Software
Fight spyware through your toolbar
By Tom Mighell on
The Yahoo Companion Toolbar comes bundled with Anti-Spy, a spyware/adware detection program that can monitor your computer for the bad stuff. Chris Sherman has a review of the new toolbar.
A WordPerfect Resource
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Software, Useful Web Sites
Any lawyers still using WordPerfect out there? Anyone? Anyone? I know several lawyers still use the Corel product, but the numbers are getting smaller. I imagine that resources for WordPerfect users must be hard to find, so that’s what makes A Common Person’s WordPerfect Macro Manual so great. I recently sat in an airport and…
Learn what that file does
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Software
If you have ever pressed Ctrl-Alt-Delete and checked out the “Processes” that are running on your computer at the present moment, you may be baffled by the names you see. Some of them are easy to decipher: iexplore (Internet Explorer), AcroRd32.exe (Acrobat Reader), etc. But what about the others? What do those programs do, and…
A new forum for Office users
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Software
Although Microsoft has offered newsgroups for its products for some time, this appears to be a new (or revamped) offering: Microsoft Discussion Groups. Looks like a nifty way to get help on Microsoft Office products.
Yahoo’s toolbar takes it up a notch
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Software
In addition to the features most search toolbars have, the new Yahoo Toolbar also features Anti-Spy, which claims to find and remove spyware and other unwanted programs. Let’s see if it works better than Ad-Aware, Spybot, or Spy Sweeper on removing the bad stuff.
The new Microsoft search
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Software
We keep hearing that Microsoft is working on a new search technology to blow away the Google challenge. Well, until that happens for sure, we can take a look at how the company plans to let you search your own computer in its new operating system. Will it be better than the new X1 Search…
Get your numbering right?
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Software
Are you ever as frustrated with MS Word’s page numbering as I am? Well, even if I am the only one (although I doubt I am), this page on theins and outs of page numbering in Word will be a valuable resource for me.
Best Free Utilities
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Software
Dennis Kennedy points us to this page of 46 best free utilities. If you haven’t tried some of these on your PC, they are definitely worth checking out.
HotBot’s New Toolbar
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines, Software
The new HotBot Toolbar has all of the usual features of a search toolbar: pop-up blocker, highlighter, search engine, etc. It also allows you to subscribe to RSS feeds, and it has the ability to search your computer files, e-mail, RSS, and browser history.
4/27 Update: Chris Sherman wrote a nice review of the…