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Miscellaneous Software – View DNS Records for Multiple Websites Simultaneously

30 Oct

DNSDataView is a freeware DNS lookup tool for Windows, allowing you to filter by DNS record type.

DNSDataView is a GUI alternative to the DOS command nslookup in Windows, and allows you to look up records for multiple domains simultaneously. You can choose your own DNS server to query, and results can be filtered by record type, so if, for example, you want to examine SPF Records, you can filter for the TXT / TEXT record type.

Results may be sorted by domain, record type, host name, IP address, and additional data (“More Data”). As with other NirSoft products, data can be exported to text, CSV, XML, and HTML formats; you can also create HTML reports. Translations to Chinese, French, German, and other languages are available….

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Microsoft Word 2010 – Dashes, Fractions, and Ordinals! Oh My! Stop the Replacing.

30 Oct

Prevent Word 2010 from replacing dashes, fractions, and ordinals with characters that might not be desired or even viewable in all situations.

Microsoft Word 2010 has a habit of trying to make documents look better, features that many people normally appreciate.

For example, Word 2010 automatically changes dashes, fractions, and ordinals to characters that may appear nicer onscreen and on harcopy. However, sometimes you may wish to disable this behavior. For example, if you write text in Word 2010 and transfer it to an HTML webpage, these converted characters may look fine to you – but not to those running other operating systems who happen to visit your page. Thus, the following tweaks show how to turn these conversions off:…

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Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 – Move Original Copies of Edited Photos to Recycle Bin after Awhile

30 Oct

If hard drive space is at a premium, place original copies of photos edited in Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 into the Recycle Bin for later emptying.

It is always recommended to make backup copies of photos before editing them. To help automate this process, as you edit photos in Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011, the software makes its own backup copies of originals. This way you can later revert the changes if you do not find the edits to your liking.

If you edit many photos using Photo Gallery 2011 and hard drive space is at a premium, you may decide that once you edit a photo and leave it edited for awhile without reverting to the original, you mean for the edit to stick. Or, you may make backup copies of photos before importing them into Photo Gallery 2011 and not need the tool to make its own copies. Thus you can automatically move original photos to the Recycle Bin after a given period of time by doing the following:…

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iGoogle – A Panda as Your Virtual Pet

30 Oct

Add a bamboo-chomping panda to your iGoogle page.

Just when you thought you’ve added every type of possible virtual pet to your iGoogle page, along comes a virtual panda bear from “Gadzi” and “bunnyhero labs”.

Have fun as the panda crawls and follows your mouse pointer around. When your virtual panda sits up, click on it to make it rock back and forth. Then click the “More” tab, click on the bamboo, then click on the panda to watch it chew on your gift. …

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Miscellaneous Software – Freeware Windows Timer with Configurable Alert Sound

30 Oct

Orzeszek Timer is a freeware Windows timer that can notify you with a configurable sound, flash in the Taskbar, or pop-up.

Do you need to run to the store in half an hour and pick up groceries? Perhaps a television show you want to watch is coming up in two hours and you want to view it live instead of via TiVo? Or maybe you want to set a self-imposed time limit of viewing Facebook pages so you can get some “real” work done?

Orzeszek Timer is a freeware countdown timer for Windows. Just click on the application and enter a time or number of days in a variety of formats, then press Enter (as the documentation says, just try a format and see if it works). When the timer reaches zero you can be notified via a popup, alarm, or flash in the Windows Taskbar. Three sounds are included, or if you want your own alarm sound just copy a .WAV file to the application’s “Sounds” folder and restart it….

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – Shrink or Expand Text Spacing

30 Oct

Expand text spacing in a PowerPoint 2010 presentation for effect, or fit more on one line by reducing white space.

While designing a Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 presentation, have you ever wanted to fit more text on a line, yet reducing the font size just won’t do? You can cram a little more text together by reducing the white space between characters.

Conversely, you can accentuate a block of text by increasing the space between its letters, forcing it to fill more of the screen horizontally….

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Microsoft Excel 2010 – Stop Creating Workbooks with Multiple Worksheets

30 Oct

Or, create every Excel 2010 workbook with even more than 3 worksheets.

When you create a new workbook in Microsoft Excel 2010, it is automatically created with three worksheets. Depending on your needs, you may rarely use more than one worksheet in an Excel 2010 workbook, finding the extra worksheets gratuitous. Or, you may often create complex workbooks where many more worksheets are needed. Editing the default setting to create more worksheets may save you time in the long run.

1. Select the “File” tab in the Ribbon….

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Digital Portrait Photography – Want Bigger Smiles? Take Photos When Teeth Should be Whitest

30 Oct

If you want people to have the confidence to show their teeth when smiling, take simple steps to ensure peoples’ teeth will be their whitest.

When shooting digital portraits, one of the trickiest tasks you may have as a photographer is to encourage everyone to smile. Very few people have perfect teeth, and most of us are conscious about our looks.

While a dentist and professional tooth-whitening system could help improve peoples’ overall smiles, the following common-sense suggestions may help you get better reactions when you yell “CHEESE!”:…

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Microsoft Publisher 2010 – Nudge Objects Slightly and Configure the Nudging Distance

30 Oct

Move objects in Publisher 2010 publications slightly without using the mouse, and fine-tune this nudging distance.

Instead of always using the mouse in Microsoft Publisher 2010 to move objects around a publication, you can click on an object and then press the arrow keys to move objects slightly up, down, left, or right. You may find this convenient when fine-tuning a document layout.

By default, nudging moves objects by a very small distance (1 pixel). Depending on your needs and layout you may wish the arrow keys to nudge objects a larger distance. To make this change:…

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Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 – Order Prints of Your Digital Photos

24 Oct

Order prints of your digital photos for delivery or pick-up via Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011.

While many stores including photography, drug store, and big-box grocery chains offer kiosks where you can bring removable media containing your digital photos for printing, these are sometimes less than convenient. The machines may be slow or out of order, the lines long, and you might feel pressured to quickly scan through and choose your images while others wait behind you to do the same.

Many retailers offer digital photo printing services that you can access online, with printed photos available via delivery or pick-up. This way you can spend as much time as you need choosing your photos, print sizes, etc., and when you are done you upload your photos to the service. If you are on a high-speed Internet connection, upload time may be minimal, and the convenience may outweigh the upload time. And to make it even more convenient, Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 lets you perform this task directly inside the software. Here’s how:…

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