April 27, 2010
There are some very effective methods to get around firewalls. However, the best of them involve setting up your own proxy server, remote access, VPNs, tunnels, proxy software and all sorts of other methods that involve a little bit of foresight and planning (not to mention some geek smarts). But none of these fancy fixes [...]
April 27, 2010
A letter, official or otherwise, is visually beautified with a letterhead. A letterhead is the decoration that goes at the top of the sheet of paper. It commonly consists of an official name, address and other contact details. In business letterheads, more embellishment comes in the form of a logo that occupies pride of place. [...]
April 22, 2010
I guess it’s true that there’s a first time for everything. After years of watching people doing presentations, I finally got to create my own. I wanted my first time to be special, so I tried to find ways to make sure that mine was not going to be “just another boring presentation”. I noticed [...]
April 16, 2010
A drop cap is the first letter of a paragraph that’s of a much bigger size than the rest that follow. The letter formatting is such that the letter “˜drops down’ to cover the few lines following the first one. Drop caps have been extensively used, from the early days of printing to the advent [...]
April 5, 2010
In this article, I’m going to answer the question, “Can you easily convert a PDF file to a word doc for free?” I believe there is a “˜love triangle’ between three of the most common document formats we use ““ DOC, text and PDF. Converting documents from one format to the other is mostly a [...]
March 29, 2010
How do you deal with a boss who wants today’s work yesterday or heated words that don’t do anything for your cool or a flame war on the home front? The best way I know how to recover from a bad day is to vent it out somewhere. Getting it off my chest is what [...]
March 16, 2010
Have you ever used a computer without a mouse? I don’t need to tell you that it’s extremely hard – even for a keyboard guy like me. Switching between open applications is easy (Alt + Tab), accessing the menu is also a walk in the park (Alt + Underlined letter – in Windows); but when [...]
March 13, 2010
Last time, you might have been fortunate enough to stumble over my introductory post for Microsoft Access 2007, and then get frustrated because it doesn’t actually show you how to do anything. This is the place to get the cure. I’m going to provide a Microsoft Access tutorial on how to create and use tables. [...]
March 6, 2010
Data visualization and analysis is extremely important in today’s information driven world. Such feats have given insights into various aspects of human life and, if utilized properly, can help to make the world a better place. Hans Rosling’s TED talk is a testimony to this fact. There are plenty of software available to create charts [...]
March 5, 2010
Have you heard of EtherPad? EtherPad is an online document collaboration tool which works in real time. In other words, EtherPad has allowed multiple people to work on the same document at the same time over the Internet. Real time collaboration could have many benefits such as collaborative note taking during meetings, have a team [...]
