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Monthly Archives November 2009
Seattle Team Takes Home $900K Prize for "Space Elevator"
Things are looking up for a group of scientists from Seattle after winning $900,000 from NASA
The contest is intended to encourage development of a theory that originated in the 1960s and was popularized by Arthur C. Clarke’s 1979 novel “The Fountains of Paradise.”
Space elevators are envisioned as a way to reach space without the risk and expense of rockets.
Instead, electrically powered vehicles would run up and down a cable anchored to a ground structure and extending thousands of miles up to a mass in geosynchronous orbit — the kind of orbit communications satellites are placed in to stay over a fixed spot on the Earth.
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Wireless Networking trouble-shooting
Network Problems and Wireless Networks
Everyone is going wireless or has a home network. Are you considering it? Learn more by accessing some of the sites listed below.
Home Networking – Here is a site that provides loads of Home Networking “How-to’s”.
How Stuff Works – Great site to find out how stuff works. Great for kids. Check out the Computer Stuff and Home Networking sections.
WindowsNetworking is a wonderful site one of our listeners turned us on to. Great tutorials, articles, and how-to’s with excellent descriptions and graphics.
TechTutorials provides in-depth articles on all your Windows XP networking questions (even those you have not thought to ask). Excellent resource. …
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Office 2007 ribbon tutorials
Microsoft Office Flash Tutorials
If you have made the switch to Microsoft’s Office 2007 suite then you have already discovered the new ribbon interface. Instead of having the 20 year old “File drop down menu “ interface Microsoft is betting that new “Ribbon” interface will improve the application usage.
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/training/HA102295841033.aspx
The Office 2007 ribbon user interface presents commands organized into a set of tabs. The tabs within the ribbon will change, depending on the actions you are performing.
I am not a heavy Excel or Power point user but I do use some Microsoft Word. Once you get use to the ribbon, I am told, you will come to appreciate the intuitive use. Unfortunately, like many of you, I have become accustomed to the old fashion drop down menus and find myself hunting for the function (I gave up in frustration trying to find the Undo command when I accidently deleted an entire paragraph).
Thank goodness Microsoft provides tools to ease our transition to the new Ribbon.
Simply launch the appropriate link, Word, Excel, or Power Point. Your Web browser will load a Flash representation of the old fashion File-Drop down menu. Simply use the menu to perform the command, …
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20 Goofy USB Gadgets & Gizmos You'll Love
This is what your IT department does when no one is looking! LOL Everything USB you’ve ever wanted, from stink-busters to toasters that print the morning news on your breakfast. …
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Ultimate Boot CD 4 Windows
Computer crashes happen to all of us and usually at the worst possible time.
You guessed it, my computer crashed and now I have to deal with picking up the pieces. My job is to provide technical assistance and instill confidence into others whose computer have failed. This isn’t suppose to happen to me.
Ironically, when this terrible event happened, I was attempting to recover someone else’s data from a failed laptop hard drive. I plugged their 2 and a half inch hard drive into my Laptop computers trusty drive tray (like I have done dozens of times before). I waited for Windows XP to automatically discover the new disk drive so that I could backup the data. But their drive did not spin up and my computer hanged and became unresponsive. Knowing that something went south with my computer, I reboot it. Windows appeared to come up normally but I was unable to log into it with my user ID and password.
The portion of the Windows registry that stores user IDs and passwords was corrupted and I knew I was in deep doo-doo.
How am I going to fix my computer? A corrupted registry is “Bad”. I knew …
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