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Mozilla Firefox – Plugins and Extensions – Automatically Store Selected Text in the Clipboard

17 May

The AutoCopy plugin for Mozilla Firefox automatically places selected webpage text into the clipboard without you having to do anything.

Let’s face it – most of the time when you select text inside a webpage viewed via Firefox, your next step is to copy it to the clipboard for pasting inside another web page, word processing document, e-mail message, etc.

If you copy a lot of text, why not skip the copy step? Automatically have Firefox place selected text in the clipboard without you having to do anything with the “AutoCopy” plugin….

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Mozilla Firefox – Plugins and Extensions – Automatically Store Selected Text in the Clipboard

17 May

The AutoCopy plugin for Mozilla Firefox automatically places selected webpage text into the clipboard without you having to do anything.

Let’s face it – most of the time when you select text inside a webpage viewed via Firefox, your next step is to copy it to the clipboard for pasting inside another web page, word processing document, e-mail message, etc.

If you copy a lot of text, why not skip the copy step? Automatically have Firefox place selected text in the clipboard without you having to do anything with the “AutoCopy” plugin….

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Google Chrome – View Kittens and Pandas Everywhere!

14 May

Replace ugly images on webpages viewed in Google Chrome with pandas and kitties.

Have you visited a website inside Google Chrome and found that the images got you down? Wish you saw something cute instead?

The Cutify extension lets you replace photos on webpages with images of baby goats, bunnies, kittens, red pandas, and sloths. That’s right – if you’d rather not see an image of a reality TV star, political figure, or arrogant athlete you can right-click on their photo and choose “Cutify” – “Cutify to Cute Kittens”. It’s that simple….

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[MODIFIED] Digital Photography – Did Someone Get in the Way While Taking a Photo?

09 May

Don’t immediately delete digital camera photos if an unwanted element or person got in your picture – here’s why.

This tip is geared towards beginners. While reviewing vacation or other pictures, if you find images where an undesired subject moved barely into your digital camera’s viewfinder, don’t fret – these photos might not be a total loss!

Most of today’s digital cameras take photos containing more than enough megapixels needed for high-quality printouts. Depending on the image subject and location of the unwanted element, you can crop (digitally cut) out what you don’t need and still have a great image. This is done by creating a selection rectangle inside your photo; everything outside of this rectangle gets removed….

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Google Gmail – Automatically Archive a Conversation you Respond to

05 May

Respond to a lot of email in Gmail and need to keep your Inbox clean? Send your e-mail and archive the conversation in one step.

Are you a very popular individual or work a job such as customer service that requires sending a lot of e-mail via Gmail? Or are you just looking for another way to keep your Inbox clean? If so, you may often find yourself replying to e-mail conversations and then immediately archiving them.

With the “Send & Archive” feature in Gmail Labs you can do both in just one step by adding a “Send & Archive” button below your composed messages….

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Microsoft Word 2010 – W0rds w8th Numbers Pass the S0ellchecker!

21 Apr

Prevent potentially embarrassing mistakes by turning off a Microsoft Word spell check “feature”

5his s3ntence c0mpletely pass3s the sp3llchecker in M8crosoft W0rd…

That’s right – type the above sentence in Microsoft Word 2010 and note that none of the ‘words’ contain red squiggles underneath. That’s because Word’s spell checker, by default, ignores any words containing numbers. …

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Microsoft Word 2010 – Make Sure Others Can See Your Fonts

19 Oct

Embed fonts inside your Word 2010 documents to ensure others can see your texts as designed.

If you plan on exporting a Microsoft Word 2010 document to an earlier format for those with older versions of Office, or if you use non-standard fonts in your documents, others may not be able to see them as designed.

By default, Word 2010 does not include copies of fonts inside document files. If you send a file to a friend, co-worker, or family member, and they do not have the fonts referenced in the document, their copy of Word will try to substitute alternate fonts. Thus, your documents may not display as designed. However, this setting can be changed:…

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – Animations or Video Displaying Poorly?

09 Oct

An old graphics card or poorly-implemented driver may be causing display problems for your PowerPoint 2010 presentations. Learn how to switch to software-based rendering for increased compatibility.

In some situations, a complex Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 presentation with videos, transitions, and animations may display poorly on a computer with an older or non-standard video card. This may be due to the fact that PowerPoint is trying to use the graphics card’s hardware-based acceleration features, but these are not implemented correctly.

If updating your video card’s drivers (if applicable) does not solve video and animation problems, you may wish to turn hardware acceleration off in PowerPoint. Note that doing so may slow down videos or animations, especially if you have other processes running….

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Google Gmail – Show Unread Message Count as an Icon

07 Oct

Glance at your web browser’s Tab Bar to see how many new messages are in your Gmail Inbox.

Do you keep a web browser tab or window open all the time waiting for an important message in your Gmail Inbox?

One way to more easily see at-a-glance whether or not new mail has arrived inside your Inbox is to place the number of new messages directly in the browser / tab icon – see the below screenshot for an example:…

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[MODIFIED] Google Chrome – Report a Malfunctioning Web Page, Crash, or Other Issue

07 Oct

If you are experiencing crashes in Google Chrome, pages that are not displaying correctly yet work fine inside other browsers, or if you have run into a suspected phishing site, report your findings to Google.

If you’re having trouble with a particular web page while browsing the web in Google Chrome, and if the page displays and works correctly with Firefox, Internet Explorer, and other web browsers, you can report the problem to Google.

Or, is Google Chrome crashing often? Are you having difficulty with syncing preferences across machines? Have you run across a potential phishing webpage (a site that looks official but you can tell is trying to steal your personal information)? You can report these issues to Google as well….

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