Sorry I was MIA last week. The Republican National Convention was held a couple miles from my house and I became a news junkie. I have to admit that I was more interested in what was going on around town because of the RNC than what happened at the RNC – but it kept me … Continue reading
Category Archives: Computer Tips
How To Zip a file or folder
OK maybe I’m the last person in the world to know how easy it is to zip a file or folder using XP. In case I’m not the last I thought I’d share what I learned today: How To Zip a file or folder 1. Select the file or folder you want to compress. 2. … Continue reading
GoToMyPC
Today’s Byte is courtesy of my Dad, who is a big GoToMyPC user. His computer at work uses a lot of monitoring software that he doesn’t have or want at home. Specifically he has cameras around work that feed into his desktop monitoring. To see what’s going on from home, he logs into his desktop … Continue reading
Free Widgets
A widget is a tiny application you can post on your desktop, web site, or blog. For example I just had a client want a little weather box on the corner of their web site – not that the weather is bearable in Minnesota again. WdigetBox (http://www.widgetbox.com/) is a huge collection of free widgets. Here’s … Continue reading
Flip Video
I rarely do this – but I’m going to give a huge product endorsement for the Byte this week. This year I got a Flip Video (http://www.theflip.com/) for Christmas. Really I got it about 6 weeks ago and we have just loved it. The best thing about the Flip Video is that it’s so easy … Continue reading
Automatically save .docx as .doc
I want to thank Andy Rose for his great one-sheet (Save as Doc) on how to automatically save .docx as .doc. Apparently this came up often at his office and he was kind enough to share the cheat sheet he made for co-workers. Thanks! Continue reading
Opening a Docx
Last week we ran into a problem when my husband, using his laptop with Vista with Word 2007 tried to send a document to someone who didn’t have Word 2007. Word 2007 automatically saves documents with a .docx extension. Unfortunately no one with earlier versions of Word can open these documents. Microsoft Word has a … Continue reading
SightSpeed
Yesterday a friend of mine (Bill from Mahtomedi) sent me information on a free online video phone service, SightSpeed (www.sightspeed.com). You visit their site, download the software and magic presto you can make video calls to friends who have downloaded the same software. It took only a few minutes. Admittedly you have to have a … Continue reading
StumbleUpon
I stumbled upon StumbleUpon (http://www.stumbleupon.com/) last summer and promptly forgot all about it. I just heard a rumor about Google looking into buying it, which makes me think we’ll hear more about it in the future. What is StumbleUpon? It’s a toolbar for your web browser that helps you find interesting web sites based on … Continue reading
Last week I learned a little about Twitter (www.twitter.com). It’s kind of like speed blogging for the really lazy. You sign up and get free web space where you can post endless text messages. Generally those messages are very quick, 1-2 sentences. Here’s a sample from a complete stranger: http://twitter.com/MikeWills I picked his because his … Continue reading
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