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Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 – Determine Tasks Auto Adjust Performs

18 Oct

When Auto Adjusting one photo or a group in Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011, determine what fixes are applied.

The “Auto Adjust” button in Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 is a quick way to “fix” a photo or selection of photos without going through a lot of options. Normally, clicking it straightens a photo, and also adjusts its color and exposure based on default settings.

If you don’t like some of the adjustments made, or if you also want to apply noise reduction when clicking the “Auto Adjust” button, make the following tweak:…

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[MODIFIED] Digital Photo Printing – Where Can I Print My Photos?

18 Oct

Try out these websites and stores to get full-color printouts of your digital camera photos. Kiosk and/or online services may be available.

If you don’t have a photo-quality printer or would just rather not use up toner and paper, there are many places you can go to print out your digital photos. Example locations include photography, drug store, and big-box grocery chains. While these locations may offer self-service kiosks, many of them as well as other web-based companies let you upload your photos over the Internet. Printouts can either be picked up later or delivered.

Note that this listing is for informational purposes only; we do not recommend any particular company. Before uploading photos for pickup, make sure your nearby store supports this service….

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Microsoft Excel 2010 – Fill Cell with Attention Grabbing Gradient

17 Oct

Add a dual-color gradient to title or header cells in an Excel 2010 worksheet; several styles are available.

It’s easy to color the background of a cell in a Microsoft Excel 2010 worksheet. Just click the “Home” tab of the Ribbon, then in the “Font” section click the “Fill Color” button (the paint bucket icon).

However, what if you want to grab more attention than with a drab mono-color fill? Here’s how to add a dual-color gradient fill to a selected cell or group of cells in your worksheet. Note that this looks best on only the title and/or header text and not for cells containing actual data, though if you really want to, you can……

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Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 – The Text, It Glows!

16 Oct

Make text glow in a PowerPoint 2010 presentation in a variety of colors and sizes.

Still looking for more ways to make text stand out in an otherwise-drab Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 presentation? How about making it glow?

With a few clicks you can make text appear to glow in a variety of predefined colors or sizes. Or, go one step further and tweak to your heart’s content by adjusting the glow color, size, and transparency….

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File Renamers – spacetornado Renamer for Windows

16 Oct

A free file renamer for Windows that performs basic operations – adding, replacing, and removing text, as well as changing text case.

Though it doesn’t handle ID3, EXIF, and other metadata, spacetornado Renamer for Windows can handle other basic file operations on a group of files – and it’s free. Plus, it includes a “Preview” button so you can see how filenames will appear before performing actual renaming.

Using spacetornado Renamer is simple – add files and folders from any path. Choose which file operations you wish to perform, in what order, and whether or not operations should be performed on file names and/or extensions. Then click the “Preview” button, and if all looks Ok, click “Rename” to perform the operation(s). …

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Microsoft Word 2010 – Stop Selecting Entire Words!

16 Oct

When selecting text in a Word 2010 document, prevent the application from forcing you to select entire words.

If you use the mouse to select text in a Microsoft Word 2010 document, you may notice that after you select one word, preceding or following words are selected automatically as you move the mouse – you cannot select individual letter of the words.

If you tire of this behavior and want more fine-tuning in your text selection without having to use the keyboard to select text, do the following:…

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Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011 – Email Photos at Original or Smaller Sizes

16 Oct

E-mail photos managed in Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011, choosing to send them as bandwidth-hogging originals or reduced sizes.

Want to e-mail your friends, family, co-workers, etc. copies of some of your photos? It’s easy to do so via Windows Live Photo Gallery 2011. If desired, the software can resize photos smaller to save space and bandwidth. Note that this method requires you use client e-mail software, such as Microsoft Outlook.

1. Place checkmarks next to photos you wish to e-mail; hover over a photo for the checkbox to be available. As you check photos you will see them highlighted and bordered….

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Microsoft Publisher 2010 – Start Publisher with Just a Blank Document

15 Oct

Stop showing the New Template Gallery when starting Publisher 2010.

Upon starting Microsoft Publisher 2010 you are shown a “New Template Gallery” inside the Office 2010 Backstage View. From here you can open documents, access recent files, create new documents, and more in the left pane. In the right pane you can choose from various templates that may include business cards, menus, newsletters, and postcards.

While some appreciate this feature, others would rather start Publisher 2010 with just a blank document. Then they can begin work on a new publication, open an existing file, or later choose to access the templates by creating a new document. If you fall in this category, a simple configuration change achieves this effect:…

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Disk Usage Utility – Detailed Hard Drive Usage via a GUI or Command Line

15 Oct

GetFoldersize is a freeware disk usage utility for Windows that also can be run at the command line to generate reports.

GetFoldersize is a freeware disk usage utility package for Windows, written by Michael Thummerer Software Design. Select a source folder and the software scans it and its subdirectories, displaying the sizes of files and folders contained therein via a detailed expandable tree view. Click on a folder name to view the list of files contained, sorted by size and displayable in bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, or gigabytes.

Options include increasing or decreasing the font size, changing the application language (German or English), and displaying folder levels with different background colors for easy differentiation. You can toggle the display of folders, drives, and/or files, as well as a list of the largest files. A preview window can be enabled for selected file types….

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Microsoft Word 2010 – Stop the Not So Smart Quotes

09 Oct

Prevent Word 2010 from converting your quotes into those that don’t always paste well into other applications and documents.

Microsoft Word 2010 has a tendency to perform a great deal of correcting as you type, useful if you keep typing in teh instead of the (unless you really want to type in teh Internets, which in this case Word can be annoying). Among this happily-correcting behavior is the changing of quotation marks to “smart quotes”, ones where the quotes slant at an angle.

Unfortunately, if you copy and paste documents containing “smart quotes” into other applications, such as web page editors, these quotes may not appear as desired. Worse, you might paste them into an HTML document, notice that the quotes look fine on screen, but users with other browsers / operating systems may see strange characters instead of the quotes. Definitely not so smart… So, how can you disable them?…

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