Of Zen and Computing

Convert an Open Office .ODT to a Word Doc

Wednesday, September 1, 2010

Three ways to convert an Open Office .odt file to a Microsoft Word document: with OpenOffice.org, with Google Docs, and with a plug-in.

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Get the First Letter of a String in Excel

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

How to use Microsoft Excel’s LEFT function to extract a substring representing the first letter of a string.

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The Guide to Wireless Printing

Tuesday, August 31, 2010

This guide covers 3 methods of wireless printing: sharing a printer from a computer on your network, using a router with a built-in print server, and using a printer with built-in WiFi.

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Ghostbusters for Xbox 360 Review

Monday, August 30, 2010

A review of Ghostbusters: The Video Game, an entertaining and funny game that stays true to its roots.

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Western Digital MyBook: A Nice External Hard Drive

Monday, August 30, 2010

The Western Digital My Book is a nice series of external hard drives that I have been using to store and backup data for years. They come in a variety of capacities, and have a slick design that looks good on your desk.

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Make Free Domestic and Cheap Intl. Phone Calls from Gmail

Friday, August 27, 2010

The latest addition to Gmail is phone calls. With this new service you can make free calls to the U.S. and Canada as well as cheap international calls.

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How to Make an iPhone Webclip Bookmark Icon

Friday, August 27, 2010

Instructions for making an iPhone webclip bookmark icon at the highest resolution, which will scale down to support other iOS devices with smaller resolutions. This article also includes advice for specifying different icons for different devices and different pages of your site.

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This Week’s Wallpaper: The Moon

Friday, August 27, 2010

Here’s a sweet picture of the moon against the black night sky for your desktop background, iPad or iPhone wallpaper.

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How to Put Page Numbers in an MS Word Document

Thursday, August 26, 2010

A tutorial on how to insert page numbers into a Microsoft Word document. Includes instructions for Word 97, 2000, XP, 2003, 2004 Mac, 2007 and 2010.

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How to Set Up a Horizontal Excel Spreadsheet

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Instructions for changing a spreadsheet’s page layout to horizontal/landscape orientation in multiple versions of Microsoft Office Excel.

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