Poor man’s PhotoShop: “Paint Dot Net (PDN).” Great because: 1) Free 2) Started by some college students, still maintained and updated by now not college students 3) Free 4) All sorts of add ons for many special effects 5) Free 6) Layers! 7) Free Meets the advanced (over MS Paint – that...
Presenters take heed! Really. I might have to sit through one of your presentations… embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt Link To This Page1. Click inside the codebox2. Right-Click then Copy3. Paste the HTML code into your webpage codebox<a href="http://www.thecomputerwhisperer.us/2009/09/07/death-by-powerpoint/">Death by PowerPoint</a> powered by Linkubaitor...
Table of contents for Win7 WonderlandWalking in a Windows 7 Wonderland Pulling together left over parts and a few Craig’s List purchases, I have a “box” now up and running on the Microsoft Windows 7 “Release Candidate 1.” I’m using the 64bit version of the operating system so I can take advantage of...
Just a few thoughts from my world: If anyone says they “know it all” about computers, excuse youself from the conversation and place their business card in the nearest shredder. I bet even Bill Gates wouldn’t even make that claim. I know some things about computers, some learned sitting up way to many...
Today: Firewalls…What’s up with that? I had an interesting discussion the other day with a client who just wanted “error messages” to go away. I, using my experience, figured they were having hardware problems. I asked “what ones?” figuring there is a great possibility of doing just that. “Here…I wrote them...
It’s not a good idea to go out “unprotected computing” these days. Like just about everything else mankind has invented, there are good uses (nuclear power – Lighting up a city) and bad uses (nuclear power again – Blowing up a city). The bad uses aren’t even to the users behind the...
Topic for the day: The bad guys and the battle for your processor time. Slow computer? Not uncommon these days. There are many causes, some just because the software you are using is overcoming the capabilites of the computer you have, but more often than not, unless you just decided to become a big time...
So you just bought that shiny new computer….but what can it do? A common “complaint” I hear is “There’s NOTHING on this computer!” which really means…no Word, no Excel, no PowerPoint. True, unless you purchased them. Bill Gates isn’t CEO of Microsoft anymore, but he still wants some of your money, after you pay him...
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