Create a Shortcut Icon or Hotkey to Turn Windows 7 / Vista Firewall On or Off

Can’t we make a simple shortcut icon instead? We’ll simply create a shortcut to it with the appropriate parameters. Create Shortcut Icons for Enable/DisableRight-choose the desktop or elsewhere, and choose New \ Shortcut from the menu. Then in the shortcut location box, you’ll add one of two commands listed below. Right-hit the shortcut and choose Properties, and then choose the shortcut tab. it’s possible for you to also change the icon by using the Change Icon button....

June 5, 2008 · 1 min · 145 words · Howard Sanchez

Mysticgeek Blog: Create Appealing Charts In Excel 2007

First highlight the data you want to chart on your Excel spreadsheet. Now that we have the correct data selected we need to click Insert on The Ribbon. Now select Charts and decide what jot down of chart you want to represent the data. I usually experiment at this point because you’ve got the option to always undo a certain selection. In this example I used the Exploding Pie Chart....

June 5, 2008 · 1 min · 167 words · Peter Cooper

Stupid Geek Tricks: Figure Out HTML Color Codes from Decimal RGB Colors (Like MS Paint Uses)

We’ll use this to convert those decimal codes to Hexadecimal. In this case the code would be 0D.

June 3, 2008 · 1 min · 18 words · Trevor Coffey

Keyboard Ninja: Using the Instant Search Shortcut Keys in Microsoft Outlook 2007

Instead of that, use the F4 key to launch the search/replace dialog. This will let you search through everything that has been indexed on your drive, including email.

June 2, 2008 · 1 min · 28 words · Susan Doyle

Disable Ctrl+Alt+Backspace from Restarting X Windows on Linux

If you’ve used Linux for any amount of time, you’re already familiar with the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace shortcut key combination that restarts X Windows immediately… but have you ever wondered if there is a way to disable that behavior? Turns out it’s extremely simple to do, although I’m not necessarily recommending that you do this… it’s more for informational purposes. (while Linux might be rock-solid, I’ve had more than my share of crashing in Gnome, so the shortcut key is useful)...

May 31, 2008 · 2 min · 235 words · Jason Hartman

Manually Remove Skype Extension from Firefox

Sure, you might disable it… but what about uninstalling it? You’ll notice that the Skype extension is no more.

May 30, 2008 · 1 min · 19 words · James Snyder

Prevent Outlook with Gmail IMAP from Showing Duplicate Tasks in the To-Do Bar

Outlook can’t tell the difference. Alternatively you could block only certain folders using this method. You’ll probably have to do a Send/Receive before the items disappear from the list. You could also exclude items from All Mail by reversing the condition to exclude instead.

May 29, 2008 · 1 min · 44 words · Aaron Waters

Get Rid of the Unread Spam Message Count in Gmail and Your IMAP Client

This method should work for both Gmail as well as any IMAP client that you use. (Note: This only works if you are using the new gmail interface. )Mark All Spam as Read AutomaticallyOpen up Gmail and then tap the link to create a new filter. you’re free to use the Test Search button to check that it shows just spam emails. Now tap the Next Step button, and ignore the issue notification you get....

May 28, 2008 · 1 min · 118 words · Dakota Yu

How to Re-Enable the about:config Warning Message in Firefox 3

I know what you are thinking… why would you possibly want it back?

May 28, 2008 · 1 min · 13 words · Harry Morrow

Daemon Tools Lite For CD / DVD ROM Emulation

CD / DVD ROM emulation is a good thing especially if you only have one optical ROM drive. For CD / DVD drive emulation I am a big fan ofDaemon Tools. you might create up to 4 virtual ROM drives to run various applications, music, or movies. There are also several3rd Party addonsfor Daemon Tools as well. I have not tried any of the third party applications but you might find some of them useful....

May 27, 2008 · 1 min · 139 words · Gregory Patel

Make New Folders in Your Vista User Directory Use Matching Greenish Icons

All the built-in folders have those stylish greenish icons, and your folders are ugly and yellow.

May 26, 2008 · 1 min · 16 words · Deborah Gregory

Install Flash Plugin Manually in Firefox on Vista

So you installed Firefox on Windows Vista, but you’ve got the option to’t seem to get the flash plugin to install… you hit the “Install Missing Plugins” button, follow the wizard, restart Firefox, and it’s still not installed. Annoying! Instead of going through this repeatedly without any luck, you’ve got the option to simply plant the plugin manually with a couple of steps. Note that it’s possible for you to use this manual method to install any plugin, not just Flash....

May 25, 2008 · 2 min · 381 words · Cynthia Ramos

Capture and Share Images and Videos the Easy Way

That’s the link that will be copied to the clipboard.

May 21, 2008 · 1 min · 10 words · Kevin Mccarthy