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Use Your Keyboard and Mouse on More than One Computer with Synergy

Posted by Rich On January - 27 - 2011ADD COMMENTS

Recently, Thomas reviewed a program called InputDirector, which lets you use a single keyboard and mouse across multiple computers. For some time, I’ve been using Synergy, which does the same thing. In this review, I show you the features of Syngery and show you how to use it.

Windows Guides’ Rating	Compatible with	System
4 out of 5

synergy07 Use Your Keyboard and Mouse on More than One Computer with Synergy

PROS: Lightweight, does what it claims, can be very useful for Home Theater PC setups as well as multi-PC offices etc.

CONS: Can be a little difficult to get working as you expect it to. Cannot link computers on different subnets or networks.

VERDICT: If you find you don’t like InputDirector and want to give Synergy a try, I think you’ll find you really like it.

PRICE: Free

VERSION REVIEWED: 1.3.4

DOWNLOAD: Synergy

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Turn Off Suggested Sites in MSIE 8 [How-To]

Posted by Thomas On January - 20 - 20112 COMMENTS

Internet Explorer 8 Turn Off Suggested Sites in MSIE 8 [How To] One of the first things to do on a machine running IE 8 is turn off the Suggested Sites feature.
This feature looks at the sites you visit and then attempts to guess what other sites you might like and suggest them to you.
Awe, the thought is nice, but … no thanks.

Here’s how to turn it off

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Create a Custom Ringtone for Your iPhone with iTunes [How To]

Posted by Rich On January - 20 - 20111 COMMENT

itunes ringtone12 Create a Custom Ringtone for Your iPhone with iTunes [How To] If you want to use a Ringtone for your iPhone, of your favorite song, you have a few choices:

Pay an outrageous amount (sometimes up to $3.99 USD per ringtone or $9.99/month subscription to a ringtone service.)
Buy an App (there are some out there for $0.99 but I haven’t tested them and can’t recommend them.)
Follow this guide and make ringtones from your songs–for free.

Learn, in this guide, how to make a ringtone with iTunes for your iPhone.

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Show/Hide File Extensions in Windows XP, Vista, 7 [Quick Tip]

Posted by Rich On January - 19 - 2011ADD COMMENTS

Today, we bring you a quick tip with which you may or may not be familiar. On it’s own, this tip isn’t useful but this is a supporting guide for tutorials where you’re told to change a file extension without any explanation of how to show the extension (disabled by default in Vista and 7) in the first place.

This guide will show you how to show file extensions in Windows XP and Windows Vista/7.

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How to Use Microsoft Excel to Analyze Free Text Surveys, Feedback and Complaints

Posted by Rich On January - 13 - 20116 COMMENTS

Update: Part 2 of this article can be found here.

Using spreadsheets to analyze numerical or well-categorized data is relatively straightforward. It might not be easy necessarily, but at least you normally know exactly what to do. If you have ever been faced with open-ended text responses, perhaps from a survey, emailed questions or feedback forms, you know how tricky it can be to make sense of it.

The problems are many. Non-standard formatting, having to manually read each response to understand its content, variable length, and those are just the first that come to mind.

What we need is some way to drill down automatically to see if there are any common patterns, and therefore have an immediate starting point to start interpreting the responses.

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Excel: Duplicate and Copy Cell content using AutoFill

Posted by Thomas On January - 12 - 2011ADD COMMENTS

ms excel logo Excel: Duplicate and Copy Cell content using AutoFill This time I’m going to show you how to quickly copy or duplicate cell content using a drag’n’drop-feature. This feature allows you to drag content from one cell to another, filling in values, series or copying formulas.

Click-Drag’n’Drop, or AutoFill

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