Help Desk Tips Index
These are links to older tips written before the website was converted to WordPress.
Acronyms – Acronyms You Should Know But May Not
Adobe – Convert PDF-to-text service
Adobe Acrobat – Free PDF Printers
Amazon’s Kindle – A Device I Wanted To Love
Amazon’s Kindle 2 – I Never Needed Tech Support For A Book
Audio – Is It Audible, Can I Hear It Now
Audio/Video – Whole House A/V Entertainment Systems
Backing Up – Backing Up Is Easy To Do
Backing Up – Using the “Save As…” Menu
Backup Programs for Windows and Macs
BitTorrent – Sending Large Files
Blu-ray vs. HD-DVD, Why I’m sitting this out
Blu-ray wins, HD-DVD is dead, who cares?
Blue-ray won, what does that mean to you
Browsers – Clear Your Address History
Browsers – Firefox 3 And The Best Addons
Browsers – Firefox Addon – Textarea Cache
Browsers – Quick Address Entry
Browsers – Readability, A Better Way To Read Web Pages
Browsers – Reopen A Closed Tab
Browsers – You Should Be Using Mozilla Firefox
Collaboration – Edit with Brackets
Design – Consistency and simplicity are possible
DropBox – File Synchronization Done Well
Email – Checking To See If Your Email Was Sent
Email – Gmail’s Colored Labels
Email – Gmail’s Multiple Inboxes
Email – Gmail Now Lets Us Insert Images Into Our Email
Email – Mistake – Off Topic Reply To Sender
Email – Sending Text Message (SMS) Via Email
Email – Use and Abuse, part 1 of 2
Email – Use and Abuse, part 2 of 2
Email – Using the ‘+” Symbol in an Address
Energy – Imagine The Benefits Of Better Batteries
Entertainment – What Is The Best Electronic Entertainment Value?
File Systems – Organizing Our Digital Lives
Firewalls – Love them, hate them, don’t ignore them
Floppy – No Floppy? – Make the “A” Drive Disappear
General – Synchronicity, Technology’s Holy Grail
General – Technology is Disposable
General – Technology’s Unintended Consequences
General – Use Technology to Offset Rising Costs
Google – Accessible Web Search
Google – Google Image Ripper, A Better Image Search Tool
Hardware – A sweet, little laptop, the ASUS Eee PC 901
HDTV – Tips for Buying HDTV and Home Theater Equipment
HDTV – Understanding High Definition Television
HDTV – Why Do Black Bars Appear?
Home Entertainment – Home Theater PC (HTPC)
Humor – Taketh my money, taketh my MULA[tm]
Internet Explorer – Alternatives
Internet Explorer – Blank Home Page
Internet Explorer – Text Size and Legibility
Internet Explorer – Version 7, Wait A Little Bit Longer
Internet Explorer 7 – Some Keyboard Shortcuts
Internet Explorer 7 – Zoom the Web Page or Change Text Size
iPods – Create Ebooks for your iPod
iTunes – Internet radio and iTunes
iTunes – Will Songbird Slay iTunes
Junk Mail – Opt Out of Credit Card and Insurance Offerings
Keyboards – Keyboards Get No Respect
Mac – Tips For Switching To A Mac From Windows
Media – The Broken World Of Home Entertainment Media
Microsoft Excel – Automatically Backup Files
Microsoft Excel – Keeping List Headings Always In View
Microsoft Excel – Print A List Of Named Ranges
Microsoft Excel – Search and Replace for Wildcard Characters
Microsoft Excel – Split Table Heading Into Triangles
Microsoft Office – Compatibility Pack for Office 2007 File Formats
Microsoft Office – Compatibility Pack 3
Microsoft Office – Zooming Microsoft Office Windows
Microsoft Office 2007 – 3 Things
Microsoft Office 2007 – Using Pushpins To Keep Documents At Your Fingertips
Microsoft Outlook – Backing Up Data Files
Microsoft Outlook – Compacting the PST File
Microsoft Outlook – Date And Time Shortcuts
Microsoft Outlook – Delete Autocomplete Items
Microsoft Outlook – Edit Email Subject
Microsoft Outlook – Improve Outlook’s Performance
Microsoft Outlook – Inviting Others to Appointments
Microsoft Outlook – Message Templates
Microsoft Outlook – Missing Next Year’s Holidays?
Microsoft Outlook – Moving Your Data Files
Microsoft Outlook – Multi-day appointments
Microsoft Outlook – OutlookTools
Microsoft Outlook – Printing Your Contacts
Microsoft Outlook – Remove Autocompletion Entries
Microsoft Outlook – Using Conversations
Microsoft Outlook Express – Backing Up Data Files
Microsoft Word – Add Line Numbers
Microsoft Word – Automatically Backup Files
Microsoft Word – Capitalization
Microsoft Word – Create A Shortcut To A Template
Microsoft Word – Find and Replace
Microsoft Word – Headers and Footers
Microsoft Word – Hyphens Are Complex Little Lines
Microsoft Word – Last Document Shortcut
Microsoft Word – Make A Shortcut To A Font
Microsoft Word – Open a Document to Last Edit
Microsoft Word – Pictures with Border and Shadow
Microsoft Word – Precise Ruler Adjustments
Microsoft Word – Reveal Formatting
Microsoft Word – Tables – Underused, Underappreciated
Microsoft Word – The Horizontal Ruler
Microsoft Word – The Vertical Scroll Bar
Microsoft Word – Toggle Print Preview
Mouse – Bigger, Better Mouse Cursors
Music – Freeing DRM’ed iTunes Files
Navigation – How Do You Navigate Your Computer
Networking – Alternatives for the Home and Small Office
Networking – Network Terms You Should Know
Office – Online Versus Offline Applications
OpenOffice – Expect the Unexpected
Operating Systems – Comparing Vista, Leopard and Linux
Packaging – I’m Cardboard And I’m Plastic
Passwords – Living On Line – Disability And Death In A Paperless World
Photos – Eye-Fi For Your Photos
Photos – PhotoWipe, Fun With Photos
Photos – Organize Your Photographs With A GPS
Printing – Create Additional Printers (Link to video)
RSS – Don’t Surf The Web, Use RSS
Security – American or Prussian?
Security – Put Owner Info In Digital Equipment
Security – Rootkits – Are you infected?
Security – Why Is Computer Security So Difficult
Speech – Talking To Microsoft Vista. Go Computer. Go!
Storage – New Media For A New Era
Storage – Today’s Storage Choices – DAS, NAS and the Cloud
Storage – Why Did My Hard Drive Shrink
Technology – Some Technology I Like And Dislike
Technology – School is so yesterday
Telephony – POTS, VoIP or cell phone, which is right for you
Telephony – Two Low Cost And One Free VoIP Services To Consider
Television – Television Is Getting Better; Television is Getting Worse
Television - The End Of TV – Cutting The Cable
Twitter – Companies Using Twitter
Ultra-Mobile PC – My Favorite Computer
Updates – How Many Updates And Updaters Does Your Computer Need
Updates – Like Death and Taxes, Only Worse
Video – Forget TV, Watch The Web
Video – High Definition (HD) Video Sources
Video – Television Without The TV
Video – Watch, Watch or Listen
Virtual Machines – Computing Without The Hardware
Weather – Websites, programs and tricks
Web Browsers – Using Multiple Home Pages
Web Services – Microsoft In The Cloud
Web Services – Sending Large Files
Web Services – Zoomii.com Shop For Books
Web Video – Chime.TV Easy, Usable And Fun
Website Design – The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
Windows – A Couple of Windows Mouse Tricks
Windows – Clean up your desktop!
Windows – Clean up your taskbar with Minimizer XP
Windows – Did Bill Gates Know Microsoft Was Broken…
Windows – Every Day Is Y2K With Microsoft’s WGA
Windows – June 30, 2008, The Day Microsoft Windows Died
Windows – Keyboard Shortcuts to Switch Focus
Windows – Make Your Screen More Readable
Windows – Will Windows 7 Matter?
Windows Task Manager – A Fuel Gauge And Tachometer For Your Computer
Windows Vista – Microsoft, Vista And You
Windows Vista – Vista or Leopard?
Windows XP – Desktop Hibernate Shortcut
Windows XP – Play a Sound When Caps Lock is Pressed
Windows XP – Setting Power Options
Windows XP – Shut Down XP 7 Different Ways
Windows XP – Taskbar Utilities
