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iGoogle – iGoogle: Eek! A Spider!

12 Aug

Add a customizable spider that crawls around a section of your iGoogle page.

iGoogle has a wide variety of virtual pets that can be added to your page. If your interests lie in the creepy, crawly variety, you can add a spider that follows your mouse pointer around.

The “Spider” gadget is customizable, allowing you to modify the gadget title, spider size, and its speed. Modify the head, belly, and leg colors, adjust the background color, or link to a custom background image to have your spider crawl over grass or a mountain, for example. Or, give your spider a wiry look. Just click on the arrow at the top-right of the gadget window and choose “Edit settings”….

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Microsoft Publisher 2010 – Stop Accidentally Moving Text!

11 Aug

Prevent accidental moving of text in Publisher 2010 via its drag-and-drop feature.

Like other Office 2010 applications, Microsoft Publisher 2010 has a “feature” that allows text to be dragged and dropped. Drag-and-drop text allows text to be moved around an open document, or text can be moved between other open Office applications.

While some appreciate this capability, others might occasionally use it by accident, moving text around and then frantically pressing CTRL + Z to undo the move. If you fall in this category, here’s how to disable this “feature”:…

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Microsoft Excel 2010 – Show Trends Inside a Cell via Sparklines

10 Aug

Display miniature graphs, sparklines, showing trends in a series of data in an Excel 2010 worksheet.

While it is relatively easy to place multiple graphs inside a Microsoft Excel 2010 worksheet, adding too many may make your document seem unwieldy. However, multiple graphs may prove useful, especially when determining trends. For example, a worksheet containing rows of prices of different stocks across several quarters might benefit from graphs showing the trends of each stock’s price. The same could be said for a group of students’ grades (see the below screenshot), sales figures from your sales team, etc.

With the use of “Sparklines” you can add smaller miniature graphs for each row of data illustrating trends for each row:…

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Microsoft Outlook 2010 – Show Total Number of Items in a Folder Instead

10 Aug

Instead of just showing the number of unread items inside a folder in Outlook 2010, show the total item count.

In Microsoft Outlook 2010, the Navigation Pane shows the Inbox underneath “Favorites” and then as another link below in the full folder list. The “Favorites” link shows the total number of items in the Inbox, while the link in the folder list shows only the count of new (unread) items.

By default, Outlook 2010 displays the number of new items next to folders. If you would rather show the total number of items in a particular folder instead, do the following quick tweak:…

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Microsoft Excel 2010 – Show Trends Inside a Cell via Sparklines

09 Aug

Display miniature graphs, sparklines, showing trends in a series of data in an Excel 2010 worksheet.

While it is relatively easy to place multiple graphs inside a Microsoft Excel 2010 worksheet, adding too many may make your document seem unwieldy. However, multiple graphs may prove useful, especially when determining trends. For example, a worksheet containing rows of prices of different stocks across several quarters might benefit from graphs showing the trends of each stock’s price. The same could be said for a group of students’ grades (see the below screenshot), sales figures from your sales team, etc.

With the use of “Sparklines” you can add smaller miniature graphs for each row of data illustrating trends for each row:…

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Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 – Interactively Straighten a Skewed Photo

08 Aug

Interactively straighten or un-straighten a photograph via Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011

Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 can quickly attempt to straighten a photograph by pressing one button (“Edit” tab of the Ribbon, “Quick Adjustments” section, “Straighten” button), useful if you don’t perfectly line up subjects in your digital camera’s viewfinder or LCD screen. However, this one-click tool may not always work as desired. For example, you may have a photograph with multiple conflicting elements – if one element appears straight, the others may appear crooked, and you may want a particular element straightened and Photo Gallery 2011 has other ideas.

Alternatively, for artistic reasons you may want to “un-straighten” a perfectly straightened photograph to make elements appear crooked for visual effect. For example, a city skyline photograph may be adjusted by skewing the horizon line to the left or right. In some cases, such as if the photo was taken from the top of a large building, this can make the photo appear as if it was taken from the air by helicopter – some may call this taking an artistic license :)…

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Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 – Interactively Straighten a Skewed Photo

08 Aug

Interactively straighten or un-straighten a photograph via Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011

Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 can quickly attempt to straighten a photograph by pressing one button (“Edit” tab of the Ribbon, “Quick Adjustments” section, “Straighten” button), useful if you don’t perfectly line up subjects in your digital camera’s viewfinder or LCD screen. However, this one-click tool may not always work as desired. For example, you may have a photograph with multiple conflicting elements – if one element appears straight, the others may appear crooked, and you may want a particular element straightened and Photo Gallery 2011 has other ideas.

Alternatively, for artistic reasons you may want to “un-straighten” a perfectly straightened photograph to make elements appear crooked for visual effect. For example, a city skyline photograph may be adjusted by skewing the horizon line to the left or right. In some cases, such as if the photo was taken from the top of a large building, this can make the photo appear as if it was taken from the air by helicopter – some may call this taking an artistic license :)…

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Windows Internet Explorer 9 – Add a Website Shortcut to the Start Menu

08 Aug

Add a shortcut to the currently-viewed website to the Windows Start Menu.

If you frequently browse a web site via Windows Internet Explorer 9, you probably have it stored in your Favorites for easy access. You may even have it as a Home page. However, if you don’t want to store it as a Home Page yet want a quick way to visit the site, how about adding a link directly from your Start Menu?

1. Visit a website in Internet Explorer 9….

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Windows 7 – Rotate Photos with the Keyboard

08 Aug

Stop switching between the mouse and keyboard in Windows 7 – adjust photo orientation using these keyboard shortcuts.

After copying a selection of photos to your Windows 7 machine over from a memory stick or digital camera, you might find that you need to rotate some photographs that were taken in portrait view into a landscape view orientation, and vice-versa.

One way to do this is to right-click a photo in Explorer and choose “Rotate clockwise” or “Rotate counterclockwise” as desired, as shown below:…

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Windows Internet Explorer 9 – Allow Different Zoom Levels and Text Sizes

08 Aug

Internet Explorer 9 keeps your current zoom level and text size when opening up new tabs or windows. If you prefer to have different settings, make this tweak.

To make it easier to read small text or view intricate pictures inside Windows Internet Explorer 9, especially useful for some older users, you can adjust the zoom level and / or text size. For example, pressing Ctrl+Shift++ zooms in (hold down the Ctrl, Shift, and + keys), pressing Ctrl+Shift+- (hold down the Ctrl, Shift, and – keys) zooms out, or Ctrl+Shift+0 (hold down the Ctrl, Shift, and zero) resets to the default zoom (100%).

When you make such a change, Internet Explorer 9 assumes that you want to keep these settings whenever opening a new tab or window. This way if you have difficulty reading web pages and always need Internet Explorer to zoom in, you will not have to do so manually each time. …

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