Archive for December, 2007

I would like to insert multiple rows into the middle of an Excel spreadsheet. What is the easiest way to do this? Inserting multiple rows into the middle of an Excel spreadsheet is not very time consuming, nor difficult. To insert one row, you would simply click Insert → Row. Inserting multiple rows, however, is a [...]

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You can use Photoshop to give digital pictures an aged tint, emulating the sort of colors seen in certain film photographs. This article will outline one way to perform this kind of processing. First, here is the original photograph I will be using in this demonstration (sadly, this is not my Bentley):

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Windows users: you may be painfully missing out when it comes to the quality of on-screen text. Does text on your screen look like the screenshot below? The type shown above features ugly, jagged edges. Who wants to look at that all day long? Through the use of a Windows feature called ClearType, you can take [...]

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Web Developers who use a Mac, as well as the just-plain-curious, will be happy to know that they can install multiple versions of Microsoft Internet Explorer on their Apple computers without springing for Parallels. Open source utility ies4osx gets the job done with a surprisingly minimal amount of effort. While it is novel, ies4osx appears to [...]

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Windows utility Defraggler allows you to optimize your hard drive in a jiffy by defragmenting only specific files. Windows’ built-in defragmentation program works on your entire hard drive, which can amount to a serious time commitment. Many computer users have never defragged, either because they are not aware of the process, or they are unwilling [...]

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