I subscribe to a LOT of RSS feeds. Most are of personal interest but some are work-related and others are to keep on top of tech-related news. Some sites publish a lot of articles in a day when only one or two are of interest to me. We've covered some basic and advanced RSS tools that can make those more manageable but if there's no easy way to filter the content you want, just … [Read more...]
Archives for 2012
How to: Sort an Excel spreadsheet while keeping the rows intact
Ever received or generated a spreadsheet of data that would be a lot more useful if it was sorted how you needed it? With previous versions of Excel or if you choose the wrong options in your configuration, it is easy to sort a single column but break the correlation between the data in that column and the rest of the entries in each row. Here's how to sort the spreadsheet by a … [Read more...]
Windows Essentials 2012 arrives and adds features to Windows Movie Maker and Photo Gallery
Windows 7 and Windows 8 users are able to download and install the recently released Windows Essentials 2012. Most notably, Windows Movie Maker and Photo Gallery have received new features in this update from Windows Live Essentials 2011. It also includes Mail, Outlook Connector Pack for Hotmail, Writer, SkyDrive access, and a Family Safety program. Besides dropping the 'Live' … [Read more...]
Adobe Reader and Acrobat Updated to 10.1.4 today, Flash Player updated as well
Adobe Reader 10.1.4 was released today to address a number of vulnerabilities that could cause application crashes and allow attacker control. Users of Adobe Reader X and Acrobat X are encouraged to update to today's release of 10.1.4. Adobe Reader and Acrobat 9.5.1 were also updated to version 9.5.2. … [Read more...]
Office 2013 will support editing PDFs and saving ODF, Strict Open XML formats
Office 2013, or the "new Office", or the "next Office", will be adding two new formats for full open, edit, and save capabilities. In addition, its PDF support will be evolving to gain open and "edit" capabilities. While ODF might be more readily associated with software packages like OpenOffice, Microsoft has contributed technical expertise to recent versions of the standard. … [Read more...]