Archive for category Tips Tricks

Love Office 2007, but miss the good old-fashioned top menus? Then you can have your cake and eat it too! How To Bring Back the Old Menus in Office 2007 :: Mysticgeek’s Realm.

We’ve already covered how to use an Ubuntu Live CD to backup files from your dead Windows computer, but using the boot cd can sometimes be a little slow. We can speed up the booting process by installing Ubuntu to a bootable USB flash drive instead. To accomplish this, we’ll use a tiny software package [...]

It’s hard to believe, but there was a time in the not-so-distant past that if you wanted to share a file or install a new application, you had to get the files to your computer through some sort of physical medium like a floppy disk or CD. Today, we download countless files from the internet [...]

It’s been a long time since Microsoft released the first beta of Internet Explorer 8, which left me wondering what they had up their sleeve. After reading that they added a ton of new features in Beta 2 like private browsing, tab grouping and a new smart address bar, I just had to try it [...]

Holy browser wars, Batgirl! Google announces it will release a brand new open source web browser tomorrow, called Google Chrome. Whaa? Yeah, that’s what we said. Here’s what Google says: On the surface, we designed a browser window that is streamlined and simple. To most people, it isn’t the browser that matters. It’s only a [...]