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A new product is set to debut on the market, hoping to alleviate the hassle of having to write a weekly grocery list, while eliminating procrastination and forgetfulness! Meet the Ikan, a round barcode scanner designed for home use. The device ... boasts a small color screen on the front, a laser scanner underneath and a WiFi antenna inside that connects to virtually any wireless network. How does it work? When you are about to throw away an empty container, simply swipe the barcode of the item underneath the scanner and wait for a beep. The Ikan will consult its online database (containing ... (view more)

Don't you hate it when you have finished a document for your boss or a letter to your best friend and you realize you have used the same word within three or four paragraphs? Well with the Thesaurus feature in MS Word, you no longer have to worry ... about these things! MS Word comes with a built-in Thesaurus and it is very easy to use. Follow the steps below to learn how to use the Thesaurus in MS Word: In Older versions of MS Word, follow these steps: Highlight the word that you would like to replace with another word and then open up the Thesaurus. You can access the Thesaurus in a couple of ... (view more)

Many times, in an office setting, you have an Excel spreadsheet that has to be sent to different departments on a weekly basis. Even if you have a distribution list setup in MS Outlook, it still takes some time to setup your e-mail and proof it ... before sending it out. Why not let MS Excel do it for you? Follow the steps below to lighten your workload: Launch MS Excel if it is not already open. Open the workbook containing the report you want to send. Click ALT + F11. The Visual Basic Editor will open. In the Project-VBA Project pane, double-click ThisWorkbook. Go to Insert | Procedure. Click ... (view more)

Autonumbering will advance your numbered rows and keep them current, even if you should delete or add a row. Unfortunately, MS Excel does not ship with an autonumbering feature (like that found in MS Access), that increments a number each time you ... add a new row. In Excel 2003 and 2007 however, you can use the Row function to add your own autonumbering to a list. Say you want to create a list of all of your school's classes and their corresponding learning materials. Follow the steps below to add autonumbering to the list: In A1, enter the formula below: =TEXT(Row(A1),"000-000") Enter the name ... (view more)

An Indian computer has been ranked the fourth-fastest in the world. It's the first time India has even cracked the top 100 in speed rankings. Computers from Sweden and Germany are among five new entries in the top ten, which was previously dominated ... by US-built machines. The list was announced at the SuperComputing 07 conference in Reno, Nevada. It's the 30th edition of the list, which comes out every six months and is compiled by experts from universities in Tennessee and Germany and the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center in California. (Source: Top500.org ) The Indian ... (view more)

In Computer Science -- more specifically, in the creation of software programs -- there are efficient ways of achieving a result, and there are not-so-efficient ways of doing the same thing. In fact, many refer to Microsoft Windows as bloatware: ... software that "is so overloaded with functionality that its performance suffers." (Source: techweb.com ) Unfortunately, Microsoft isn't the only one to blame. In the race for profit, many software developers are guilty of adding useless and abundant features to their programs for nothing more than a marketing tactic. (Source: wikipedia.org ... (view more)

There will be some occasions when you will want to perform a sort using more than one column in MS Excel. You already know how to perform a sort using one column and now if you follow the steps below you can add a little to your Excel knowledge of ... sorting. Position the active cell anywhere within the data list. Choose Data | Sort The Sort dialog box will appear. Select the first column to sort by in the Sort by List box. Choose Ascending or Descending. The names of the columns appear if the list is designed correctly and the Header row option is selected in the My list has area of the Sort ... (view more)

Sorting data refers to organizing the records in a data list so that they are presented in a certain order. If data is arranged in a list structure, data can be automatically sorted by choosing one individual cell within the list to define the sort ... criteria. All corresponding data will be repositioned on sort order. The Sort Ascending and Sort Descending button on the Standard toolbar can be used to quickly sort a list by one column. Follow the steps below to sort by one column: Select one cell anywhere within the field (column) upon which the sort will be based. Click on the Sort Ascending ... (view more)

If you're wondering how compatible a number of applications are with Vista, you'll be pleased to hear that Microsoft's latest operating system supports most notable entries. The company has recently released an official list, which includes 100 of ... Microsoft's own products. In addition, a number of surprises appear from direct competitors of the Washington state based company, like Google Toolbar. The list Microsoft has comprised is officially called its "Certified" applications. The titles that make the grade have been labeled "Certified for Windows Vista", in a somewhat similar manner to ... (view more)

As I was working with my email today, I realized that I was not alone in trying to combat the scourge of Spam! Many are working to reduce the space and time it takes to transfer the stuff, in many cases at very real expense since there are a number ... of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) that charge the user for the amount of data transferred. Some companies, such as AOL and Yahoo, have come up with preventative strategies that don't really work all that well (charging bulk emailers for Preferred Status) and tend to cause difficulties for everybody. When it comes to the user reporting spam in ... (view more)