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Word: Use Building Blocks
Never heard of Building Blocks? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. In Fact I just recently learned about it myself. Building Blocks first appeared in Word 2007 and has been a well hidden gem ever since.
What are Building Blocks ?
Building Blocks are re-usable document elements that you normally would have to copy from another document or re-create on a regular basis and put it in a drag-and-drop library. It can be used to save design elements like logos, headers, signatures, text you type often etc. etc.
Set indiviual Sound Volume for programs in Windows 7 [Quick Tip]
Many programs use sound to some degree, such as alerts, music or other effects. Sometimes you want to mute sounds coming from a specific program or the windows system (Then you should read this post). If you don’t want to mute the sound entirely, but would like to lower it or let one program play louder sounds than others, well this is how:
[Update] Get Modiac Blu-ray Ripper Free Until Nov 1st 2011
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Another giveaway offer from Modiac.It seems their last giveaway on our site was so successful, that Modiac has set up a new giveaway offer.From today and through November 1. 2011Modiac Blu-ray ripper is regarded as the best conversion tool in the world, as it can decrypt any Blu-ray discs and convert them into any kind of media format. Formats include: DVD, VCD, Mpeg4, AVI, MP4, MKV, WMA, FLV, RMVB, etc.; popular consoles, such as Iphone, Ipad, Ipod, PS3, PSP, Wii, NDS, and smartphones. It can also rip Blu-ray to all audio formats, such as DVD, MP3, MP4, M4A, WMA, WAV, AC3, and DTS. More formats will be added in the future as development continues.Now we at Mintywhite give you this unique opportunity to get a copy of this great software for absolutely nothing. Yes you read correctly, FREE! Update:Due to my little “mishap” on this post yesterday, there has been a slight change in this giveaway. Modiac has kindly offered us both the Blu-Ray ripper and the video converter as a giveaway offer. Due to problems getting the license for the video converter to work we’ve postponed the giveaway for that product, giving you the blu-Ray Ripper free of charge. Thank you for your patience. |
Excel 2010: Sparklines
Excel 2010, did not come with too may new features. It’s hard to come up with ideas on how to improve something that is already a great product, I’m sure. But there was one new thing I’ve found quite useful: Sparklines.
Sparklines – What’s that ?
Excel: Set only one sheet as standard in new documents [Quick Tip]
Every time you create a new workbook in Excel, you get a document containing three blank sheets. Do you ever use more than one ? Or, do you always use more than three ? In this Quick-Tip I’ll show you how to set Excel to create new workbooks containing the number of sheets you require, whether it’s one or ten.
Here’s How
Run Android Apps on your Windows 7 PC
There are many great apps out there for your android phone. Many of which can be quite addictive, and some actually quite useful. Have you ever wished that you could transfer those apps to your computer ? Well, now you may.