My good friend David Yardy posted something about MaxiVista and Windows Vista.  He had a link to a support article from Microsoft discussing multiple monitor support in Windows Vista. This support article has the following information:   Two, three, or more monitors: •Graphics adapter A with two outputs in an... [Read More]

For several months, I've been listening to a custom station on Pandora.  I use OpenPandora too, except I've downloaded the code for OpenPandora and made some changes.  Maybe one day I'll email the project owner and see about getting my changes merged in. But anyway... for years I listened to... [Read More]

The tools that I've previously used for printing to PDF haven't been working for me in Vista.  Upon a quick Google search, I found this article that links to CutePDF.  I had CutePDF installed and working in Vista x64 in less than 2 minutes.  And it's free.  Excellent! [Read More]

Someone was asking me how to do some simple conditional formatting in Excel.  Here's a quick demo. The data I'm using is to the right, pretty basic.  I want to highlight all cells in column A where the value is between 15 and 20. Start by selecting column A and... [Read More]

I swore that Google Desktop used to provide a means for setting it to search the desktop by default, instead of the web.  Jess confirmed this for me.  He's running version 5.1.0707 and I'm running version 5.7.0712.  I guess they decided to take this feature away for some reason.  Jess... [Read More]