This could perhaps be very useful to folks with Windows computers: A Computer Repair Utility Kit You Can Run From a Thumb Drive
Technibble, the Australian site for aspiring computer techies, recently released the second version of its popular Computer Repair Utility Kit, a collection of 57 hand picked tools to help you diagnose and repair your Windows machine.
While all of the utilities are freely available online, this all-in-one kit saves you the trouble of searching for and downloading them individually. Most of the applications don't require installation and the kit can be run directly from your thumb drive.
Although the kit is extremely useful as it offers all of the tools in one neat package, we thought it might be useful to describe each application and rate it based on the level of experience required for use....
I'm on Firefox 2 here at work (can't upgrade, locked down workstation) and want an extension that will let me open mailto links in Gmail. (Default is to open them in Outlook, which I almost never want.)
Will Better Gmail 2 do this, or is there something else I should install?
Can anyone tell me if the following directions are still applicable to macs with Word 2007?
Or can you tell me an easy way to do accents or set up macros for accents?
I have an author who hasn't figured out accents on her mac.
Thanks!
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1) In most cases, you will first hold down the Option / Control (CTRL) key and then strike a regular character key as indicated below. Nothing will appear on your screen at this point.
2) Release both keys, and then type the letter which you would like to carry the accent, as shown in the chart below.
à, è, ì, ò, ù: Option+`(accent grave), the letter
á, é, í, ó, ú, É: Option+e, the letter
â, ê, î, ô, û: Option+i, the letter
ä, ë, ï, ö, ü: Option+u, the letter
ç, Ç: Option+c or Option+Shift+c
Don't know about Word 2007, but I have Word 2004 for Mac, and that's how accents work,[edit: er, megan]--it's the one of the things I've always liked about macs, is that accents are so much easier. Made writing papers in Spanish and French classes in college (yes, I took both) soooooo much easier.
If I were msbelle I would shake my wee fists in rage, but I'm not.
I have all the ASCII codes memorized so it's just as easy on a PC, especially since I have them all set as macros on my own computer (alt+e is the é for example). I could never get used to a mac when I had one. I imagine this is why this old-school author is having trouble.
That's still correct for the Mac -- not just for Word, but all programs.
also on the iPhone. If you hold the letter down, you can get international letters/accents to pop up (assuming you have this preference selected, of course). Gotta love Apple.
If I have a jpeg file, how can I tell what the resolution is?
