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Tip of the Week: Case Changing shortcut in Word
If you really want to emphasize something that you are writing in a Microsoft Word document, one of the formatting options you can use is to CHANGE THE CASE. You can click through the formatting menu to make the changes or use this weeks tip to quickly toggle between regular, uppercase or title case. Select the text that you want to change by highlighting it, then hold the Shift key down while tapping the F3 key!
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Headwhack of the Week: Highlighting large chunks of stuff
Copy and Paste or Cut and Paste are vital parts of today's computing experience, but in order to use either, you must first be good at highlighting the items that you want to work with. When you have a large amount of information that you need to highlight (like several pages of a Word document or Excel spreadsheet) using the mouse can often create some real frustration.
If you find that your mouse control is a bit frustrating during the highlighting step, try placing the cursor in front of the text that you want to highlight, then hold down the Shift key and start tapping your down arrow for a more controlled experience!
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Geek Speak of the Week: OCR
Optical Character Recognition - a technology that allows you to scan a paper document and turn it into an editable computer text file.
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Security: The two minute MacBook Air hack
At a recent hacking competition in Vancouver, Canada, a group of "security experts" (which is what you call yourself if you get paid to hack stuff) were given the challenge to hack into a Vista based Fujitsu notebook, a Sony Vaio running Ubuntu (a form of Linux) and one of the new thin MacBook Air notebooks. The MacBook Air fell in two minutes while the other two are still standing...
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News: Teens turn deaf ear to risks of MP3 players
Teenagers seem to know that loud music can damage their hearing, yet most see no reason to lower the volume on their iPods, a small study suggests.
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News: Music Outlaws, There's a New Sheriff in Town
Nothing provokes sheer terror in the recording industry more than the rise of peer-to-peer file sharing networks. To combat this ongoing issue, Warner Music Group has tapped industry veteran Jim Griffin to spearhead a controversial plan to bundle a monthly fee into consumers' Internet service bills for unlimited access to music.
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Data Doctors Video on Cnn.com: Setup your PC to quickly transfer audio CDs
If you have a mountain of music CDs that have yet to make it onto your iPod, our CNN.com webcam segment gives you some tips on how to setup your PC to make it much easier to get the job done! (The associated advice column is located here.)
Watch the video and help our rankings on CNN.com! You can watch us live every Saturday morning at 9:30AM Pacific, 12:30PM Eastern or watch the archived versions of our segments whenever you want at CNN.com/video.
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Opinion: Windows XP vs. Vista: An Explosion of Opinion
PC World recently posted a survey asking regular folks their opinion about the news that Microsoft was planning on discontinuing most sales of Windows XP on June 30th, 2008 (system builders like Data Doctors will have product available until January 31 of 2009 according to the current Microsoft plans.)
The response was overwhelming and very interesting!
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Weekly Advice Column: How realistic is a paperless office?
We've all heard about it, we've all dreamed of it, but just how realistic is the paperless office? Read our perspective on the concept and what you can be doing to consume less paper...
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This Week's Show: The "Less-Paper" Office
The term "paperless office" was coined in 1975 in a futuristic interpretation of the impact that computers were to have on society. Needless to say, the predictions of the paperless office were greatly over exaggerated.
In fact, according the Xerox from 1995 to 2005 we doubled the amount paper used in printed documents. "Paperless" isn't likely, but less paper is very achievable.
Listen in as the Data Doctors talk about how to use technology that will help save some trees!
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