This article is part of Mysticgeek’s Realm, a How-To Geek Blog focused on cyber geekery. Dia is capable of creating electronic circuit diagrams, computer web connection diagrams and even simple business project flowcharts. Here is where you choose objects and other tools to create the diagrams, graphs, and charts. The other screen which opens is the Canvass. This is where you will create and edit your project. Lets go through and create a basic computer internet diagram....

This article is part of Mysticgeek’s Realm, a How-To Geek Blog focused on cyber geekery. First create a new notebook and choose the appropriate controls. Evernote has a very familiar explorer pop in user interface. After creating a new notebook the title shows on the left side menu. Firefox has an easy to use plug-in and is also featured as a left click menu option. Or you might highlight to choose the data you want to keep and right click Add to Evernote....

I love trying out cool music players. I have alreadywritten about several playersand no doubt will continue that trend. Today I will cover the sleek, free, and powerfulAIMP2. AIMP2 could probably be best described as aWinampalternative of sorts. AIMP2 is very light on system resources and can play basically any media file under the sun. Out of the box AIMP2 has a stylish and sleek interface with easy to use controls....

First lets take a look at the options during initial installation. During the initial install it looks like I have the option to get the latest updates. Sure, might as well. After Installation is complete time to reboot. Ok, looks like IE wants to help me discover websites by suggesting them to me. Normally I would not want this feature, but for this review I am turning it on. you might always turn off the suggested sites at any time....

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This article is part of Mysticgeek’s Realm, a How-To Geek blog focused on IT geekery. A cool trick I learned the other day is inserting an audio file into word documents. There are several instances where this comes in handy. Here we will take a look at a couple different ways to insert the sound files into Word 2007. In the Object window choose the Create from File tab. Then browse to the location of the file you want to add to the document....

This article is part of Mysticgeek’s Realm, a How-To Geek blog focused on IT geekery. Here we will take a look at creating a simple flowchart in Word 2007. Then clickInsertthenShapeson theRibbonto select a shape from the Flowchart section. you’re able to can then draw an outline for the size of this object on the document. You then will see how it will look right away. To link the shapes on your flow chart there is a multitude of options....

We’ve written previously about how toset the Office 2007 color schemeaway from that awful default blue, but you could also set it with a quick registry hack or even via group policy on your web connection, so we’ll cover that here. Of course it’s much simpler to just set the color scheme using the GUI, but if you are like me you save a list of registry hacks that you apply to all new machines, so it still comes in handy....

Microsoft has actually come up with some impressive stuff with their Live services. One of the newer features still in Beta but open to anyone isOffice Live Workspace. As a quick look at Office Live Workspace we will go through saving a document to a site. Now lets see howOffice Liveworks. select theOffice Buttonand go toSave to Office Live. If you are not signed in already you will be prompted to....

You’ll be prompted to give the shortcut a name… You’ll notice that your most frequently used items show up below the search box. you could add/remove shortcuts from the list by clicking the arrow and choosing Manage Shortcuts from the menu. with the period at the end, very important. Then add in the following as the target, making sure to smack the Add button before clicking Create. This is a rather cool little utility, well worth a look....