I picked up this great tip via Bob Garrett’s pointer to David Petherick’s The Next Web website . If you are using Twitter’s browser UI, you can get the basic information on another user by typing whois UserName and clicking …
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When you install Vista on a computer that has a prior version of a Microsoft operating system on it, a lot of the information from the prior installation will be saved in a directory called Windows.old. If you have installed …
Read more →One of my computers is running Vista Home Premium edition and has a 65GB main drive. Since it’s one I only do limited things on (like writing), I saw no need to upgrade the operating system but, earlier this week, …
Read more →Another interesting question from a friend – If you have a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and you realize your data should have it’s axes reversed (the data currently arranged vertically should be arranged horizontally), are you stuck retyping it or doing …
Read more →Today’s question is an interesting one. I was asked what in the world is going on when the shift key is hold down too long and the computer suddenly starts typing in all caps and the only way to get …
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