Microsoft added new font options to Office 2010. With those options you can further format certain fonts with OpenType ligatures and alternative stylistic sets. Here’s a quick look at Word 2010’s OpenType font options. Note that W...
Windows Explorer includes thumbnail previews of images. However, as they are thumbnails the previews are a little small. With the FastPreview 4 software you can add an expanded image preview to the right-click context menu. Check ...
If you open lots of tabs in your Firefox browser they will gradually shrink in size. To better fit them on the tab bar, you can configure it to include multiple rows of tabs. For that you should add the Tab Mix Plus extension to y...
The Firefox shortcut key to close selected tabs is Ctrl + W. As such, the X close tab button on the tabs is hardly essential. You can also remove the X button from the tabs without any extra browser add-ons. Open the Firefox brows...
Easter eggs aren’t just sumptuous chocolate. They are also added to software packages as secret responses that occur after entering an undocumented set of commands. The OpenOffice Calc software package has a few Easter eggs....
You don’t have to print a whole OpenOffice spreadsheet if you require just a small section of it. One way that you could print a small section from a spreadsheet would be to copy and paste a group of selected cells into anot...
A progress bar is something that provides feedback on a given process. Most will be familiar with download progress bars that show you how much of the software has been downloaded in percentage terms. You can also add progress bar...
When printing a website page, you might not need the paper to include everything on it. Yet most browsers have few Web page editing options for printing. Some people might copy and paste sections of text from the website page into...
VLC Media Player is a freeware software package, for the Windows, Unix, Mac OS X and Linux platforms, which plays video/audio files. This is the VLC Media Player website from where you can add it to your software library. Like man...
You can open PDF (Portable Document Format) documents with both PDF software and browsers. This article covers opening PDF documents with Google Chrome. The Firefox browser does not include any built-in options with which to open ...
You select alternative search engines in Firefox by clicking on the icon on the left of the browser’s search box. You can organize that search engine drop-down menu more effectively with the Organize Search Engines add-on. W...
By default Firefox has a horizontal toolbar which includes the address bar and search box along with other options. Consequently, space on that toolbar is a little limited. Wouldn’t it be better to have a vertical toolbar wi...
Wouldn’t it be great if you could check out a link’s content before opening the page? At the moment there aren’t any browsers which have built-in options to preview links before opening them. However, those with Google Chrom...
Firefox 29 gave the browser series something of a revamp. Mozilla removed the orange app menu button from Firefox 29, and replaced the square tabs with curved alternatives. To restore the classic Firefox theme from previous versio...
Modern Download Manager is an add-on for the Firefox browser. This is an add-on which is packed with additional options with which you can customize your downloads. For example, you can pause, resume and cancel downloads; scan fil...
