Test Drive And Learn Windows 7 Features From Your Web-Browser

Microsoft Windows 7 and if you  planning to get switched on the new operating-system now you can test and learn the new features online right from your web-browsers - thanks to newly introduced Windows 7 Test Drive service from Microsoft which allows users and developers to experience Windows 7 running live on Microsoft servers in an safe virtual test-drive environment accompanied with supporting step-by-step walkthrough videos of it's features.

The free test-drive resource requires no special software installation and runs inside your web-browser (Internet Explorer) and needs a single Active-X installation to get started.

The test-drives are divided into various categories like productivity, security & control, streamlined PC management etc. which can be accessed from the official Windows 7 Test Drive website here. http://www.microsoft.com/click/WindowsTestDrive/itpro/

 

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D-I-Y: Using Google DNS

Put your nternet protocol setting at “Obtain DNS server address automatically“.

From the juntariman blog:  The DNS (Domain Name System) is used to identify you computer when connected to the net. It’s like a phone book in the internet where host names are translated to IP addresses.

Last week Google launches it public DNS and it proves fast and efficient as i tried it to my PLDT DSL connection. Google’s public DNS addresses are easy to remember: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as preferred and alternate respectively.

Follow the step-by-step procedure below to set your IP/TCP setting at this blog http://juntariman.wordpress.com/2009/12/08/d-i-y-using-google-dns-2/

Create an Ad-Hoc Network Sharing Point from a Windows 7 Netbook

via PC World  Windows 7 Starter Edition, the version loaded onto netbooks, isn't supposed to offer "advanced" features like ad-hoc network sharing. In this one case, however, finding this feature is as simple as typing the right phrase into the Start Menu search.

Rafael Rivera's Within Windows blog points out that while the dialog that normally starts the ad-hoc networking process in Windows 7 is disabled in Starter Edition, simply searching for adhoc allows you to start it up. That means being able to connect other computers, smartphones, and Wi-Fi-enabled devices to your netbook when it's got a net connection. It's not quite as convenient as Virtual Wireless Networking, which you can enable with Connectify, but it does get the job done.

Windows 7 Starter hides but allows ad-hoc networking Continue reading here http://lifehacker.com/5420583/create-an-ad+hoc-network-sharing-point-from-a-windows-7-netbook

Online Web-design tools for the beginner

From CNET, for more details go to the link at the end of this post.  If you're not an advanced Web designer, and you don't want to pay a company to create a Web site for you, there are services across the Web that can help you create the site you want. All of the tools listed below are designed specifically for beginners. If that's you, give them a whirl.

Get your design on

Favicon Generator Tool: Every site needs its own unique Favicon, that little image you find next to a URL in your address bar and on the tabs in your browser. But creating one might not be easy for novices. That's where the Favicon Generator Tool comes in.

Web 2.0 Button Generator: If you want to add a Web 2.0 feel to your site, you'll want to consider using Web 2.0 Button Generator. The site allows you to create a Web 2.0-like button for your site.
When you start using Web 2.0 Button Generator, you'll find that you can choose from three button designs. From there, you can choose a color, modify the text in the button, and decide if you want to add logos to sites across the Web, including YouTube, Flickr, Facebook, and others. Creating the button takes just a few seconds. Once complete, you can download it as an image, place it where you want on your site, and you're all set.

Wordpress Theme Generator: If you're unhappy with the themes other Wordpress users have created, you can create your own with the help of the Wordpress Theme Generator.\

My top three

1. CSS Typeset: If you want to quickly modify a site's design, CSS Typeset is the place to go.
2. Color Wizard: Find the right color with Color Wizard.
3. Wordpress Theme Generator: It's not advanced, but if you want a simple, unique Wordpress theme, Wordpress Theme Generator is worth trying out. 

Read the original blog here

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10375115-2.html?tag=nl.e776

OpenOffice Writer Alternative to Microsoft Word

1. OpenOffice.org Writer : This open source software package is an overall alternative to Microsoft Office. OOo Writer is perfect replacement of Microsoft word. Bruce Byfield has done an extensive comparison between the two programs and I’m sure you’ll see that OOo Writer is no less than MS Word.

Basic help here

• General

How do I open Microsoft Office 2007 files?

• Installation
• Word Processing
  • Automatic Functions
  • Document Management
  • Formatting Pages and Docs
  • Formatting Text
  • Graphics, Frames & Objects
  • Indexes, Tables of Contents
  • Printing and Mail Merge
• Spreadsheets
  • Formatting Spreadsheets
  • Document management, file formats, compatibility
  • Printing Spreadsheets
  • Charts
  • Error handling, error messages
  • Miscellaneous questions
• Drawings
• Presentations
• Formula Editor
• Databases
• Macros
• Platform-specific
  • Mac OS X 10.5 "Leopard"

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Table of Contents

Lesson 1: Getting Familiar with Microsoft Word 2007 for Windows

Microsoft Word is a word processing software package. You can use it to type letters, reports, and other documents. It gives you the ablilty to use your home computer as well as your business computer for desktop publishing. This tutorial teaches Microsoft Word 2007 basics. Although this tutorial was created for the computer novice, because Microsoft Word 2007 is so different from previous versions of Microsoft Word, even experienced users may find it useful. This lesson will introduce you to the Word window. You use this window to interact with Word.

• The Microsoft Office Button
• The Quick Access Toolbar
• The Title Bar
• The Ribbon
• The Ruler
• The Text Area
• The Vertical and Horizontal Scroll Bars
• The Status Bar
• Understanding Document Views
• Click
• Understanding Nonprinting Characters
• Create Sample Data and Select Text
• Place the Cursor
• Execute Commands with Keyboard Shortcuts
• Start a New Paragraph
• Exit Word

Lesson 2: Microsoft Word 2007 Basic Features

Lesson 1 familiarized you with the the Microsoft Word window. You are now ready to learn how to create a Word document. This lesson covers typing, using the Backspace key, using the Delete key, inserting text, bolding, underlining, and italicizing.

• Type, Backspace, and Delete
• Insert and Overtype
• Bold, Italicize, and Underline
• Save a File and Close Word

Lesson 3: More Basic Features

The features in Word 2007 can make your work easier, make your documents more attractive, and/or enable you to work more efficiently. This Microsoft Word lesson teaches you how to open a file, cut, copy, paste, use AutoText, use spell check, use Find and Replace, and change fonts. All of these features either make your work easier or make your document more attractive.

• Open a File
• Cut and Paste
• Copy and Paste
• Use the Clipboard
• Create AutoText
• Use Spell Check
• Find and Replace
• Change the Font Size
• Change the Font
• Save Your File

Lesson 4: Formatting Paragraphs and Working with Styles

When you type information into Microsoft Word, each time you press the Enter key Word creates a new paragraph. You can format paragraphs. For example, you can indent the first line of a paragraph, you can set the amount of space that separates paragraphs, and you can align a paragraph left, right, center, or flush with both margins. Styles are a set of formats you can quickly apply to a paragraph. For example, by applying a style, you can set the font, set the font size, and align a paragraph all at once. In this lesson, you will learn about the various formats you can apply to a paragraph and about styles.

• Open a Blank Document
• Add Sample Text
• Add Space Before or After Paragraphs
• Change Line Spacing
• Create a First-Line Indent
• Indent Paragraphs
• Align Paragraphs
• Create a Hanging Indent
• Choose a Style Set
• Apply a Style
• Change Style Sets

Lesson 5: Adding Bullets and Numbers, Undoing and Redoing, Setting Page Layouts and Printing Documents

If you have lists of data, you may want to bullet or number them. When using Microsoft Word, bulleting and numbering are easy. The first part of this lesson teaches you to bullet and number. After you have completed your document, you may want to share it with others. One way to share your document is to print and distribute it. However, before you print you may want to add page numbers and tell Word such things as the page orientation, the paper size, and the margin setting you want to use. In this lesson you will learn how to layout and how to print your documents.

• Add Bullets and Numbers
• Undo and Redo
• Set the Orientation
• Set the Page Size
• Set the Margins
• Add Page Numbers
• Insert Page Breaks
• Preview and Print Documents

Yahoo mail basics learn how to use

Getting Started With Yahoo! Mail

Introducing Yahoo! Mail

Reading an Email Message

Replying to a Message

Sending a Message

Introducing Yahoo! Mail

Yahoo! Mail is an email application that makes it easy to send and receive email messages over the Internet. You may have another email account at work or school, but with Yahoo! Mail you can send and receive email from any computer with Internet access, anywhere in the world. Plus, your Yahoo! Mail account comes with access to Yahoo! Contacts, Yahoo! Calendar, and Yahoo! Notepad. And you have unlimited mail storage with Yahoo! Mail!

It’s easy to begin using Yahoo! Mail—just open a web browser and get started!

Display in new window

• What’s Next
• Help Topics

 

Here’s How

1. Make sure that the computer you are using is connected to the Internet.
   
2. Open a Web browser, such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox.  
   
3. Type the following address in the browser’s address box, and press Enter:
   
   http://mail.yahoo.com
   The Yahoo! sign-in page opens in the browser.
   
   Tip: If you install the Yahoo! Toolbar on your browser, you can open your email with the click of a button. Click here to learn more about the Yahoo! Toolbar.
   
4. Type your Yahoo! ID and password, then click the Sign In button.
   
   
   
   Tip: If you don’t have a Yahoo! ID, you can sign up for one on the sign-in page.
   
   Yahoo! Mail appears in the browser and displays your Mail What’s New tab.
   
   
   
   Note: If you see status and updates information on your What’s New tab, you have the new Yahoo! Mail home page. Click here to learn about the features of this version of What’s New.
   
   If your mail screen doesn’t have a What’s New tab, you’re probably using Yahoo! Mail Classic instead of the All-New Yahoo! Mail. You can either go to the tutorials for Yahoo! Mail Classic or learn how to switch to the All-New Yahoo! Mail.
   

Take Me to Yahoo! Mail

Next:
Reading an Email Message

 

What’s Next

Prefer to Use Yahoo! Mail Classic?

There may be times when you prefer to use Yahoo! Mail Classic, such as when you have slower internet connection. It’s easy to switch back and forth between Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Mail Classic as often as you want.

1. To switch from Yahoo! Mail to Yahoo! Mail Classic, select the Switch to Yahoo! Mail Classic option on the Options menu on the right top side of the page.
   
   
   
2. In the window that appears, click the Switch to Yahoo! Mail Classic button to confirm that you want to leave the new Yahoo! Mail for now.
   
   
   
   This takes you the version of Yahoo! Mail that you’re already familiar with.
   
3. When you’re ready to come back to the All-New Yahoo! Mail, click the All-New Mail link in the upper right corner of the Yahoo! Mail Classic page.
   
   
   

 

Learn More

To learn all about Yahoo! Mail features, check out these tutorials:

• Connecting With Others in Yahoo! Mail—Take advantage of connecting with your friends right from the Yahoo! Mail home page.
• Customizing Yahoo! Mail—Make Yahoo! Mail your own by personalizing how it looks and behaves.
• Composing and Sending Email Messages—Write and address messages, attach files, and send email.
• Receiving Email Messages—Read and reply to messages and forward them to others.
• Managing Your Mailbox—Organize email messages into different folders.
• Searching for Messages—Find email messages anywhere in any of your folders.
• Working With Drafts and Sent Messages—Save unsent email in the Drafts folder and save sent messages to the Sent folder.
• Accessing Yahoo! Mail—Access Yahoo! Mail in a variety of ways, including Yahoo! Toolbar and even another email application.
• Using Filters to Sort Incoming Mail—Automatically sort incoming email messages into different folders.
• Protecting Yourself From Spam—Protect yourself from unwanted email, often called spam.
• Using SpamGuard—Use SpamGuard to automatically send spam to your Spam folder.
• Using Disposable Addresses—Create alternate, disposable email addresses to use whenever you don’t want to give out your real Yahoo! Mail address. This is a Yahoo! Mail Plus only feature.
• Accessing (Popping) Non-Yahoo! Mail—Use Yahoo! Mail to retrieve messages from your other email accounts.
• Working Safely With Email Attachments—Safely receive and send email attachments.
• Chatting With Your Contacts and Advanced Chat Features—exchange messages with your friends instantly through Yahoo! Mail’s chat feature.
• Using Text Messaging—send text messages with your friends’ SMS devices using Yahoo! Mail.
• Getting Started With Yahoo! Contacts—Learn how to use your Yahoo! Contacts.

Emailing: The Basics

It’s Emailing 101. Signing in and out. Composing. Sending. Receiving, replying, and forwarding...and deleting. Attachment help and Announcement help. Just click the links below to learn

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 Signing In and Out

 Composing and Sending

 Receiving Mail

 Replying

 Sending Attachments

 Receiving Attachments

 Forwarding Mail

 Announcing Your Address or Vacation

 Deleting

• How do I sign in and sign out of my account?
• How do I send a message?
• How do I read a message?
• How do I add an attachment to a message?
• How do I download an attachment?

Tutorials

• Getting Started with Yahoo! Mail
• Composing & Sending Emails
• Receiving Email Messages
• Working with Attachments

Yahoo mail basics learn how to use

Emailing: The Basics

It’s Emailing 101. Signing in and out. Composing. Sending. Receiving, replying, and forwarding...and deleting. Attachment help and Announcement help. Just click the links below to learn

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 Signing In and Out

• What's the most secure way to login?
• How do I sign in and sign out of my account?
• How do I switch between Yahoo! Mail accounts?

 Composing and Sending

• How do I send an email?
• Can I unsend an email?
• What's the largest email I can send?
• How do I put a link or URL into an email?
• Do I use categories to make groups and send to them?
• How do I start a new email?
• How do I address an email to someone?
• What do "Cc:" and "Bcc:" mean?
• Can I change how my name appears on my outgoing email?
• Can I send the same mail message to more than one person?
• How do I add or change a signature?
• How do I check the spelling in an email?
• What are these shortcut keys I keep hearing about?
• How do I switch from Plain Text to Rich Text (color, font, size and style choices), or back to Plain Text?
• How do I use the Rich Text toolbar to get type-style features like color and font choices?
• How do I change font sizes?
• I use plain text for my emails. Can I change that font?
• Are you an ISP or other mail server administrator having issues sending to Yahoo! Mail?
• If I send a message to someone, can I tell if they've received and read it?
• Can I change the time stamp on outgoing mail?
• Who can I send emails to?

 Receiving Mail

• Why was my email neither received nor bounced?
• How do I read an email?
• How do I skip to the next or previous email?
• How can I read my mail from another computer?
• What is the largest email I can receive?
• Can I read the HTML someone else puts in an email?
• How often are emails delivered into my mailbox?
• Someone sent me an email and I haven't received it. What happened?
• Why do I see the same text repeated twice in one email?
• What are headers, and what are my header viewing options?
• Can I adjust how quickly an email is marked as read?
• Can I read my emails in another language?
• I'm trying to read an email but it looks garbled. What happened?
• How do I print an email?
• Does Yahoo! Mail check for new emails?
• What’s the Reading Pane?
• How do I shrink or enlarge the Reading Pane?
• How do I close the Reading Pane? And how do I get it back?

 Replying

• How do I reply to an email?
• What do the backwards arrow, forward arrow, and flag icons mean?

 Sending Attachments

• How do I check an outgoing attachment for viruses?
• How do I remove an attachment?
• How do I add an attachment to an email?
• How do I forward an attachment?
• I'm having trouble attaching a file.
• Why are my attachments larger after I attach them?
• This attachment is taking long time to upload. How do I cancel it?

 Receiving Attachments

• How can I download ALL attachments?
• Can I view a slideshow of the photos I get from someone?
• Why doesn't an attachment open and appear correctly?
• How do I download an attachment?
• I received a message with an attachment. How can I view it or save it to my computer?
• How do I scan files attached to emails people send me?
• Why are emails with attachments routed to my Trash folder?

 Forwarding Mail

• How do I forward an email?
• How do I forward an attachment?
• What do the backwards arrow, forward arrow, and flag icons mean?

 Announcing Your Address or Vacation

• How do I tell everyone I have a Yahoo! Mail account?
• How do I create a vacation response?
• When I've set up an extra mail address, how do I tell friends and family about it?

 Deleting

• How do I sign in and sign out of my account?
• How do I send a message?
• How do I read a message?
• How do I add an attachment to a message?
• How do I download an attachment?

Tutorials

• Getting Started with Yahoo! Mail
• Composing & Sending Emails
• Receiving Email Messages
• Working with Attachments