Friday, April 29, 2011

Write Subscript & Superscript text in Microsoft Office Word.

Usually text in a given document has similar looking flow in terms of size,appearance and placement. To add distinctive focus on some part of text or to write math formulae, chemical equations we use Subscript & Superscript text properties. Subscript makes text little smaller and placed lower than usual text [like: Abc123]. While Superscript makes text little smaller and placed higher than usual text [like: Abc123].

Subscript & Superscript in Office 2003
1. Select text that you want to make Subscript or Superscript.
2. Goto menu option Format > Font
subscript-font-ms-office

3. In Font window, check the Subscript or Superscript option.
4. Click OK to see selected text in Subscript or Superscript form.
Shortcut keys to make text Subscript & Superscript
To make Superscript: Press CTRL SHIFT =
To make Subscript: Press CTRL =

Subscript & Superscript in Office 2007

In Office 2007 you can use direct Subscript and Superscript button on ribbon menu. Select the text and then click on Subscript or Superscript button located right of bold, italic, underline buttons on ribbon menu.

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Change Drive Letters in Windows XP.

When you add drives to your computer, such as an extra hard drive, a CD drive, or a storage device that corresponds to a drive, Windows automatically assigns letters to the drives. However, this assignment might not suit your system; for example, you might have mapped a network drive to the same letter that Windows assigns to a new drive. When you want to change drive letters, follow these steps:

Right-click My Computer, and then click Manage.

Under Computer Management, click Disk Management. In the right pane, youll see your drives listed. CD-ROM drives are listed at the bottom of the pane.

Right-click the drive or device you want to change, and then click Change Drive
Letter and Paths.

Click Change, click Assign the following drive letter, click the drive letter you want to assign, and then click OK.

Friday, April 22, 2011

Customize Gmail in Chrome with Better Gmail 3.




Better Gmail 3 provides a quick and easy way to better organize and cleanup your Gmail account when using Google Chrome.

Once you click on Install (small extension window), Better Gmail 3 is ready to go and you are taken directly to the options. As you can see there is quite a bit to work with. Simply go through and select the actions that you like or need and click Save. If you had your Gmail account open in a tab during the install, then you only need to refresh it to see the differences.

Install Better Gmail 3 (Google Chrome Extensions Gallery)

Thursday, April 21, 2011

Bulk Resize JPEG , JPG Images with Drop Resize – Mass Resize Photos for Facebook and other websites.

Dropresize is a system tray application that watches a folder for new images and automatically resizes them into a web-friendly size. Only jpeg images are supported as of now. But other image formats will be supported in the future updates.You dont need to install it , just unzip the file and run the .exe file.Drop Resize is Compatible with Windows XP, Vista 7 although it requires the Microsoft .NET 2.0 framework.


Download 

Friday, April 15, 2011

Create Ghost Bootable SD Card or USB Flash Drive.


It's a good practice to create an image of your hard drive before you start using it. Especially when you had to build that computer from scratch and spent hours installing the operating system and all of your favorite apps...


As Symantec Ghost becomes more user friendly, people start to recognize this idea. The idea also works well when you need to clean your PC from viruses. In case anything goes wrong with the operating system, you just need to restore the image using the Symantec bootable CD.

However, the problem comes when we deal with the new version of those small laptops: The netbooks! which usually don't come with a built-in CD-ROM drive to bootup the PC.
The most simple solution would be buying an external CD-ROM drive, which costs you money. And in some cases, you just want to bootup the Symantec Ghost.... with whatever available!


The good news: Almost every recent laptop/netbook comes with a card reader, and even if you wasn't lucky enough, your laptop/netbook should have a USB port!

This guide will tell you how to create a bootable SD card or a USB flash drive with Symantec Norton Ghost.
This task can be done with several different versions of Symantec Ghost; however, the steps from this articles are based on Symantec Ghost 14.

What you need ?

  • Symantec Ghost 14 bootable CD. (Some other versions might also work)
  • A PC with bootable CD/DVD drive.
  • An SD card (either SD or SDHC), or a USB thumb drive. The size can be as minimum as 1 GB. You can also pick a large SD card if you want to store your hard drive image to the card as well.
  • An SD slot or a card reader (for SD card) or a USB slot (for thumb drive)


Follow the steps in order. Use this guide at your own risks.
  1. First, check to make sure your CD/DVD drive is bootable. (See your BIOS manual or PC user guide for details since this is out of the scope of this article).
  2. - For SD card: Make sure the SD slot or the card reader is available. if it's a card reader, connect it to the PC. Also insert the card.
    - For USB thumb drive: Make sure the drive is inserted into one of the USB slots.
  3. Bootup the computer using the Symantec Ghost CD (Details vary on different computers). On Windows XP, during the startup, you should see the prompt "Press any key to boot from CD...".
  4. Once the Symantec Recovery startup is complete, you should see the main screen of Symantec Ghost 14 Recovery similar to this image:

  5. Select "Analyze" from the left menu.
  6. Then click on "Open Command Shell Window". A command prompt window will display.
  7. At this command prompt window, type: "diskpart" (one word, without quotes) and hit enter. The prompt now changed to "DISKPART>"
  8. Now type "list disk" and hit enter. You should now see a list of all available disks. Base on the size of each disk listed, find the one that matching your SD card (or thumb drive) and note its disk number under "Disk ###". If you don't see your SD card (or flash drive) listed, verify if it is inserted or plugged in (you might need to restart the computer and try again).
  9. Type "select disk <n>" (replace <n> with the disk # noted from the previous step) then hit enter.
    Important!! Besure to select the correct disk (your SD card or thumb drive) as you will be erasing the drive.
    Sample image with a 4-GB SD selected:

  10. Create a primary partition for the the disk by executing the following sequence of commands:
    clean
    create partition primary
    select partition 1
  11. Set the primary partition active, type: "active" and hit enter
  12. Perform a quick format with the following command:
    format fs=fat32 quick
  13. Then type:
    assign
    exit
  14. Your SD card (or the flash drive) is now bootable and will act similar to a local hard drive. In order to boot this card with Symantect Ghost Recovery, copy all contents from the Symantec Ghost disc to the SD card (or the flash drive). Besure to copy everything including any hidden files/folders.

    The SD card or flash drive is now bootable and will boot your laptop/netbook to Symantec Ghost Recovery utilities exactly the same way as of the CD (To boot with the card on your laptop/netbook, don't forget to set your bios to search for the SD card or USB external devices in the boot sequence).

Monday, April 11, 2011

DrawIsland : Free Online Drawing Tool.


DrawIsland is an online drawing tool with a wide variety of available tools like pencil, line, rectangle, circle among other features available. You can draw selecting different sizes and colors for your drawings and once done you can save your result.

You can even generate animations (max size 400×400 pixels with up to 10 frames max). A great level of customization is available for the screens size and delay making it as user friendly as possible. There are arrays of upcoming features that will be available soon.

Sunday, April 10, 2011

Command Prompt on Right-Click.


Many computer users, specially the programmers, need to launch a command prompt window every once in a while to execute some dos/shell commands. The problem is, when a command prompt window launched, the default path is normally the system path or the user profile's path. The users will then have to do all the "cd" commands to change the directories to the path he/she wants.

This trick shows you how to add an option called "Command Prompt" when you right-click on a folder in Windows. With this option, a Command Prompt Window will launch and its current directory will be the path to the folder you've selected.


Use this trick at your own risk.

Here's what you'll get:





The Solution

You can either edit your registry OR download the registry file and apply it on your computer.
Method I. Manually edit the registry:
  1. Start > Run
  2. Enter "regedit" and hit Enter
  3. Expand to "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\Folder\shell"
  4. Right-click on "shell" and select New > Key
  5. Make sure a new key is created under "shell". Change the name of this key to "Command Prompt"
  6. Right-click on this new key "Command Prompt" and select New > Key
  7. Change the name of this key to "command"
  8. Here's what we should have:

  1. Double-click on the "(Default)" text on the right window to bring up the edit box
  2. Enter this text into the Value Data field:
  3. cmd.exe "%1"
  4. Click OK and close the registry.
Method II. Download and apply the registry file:
  • Download this registry file Here
  • Unzip it to a temp folder, then double-click on the .reg file to add the registry data.