Access 2010: Windows Installer Package Solution Wizard

After creating an application in Access 2010, you may need to bundle the relevant databases into a package. Access 2010 has a intrinsic feature which lets user bundle and deploy Access 2010 database applications. This feature allows you to wraps up Access application into setup package, i.e, MSI installer in which you can associate Macro or VB code with the main database file and add other information such as; registry info, bitmap files, data version, Add or Remove Programs information and EULA info. Read More

Change PowerPoint 2010 Presentation Resolution

It seems really bizarre when you are giving presentation having high resolution images or HD embedded videos but the system specification or monitor resolution not supporting it. It may look good on your system having extravagant specifications, but might not on your college/university provided systems (having low specification). So, while giving a presentation, system starts lagging because of high resolution images, animations or HD movies. To make your presentation seamless on other systems as well, you need to change the resolution. Opportunely, PowerPoint provides you with an option to change it as required. Read More

How To Create A Template In Visio 2010

Just like Office suite applications, Visio 2010 comes packed with an option to edit and redesign the document template, so that users can easily create diagrams on same document style. If you are working on a project that contains multiple Visio drawings and diagrams, then it becomes quite tedious to manually set the template before you start working on a new Visio diagram. For maintaining uniformity across all diagrams, it's better to create a Visio template containing header, footer backgrounds, designs, styles and watermark etc., which eventually saves you the time that you would've spent creating Visio documents with same style and design over and over again for each diagram. In this post, we will use Visio build-in Template option to create a template a specific project. It will help us in creating a document style that can be used for building diagrams having similar settings. Read More

Browse The Internet With Keyboard Shortcuts In Chrome With Vimium

It is always impressive to see a computer guru at work; performing all those complex tasks without touching the mouse, making their way through applications, folders, networks and the internet using only the keyboard. Same can be said for that generation of geeks and hackers who remind you of the old DOS days, when command prompt was all you had! While it may not be possible for a regular user to match these genres of people, you can still add some touch to your internet browsing experience with Google Chrome, through the extension Vimium. Read More

StandaloneStack Adds Mac-Like Dock To Windows 7 Taskbar

The Mac OS excels when it comes to aesthetics. Every element from the dock to the transition animations to stacks speak of art. You may have noticed in Mac that if you click a folder in dock, the contents spread out in the form of a curving stack. Using StandaloneStack, you can bring the same function to Windows OS as well. Read More

YoWindow – A Beautiful Weather Monitor Application

Many of us like to keep tabs on the latest weather updates. We plan our days and events around the forecasts, we decide our schedules based on how the skies would fare. For this purpose we use various tools, web services, television forecasts and what not. Almost all mobile phone platforms come with native weather applications, and so do operating systems. Keeping this in view, a weather application running on our PCs doesn’t sound out of place at all, especially when it combines usefulness with a beautiful aesthetic sense. Read More

New Firefox Add-ons Manager Revealed, Coming Soon!

The latest trunk nightly build of Firefox (3.7 alpha 5 pre) has landed with the much-awaited overhaul to the Add-ons Manager. Dave Townsend has managed to put together the final patches and calls it, “a totally new extension manager backend that will make it easier for us to improve and build upon in the future”, which shows that there is much more than a simple UI change. Read More

Convert Password Protected Access MDB File To CSV Format

Export Microsoft Access MDB to CSV is a freeware app utility which allows database users to instantly convert MDB database file in CSV (Comma Separated Value) file. As database tool are not abound, using this app would be extremely useful to export database tables into CSV format which is widely used and can be viewed with a simple text editor. Apart from mere exporting MDB file, it also lets user convert 'password protected' MDB file in CSV, CSV separated with tab, and CSV text qualifier format along with revealing the password. Read More

PowerPoint 2010: ppTPlex Add-In Brings Multi-Touch, Zooming, & More

Microsoft labs recently gushed forth pptPlex for PowerPoint 2010 which provides an ultimate experience of creating appealing and captivating presentations. With this small add-in, your presentation will be empowered as it wraps up the whole presentation in canvas which presents smooth sliding for navigating through the presentation, eventually modernizes the way of presenting presentations to audience. Read More

Post Sticky Notes On Web Pages In Google Chrome

There are several handy note taking applications that you may use universally throughout your PC. Some are accessible through the system tray, some through keyboard shortcuts or any other method. But what if you want to take some note, and keep it, while browsing? Surely, you can use the native PC applications, but it can be cumbersome to remember which note went with what web page, and what part of the page. Read More

Monitor Windows Calendar Appointments From Your Desktop

One of the best bundled application in Windows Vista was the Windows Calendar. With its wonderful syncing abilities, flexibility and ease of use, it was a top choice amongst users, and the decision to take it off in Windows 7 was certainly not well received. Time Keeper is a sidebar gadget for Windows Vista and 7 that relies on Windows Calendar, and brings a neat feature to your desktop. Read More

Read RSS Feeds From Windows 7 Taskbar

The Windows 7 taskbar was one of the major overhauls that set this version of the OS apart from previous Microsoft offerings. While the taskbar can be useful in many ways, one developer thought it great to give the users the flexibility to monitor their RSS feeds right from the taskbar itself. Hence Taskbar RSS was born. Read More

How To: Save Energy By Reducing CPU Usage

Granola is a simple Power Management tool which reduces CPU usage slightly to save energy. While not gaming or designing, your CPU still uses more energy than needed when browsing the web or using desktop tools. Do you want your CPU to waste energy while you are browsing GMail or playing a YouTube video? We believe not. Read More

Directly Send Word 2010 Document To PowerPoint 2010

PowerPoint 2010 provides a lot of features and tools to make an awesome presentation, creating one from the scratch takes a lot of time to summarize the content of the detailed document. Word 2010 now lets user send the document content instantly to PowerPoint presentation slide which lessens the time for creating a presentation. Also it saves multiple copy/paste operations. Read More