Today’s posting brought to you by Jason the Programmer — who needs a little more to do with his time!
In search of an answer to this age old question, I’ve consulted numerous sources and scoured the Web. Hopefully, you’ll find this tidbit of information as useful as I have. The difference between the forward slash and the backslash is as follows:
/ = the forward slash leans forward
\= the backslash leans back
That’s it. Wow. That was complicated!
For Average Joes and Janes like myself, that’s all you really need to know — because we really only use slashes when typing in website URL’s. And, yes, I did casually say “slashes” because most of us regular users only know where one slash is, anyway. It shares a key with the question mark.
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Ok Folks, it’s time to dig deep and give big! There are only 14 short hours remaining to cast your vote for Dyanamic Edge’s Best Beard of 2008!
Statistics show that one in every eight adults lacks the literacy skills needed to be successful in society. If you are reading this post right now, you can make a difference in the life of one of these individuals. With every $1 vote, you make a donation to support literacy in our community!
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Do you ever ask yourself, “If I’ve got iTunes set to shuffle all songs, why do I keep hearing these same songs over and over again?!?” For some reason, the loop of tunes you’re hearing doesn’t really feel shuffled – much less random – at all. Wouldn’t it be nice if your iTunes played only the songs that you haven’t heard in a long time? Oh wait, it CAN! … Who knew?
Apple developed this tool called the Smart Playlist that allows you to set certain parameters to generate a playlist populated by only the tunes that you’ve got an inkling to hear. Like Christmas music, Songs about Love, or comedy bits by Adam Sandler that are more than 4 minutes long.
The Smart Playlist gives you ultimate control: letting you be as specific as you want to be, and then paring down your lists by more than a dozen variables. And, as a matter of fact, when I’m finished writing this post, I’m going to create a playlist Hip Hop, R&B and Rap songs with the word “Girl” in the title… just to find out how many I’ve got in my library 🙂
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Everyone knows that keyboard shortcuts can help you to get the most out of your software programs. They can speed up your work by letting you perform functions without searching for them on the menus and dialog boxes. If you can memorize these commands, your fingers will literally NEVER have to leave your keyboard.
Here’s the great part! The shortcut keys in Word 2007 are pretty much same as the shortcut keys in earlier versions of Word. But, there is one main difference: if there isn’t a command that works for you, you can customize shortcuts that are easier for you to remember! Maybe you may want to create a key command for a shortcut doesn’t exist, you can do that too.
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Wouldn’t it be nice if you could activate Excel 2007’s Formula bar without using the mouse? You can… try this!
Press the F2 key. This will let Excel know that you want to edit the contents of a cell. The first time you do this, Excel will probably expand the information in the cell and let you to edit the information inside that cell… but you can tell Excel you want F2 to open your formula bar by doing this:
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Last week I rattled off a handful of the TopTech Toys of 2008… rated, of course, by none other than me. The second installment, (we could call this the “bottom half,” I suppose) will consist of tech toys that are probably equally as desirable as the those atop the list, but with slightly lower price tags.
So, without further adieu… the rest of my list:
#6 The Flip Mino HD: This is the fourth version of the hip little video camera that first came out in 2007. It looks, feels and works exactly like the previous version, except it shoots high-definition video. It holds 60 minutes of video and comes with software to let you edit your videos and upload them directly to sites including YouTube.
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