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Father’s Day Big Skinny Coupon Code
If you haven’t gotten a Big Skinny wallet for your dad, now’s the time because Big Skinny’s offering a promotional coupon code until 21st June for free shipping of their slim wallets! Free Regular Mail Shipping until 6/21/2009, just enter promotional code FD2009. Tags: big skinny, coupon code, discount, discount code, promo code, promotion, promotional, [...]
Continue reading...Portable Ubuntu – Linux That Runs Like a Windows Application
16. April 2009
If you’ve always wanted to try out Linux, but don’t want to leave Windows and meddle with dual boots and OS installations, then Portable Ubuntu is for you! Portable Ubuntu for Windows is a Ubuntu system running as a Windows application, so you can run it entirely within Windows. This system is built with the [...]
Continue reading...The 100 Greatest Indie Rock Albums of All Time
7. April 2009
Amazon MP3 has an exciting set of new MP3 album releases for music fans of any genre from rock to hip hop, country, jazz, and beyond. This month Amazon is celebrating indie rock with a well-crafted list of the 100 Greatest Indie Rock Albums of All Time and over 100 free songs from 12 Indie [...]
Continue reading...Keyboard Shortcut to Lock Cells in Excel (Mac Office)
28. February 2009
I seem to be surrounded by Mac users, and I realised that there are some differences when using Mac Office and Windows Office. One example is if I wanted to lock a cell, say for example A1. I would put the dollar sign ($) in from of both the column and row number as follows: [...]
Continue reading...Miranda vs Pidgin vs Trillian – Review of Multi-Messenger IM Clients
6. February 2009
After having gone through the trouble of running both AIM and MSN at the same time, I decided to go give one of those multi-protocol IM chat clients a try again. There are 3 such popular IM clients: Pidgin, Trillian, and Miranda. Miranda IM Chat Client Personally I like Miranda because it’s so flexible. It’s [...]
Continue reading...Insert a Tick or Check in Excel / Word
25. January 2009
Quick tip! You can insert a check or a tick in Excel or any other application with any keyboard by switching to the Webdings font and typing “a”. Tags: alt, check, checkmark, Excel, Microsoft, office, powerpoint, Tick, unicode, Windows, Word
Continue reading...How To Solve: Unable To Display Hidden Files in Windows
20. January 2009
I was looking at my friend’s computer the other day because it was giving her trouble. Her computer was running Windows XP, and while it wasn’t the problem, the funny thing about her computer was that I couldn’t get it to display hidden files and folders. The option normally found in “Tools > Folder Options [...]
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3. June 2009
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