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How-To-Geek Blog

Posted Monday, December 10, 2007 10:27 AM by noahc
This is one of my favorite new blogs, http://www.howtogeek.com/ .  It rocks with tons of great tips and reviews on cool little tools.  Lowell does a great job reviewing tools, tricks and tips, and his blog is well organized and looks solid. Read More...
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Hide the IE7 Command Bar

Posted Monday, March 12, 2007 10:21 AM by noahc
Here's a registry hack for removing Internet Explorer 7's toolbar with the standard buttons on it (like favorites, print, etc). In IE6 you could move/hide the command bar just like any toolbar, but in IE7 it's not so easy. On my PC they're just wasted Read More...
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Master Config Your PC

Posted Thursday, December 28, 2006 2:37 PM by noahc
All of us geeks know ways to tweak our PC in various ways, but there are just so many entry points that I wanted to do a post on them.  The most popular PC settings, designed for the average user, are of course available through the Control Panel Read More...
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Vista: Keyboard Shortcuts for Windows Explorer

Posted Tuesday, November 14, 2006 12:49 PM by noahc
When navigating files in Windows Vista, either in Windows Explorer or a File Dialog (like "Open File"), I just discovered there some new keyboard shortcuts. Here they are: New Vista Commands ALT + Up Arrow Move up a folder (to the parent folder) ALT + Read More...
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Getting a Small Virtual PC Image - WinXP Pro in 550MB

Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 8:35 AM by noahc
I find Virtual PC ( now free !) incredibly useful! VPCs are just so great for testing software, control development environments, trying shareware, training courses, etc. My main system is a laptop with limited HDD space so getting to as small as a VPC Read More...
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MS Word Tip: Automatic Bold on Bulleted Lists

Posted Monday, November 06, 2006 1:08 PM by noahc
I was just typing along just now and stumbled on this handy feature of MS Word. As a PM, I practically live in Word, so it is exiting to find a new, quite unexpected, feature that I can use on an almost daily basis. Say you want to create a bulleted list Read More...
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Change Screen Resolution with One Keyboard Shortcut

Posted Wednesday, October 11, 2006 2:46 PM by noahc
Do you find that you need to frequently change your screen resoltion? I do several times a day and some reasons are when: doing demos, showing my laptop screen to serveral people at once, switching between monitors, recording/capturing the screen, connecting Read More...
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