Wednesday, September 7, 2011

Formatting an Acrobat Text Box

Source: http://blogs.adobe.com/thesamepage/2008/04/formatting_a_text_box.html
Snapshot: September 07, 2011, 4:49 PM

Intro: I've been pulling my hair looking for a way to change the color, font and size/style of Acrobat textboxes because they're showing up as RED all the time. Here's the not-so-obvious way to format them text boxes.

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Reset Paint Shop Pro Workspaces (7-8)

Source: http://www.pluspsp.com/p/tips/willyreset.html
Snapshot: August 21, 2011, 04:39 AM

Intro: This reset will cure a wide range of seemingly unrelated problems, because corrupted program registries cause all sorts of weird things happening.

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Disable the PortableApps Splash Screen With a Simple Text Edit

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5565124/disable-the-portableapps-splash-screen-with-a-simple-text-edit
Snapshot: August 15, 2011, 9:36 AM

Intro: If seeing the PortableApps splash screen every single time you launch Portable Chrome or Portable Pidgin or Portable-whatnot gets on your nerves, you aren't alone, and thankfully there's a quick and easy solution to your problem.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Blank Windows 7 Calendar Gadget

Source: http://www.winhelponline.com/blog/calendar-gadget-sidebar-blank-orange-background/
Snapshot: August 08, 2011, 1:34 PM

Intro: The Calendar gadget in the Windows Sidebar may display blank content, showing only the plain orange background. Also, the Stocks Gadget may not show up when you add it to the Sidebar. This problem is usually caused by a missing scripting run-time registration.

Caps Lock Steals Typing Focus with Dell Quickset

Source: http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/software-os/f/3524/t/19323875.aspx
Snapshot: August 08, 2011, 01:27 PM

Intro: Whenever I'm typing and I use the Caps Lock key, my current window loses focus and the cursor disappears and has to be reset by clicking the mouse in the spot where it should have been, or wait a couple moments for my window to gain focus.

Saturday, July 2, 2011

When overflow: hidden Doesn’t Hide in IE (lte IE7)

Source: http://www.defusion.org.uk/archives/2007/04/02/when-overflow-hidden-doesnt-hide-in-ie/
Snapshot: July 03, 2011, 12:03 AM

Intro: I’ve come across this problem before, where I want to hide the overflow of an element, this works fine in all browsers except IE – however it’s never been a problem in anything that I’ve progressed far enough with to worry about fixing it for IE.

Sunday, June 26, 2011

Auto-Expand your Navigation Pane to Current Folder in Windows 7

Source: http://www.microsoft.com/athome/setup/windowstricks.aspx
Snapshot: June 26, 2011, 5:30 AM

Intro: You know that feeling you get when your friends or family see you do something on your computer that they've never seen before? If you’ve had this experience, you know that “world's coolest power-user” feeling. But if you haven’t, start here. Knowledge is power!

Thursday, June 23, 2011

Install and Uninstall Fonts in Any Folder on Windows 7

Snapshot: June 23, 2011, 08:15 AM

Intro: Let’s say your partition C: is running out of space and you don’t have any room for new fonts, but you have another partition that still has plenty of room. How would you now install your fonts without the need to copy them all into your Windows fonts folder?

Monday, June 20, 2011

Change Country Default Search in Google Chrome

Source: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Web%20Search/thread?tid=2f953efe1995eb49&hl=en
Snapshot: June 20, 2011, 10:38 AM

Intro: Whether you travelled somewhere and your Google searches are being redirected to where you've been even when you're already back home, or you want to keep your Google searches set to your home country even while you're travelling, this tip will help let you do just that.

Move the Users Directory in Windows 7 Without Hacking the Registry

Source: http://lifehacker.com/5467758/move-the-users-directory-in-windows-7
Snapshot: June 20, 2011, 10:07 AM

Intro: If you've tried moving the Windows Users directory to a location other than the default, you know it can be quite an undertaking. Reader Roobs wrote in detailinghow he moved his Windows 7 Users directorywithout nasty registry hacks.

How to turn on automatic logon in Windows XP, 7

Source: http://pcsupport.about.com/od/windows7/ht/auto-logon-windows-7.htm (7)
Snapshot: June 22, 2011, 2:50 PM
Snapshot: June 20, 2011, 10:00 AM

Intro: Configuring Windows 7 to logon to your user account automatically can save you some time when your computer is starting up. When these steps are complete, Windows 7 will stop prompting for a user name and password when your computer starts up!