If you use the iGoogle customizable start page to monitor RSS feeds and view gadgets, you already know that Google will "retire" it on November 1, 2013.
Now that you're looking for another free service to take its place (especially one that isn't an overcrowded page full of advertising), igHome is about as close to iGoogle as I've found.
igHome...
is free
makes it easy to import all your iGoogle RSS feeds, gadgets, and tabs
has links to Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Drive, and other apps just like iGoogle
has a ton of free gadgets you can add to your start page.
When you need to collect and send lots of email messages related to a project, instead of forwarding each individual message, it's easy to gather them and attach them to just one message.
Don't become a victim by clicking on malware-infected email links & attachments or fake antivirus scanners!
Pete Hodge (Winnefox's Network Manager/PC Support Specialist) is seeing an alarming increase in malware-infected computers in libraries around the system:
When you create a new Excel file, it contains three worksheets — they show as small tabs at the bottom of a worksheet. Each tab has a name, like Sheet1, Sheet2, an so on. You can see the data stored on each worksheet by clicking the tab of the sheet you want to view.
Renaming a worksheet or changing the color of the worksheet's color makes it easier to organize and keep track of the data you've created.
"Pinning" in Windows 7 is a great way to add shortcuts for your often-used programs. You can pin items to the Taskbar or to the Start menu. And once you pin an item, you can also unpin it.
Emily Dickinson's poems panned? Ernest Hemingway's novels trashed? How might terrible reviews have affected the authors of what are now considered classics?
When you need to shorten an URL, a service like TinyURL works great.
But when you need to provide multiple URLs in a small space — like I did for a library when there was room for only one link — there are free tools that make it easy to bundle those URLs into just one link. (Good to keep in mind for a post on your library's Facebook page, or for a 140-character tweet.)
Here's my favorite URL-bundling tool, with step-by-step instructions to create your own bundle:
Are you starting work on your 2014 calendar-year budget? When sharing it with your board of trustees or co-workers, you might want to add a "Draft" watermark to it, indicating it's a work in progress.
But Excel 2010 doesn't let you easily insert a watermark, unlike Word 2010. How can you do it?