Seeing a giant Word file arrive in your inbox can leave one feeling like it’s the last chance to cram before a test—you just want to find the portions with relevant information in them, in context. The How-To Geek blog shows how to use Word 2007′s AutoSummarize feature, creating a new document that scores sentences by the occurrence of certain words and using whatever percent of the original’s length you want. It’s a mighty helpful tool for students, and for anyone whose co-workers tend to, say, get lost in their own verbiage. Easily Summarize A Word 2007 Document [The How-To Geek]
The Digital Inspiration blog has a timely step-by-step tutorial on creating a “slipstreamed” Vista installation DVD that has all the fixes and tweaks from Service Pack 1 included. The guide utilises the previously mentioned vLite tool, and requires a Vista installation CD—but you create the new DVD from inside your existing Vista install, so don’t get too format-happy before reading through. For a similar method of creating an updated XP installation CD, check out RyanVM’s Update Pack. Slipstream Windows Vista with SP1 & Create a Bootable Vista SP1 DVD [Digital Inspiration]
US-centric: Editor: When you’re out and about and think of something you want to remember, you can leave yourself a voicemail you have to transcribe later, or you can use the excellent voice transcription service Jott. We’ve covered many ways you get can get things done over the phone with Jott, but today guest writer Brad Isaac has a new one: how to add to note-taking application EverNote with Jott.
Desktop photo manager Picasa is a Google product, and photo-sharing web site Flickr‘s owned by Yahoo, and the two companies don’t make it obvious how to get the apps to talk to one another. When I returned home from a vacation on the beaches of Thailand, I had a hard drive loaded with photos and I wanted a way to organise, caption, and publish them all at once without duplicating work. Here’s how I did it with Picasa and Flickr.
The email address you chose when signing up for Gmail seemed completely hilarious when you first signed up, but after a year of sending resumes to employers from strangelove45@gmail.com, you may be reconsidering your choice. Luckily with Gmail’s easy-to-use Mail Fetcher feature and POP3 access, you can easily import all of your old emails to your new, respectable Gmail address with a few very simple steps. Here’s how it works:
The time has come. You’ve been salivating for months over all the exciting goodies Apple has promised to deliver with Leopard, and now that you’ve got your install DVD, you’re ready to make the upgrade to Mac OS X 10.5. Presumably you’ve already prepared your Mac for Leopard, so all that’s left is the upgrade. Here’s how it works.
You already know how to share a PC’s printer on your home network, and now it’s time to give the Mac users some love. If you’ve got a printer hooked up to your Mac that you want to share out to Windows PC’s, you don’t have to get your hands dirty with Samba. Using Apple’s Bonjour client for Windows, it’s easy to detect and use shared Mac printers. Here’s how.
You’re working on document on the laptop in the living room and you want to print—except the printer’s in the home office. Sharing a printer connected to a PC on your home network and printing to it from any other computer, even over a wireless connection, is a breeze. Whether you want to print from a Mac or another PC, here’s how to share a single printer for use by any computer on your home network.
You already know that you can load bookmarks in Firefox’s sidebar, and that narrow webapps like iPhone-optimised services work well there. Reader Eli writes in with how he customises his Google Calendar agenda to load in his Firefox sidebar, with events from multiple calendars, as wide as he likes. Here’s how to set up your Firefox sidebar-friendly agenda using GCal’s embeddable calendar HTML.
With the launch of Apple’s iPhone and the newer iPods, CoverFlow adds a whole new visual element to your music experience on the go. While iTunes alone can help you get the album cover art you’re missing into your library, it’s not as obvious how to get that eye candy on your iPod device. Here’s how to fill in the missing album art in your iTunes library and add it to your CoverFlow-enabled iPod in just a few steps.
