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This is silly but fun at the same time:
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It’s scary. My computer became infected with malware. A program masquerading as a system utility suddenly took over everything. I almost fell for it. Almost.
The malware was named S.M.A.R.T. HDD. The program masqueraded as a disk maintenance program. My computer is a fairly new laptop and still has lots of the vendor specific programs loaded and running. My initial thought was the program was one of those. That is how I was almost fooled.
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CardCow.com is a cool site to look at old postcards. They sell the postcards, but keep the pictures online. We were able to find some old photos of Fort Worth and other places of interest to us. After you spend a little time figuring out the search engine it is a lot of fun.
I found CardCow while searching for pictures of the old Kon Tiki motel in California. Why the Kon Tiki? We lived there for a few months when I was in 2nd grade.
Find CardCow here:
Let me know what you think.
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It’s frustrating. Something you have used for years stops working. It is not just that the process has changed. Sometimes it becomes more complicated. What am I talking about?
Today someone asked me how to fill in a form inside Microsoft Word 2007. This was not a document formatted as a form. The person who sent it had just put rows of __________ where the answers should go. As you expect typing on the lines caused the formatting to go all wacky. The solution is to press the “Insert” key on the keyboard and “Overtype” the underlines. Except my Insert key was not working.
A bit of quick research revealed that Microsoft decided to override the entire Insert/Overtype process. Why? Nobody knows. We just have to file that under unsolved mysteries.
Here is the way to replace the functionality of your “Insert/Overtype” in your copy of Microsoft Office 2007. [click to continue…]
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