Articles Archive for May 2005
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Listen to this TipI’ll bet you’re not making the most out of your cellphone’s speeddial feature. Now I’m sure that you’ve stored your most commonly called numbers in your phone. That’s good, but lets go beyond that. You can add pauses and special keys into those phone numbers to do more than just dial a number. For example, you can program your phone to dial into your office voicemail, enter the right password, and then retrieve all your new messages. Combine this with one touch speedialing and you are really hot. I’ve done this with my phone and the push of one button saves me 24 keystrokes, and gets me into my voicemail faster and more accurately than ever before possible. Not only does this save all kinds of time but it really makes for safe driving too. You can also program your phone to automatically dial in your long distance phone card information. Check it out!
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If you have to make powerpoint presentations that include displaying Web pages, I’ve got a great tip for you. Anyone that’s made a presentation that involved a live net connection knows how unreliable that can be. The best way around that is to save the Web page to your local drive instead. I believe that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer version 5 gives you the best way to do that. Bring up the Web page you want to save, then go to the Save As menu. There’s a choice there to save as an mht file. Mht files are very cool because they store all the graphics and html into one file. Save each Web page you intend to include in your presentation as an mht file and then link to it from within your powerpoint slides. The result is a great presentation that works perfectly every time. If you make presentations you’ll love this awesome tip.
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. Does this sound familiar? You need to get a quick message to someone, so you call them on their cell phone, only to find you’ve interrupted them in a meeting. So they tell you to hang up, call back and leave a message. So you call, and then you wait for the voicemail greeting to end, and finally leave your message. Then your friend has to call into their voicemail, and listen to your message, then call you back, and of course by then you’re not available. So your friend gets thrown into your voicemail, and over the course of a few days you realize the two of you are spending more time talking to voicemail than to each other. Now if you’re between the ages of 15 and 29, you probably are laughing about this because you use text messages instead. So here’s a word to the rest of us caught up in voicemail tag: learn how to send text messages from your phone. Once you get the hang of it, it’s fast, easy, and really effective.
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Lots of Web sites require you to register with a login ID and password to access valuable features or content. And if you’re like me you’ve registered yourself at who-knows-how-many Web sites. The problem is that it’s impossible to remember all those logins and passwords. Here’s a simple solution if you use Microsoft Outlook. You’ll notice that Outlook has a little notes folder that kinda works like an electronic postit note. Every time you create a new login and password, copy that information into a new note along with the Web site address and a brief comment. If you ever forget that login and password combination just right click on the notes icon and do a search. Outlook will quickly find the answer for you and off you go. Save those valuable brain cells for remembering important things like your anniversary, not your Yahoo password.
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Have you ever wanted to quickly capture a shot of your computer screen? It’s really easy when you use the printscreen key. In today’s digital world, we all run into situations when we really need to show someone what our computer screen looks like. This is really handy for things like getting technical support, writing training manuals, and giving presentations. If you want to capture an image of your current screen, here’s all you have to do: Click on the window of the application you want to get a screen shot of, then hold down your ALT key and press on the “print screen” button on your keyboard. Then click into your favorite application and simply do a “paste” operation. You’ll magically see the screen image appear and then you can manipulate it as needed. This is a really handy feature I’ve used countless times and I’m sure you’ll love it.
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