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Entries for January, 2008

Site Of The Month - New - Xpanity

The last day of each month this year we will be writing a short post with our “Site of the Month” suggestion, with a brief explanation of why we like the site so much This can vary from it being a fantastic design to useful content to something just very different!
This month the [...]

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Microsoft Access Address Book Tool by Brandstar

Yesterday Brandstar launched a free download of an Access Database that has been specifically written to allow people to easily manage their address list. Perfect for anyone wanting to fast track the printing of addressed for their Christmas cards! But it also has the capabilities of managing Newsletters for small firms or charities, including the [...]

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Downloading Pictures from Your Digital Camera On An XP Machine

The following blog will show you how to download pictures from your digital camera to your Windows XP computer and how to manage the photos once they are on your computer.
Firstly you must plug your camera into your computer using the USB cable provided with your camera.
Next switch you camera on.
A window very similar to [...]

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Quick Tip: Make the most of your Broadband

Quick Tip this week: Nearly everyone now has a nice fast broadband connection, but are you using it for more than you would use your old dial-up connection for? For many the answer is no! So here are a few suggests to start making the most of your broadband connection:

Film Trailers - Watch the film [...]

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Quick Tip: Resize Multiple Images Quickly

This weeks Quick Tip is about resizing images, before uploading mass photos to my website or facebook I resize them. Yes I know facebook can do it for you but it is much quicker to resize them yourself and upload smaller files!
So, two quick ways:
1) VSO Image Resizer - using Windows 2000, XP & Vista
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Office 2007 Questions & Answers

Time to answer some questions that are frequently asked about Microsoft Office 2007:
Q: Is it possible to open Office 2007 documents in different versions of Office?
A: Yes, there is a free Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word, Excel and PowerPoint 2007 file formats which enable other users to view, save edit etc documents in Office [...]

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Quick Tip: Stopping Spam

Spam is a huge problem for everyone and while we will never get rid of all of it there are little things that help! So here are a few:

Never Respond to Spam, this tells the sender that your address is active.
Block Images: Spammers can tell if an image was displayed in an email so if [...]

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Servers for Small Businesses - What’s the point?

I am often asked what are the advantages of having a server for a small business. Which is a good question as it can be a heavy investment and often a wasted investment if it is not used to its full potential. So how could a small business use a server to its full potential [...]

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Some Lovely New Features Of Office 2007

With the release of the great new Microsoft Office 2007 package we thought that we would let you know of some of the cool new features!
Why the extra ‘x’?

For years documents on Office programs have been saved as in the same format e.g. Word’s format used to be .doc and Excel’s format used to be [...]

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Quick Tip: Opening Firefox with Multiple Tabs

Our Quick Tip for this week: Multiple Homepages Open on Firefox Startup
To have multiple tabs open when you open firefox or when you press the Home button can be really useful and all you need to do is the following:
In Firefox go to Tools > Options
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