Date: September 23rd, 2008

Author: Mary Ann Richardson

Word’s Open dialog box is full of functionality that lets you perform all sorts of file tasks. See how to take advantage of this convenient — and sometimes essential — approach to file management.

If you’re working on a private network, you may be restricted as to what you can do in Windows Explorer. In fact, you might not even be able to open the Explorer cheap cialis soft window. So what can you do if you want to work with one of your files? Just use Word’s Open command.

You don’t need to go outside of Word to work with another file. You can navigate to the file in Word’s Open dialog box and simply right-click it to display a shortcut menu. From there, you can perform most any function you would do using Windows Explorer.

For example, do you need to copy a file to a CD or floppy? Simply right-click it and send it to the appropriate device. Do you want to move all your files to a new folder? Click the Create New Folder button on the Open dialog box toolbar, enter a name for the folder, and then drag or cut and paste your file to it.

If you need to print a copy of two or more files, press the Ctrl key while clicking each of the files you want to print; then, right-click the selection and choose Print. Word will open all the documents and send them to the printer automatically.

To create a new document containing the contents of an existing document in your list, follow these steps:

Right-click the document containing the information you want in the new one (Figure A).

Figure A

Click New, click OK, and then close the Open dialog box.

Word creates a new document containing the information from the original document, which you can then edit and save as a new document.

You also don’t have to leave Word to open a file created in another application, such as an Excel or PDF file. Simply right-click the file, click Open With, and then choose the appropriate application. Word will open the selected file in a new window.

For this week's download, I found something for those of you who want to keep your ideas organized. The program is called Evernote and it's much more than just a program! Evernote can be installed on your computer, visited on the Web or even installed on some cell phones, like the iPhone and a few Blackberrys.

Here's how it works! When you install Evernote on your computer, you can put things you want to keep for later use on it. For example, you can write a small note using your keyboard, you can drag images, words and Web sites to it, you can drag whole Web sites to it and you can even record a voice note to it.

After doing that, Evernote will save the information for you and index it so that you can find it later. Now, here's the coolest part! Let's say you were on a friend's computer and you wanted to show them something you saved on Evernote. To do that, all you have to do is go to www.evernote.com and log in. Everything you saved to Evernote will be there. All the pictures, shortcuts and words you put on your own computer. Pretty cool, huh?!

On top of all that, if you have a supported cell phone, you can install Evernote and save items from your phone too. That way, you can take a picture with your phone and it will be organized and saved on your computer.

If you want to learn more about Evernote and sign up for a free account, you can do so cheap cialis professional title=”http://www.evernote.com/”>here. Enjoy!

Do you use MS Outlook's calendar feature to keep track of your appointments and other projects or deadlines?

Have you ever found yourself constantly entering the same or similar information over and over again?

If you're thinking that sounds familiar and you're tired of all the repetition, I have a time saver for you!

Next time, instead of retyping or even copying/pasting your appointment information, try canadian cialis this little trick.

Hold down the Ctrl key and drag the appointment to another date or time.

Voila!

The appointment is now copied to the new time or day. (Keep in mind that if you move it to a new day, it will appear at the same time as the original, so you may need to adjust the time a little bit).

No more retyping. Yes!

February 4th, 2009

Posted by Ed Burnette

The latest update to Firefox pushed out to users last night via automatic update addresses 69 bugs and enhancements, according to Mozilla. Some of the changes were trivial, such as fixing the Russian translation of the Window menu (bug 467158), but 26 bugs were marked as “critical” or higher.

Six potential security vulnerabilities were patched including one marked as “critical”: MFSA 2009-01, which manifested as 12 different bug reports. Security researchers Jesse Ruderman, Georgi Guninski, Martijn Wargers, and Gary Kwong were credited with identifying and reporting the problem.

Mozilla has been updating Firefox 3 approximately once a month since its release in June of last year. Here’s a list of all the updates so far:

• v3.0.6, released February 3, 2009
• v3.0.5, released December can you buy cialis without a prescription 16, 2008
• v3.0.4, released November 12, 2008
• v3.0.3, released September 26, 2008
• v3.0.2, released September 23, 2008
• v3.0.1, released July 16, 2008
• v3.0, released June 17, 2008

Related articles:

• Mozilla swats bugs with Firefox 3.0.6
• Firefox 3.0.6 for Mac now available

February 4th, 2009

Posted by Larry Dignan

Just in case you have ever wanted to know your friends’ precise movements–every location, every right turn, every trip to Starbucks–Google has launched Latitude, a new feature for Google Maps that runs on your PC and mobile device. Latitude is more evidence that social networking tools will increasingly be layered on top of existing apps.

The early reviews are good (Techmeme). Google Maps gets social. And more importantly, Google has done the social networking thing on its own terms and from a position of strength (Maps, see Google Mobile blog).

Link Google Maps Latitude up with Twitter and Facebook in some mashup and I’ll be able to tell when my friends hit a public bathroom in Grand Central. Great isn’t it?

I have to wonder. I sat through an information security conference at Wharton last Friday and was struck by the privacy concerns around social networking. Big point: If you’re hometown, birth date and name are all on Facebook for the world to see an intuitive hacker could get guess the first five numbers on your social security number buying generic cialis rather easily. What happens when that data is scraped in some algorithm?

Right now Latitude–and other features of its ilk–are nice toys. Increasingly I wonder about potential privacy issues. 

Needless to say Google has addressed those issues:

Latitude is a new feature for Google Maps on your mobile device. It’s also an iGoogle gadget on your computer. Once you’ve opted in to Latitude, you can see the approximate location of your friends and loved ones who have decided to share their location with you. So now you can do things like see if your spouse is stuck in traffic on the way home from work, notice that a buddy is in town for the weekend, or take comfort in knowing that a loved one’s flight landed safely, despite bad weather.

And with Latitude, not only can you see your friends’ locations on a map, but you can also be in touch directly via SMS, Google Talk, Gmail, or by updating your status message; you can even upload a new profile photo on the fly. It’s a fun way to feel close to the people you care about.

Fun aside; we recognize the sensitivity of location data, so we’ve built fine-grained privacy controls right into the application. Everything about Latitude is opt-in. You not only control exactly who gets to see your location, but you also decide the location that they see. For instance, let’s say you are in Rome. Instead of having your approximate location detected and shared automatically, you can manually set your location for elsewhere — perhaps a visit to Niagara Falls. Since you may not want to share the same information with everyone, Latitude lets you change the settings on a friend-by-friend basis. So for each person, you can choose to share your best available location or your city-level location, or you can hide. Everything is under your control and, of course, you can sign out of Latitude at any time.

Those settings are critical. After all I’d rather not let the world know I’m in Rome and my house is unattended for two weeks. That’s just me. The folks that worry about this stuff may tinker with Latitude, but shy away (it’s going to be a great teenager tracking device in the future). The rest of the folks that Twitter every movement (even bowel once in a while) will find Latitude impressive.