Sep
21
A couple of months ago, I have bought a NAS to store my digitalized CD archive centrally. I wanted to access my files from my netbook, desktop PC or hotel PC while travelling. The NAS is running some unix-based operating system, what is something I’m not very familiar with. Indeed, I ran into a lot …
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May
24
For some reason my vlc video player stopped working today. First I got a window over both desktops, but nothing was played. After killing the process, my win7 machine refuses to start the program again. It took me a while to struggle with this issue. Then, a VLC command line param on VideoLAN Wiki solved …
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Jan
24
My provider had set up my line just a few days ago. Today I noticed 41 missing calls from 0800/33 0 2424. After a short web research, I found out that it was my T-Net-Box notifying me about missing calls. Not a big deal, I just don’t want this service available on my number. So, …
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Apr
05
The countdown is running for the launch of Adobe Creative Suite 5. In the last couple of days you saw a lot of sneak peek videos, for example the functionality of content-aware fill, which has caused a lot of discussion on social networks. But in these days, I thought about some alternatives. Photoshop CS 4 …
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Mar
16
After the Firefox update to version 3.6.1, the position of a new tab has been changed. Now, a new tab will open directly after the current one. There is no option to change this behavior in the regular options, but you can modify it manually. 1) For this, open a new tab in your browser. 2) Type …
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Feb
20
If you have someone on the phone, it is nearly impossible to open the Windows task manager pressing CTRL+ALT+DEL. Or, if you have the welcome screen activated, you have to click a button, before opening the task manager. This you can simply avoid by pressing CTRL+SHIFT+ESC instead. Give it a try, this shortcut works on …
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Feb
19
About Dropbox Dropbox is a web service to backup personal files and synchronize it with others. It was founded in 2007 and launching publicity in late 2008. Dropbox is free for use up to 2 GB of files. If you want to increase this capacity, you can recruit your friends to this service and both …
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Feb
14
Sometimes, it is possible to change the pagination in Word. For example, you have a cover (page 1) followed by an index (page 2) and then the pages should start with number 1. Although, I would prefer the content starting with page number 3, I will explain how to modify the pagination. First of all, …
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Feb
08
In Word 2007 there is no shortcut for inserting a section break. Even, if you want to customize and create own shortcuts, these functionality is not really easy to find. I think this is one of the biggest disadvantages in Word 2007. But on tortoiseshell.net I found a nice tutorial about defining own shortcuts.
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Feb
06
In general, Microsoft Word supports these three break types. Page break Column break Section break Section breaks are a method of layout a document in word. Each section can be formatted independently from a previous or following section, e.g. in orientation, pagination or margins. To insert a section break click on page layout -> breaks. …
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