Adjust Print Quality to Save Ink When you have to print out a text document, you can save a considerable amount of ink by setting it to print in Fast Draft Quality. Every printer is different and the setting for this will be in different places. In this example I am printing a contract as a PDF. I I just need to see what’s on it, so printing in high quality is certainly not necessary....
Please insert a disk into Removable Disk The other day I was trying to install Windows 8.1 with Microsoft’s Media Creation Tool, and the install failed on my new 64GB flash drive. After that, no matter what version of Windows I tried to use the drive on, I kept getting these errors indicating the drive wasn’t getting recognized. Note: In this scenario, I am using a drive that has no data on it....
Unlike Microsoft’s other discount programs, Microsoft DreamSpark offers students FREE, NO-COST access to all of Microsoft’s development, server and designer tools including the following software titles: (as of the writing of this groovy Article) Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2003SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server ExpressVisual Studio 2008 Professional and Visual Studio 2005Visual Web Developer 2008 ExpressVisual C++ 2008 ExpressVisual C# 2008 ExpressVisual Basic 2008 ExpressRobotics Developer Studio 2008 R2CCR and DSS Toolkit 2008 R2XNA Game Studio 3....
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To reiterate, when you usually try to load a DOS program in Windows 7, you’ll see a message like the one in the screenshot below saying, “The version of this file is not compatible with the version of Windows you’re running.” Also, if you try to run the DOS program from the command prompt (CMD) in Windows, you’ll run into another “unsupported 16-bit application” error message. We’re going to fix that....
What is Google AdWords Express? Google Boost AdWords Express is a simplified version of Google AdWords that is targeted at local small business owners. Rather than going through a complicated setup process, AdWords Express uses your business categories and automatically optimizes each advertising campaign with keywords designed to reach the best audience possible. The search categories can be managed in your Google Places listing. This allows you to create a maximum of 5 separate listings for each business location that you control, though that could get expensive depending on the level of competition in the area....
“Should I get the HTC EVO or the iPhone…?” “The Samsung Galaxy Epic 4g or the Droid X…?” Those are the famous last words that usually end in a bloody fist fight between fans of both sides. But, what about the facts? Have you seen the Smartphone Comparison chart in the groovyPost forum? When I was deciding what phone to buy that thing was a life saver! I think someone at Google picked up on the idea, because that is just about exactly what the new Google phone gallery is....
Not only does this make it easier to get to the specific city you’re looking for, it also helps declutter the search results, since all of the results relevant to Yelp.com will be lumped into this search result. The breaking news about sitelinks, per Google, is that they have upgraded sitelinks from a simple list of links to a full array of sub-search results, replete with full URLs and a very tiny snippet of description....
Google Docs and Google Sheets When you start Google Drive on your device and try to edit a document or spreadsheet, you will get a notification like the one below, prompting you to get the new apps. This change is in place for both iOS and Android. If for some reason you didn’t get the notification, you can find Google Docs here and Google Sheets here for Android in the Google Play Store....
It took 884 photographs, months of planning, and 5.5 hours of labor to complete but Clay Bavor, Google Group Product Manager, and other Google employees created a GIANT Google Logo Mosaic using 4”x6” photographs. Where did they get the pictures? Google employed photographers of course. Last week Google updated its logo with a new look. You’re probably thinking “Huh.. it looks the same!” You’re right, except they’ve removed the shadows and improved the reflective lighting on each letter....
What You Will Need: To starting things off, let’s take a look at a groovyVideo I made which reviews the How-To steps below real-time. Following the video, I’ll review the steps in a typical step-by-step fashion as well. Photography Tips – Taking a photo of the sky: Do’s: Take several photos – Of the image you’re trying to capture. I usually will take a few dozen just to make sure I get the shot I’m looking for....
Photography Tips As referred to above, check out BrickMonkey’s Article about HDR Photography for details and tips that you’ll need. In his article he mentions taking a capture of 3 images with different exposures. Sadly enough on regular cameras or on mobile phones you can’t really do this, so you’ll have to shoot image by image to get the result. An HDR Image combines from 3 to 7 images together, but for our first try let’s use only three....
Personally, seeing that I do a lot of Windows 10 tweaking and hacking, so differential updates is not a feasible option when you need to install the latest Windows 10 Insider build on multiple machines and Virtual machines. Here’s how to get access to them with a few registry hacks. Restore the Option to Download ESD Files in Windows 10 Insider Build To restore the option of downloading ESD files, you will need to modify two registry keys called EnableUUPScan and SupportsUUP....
You can change that, however. There are plenty of options to customize your document to make it stand out more, from changing the font size and color to adding a border. Borders make the page stand out, giving the document its own identity and style. There are a couple of ways you can add a border in Google Docs. If you’re unsure how, you can follow our guide below....
What is Zoom? San Jose, California-based Zoom, is a communications platform that features tools for video and voice meetings. Unlike many of the alternatives on the market, Zoom is available across multiple platforms, including through the web and apps. Each Zoom meeting typically has a host and various invitees. Zoom offers premium packages, including those for small teams, small and medium-sized businesses, and enterprise. There’s also a freebie package that allows anyone to use it....
Using this small windows tweak, you can instantly Click and Print content lists of any folder in Windows 7 or Vista. How To Print An Automatically Generated Directory List Click the Windows Start Menu Orb and Type notepad into the Start Menu. Next Press Enter on your keyboard or Click the Notepad programs link. 2. Copy and Paste the following code into the blank Notepad: @echo off dir %1 /-p /o:gn > “%temp%Listing” start /w notepad /p “%temp%Listing” del “%temp%Listing” exit...
You Subscribed to Disney Plus … Congratulations, you’re one of the first of millions to subscribe to Disney Plus, which gives you streaming and download access to Disney, Pixar, Star Wars, Marvel, and National Geographic entertainment across multiple devices. When you subscribed, you choose to pay $6.99 per month or $69.99 per month for the service with each account starting with a seven-day free trial. Regardless of how you signed up, you created a Disney Plus account using an email and password....
Block Artists on Spotify Launch Spotify on your phone or tablet and head to the “Artist” page of what you never want to hear. Then tap the ellipsis button in the upper-right corner (three dots). Then tap the “Don’t play this artist” option from the dropdown menu. After that, a brief message will pop up confirming that music from the artist won’t play. That’s it. Even if you go directly to a band or artist’s page and try to manually kick off a tune, it won’t play....
For obvious reasons, this can be less than desirable if other people are using your computer. If your children are using Chrome, for example, you might not want them to be able to browse without a log of the sites that they visit being saved in your browser history. If this is the case, you’ll need to disable incognito mode in Google Chrome. While there’s no setting within Chrome that you can turn off, it is still possible to disable incognito mode....
Anyway things have been so nuts around the house I’ve not had even three minutes to fix the problem until now. Here’s what I did. Start by launching iTunes and jumping over to your Movies Library. Move to the Home Videos sub-section and Right Click the movie you want to re-categorize. In my example I’ll select Horton Hears A Who! Once the context menu pops, click Get Info. Under the Options Tab, select the Media Kind you want and Click OK....
