A previous dotTech article covered how you can bring back classic DOS game titles to Windows. However, how about classic arcade games? For classic arcade games you should add MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulation) emulator to Wi...
OpenOffice spreadsheets display cell formula values by default. As such, the formulas you put in the spreadsheet are not entirely visible. However, there are a couple of ways you can display the cell formulas instead of their nume...
By default all text in the freeware OpenOffice word processor is horizontal. However, some might require document designs with alternative text directions, such as diagonal and vertical. You can change the OpenOffice text directio...
To change the monitor resolution, you would usually right-click the desktop and open the Display Settings window. However, you can change the resolution settings with keyboard shortcuts (aka hotkeys). As Windows doesn’t incl...
The Windows Vista Quick Launch bar added small shortcuts icons to the left of the taskbar. Windows 7 phased out the Quick Launch bar with pinned taskbar shortcuts, but you can still restore it on Windows 7. A little customization ...
When you right-click a file or folder in Windows Explorer, a context menu opens with various shortcuts and options. They can include a multitude of shell extensions such as Scan with AVG and Find Empty Folders with Glary Utilities...
The user account picture is the one at the top of the Windows Start menu. Windows has a few default account pictures, and you can add your own as well. You can also add your own pictures to the list of default images, and delete t...
The previous articles in this three-part series covered setting up database tables and adding forms for them with OpenOffice Base. However, you can still add more to it such as database reports which give a more specific overview ...
Watermarks are faded background text in a document that indicates its status. For example, watermarks might include text stating DO NOT COPY or COPYRIGHTED. If you have a document with a specific status that should be noted, add w...
The Windows Explorer 7 and 8 library icons are not icons which you can customize in the same ways as more standard folders. Nevertheless, with suitable software you can still change the library icons to other alternatives. The sui...
This dotTech article covered customizing screens savers. Would it not be great if you could add shortcuts for them to the Windows desktop? Then you could play them any time instead of waiting for them to reach their periodic inter...
In part one of our guide on how to setup OpenOffice Base database, we covered how you can set up the tables for a software database. Of course, you can input software records directly into those database tables; but it’s bet...
The freeware OpenOffice spreadsheet application, which you add to your Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, Mac OS X or Linux software library from this website, is one with a variety of formatting options. Among them is a conditional fo...
You can add a variety of new options to the Windows XP/Vista/7/8 right-click context menus by tweaking the registry. Among the options that you can add to the Windows Explorer context menus are Copy To Folder and Move To Folder. B...
Those who add software to their PC or Mac willy-nilly might lose track of some of the software they have installed. Would it not be great to have a database which you can open to find the location of all your installed software? T...
