Make To-Do Bar in Outlook 2007 Show Only Today's Tasks

Choose Date/Time fields and then Due Date from the menu. Now change Condition to “on or before” and pop in in today into the Value box. Now we’ll see Today’s tasks as well as the overdue ones. But you’d never forget to do something, would you?

July 2, 2007 · 1 min · 46 words · Jeffrey Gibson

Add Background Pictures To Excel 2007 Worksheets

Here is a way to add background graphics to your Excel spreadsheets to spice up those meetings. First, pop kick open the spreadsheet you want to add the background to. On the Ribbon hit Page Layout and select background. after you grab chosen your background snag the Insert button. Now you have a background to your spreadsheet. You may have to adjust some of the fonts and colors depending upon the background image....

July 1, 2007 · 1 min · 73 words · Steven Simpson

Magnify Selected Cells In Excel 2007

go for the cells you want to magnify. Select View on the Ribbon and select Zoom to Selection. This will zoom in on the specific section you want to analyze in your Excel worksheet. To return to the normal view tap on 100%. Now you’re back to the view you started with.

July 1, 2007 · 1 min · 52 words · David Brown

Make Excel 2007 Wrap Text in Cells

In Excel if you have a long entry in a cell the text automatically spans into multiple columns. Here’s how simple Excel 2007 makes the task of wrapping text in worksheet cells. snag the cell(s) you you want to wrap. Click Home on the Ribbon and select Wrap Text. That’s all there is to it! Excel will wrap the text in the cell and also increase the height of the cell row....

July 1, 2007 · 1 min · 72 words · Kristina Little

Make Firefox Quick Search Use Google's Beta Search Keys

Good thing it’s a very simple to change. http://www.google.com/search?q=%s&esrch=BetaShortcuts Now right-poke the new link and choose Properties. Here’s where you’ll want to add the keyword ? into the keyword box, to make it look like this. Now when you search in the location bar using the ?

July 1, 2007 · 1 min · 47 words · Jasmine Hernandez

Mimic the Eclipse "Open Resource" Feature in Visual Studio

After browsing around, I finally found a comparable plugin called VSFileFinder that will work in Visual Studio. It’s not quite as good, but it’s pretty decent. And here’s a screenshot of VSFileFinder in action. You’ll notice that it’s very similar, but it doesn’t show open files first. The first thing you’ll need to do isdownloadand install it from the CodeProject site (registration required). Add in the shortcut key you want, and hit the Assign button....

July 1, 2007 · 1 min · 102 words · Debra Murray

Quickly Remove Items from Windows XP Startup

Here is a quick tip which should make your machine start up faster by removing startup items quickly. After you have made your selection, click Apply, OK and Restart. You should now notice a remarkable improvement in your start up time.

June 30, 2007 · 1 min · 41 words · Shelly Patterson

Access Your MySQL Server Remotely Over SSH

If you are using the command line ssh, the command would look like this. We’re using localhost as the hostname because we are directly accessing the remote mysql server through ssh. You could also use this technique to port-forward through one ssh server to another server.

June 29, 2007 · 1 min · 46 words · Randy Singh

Keyboard Ninja: Assign a Hotkey to any Window

Before we begin, I’m going to assume that you’ve downloaded and installed it. All you have to do is assign the hotkeys you want at the top of the script. The first thing you will need to do isdownload the scriptand save it somewhere useful. You’ll notice that there are a number of sample hotkey lines defined already, but commented out. (get more information atAutohotkeydocumentation) Windows key ! Alt...

June 29, 2007 · 1 min · 179 words · Sarah Cooper

Make Word 2007 Always Save in Word 2003 Format

Now poke the Word Options button in the menu. Now you won’t send the wrong format by accident anymore.

June 29, 2007 · 1 min · 19 words · Rachel Turner

Backup or Restore Saved Network User Credentials in Windows Vista

To open up this utility, key in control userpasswords2 into the Start menu search box and hit enter. On the resulting User Accounts screen, tap on the Advanced tab and then choose the Manage Passwords button. You’ll see the list of your stored internet credentials here. For instance I’ve got saved credentials for all the remote desktop sessions that I use. go for the Browse button and choose a name for the file....

June 27, 2007 · 1 min · 122 words · Tonya Carlson

Cleanup Beagle Search Cache after Removing Beagle

I suppose it could have been worse… my main system has 1GB of data sitting there. You should see .beagle in the list. Just delete the folder, and you should be all done. (Of course, you could do this from the command line instead like I did)

June 27, 2007 · 1 min · 47 words · Jason Wallace

Clear History from Totem Movie Player in Ubuntu

Of course we did, and now the list is gone from Totem. Ahh, much better. Wouldn’t want anybody to know I was watching The Simpsons, afterall.

June 27, 2007 · 1 min · 26 words · Jared Love