... today. I often come across great little tips that do not warrant a full-blown article so I have decided to post a quick one each Tuesday morning. Tech Tip You can use the Belarc Advisor to get a detailed list of installed software, licenses and drivers on your PC prior to a clean installation. Belarc Advisor creates a web page that lists ...

I really hate to sound hypocritical, but at the risk of sounding that way, my Tech Tip Tuesday advice is the following: Do what you're doing while you are doing it. Ok. That sounds pretty simple, but it really isn't. It came from a lesson that we taught to Engineering Freshmen in a study skills class. What it really means is to focus ...

I know it's 2009 and Microsoft Office 2007 has been out for quite a while now, but I have found that as someone who works in tech support on a daily basis a lot of folks are still using Office 2003 or just moving over to Office 2007.  Well, Microsoft decided to be generous and offer a free Add-In that will allow you to save documents to a PDF or XPS document file type.   The Add ...

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With this week ending in a Professional Development Day, I have been totally focused on getting a couple sessions ready. The one thing that often falls by the wayside during these busy times is the opportunity to further my own professional development. I like to find sources which do not necessarily take a lot of time, but allow me to explore ideas in a meaninful way.The following website:

In the last release of Ubuntu (9.04) the Ctrl+Alt+Backspace key sequence normally used to kill the X server was disabled by default. Apparently many people like to kill their X server this way so a workaround "dontzap" package was used to enable it. With the latest Ubuntu release (9.10, aka Karmic) it's even simpler to enable it. read more