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Subscriber John Mood sent me this: Ever need to read media from an Apple system? Can’t dig those files off the MacIntosh CD you have been trying to look at? Showing NOTHING on a Mac disc under XP? Have no fear, you can download a fully functional limited term demo of MacDrive 6.0 from http://www.mediafour.com/ …
It has been my experience that Browser Helper Objects (BHO) cause the most problems on your computer. The problems are caused by “spyware” that hooks itself into Internet Explorer and then opens pop-ups or slows down your computer whenever you run Internet Explorer. To check what BHOs you might have installed, you can either use …
I first read about this in the LangaList newsletter. Someone had emailed Fred and told him about this utility that automatically puts photos together to make it a panoramic photo. Well, it just so happens that yesterday Chris and I were at Brick City in Niagara Falls, and Chris had taken several pictures in order …
The Office Tips and Hints blog regulary has some great tips (hence the name). I thought one mentioned the other day was fascinating. It shows how to read all the forumalas in your worksheet and put them inside comment bubbles. You can read all about it at http://www.klippert.com/TCC/Blog/2005/03/excel-show-formulas-in-cell-comments.html
I’m sure many of you have heard of this before, but I was just reminded of it recently. Martin Aignesberger has written a bunch of utilities, one of them being software that checks your bookmarks: AM-DeadLink detects dead links and duplicates in your Browser Bookmarks. If a Bookmark has become unavailable you can delete it …
Someone at work asked how they can get an entire path name in the footer of their Excel spreadsheet. Excel 2000 only allows you to put the filename is. There is a Microsoft Knowledgebase article that explains how to create a very simple macro that will do this. Check it out at http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;213615
Google Labs has a new way to search. GoogleX pays tribute to Mac OS X by using a similiar interface to their programs bar. I have never used one, but have always liked it when I saw it. Many Google options in one place.
Andrew’s Excel utilities is a collection of utilities that perform many different funcitons, including conversions (temperature, distance, weight, and more), comments features, row and column functions plus many more. The free download has .xla files for adding a menu item, toolbar, or right click menu to Excel.
A good article by Brian Livingston about how web users react to placement of elements on a web page.
I was connected to a computer with Remote Desktop, and I realized that the CD-ROM drive was open and I wanted to run something off the CD. I couldn’t figure out how to close the drawer. There is a context-sensitive menu item that allows you to eject the drawer, but not one to close it. …