In the era of smartphones and cloud-based computing, it almost seems irresponsible to keep a stash of paper documents. Not only is a physical paper printout environmentally impractical, it's also a lot harder to organize and keep track of than a digital file stored on a hard drive.
Being in your twenties is tough. You're not a child anymore, but also not quite a full-fledged "adult" yet. Sure, you do adult things like cook asparagus sometimes, but you're also sweating about securing enough likes on your social media posts.
This Windows 8 tutorial, I will show you how to change the name of groups, and rearrange groups and applications in the Windows 8 start menu metro interface.
Captioning your YouTube videos not only makes them more acessable for the hearing impaired, but they also make the contents of your video more accessible to YouTube. Once YouTube knows exactly what is being said it your video you will be more likely to rank when people search for related words or phrases.
How to drill a hole in a ceramic wall tile. How to tile.Wall tiling. Bathroom wall tiling.
In this video series, our expert will teach you how to write and pronounce the Chinese symbols for words related to house rental. Learn about the derivation of words like landlord, rent out and apartments. Get tips on writing and pronouncing the Chinese word for expensive, utilities, and transportation with expert tips in this free language lesson video series.
Fascinating, although admittedly highbrow, discussion on the history of cryptography from the BBC. If you are outside of the UK and don't know how to access BBC content you need to spend a bit more time browsing the Null-Byte forums ;-) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06mtms8
Who wouldn't love an indoor swing? The upcoming cold winter season is one good reason to build one, but truly, an indoor swing is just plain fun all year round. Luckily Apartment Therapy has posted a How-To on building a simple wooden plank swing.
The subject at hand takes the prize for the best girl costume of 2009. Classy, pretty, and comic book related. Check out this Roy Lichtenstein-esque makeup job. Amazing.
Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia has become the number one reference site on the web, used by anyone and everyone, written by anyone and everyone. With over 18 million collaboratively written articles, there's backgrounds and descriptions on practically everything—if it exists, there's probably a Wikipedia page for it.
With Quick Style Sets, it's easy to quickly reformat a Word 2011 document. This video will show you how it's done. Whether you're new to Microsoft's popular word processing application, new to MS Word 2011 or even an expert merely looking to brush up on the fundamentals, you're sure to be well served by this quality video tutorial from the folks at Lynda. For all of the details, and to get started using Quick Style Sets in your own Office for Mac 2011 projects, watch the video.
In this tutorial, we learn how to optimize a PDF document in Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro. This will adjust the size of the PDF to better adjust your need and work flow. Fire, go to file and then go to properties, then you will be able to see what size the file is. If you would like to change this, go to the PDF Optimizer, which has an "audit space usage" button. From here, you can change the compatibility level and also change the compression and the color bitmap resolution. After you are done editin...
BitLocker. What is it? And what can it do for you? Well, it's a handy new feature built-in to Windows 7, and it can help protect all of your data from loss, theft, or hackers. It's the easiest way to make sure your documents and files are safe from the devil's hands.
In this software video tutorial you will learn how to add hyperlinks to PowerPoint presentation for Dummies. With hyperlinks you can link part of your presentation to another slide within the same presentation, a separate presentation, a website, an e-mail address or to a file like a word document. Say, for example, you want to create a hyperlink to a picture in your presentation. Click on the picture to highlight it, click on the 'insert' tab, and select the 'hyperlink' option. Choose the de...
In this tutorial, we learn how to use the main menu functions in Photoshop CS3. All of your main menus are up on the top toolbar. There will be a drop down list for each different tab you select. When you create a new document, you will be prompted with a dialogue box that asks you how you want your page to be set up. Change the preferences to fit how you want your page to look. When you have changed all of your different settings, click on "ok" and you will be brought to your new document cr...
This video tutorial is in the Software category which will show you how to insert clip art with Microsoft Office Word 2007. Open a word document and click on 'insert' tab on the navigation bar and then click on 'clip art'. The task pane will show up on the right side of the page. Here you type in the subject of the clip art you are looking for in the 'search for' box. For example, type in 'tiger' and then click 'Go'. A list of images is displayed. Click on the one you like and it will be disp...
In order to insert Word Art, into your document, using Microsoft Word 2007, you will need to begin by opening your document. Next, find "Insert", at the top of your screen. Click on it. This will take you to the Insert Tool Bar. Find Word Art. Choose the style that you would like to use, from any of the styles in the style gallery. When the window opens, you can choose your font style at the top, if you want to change from the default setting. You can also change the font size. Write the word...
This is a video tutorial showing its audience how to link a button to external urls in Flash CS3. First create a exoscript 3 document with a rectangle textbox that says youtube. Next select your rectangular box and convert it to a button. Next name your button and click okay. Next give your new button an instance name, remember this name. Now click on actions and create your actions. Start with a stop action and then put the name of the button as an action. Next name your function that you wa...
This video teaches us the method to create PDF in OS X. The first step involves opening up the document which you want to convert to PDF. Go to 'File', 'Print Preview'. Select the magnification of the document. Check to see whether the whole file is there or not. Go to 'Print' option under the 'File' drop down menu. Go to the 'PDF' tab at the bottom of the window. Choose 'Save as PDF X'. Write the name of the file in the space provided in the dialog box. Choose 'Desktop' as the destination of...
This video tutorial from pctechbytes presents how to quickly set up Homegroups in Microsoft Windows 7.This feature allows to easily share files between computers with Windows 7 operating system.Press Start button, select My Computer option. In the newly opened window select Homegroup from the list to the left. Select View Homegroup Settings link.In this window you can choose what types of documents you want to share with other Windows 7 operating system users.You can share pictures, documents...
In this how-to video, you will learn how to convert a file from .docx to .doc. First, go to the Microsoft Office website and install the Open XML Converter program. Open the program. Navigate to the file you want to convert. Drag the file into the program. The program will convert the file to a .rtf file. Microsoft Word will open the document. The file will be saved in the same folder as the original document. You will be able to use files created in the latest version of Office in older vers...
In this how-to video, you will learn how to change a .doc file into a .PDF file. Open the document in Microsoft Office. Go to file and select print. Change the printing device to the CutePDF Writer. Click okay and save the file as whatever name you want. Once this is done, navigate to the location where you have saved the new .PDF file. Open the new .PDF file by double clicking it. You cannot change any of the text in this new file. By viewing this video, you will learn how to quickly convert...
This video in the Education category will show you how to make any school paper look longer. Open the normal word document. Go to ‘edit’ and select ‘find’ and then to ‘replace’ tab. In the find what box type in ‘.’ (a full stop). Then, in ‘replace with’ box type in ‘.’. Now go to ‘format’ and click on ‘font’. In the box for font size select size 16 or 18 and click ‘replace all’. There you go, you have just made your paper longer without adding any text. In the video, a one and a half pages lo...
A video from Helpvids.com that shows how to Insert and edit text in Microsoft Word 2007. There are many ways to do document editing tasks in any of today's advanced word processing programs and MS Word 2007 is no exception to it. There are many ways to do the same task in word (For Ex. from the menu, using mouse gestures, using shortcuts etc).
Hulldo teaches you how to draw lined paper in GIMP. First you create a new document and make it 600x600 pixels. Make the background a bluish grey. Create a rectangle in the middle of the document. Now you want to add a blue horizontal line. You will want to then duplicate that layer until you're at the bottom. You can add a stroke to the rectangle or use a shadow to make it look like it's on top of a regular piece of paper. You also have to leave some space at the top and bottom to mimic a re...
Editing the sites with JavaScript code is one of the easiest method in the internet. First go to any web page, clear the address bar and the paste the code below, "javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0"(Without the quotes) and hit enter. Yep that's it, now you can select or click any part of the web page and edit what ever you need. If you follow the steps in this video you would be able to edit sites with JavaScript code easily.
This Lynda tutorial goes over the various GREP meta characters that can be found in InDesign CS4. These characters describe a variety of things, including specific characters, how often characters may repeat in a text document, location, or conditions to searches (for words or characters within a text). The meta characters outlined in this tutorial can be found in the special characters menu of InDesign, the first grouping of which are called the wild cards. To find this group, you will need ...
In this Final Cut Tutorial, Richard Harrington shows you how to clean up the Final Cut application when it starts acting up with bugs or other problems. Many times this can be caused by a corrupt preferences file or other user settings related to Final Cut Studio. These tips are also handy when performing an upgrade installation or reinstallation.
Android's de facto document scanner is Google Drive, but it's far from the most intuitive method. With One UI 2, your Samsung Galaxy device now has a document scanner built-in, with the ability to automatically detect documents like letters, business cards, and notes that you can scan with just a tap.
Although a business plan is a technical document, remember that this first draft will not be. The audience and author of this document will be the owner/manager of the small business. The purpose is to get as much information written as possible so this draft can be used as a starter for versions of the business plan that are crafted for other audiences. It eliminates the possibility of the first business plan you write for other audiences actually looks like your first attempt. Since the lat...
If you thought Google was sitting on the sidelines of the growing race toward mainstreaming augmented reality, think again.
The auto industry continues to shift into high gear to lay the groundwork for driverless cars with an electric vehicle (EV) emphasis.
Augmented reality seems to be the talk of the town lately, with everything from glasses to furniture stores prepping to implement exciting, new AR technology. Well now, it looks like even our food is getting a makeover for the augmented reality future.
On Thursday, March 14th, Samsung unveiled their new Galaxy S4. With it came a slew of new features, but what does that mean for us S3 users? Unless we're willing to shell out big bucks for the full retail version, most of us S3 owners (at least in the states) will not be eligible for upgrades until next year.
The document startup profiles in Illustrator CS3 allow users to save key information about a document and then use these blank templates for later projects. They can be assigned with specialized settings for every type of project so that when you start a new document, everything is set just the way you need it. Create document startup profiles in Illustrator CS3.
This video shows you how to create a new document in InDesign, specify values for document features (including bleed and slug), and save a set of values as a document preset. You also learn how to navigate using the Pages panel. Set up a new document with InDesign CS3.
This video shows you how to create a Document class using ActionScript 3.0. You learn how to write code from scratch, while learning about each section of the script. You learn how to test your files, and use new coding features found in the Script window. Create a Document class using ActionScript 3.0.
As reported by Android Geeks, the Verizon variant of the Samsung Galaxy S4 will finally see its update to Android 4.4 KitKat. Based on the leaked image of an internal Verizon document, the update (OTA) will be released on May 2nd. This comes about two months after all other U.S. variants have seen their much maligned update, including AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile.
Businesses leave paper trails for nearly every activity they do, making it easy for a hacker or researcher to dig up everything from business licenses to a CEO's signature if they know where to look. To do this, we'll dig into the databases of government organizations and private companies to learn everything we can about businesses and the people behind them.
Mobile scanning applications are nothing new in the world of Apple, except that the majority of them usually come with pesky in-app purchases that stifle the entire experience and render some features useless until you pay for them.
