Archive for February, 2008
Get things done fast with keyboard shortcuts for Windows, Word, Excel and Outlook
Keyboard shortcuts are definitely great time savers. Here is a list of shortcuts for Windows, Word, Excel and Outlook for you to use. Of course, it wouldn’t be possible for an average person to remember all the shortcuts but then you wouldn’t need to. It would be enough if you remember the ones that [...]
What goes on behind Windows splash screen
Ever wonder what’s going on behind that splash screen? Well, now you can find out!
Right click My Computer, Properties, Advanced, Startup and Recovery, Edit. Edit BOOT.INI. Add “/SOS” right after “/fastdetect” with a space between. The line will look something like this:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS=”Microsoft Windows XP Professional” /fastdetect /SOS.
Then you’re finished.
The first part, multi(0)….. may not be [...]
Resize multiple images easily with Windows XP’s built-in resizing utility
Suppose you have several images captured with your 6MP camera that you want to resize into a smaller size either to email them to someone or maybe to upload it on Flickr. You can either open them one by one in an image editing application and resize them, which obviously is very time consuming or [...]
WinTabber - Add the convenience of Tabs to any application
One of the main reasons why most people switched to other browsers like Firefox and Opera from Internet Explorer is that they are tabbed browsers. The convenience of switching between pages in a tabbed browser is unbeatable.
Now you can add the same convenience to almost all the application windows on your computer. Enter WinTabber.
Pendrive Linux - Boot and run Linux from a USB flash memory stick
If you love working in Linux then you would definitely want to have Pendrive Linux provided by Pendrivelinux.com.
Pendrive Linux enables you to install a portable Linux operating system on a flash drive or USB key. This portable Linux version can then be run from any computer that can boot from a flash device, allowing you [...]
