April 3, 2009

Special Printing in IE 7

As I'm sure you know, the headers and footers that always print along with a Web page can be rather irritating. I know very well which page I'm printing, so it's not useful to me to show the URL at the bottom of every printed page. So, if you'd like to turn the headers and footers off when you print out certain Web pages in Internet Explorer 7, here's how you can do it!

Simply go to the Print Preview window and then click on the button that says "Turn headers and footers on or off," as shown below:

If you want to permanently turn those options off, go to the Page Setup option instead.

Just click on Page Setup and then look for this dialogue window:

You can remove the text in the text boxes in order to get rid of the headers and footers completely or you can change the options to display page numbers at the bottom. The choice is yours!

Here's a full list of the options you can use:

&w – Window Title

&u – Page URL

&d – Date in Short Format

&D – Date in Long Format

&t – Time in Regular Format as Shown on the Clock

&T – Time in 24-hour Format

&p – Current Page Number

&P – Total Number of Pages

&b – Right Align the Next Text

&b[TEXT]&b – If you surround the text in &b on either side, it will center the text.

&& – A Single Ampersand (&).

You can combine those options in any format you want. For instance, you could do this:

I printed these &P pages on &d buy viagra without prescription at &t

That would give you something like this:

I printed these 23 pages on 3/10/2009 at 2:05am.

There you go!

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Computer Terms

Q:
It seems like every computer term has an acronym to go along with it and half the time, I have no idea what it means. Can you help by giving me some examples?

A:
Sure, that's no problem! There are tons of terms that usually only go by certain letters and it can be hard to keep them all straight. There are obviously too many to put into one tip, so below is a list of some of the more common used acronyms, along with their real meanings. Here we go!

ATA – Advanced Technology Attachment

ATM – Asynchronous Transfer Mode

BIOS – Basic Input/Output System

BMP – Bitmap

CD – Compact Disc

CGI – Common Gateway Interface

CPU – Central Processing Unit

DBMS – Database Management System

DLL – Dynamic Link Library

DNS – Domain Name System

DSL – Digital Subscriber Line

DVD – Digital Versatile Disc

FTP – File Transfer Protocol

JPEG – Joint Photographic Experts Group

LAN – Local Area Network

MPEG – Moving Picture Experts Group

P2P – Peer To Peer

POP3 – Post Office Protocol

RGB – Red Green Blue

TCP/IP buy viagra sydney – Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

USB – Universal Serial Bus

WiFi – Wireless Fidelity

WWW – World Wide Web

Did you learn something? I sure hope so!

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I Like Your Colors

Have you ever run across a Web site that was using a beautiful color scheme? Have you ever wanted to use that same color scheme for your own site? Well, with this site, you can find out which colors they're using!

This is so easy to use! All you need to do is have the URL for the Web site that uses the colors you like. So, if you love the WorldStart color scheme, you would just type our address in to the text box, like this:
http://www.worldstart.com/

Next, click on the Get Colors button. That will start the analysis of the site’s color scheme. It figures out which colors are used and it does it really fast too! Once it's analyzed the colors, it will display them for you.

You’ll notice that it divides the results up by values. The first value it looks for are the gray values. They'll be displayed first. Then you’ll have different categories of Hue Values. WorldStart divides up into four different value groups.

Now, you can see all the different colors, all isolated on one page for you. But what do you do with them? Well, each of the colors displayed have a special code. The codes buy viagra online without prescription are what you use in HTML to get the color shown.

This is a great way to find colors for your Web site, so be sure to check it out today!

http://redalt.com/Tools/I+Like+Your+Colors

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WobZip

I was browsing the Internet the other day and I noticed a couple of my favorite blogs were talking about a program called WobZip. I checked it out and was very impressed with it, so I thought I’d share it with you as well!

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I sometimes download files in the .7z and .ISO formats. What are those, you ask? Well, they're .zip files, of course! (If you're not quite sure what I'm referring to, you can read all about zip files here). Those two file formats can be hard to open without downloading a whole slew of new programs and I just don’t really want to clog up my hard drive with those unnecessary applications. So, up until now, I’ve just been living without those types of files. But now that I have WobZip, I can download as much as I want. And here’s how you can use it too!

1.) First, head on over to http://www.wobzip.org.

2.) Make sure you have a compressed file (files ending in .zip, .7z, etc). I searched for "test .zip file" and got this .zip file.

3.) Next, click on Uncompress from a URL.

4.) Copy the URL and then click on WobZip.

5.) The .zip file contained a .doc file as well, so go ahead and click on the file name to download it.

Remember, WobZip works with .rar, .7z, .tar and many other compressed file types. Happy unzipping!

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The “Smooth” Presentation Quick Move

If you use MS PowerPoint presentations as frequently as I do, you probably find it best to know as many little tricks as possible to make each presentation go smoothly. Am I right?

I'm sure most of you have discovered the tools in the bottom left hand corner of your presentation. You know, the ones you use with the mouse to navigate, draw, etc.

Those are certainly handy gadgets to have, especially if you're trying to jump to a slide somewhere else in your presentation.

I like them just fine, but for moving to another slide, I've never really liked that my audience can see me search through a list of slides to make a jump. It always seems "unpolished" to me.

However, buy viagra online canada if you know the number of the slide you need to jump to, you don't need to go through the tools. You can avoid the "unpolished" effect they may cause!

To jump to any slide while giving a presentation, simply enter the slide number and then hit the Enter key. (I realize that means you'll need to know the number of the slide you want to go to, but if you have a few key points of interest, those numbers may be easier to remember than what you think).

Yep, that's it!

If you want to go to slide number 26, type in the number 26 and hit Enter.

Now, that's what I call a smooth move!

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