February 4, 2009

Use a Viewer to View It

Do you often receive MS Office low dose cialis cost files that are written for a program you don't own?

It's frustrating, isn't it?

I mean, you've tried all the programs you do have and none of them are giving you what you need and you really need to see what's in the file.

So, now what?

Buy the program?

Not unless you absolutely need it. They're not exactly cheap.

Give up and never see the file?

Let's hope not!

May I suggest using a program viewer?!

To get started, go to the Microsoft Web site (www.microsoft.com).

Under Downloads and Trials, choose Download Center.

Once you're there, enter "viewers" into the search field.

A list of available viewers is then created.

Choose the one that fits your needs and proceed with the download and installation.

Now, I feel like I need to make a distinction here. You're downloading a viewer that does pretty much what it says it will. For most viewers, you can view, print and copy the file created in a program you do not own. No editing or saving the changes. No creating new files. You'll have to actually buy the program for that. But this option does allow more people to share and interact with information created in various MS Office programs.

Happy viewing!

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Dafont

I ran across this Web site while looking for fantasy dingbats. I needed some unicorns for a story I’m working on for my niece and boy, did I hit the mother load here!

I will happily confess that I am a font junkie. I adore finding new, interesting and low cost cialis free fonts that I can download and use to my heart’s content. This site is pretty much a gold mine for me when it comes to free fonts!

This site is available in English and French as well. You’ll find the option to switch it beneath the Dafont logo in the top left hand corner of the page.

There are several ways to browse the fonts on this site: Theme, New Fonts, Font Authors, Top 100 and Alphabetically. There's also a search engine if you have an idea of what font you’re looking for. If so, you can just type it in and click on the Search button.

On the main page, you’ll find the three most recently added fonts. While I was there, they were Vintage, Oho de Boi and VTKS Rock Garage Band. You’ll also see some of the themes above that section. I’d recommend clicking on the Themes link instead so that you can see them all at once. It's also much easier to read the theme titles on the theme page.

What I love the most about this site is they give you excellent directions on how to install the fonts on Windows Vista, Windows XP and MAC OS X. WorldStart also has a tip on installing fonts here.

Well, I hope you find some amazing fonts to add to your font library. I surely did!

http://www.dafont.com/

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123 People

123 People is the ultimate people search! This Web site helped me locate a friend I haven’t been able to get in touch with for the last seven years or so. You can also use it to check up on your favorite celebrities.

How does it work? Well, you simply type the first liquid cialis and last name of the person you're looking for into the search field and then click on the gold arrow button. That will start your search. It will then search the Web and compile all the results it found for that name.

The results include: images, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, Web links, news, documents, blogs, biographies, tag clouds and social networking sites.

On the main page, you’ll also find three movie stars of the week and three music stars of the week. You can click on their links to visit the results for them.

You can also use the search feature to search for people by location using a city or zip code.

This is a great search engine, so be sure to check it out as soon as possible!

http://www.123people.com/

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Restricting Unwanted Web Sites

Everyone knows there are a ton of Web sites out there that can be harmful to your computer, unsafe for your children and just simply unwanted by everyone. I'm sure all of you have come across a site you wish you would have never seen. People are always asking me how they can filter their Internet access so that those sites are blocked from their computer. While there are many ways to do that, from installing programs to using filters provided by your ISP, there's one way I came across a couple of days ago that makes more sense and it's so simple to set up. It doesn't require you to install any software and it can be put in place by simply following the steps on the Web site. You'll be up and running in just a few short minutes. Let's check it out!

The filtering option I'm talking about is called OpenDNS. It's a company that provides free filtered DNS services to residential and educational users. So that you'll have a better understanding of how it all works, I'll need to explain what DNS is.

DNS stands for Domain Name Resolution. When you visit a Web site, you type the name of the site into your Web browser. That name is called the domain name. For WorldStart, our domain name is worldstart.com. Now, the part most people don't know is that without DNS, you would never even get to worldstart.com. Computers and the Internet don't understand names. Instead, they understand IP addresses. When you tell your Web browser to go to www.worldstart.com, it has to figure out what the IP address of worldstart.com is. And that's when DNS comes into play. When you tell your Web browser to go to www.worldstart.com, it asks a DNS server to tell it what the IP address of worldstart.com is. The DNS then tells the computer the IP address of WorldStart is 207.126.59.171 (for example). After your computer gets that information, it then connects to 207.126.59.171 and the WorldStart homepage appears.

I know that may seem a bit confusing, but here's the point I'm trying to make: if the DNS your computer connects to knows a list of bad Web sites, it can restrict your computer from going to them. That's exactly what OpenDNS does. If you configure your computer to use OpenDNS for its DNS services, the OpenDNS servers will is cialis over the counter know which Web sites your computer is trying to reach. It can then block the bad ones.

All in all, if you want to filter your Web use and block unwanted and potentially bad Web sites, try OpenDNS. It's very easy to use, even if the explanation is complicated. I promise! You can check it all out right here. Until next time, stay safe out there, my friends!

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Beautifying Your Photos

Never has looking good in pictures mattered more to people than it does now. With all the different types of cameras available today and all the social networking Web sites, everyone wants to put their best picture forward. Now, I'm not quite experienced when it comes to cosmetics, but I can certainly teach you all how you can beautify your pictures using Photoshop. Let's get started, shall we?!

This is the photo I started with:

Open your picture in Photoshop and switch to the Channel palette. In the Channel palette, click on "Red," which will deselect everything else.

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With the Red Channel selected, hit Ctrl + A, which will select everything for you. Then copy it by using Ctrl + C. Next, go back to the Layers palette and make a new layer. Then paste (Ctrl + V) the image you just copied.

Now, it's time to use your favorite filters! Go to Filter, Blur, Gaussian Blur and a new box will open. The settings you use depend entirely on your image, so feel free to experiment. The idea is to make the layer blurry enough, but not incomprehensible. Here's mine with a setting of 7.8.

Okay, let’s now try a few different effects. You can change the layer mode to Soft Light for a major change. Similarly, you can try other blending modes, such as darken, overlay, vivid light, etc. This is one of the quickest and easiest ways to make your images a bit more pleasing to the eye.

Here's what I ended up with:

Cool, huh? Give it a try with your pictures today!

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