When your audience is waiting expectantly for a professional slide show from you, you want to swing right into a seamless presentation at the touch of a button. You don’t even want them to see PowerPoint opening. Try this: Run Windows Explorer and locate your slide show file. Right-click the icon and choose Show. PowerPoint […]
Archive for July, 2007
Run a presentation without opening PowerPoint
Published by July 31st, 2007 in Computer Tips. 0 CommentsI stopped believing in Santa Claus when my mother took me to see him in a department store, and he asked for my autograph. — Shirley Temple
If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labour Day Weekend. — Doug Lars
A bank is a place that will […]
Leo Babauta posted a list of simple pleasures that can brighten your day. These are some of my favourites:
Berries … mmmm.
Walking barefoot in grass.
Listening to good music in the car.
Taking a long, relaxing shower.
Coffee.
A good novel.
The smell of fresh-cut grass.
Watching the sunrise.
Walking on the beach.
Watching the sunset.
Dark chocolate.
Telling jokes till your sides ache.
A long conversation […]
“Any person capable of angering you becomes your master; he can anger you only when you permit yourself to be disturbed by him.” — Epictetus
“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.” — Denis Waitley
“The more things change, the more they remain the same.” — Alphonse Karr
“If you reinvent yourself, […]
Create calendar or to-do list entries from e-mail messages
Published by July 24th, 2007 in Computer Tips. 0 CommentsYou received an e-mail message from Sandy confirming the date for the next press conference. You need to ensure that you’re at this event, so you need to create a calendar entry reminder. You could open your calendar, type in the entry, etc. or you could use the automated features of your PIM to create […]
If last week’s “Top 10 Uses for Used Coffee Grounds” didn’t keep you busy, you might want to check out, 2000 Unofficial Uses for WD-40.
Home/Garden
Car/Truck
On the Job
Garage/Workshop
Sports/Recreation
Other
Tags: WD-40
”All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew. They’re what make the instrument stretch - what makes you go beyond the norm.” — Cicely Tyson
“A feeling of confidence and […]
Standard Windows speed-key combinations
Using your computer keyboard is faster and more efficient than using the mouse. At the least, you should know and use these shortcut key combinations:
<Ctrl> a - Select the whole document
<Ctrl> c - Copy whatever is selected to the clipboard
<Ctrl> x - Cut whatever is selected to the clipboard
<Ctrl> v - Paste […]
1. You ticked him off once, and your next phone bill was for $20,000.
2. He’s won the Publisher’s Clearing House sweepstakes 3 years in a row.
3. When asked for his phone number, he gives it in hex.
4. Seems strangely calm whenever the office network goes down.
5. Somehow gets HBO on his PC at work.
6. […]
Curbly has a list of ten ways to reuse the coffee grounds after making your coffee. I know from experience that a number of these work. I’m going to give the rest a try. Well… maybe not number one.
10. Deodorizer.
9. Plant food.
8. Insect repellent.
7. Dye.
6. Furniture scratch cover-up.
5. Cleaning product.
4. Kitty repellent.
3. Flea […]
