So you have these things called files on your computer, right? They are precious to you. You spent hours, days, months, or maybe years to create them. Maybe it’s a Quickbook file. Maybe it’s a photo that only took a second to create – but the memory is priceless. Maybe it’s a Word doc of…
So today at Gangplank a couple of the guys were standing around thinking about were to go to lunch. We didn’t figure it out – we just started walking towards Ol’ Town Downtown Chandler. About once a week, we end up at Murphy’s Law. A local bar, that has great great great great (did I…
About every two years or so, I forget how much I hate Blockbuster Video Rental. I think it started with petty late fees, and just an overall bad experience in the rental stores back in the day. For the last few years, we’ve had NetFlix, and it’s worked perfect for us. In fact – we…
Good morning everyone! I’ve been upgrading friends and family from Windows XP and Vista to Windows 7. Everyone is saying great things about Windows 7, and I’m personally loving it. It just works, it’s fast, and I really like the new TaskBar. While there are a lot of features that I didn’t cover, this quick…
I was just looking at some Christmas photos in a folder, and wanted to change the thumbnail sizes. There are several baked in options for the Windows 7 Explorer to see thumbnails at certain sizes. With my monitor resolution, the large were too small, and the extra large was too large. Then, it hit me….
I just found a nice feature in TechSmith’s Snag-It Editor that I didn’t know was there, but came in very handy. Batch Processing. Select a group of images, and then manipulate them. Change the size, colors, borders, captions, and a whole bunch of other helpful parameters around your images. Here is a quick video that…
Did you know Visual Studio has a Command mode? This isn’t cmd.exe – but it’s virutally the same concept, inside of visual studio. This command window will let you type commands for virtually any command in Visual Studio. This video will show you how to search from the Command Line. Additional Command Line options: Edit.Find…
Ever dismiss a dialog, and then want to get it back again? Far too often, we uncheck the "Show this message again" checkbox not knowing how to get the message back. For Find and Replace, you can specify whether to hide or show these message boxes at Tools – Options – Environment – Find and…
Global search/replace can be tricky. Often times you’ll end up replacing something that you didn’t realize was going to be replaced. Having an undo feature is vey helpful. This video shows you the ins and outs, of Find/Replace in all files. Just like Ctrl+H does a Quick Replace, Ctrl+Shift+H will bring up the Replace in…