An Easy Solution for Learning the Grammar Basics.

Today I have something different lined up for you. It’s not an Office Tip or Trick… Well, actually it is, sort of. It’s not software related, that’s for sure.

I know from my statistics that this blog is mostly read during US office hours so I thought you might like this find.

Yesterday I was surfing the net, on the lookout for several good grammar sites, to see if I could improve my English. I already own a copy of some very good writing software but I want to improve the actual basics. I know from my own writing experience and from reading many other blogs and feeds that many people write with lots of errors in it.

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New to the World of Office, XP and Vista Tips & Tricks?

Here are a few posts the other readers recommend you check out.

You Lowered Your Internet Explorer’s Security Settings - Stop the MS Vista Pop-Ups.

And it’s Monday; I hope you all had a great weekend!! And I hope you all are ready for some great Microsoft Vista Tips and Tricks because I have some cool tricks lined up for you this week.

The first Tip and Trick is this one. Vista is “great” but sometimes we get a bit annoyed with all the security settings and pop-ups. I know security is needed but we don’t have to be all paranoid about it. If you are using Internet Explorer then you’ve probably seen the message that you’ve lowered your security settings many times. And to me that popup is just as annoying as a computer that didn’t disable the User Account Control – UAC.

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Step by Step e-Books to Optimize Your System are Getting Cheaper.

The weekdays are for great MS Tips and Tricks and if I post in the weekends it must be Microsoft news, a related site or product review or a great bargain that I bumped into and this week I bumped into something great.

I think one of the beautiful things nowadays is that we live in a multimedia area. Internet is providing us with instant video’s, instant sound recordings and of course new ways like blogs to interact with each other. For me one of the other beauties is the instant access of books. As you might have noticed, I have in my signature at the bottom of this page several Amazon books that I really loved to read. I love reading especially tech reading and on average I buy 3 – 4 books and magazines per week.

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Stop Websites From Resizing Firefox When you Visit Them.

And it’s Monday again, I hope you all had a great weekend!!

Today’s Tip and Trick might seem what unusual for someone who writes about Microsoft Software. The readers that are a bit longer around have read in the articles about creating a transparent text field for your desktop icons and in the article with the quick trick for when you need a math calculator that I don’t use Internet Explorer but that I use Firefox. What can I say: Firefox rules!

There is one thing though about Firefox that I didn’t like and that was that some websites resized my browser when I visited them. I presume that IE had the same problem, I didn’t check this.

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Making the MSN/Live Messenger Chat Window Ad Free.

Today I wanted to show you another Tip and Trick that is possible with the Live Messenger Patch (277) that we used for the article about cleaning up the live messenger window.

It is practically the same sort of trick/method but now instead of cleaning up the Live Messenger we are now cleaning up the chat window a bit from annoying ads.

Before we continue I just have to say it again. You are officially not allowed to modify the Live Messenger. Using this patch is at for your own responsibility and we/I nor Microsoft can be held responsible if anything goes wrong. The patch worked great for me and I never had a problem with it other wise I wouldn’t have showed you. Nevertheless this patch isn’t created and supported by Microsoft.

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A Cool Trick for Customizing your Microsoft Office 2007.

Customizing your XP or Vista Operating System is pretty cool. We already talked about the basics a number of times. Several of the “pimping your Operating System” articles were changing your Desktop Wallpaper and Icons and changing your account picture. This was only basic stuff but where now taking it up a notch.

A cool little feature in the new Office Suite is that you can customize the color scheme of the whole suite. There is an option to change the color for all the office programs at once. If you want to change the color scheme you have to follow the next few steps.