If you're a college student, there's a good chance you're in the middle of finals week right now. Some classes will have you studying your brains out to cram for an exam while others might have a big research paper due. Now probably isn't the time to make the switch but for future papers, you might consider using the free software WriteMonkey. It is interestingly heading in a … [Read more...]
Archives for 2012
WordPress 3.5 released with better media handling
WordPress 3.5 is hot off the presses. The latest release provides some enhancements to features that have been in sore need. The media manager is where the most attention was spent and it looks like a worthwhile upgrade for media. This will hopefully make it a more enjoyable experience to write and include media. … [Read more...]
Windows 8 and problems with a redirected My Documents folder
I'm at the two month mark of using Windows 8 as my operating system on my home computer. Over the weekend, I had a lot of research to do and articles to read for an assignment. For reading and taking notes through the articles, the built-in Windows 8 PDF Reader just wasn't cutting it so I went to install Adobe Reader 11. Unfortunately, trying to install Adobe Reader XI resulted … [Read more...]
Google no longer offers a free Google Apps for Business
Google Apps offers a number of applications and features for business customers and further customization than their free line of Gmail and Google Drive. Up until this past week, Google offered a free Google Apps account for organizations that needed 10 accounts or fewer. Before April 2011, that number was even higher at 50 accounts or fewer. Unfortunately, Google no longer … [Read more...]
Controlling how Ctrl+V (Paste) works in Word 2010 by default
When in Microsoft Word to paste some text, you can right-click and get a few options regarding how the content you paste in will be formatted. It can keep source formatting (how it originally looked), merge the formatting, or paste just the text in. In all cases that I can recall, I have wanted the text to inherit the formatting of the document it is being pasted into. I'm not … [Read more...]