There is one great feature in Microsoft Word that most people are not aware of. Word can recover text from virtually any file.
For instance, you can recover text from an Excel spreadsheet or a Word document with an error or a doc from another office suite which you would normally not be able to open [...]
After the Ericsson laptop giveaway hoax here is another such email I received yesterday. The text of the email is as follows:
Dear all,
If you receive a phone call on your Mobile from any person saying that they are checking your mobile line, and you have to press #90 or #09 or any other number. End [...]
Vista usually displays your local time in the lower-right corner of the Desktop, but it can also be configured to simultaneously display the time for other locations as well. You can add up to two more time zones to your local time. This could be handy if you travel frequently across different time zones or [...]
If you need to convert a PDF file to MS Word format, but are stuck with no conversion tool, just head to ConvertPDFtoWord.net.
It is a single page website, where you can upload your pdf file, click on the convert button and download the converted Word file.
Flash drives/thumb drives are becoming more and more popular and have enabled us to carry huge amount of data around. But the small physical size of these drives makes them easy to lose/misplace.
If you encounter error message on your computer and you don’t have a clue as to what it means or how to solve the problem, bug.gd might have the answer for you.
Windows 7, the highly anticipated next incarnation of Windows, has been leaked.
It appears that just a day after WinHEC 2008 China began, an attendee from the conference managed to slip a Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) image of Windows 7 Build 6956 onto a portable device and upload it via torrent to the world.
‘Everything‘ is a very fast folder and file name search engine for Windows. It is a free tool from voidtools.
‘Everything‘ initially displays every file and folder on your computer (hence the name “Everything”).
You type in a search filter to limit what files and folders are displayed. It searches by names of folders and files and [...]
Here is the text of a mail I received today.
Hi,
Ericsson are distributing free laptops for their brand promotion.
They hope to increase their popularity and sales by this campaign.
All you need to do is send an email about this to 8 people and you will
receive an Ericsson T18 Laptop.
However, if you send an email about this [...]
Researchers at BitDefender have discovered a new type of malicious software that collects passwords for banking sites but targets only Firefox users.
The malware, which BitDefender dubbed “Trojan.PWS.ChromeInject.A” sits in Firefox’s add-ons folder. The malware runs when Firefox is started.
Imagine you want to send an angry or an ill-thought-out message to someone, but don’t want to send an email because you fear that your recipient could hold on to the mail forever and use it against you some day. Is there an alternative?
There sure is. How about sending a message that will self-destruct after [...]
Doitdoitdone.com is a free online tool to create and manage your to-do list. Being online, you can access the list from anywhere you have access to the internet.
Doitdoitdone is basically very simple and does not have the fancy features of rememberthemilk. It’s simplicity itself makes it that much more usable. And what’s more, there is [...]
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