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Typography: Free Stylish Fonts Collection [Set 42]

Posted by Rich On November - 12 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

If you are making a PowerPoint presentation, poster, graphic, or anything that requires typography, you may find some of these fonts useful. There many free fonts out there but it is often hard to find good ones as there is so much choice and so many fonts are not very high quality. In these collections, I attempt to find the best free fonts out there and provide direct download links to them so you can start using them straight away. If you are unsure of how to install a font, learn here.

More Fonts

Check out more font collections on www.Mintywhite.com. Organize your fonts with Windows Fonts Explorer.

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How To Save Documents Straight To SkyDrive – Office 2010

Posted by Stu On November - 6 - 200924 COMMENTS

Microsoft Office 2010 really is starting to look a very good upgrade from the 2007 version.

One particular feature I’ve found extremely handy is the ability to save documents straight to Windows Live SkyDrive.

You’ll of course need a Windows Live account. Go here for an account if you haven’t already got one. Also see here for another guide involving Windows Live SkyDrive.

You can currently do this with new Word, Powerpoint & Excel documents that haven’t been saved yet or you can upload a previously saved document.

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Customize Aero Peek in Windows 7

Posted by Stu On November - 5 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

windows 7 aero peek Customize Aero Peek in Windows 7

Aero Peek is a cool new feature in Windows 7 that gives you X-Ray vision! By hovering the mouse over the small bar on the right hand side of the taskbar, you can temporarily see behind any open windows, to the desktop. Aero Peek is also used when the Alt+Tab combination on the keyboard is used & also when you hover your mouse over a Taskbar preview. By default, the delay from hovering the mouse on the bar on the Taskbar to showing the desktop is 1 second. This guide will show you how to speed things up (or slow it down).

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Typography: Free Stylish Fonts Collection [Set 41]

Posted by Rich On October - 29 - 2009ADD COMMENTS

If you are making a PowerPoint presentation, poster, graphic, or anything that requires typography, you may find some of these fonts useful. There many free fonts out there but it is often hard to find good ones as there is so much choice and so many fonts are not very high quality. In these collections, I attempt to find the best free fonts out there and provide direct download links to them so you can start using them straight away. If you are unsure of how to install a font, learn here.

Check out more font collections on www.Mintywhite.com

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Speed up Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Preview

Posted by Stu On October - 27 - 20093 COMMENTS

14 Speed up Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnail Preview

By default in Windows 7, there’s a 400ms delay between you hovering your mouse over an open program’s Taskbar icon, and a preview of the open program being shown.

This guide will show you how to shorten that delay.

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Resize Pictures and Photos with Paint.NET

Posted by Rich On October - 27 - 20093 COMMENTS

paint net01 Resize Pictures and Photos with Paint.NET

Paint.NET is an excellent, free program, which helps you manipulate your images and create some of your own. I’ve reviewed Paint.NET before and in this guide, I’ll show you how to resize a picture with this program. While this task may be simple for many of you, we all have to start somewhere. You may want to skip this guide if you can confidently resize a picture.

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