Seriously trivial thoughts
After upgrading to Office 2007, I have been bugged *every* time I closed the last worksheet using the X (close) button in the top-right corner. Unlike all previous versions, Excel 2007 continues to run with no worksheet. I did a quick search and found this nice tip. In a nutshell: Click the down arrow at …
I’ve had a love/hate relationship with Orb for many years. Basically, Orb allows you to stream media off your PC over the Internet to other PCs or mobile devices. It uses the server/client model where you run the server software on your PC with the media (music, video, and photos) and the client can be …
Yeah this is anecdotal evidence, but look at the available parking spaces at 2pm on a Sunday at the Camarillo Outlet mall! Normally, you would have to hunt for a space. The mall is giant–three separate sections–and this is in the middle of the main one. Yeah, *maybe* the economy has “bottomed”, but we got …
UPDATE: See also this newer post Best Bluetooth Headset for convertible: Etymotic EtyBLU2 I drive a 350Z Roadster and like to listen to podcasts. Sure, I can pump it through the radio–I added an Aux jack, but you really have to crank up the volume to understand the conversation over the roar of the engine and …
About a year ago I posted how to make gMail your default email client using Affixa. While that still remains a great way to do it system-wide, if you only want gMail to come up when you click a mailto: link in Firefox, I got this tip from the MaximumPC Feb 2010 issue. In Firefox, …
First, how did I do with my 2009 predictions? 2009 Predictions 1. Lakers will win the NBA championship. Bingo! I should get extra points for this one. 2. The Celtics won’t make it to the finals. HA HA! 3. My daughter will achieve a B average. If you factor in the one-grade bump for AP …
For some unknown reason, in the past few weeks our ViaTalk VOIP phone started hanging up after *exactly* 10 minutes. After a little bit of searching I found this page which under the promising heading of “VoIP call disconnects after 10 minutes” had a link to this document. I already had the VOIP unit set …
While I *love* my MotionComputing LE1700 slate-type tablet PC, I have come to the realization that it basically sux if you have to input a lot of text. It has basically two ways to input: 1) handwriting recognition; and 2) virtual keyboard. For browsing web pages, reading digital magazines, watching videos, and even composing short …
