There was a very handy button in Word 2003 that you could click to reduce the size of your document by one page. more
Archive for May, 2008
Word Can Help Save Trees
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008Startup’s Gizmo Brews Ethanol at Home
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008A new company hopes drivers will kick the oil habit by brewing ethanol at home that won’t spike food prices. more
Fake MP3 attack hits 360,000 PCs
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008Attackers are using fake MP3 files to launch one of the largest malware attacks in recent years, experts warned today. more
US State Department loses a lot of laptops
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008It has surfaced that the US State Department can’t account for up to about 1,000 laptops, perhaps as many as 400 of which belonged to the department’s Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program. more
Purdue builds own supercomputer — on Monday morning
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008Technicians at Purdue University wanted to assemble their own supercomputer, and they had some high expectations. Apparently, they could have set them even higher. more
Virtual Memory Low–What to Do?
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008What should you do when you get that vexing message that your computer’s virtual memory is low? more
XP SP3 crashes some AMD machines
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008The long-awaited and much-delayed update to Windows XP, Service Pack 3, is giving owners of machines with AMD hardware headaches aplenty it seems. more
Interesting Observation About Covert versus Overt Ops
Monday, May 12th, 2008A 90 second video here…
How Little Do Users Read?
Sunday, May 11th, 2008On the average Web page, users have time to read at most 28% of the words during an average visit; 20% is more likely. more
Can You Bottom-Line That for Me?
Sunday, May 11th, 2008Microsoft Word 2007 includes a strange but handy feature called AutoSummarize. more
Embarcadero buys CodeGear – Borland left to focus on ALM
Thursday, May 8th, 2008CodeGear, the development tools unit of Borland Software, has been acquired by Embarcadero Technologies. more
World must double food production
Thursday, May 8th, 2008“We have gone from three meals a day to two. Then it will be one meal. Then we will die. Why is the world taking corn for fuel? It will mean the death of many people.” more
A view of the planet you don’t often see
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008A link to a video presentation on our home planethere
Five basic steps to disaster readiness
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008Small and midsize businesses can follow these five steps to implement a cost effective business continuity plan. more
Canada’s Draconian C-51 – Another Big Pharma Push
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Canada is following the USA, and on April 8th 2008 proposed sweeping
changes to it’s Food and Drugs Act through introduction of a law
known as C-51. If this law is passed it will:
* Replace the word “drug” with “therapeutic product” throughout the
Act. This would enable regulation of sale of all herbs, vitamins and
supplements.
* Change the definition of “sell” to include anyone who gives
therapeutic products to someone else.
* Grant new powers to enforcement agents to protect the public from
dangerous unapproved “therapeutic agents.” These powers would
include:
– raiding homes and businesses without a warrant.
– seize bank accounts.
– levvy fines up to $5 million and jail terms up to 2 years …
potentially for merely selling a herb.
To learn more go to: www.stopc51.com
What would this law do to Freedom?
This sort of law is what we are fighting against.
Google: Unicode vanquishes ASCII
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008Unicode has overtaken ASCII as the most popular character encoding scheme on the World Wide Web. Also vanquished at almost exactly the same time was the Western European encoding. more
OOXML expert: ODF standard is broken
Monday, May 5th, 2008The International Organization for Standardization’s OpenDocument Format standard is broken and needs to be mended, according to an expert who claimed to have carried out tests on the format. more
Outsmarting Keyloggers
Sunday, May 4th, 2008Are you worried that when you use a public terminal, a keylogger might snag your password info? Read today’s tip to learn what you can do to outwit this brand of spy software. more
Blu-ray player sales down despite format war’s conclusion
Sunday, May 4th, 2008Sales of standalone player not benefiting from HD DVD’s exit from the market, according to figures from NPD. more
XP change corrupts data, hamstrings SP3 rollout
Sunday, May 4th, 2008Microsoft confirmed Wednesday that it delayed the rollout of Windows XP Service Pack 3 (SP3) because changes to the operating system can corrupt data in the company’s retail point-of-sale and store management software. more