Windows 7

Taskbar thumbnail previews are incredibly useful in Windows 7, but for some users they may be too small. Here’s a tool to help you make your taskbar thumbnail previews just like you want them. With it, you’re free to change almost anything about your taskbar thumbnail previews. trigger the Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Customizer when you’re done. Simply double-tap on it; you don’t need to run it as administrator. Now, you change the size, spacing, margin, and delay time of your taskbar thumbnails....

April 7, 2010 · 1 min · 172 words · Amy Shaw

VLOOKUP in Excel, part 2: Using VLOOKUP without a database

a product code or customer ID). This unique identifier must exist in the database, otherwise VLOOKUP returns us an error. In certain circumstances, this is exactly what we need. Otherwise their commission is only 20%. This formula makes use of the Excel function calledIF. “, or, put another way, “Are the total sales less than the threshold”. Let’s make it more complex. This is called a nested function (a function within a function)....

April 7, 2010 · 2 min · 281 words · Gina Jacobson

Experience your music in a whole new way with Zune for PC

Tired of the standard Media Player look and feel, and want something new and innovative? Or you’re free to do apre-paid music cardas well. Here’s a quick look at setting up and using Zune on your PC. Getting Started Download the installer (link below), and run it to begin setup. Once your download is finished, launch the installer to setup Zune on your machine. Accept the EULA when prompted. If there are any updates available, they will automatically download and install during the setup....

April 6, 2010 · 3 min · 488 words · Stacey Oconnell

Hide and Unhide Worksheets and Workbooks in Excel 2007 & 2010

By holding down the Ctrl key while clicking you might select multiple tabs at one time. On theHometab, click onFormat, which can be found in theCellsgroup. UnderVisibility, selectHide & Unhide, thenHide Sheet. you could also simply right-press the tab, and selectHide. Unhide a WorksheetTo unhide a worksheet, you just do the opposite. On theHometab, click onFormatin theCellsgroup and then underVisibility, selectHide & Unhide, thenUnhide Sheet. Or, it’s possible for you to right-select any visible tab, and selectUnhide....

April 6, 2010 · 1 min · 136 words · Teresa Shaw

Listen to Online Radio with Antenna

Are you looking for some fresh new music to listen to at home or at work? With Antenna you’re able to listen to online radio stations from all over the world. Based on the stations that you choose the background map will change location to match the stations locations. Here is a closer look at the Categories Bar. For our first example we used the Country Category to find our first station to listen to....

April 6, 2010 · 1 min · 191 words · Elizabeth Bennett

Scan a Windows PC for Viruses from a Ubuntu Live CD

Related Getting a virus is bad. Getting a virus that causes your machine to crash when you reboot is even worse. is the best choice, with great detection rates and usability. The better solution, however, is touse the BitDefender Rescue CDto scan your PC. Read Below For Archive Purposes Only Unfortunately, avast! does not have a proper 64-bit version, and forcing the install does not work properly. If you want to use avast!...

April 6, 2010 · 3 min · 449 words · Derek Robertson