Archive for the 'Useful tips' Category

Adding watermarks in Word 2007

Quite often, when you create a client sample or a report, you might want to add a watermark or an image in the background of your document. At times, these watermarks may be used to represent the status of the document – pending, urgent, confidential, and so on.
Although it was a bit difficult in earlier [...]

Simple PC maintenance that works

PC maintenance is NOT difficult at all, but a lot of people don’t really know how to maintain their PCs and end up with all kinds of problems. Daily, I see requests for help in computer forums from guys that got their machines bugged. What I’m about to recommend may not be 100% full-proof but [...]

Convert PDF files to other major formats easily

File formats can turn out to be an issue when we want to perform some file specific operations. Many times you will notice that you have a nice application which does what you want, but doesn’t support your file format. That could turn out to be a bit of a problem. So, here are some [...]

Edit an MP3 song to add extra silent time

If you’re like the millions of audio buffs out there, you’ll find that quite often, certain mp3 songs end too quickly. That means, they have little or no period of silence after the ending of the song. It could be due to sloppy editing of the song copy by the person who edited and saved [...]

Fixing DLL errors

DLL files are one of the most important components of your system files if you are using Windows as your Operating System. There are many DLL files within a typical Windows system, but most of the time, you don’t really bother about them. That is, until something goes wrong with them.
DLL stands for Dynamic Link [...]

Need a calculator? Find them online

While doing a work related assignment yesterday, I found myself in need of a calculator. But I didn’t carry one with me at the time. Does that sound familiar? For dealing with numbers and digits on a daily basis, a calculator is indispensable. I use calculators everyday in my job, and if I can just [...]