http://www.techtipdaily.com Daily Tips of the Tech Trade Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:05:49 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Almost 1 year to the day of my last posting, we're finally back up and running with a new design and on a new host! All of the major events of my life have finally passed and I'm rearing to get back in front of the keyboard. Stay tuned in ... http://www.techtipdaily.com/?p=176 No I haven't died... No I haven't been kidnapped... And no, I most definitely have not lost interest.  It's been a crazy past few months, with my engagement/proposal coming just around the corner, a career change coming soon, and general chaos at work.  I still check the site from time to time ... http://www.techtipdaily.com/?p=175 I can't recall how many times I've been on a customer site and needed to print something, only to find that the printer was some obscure model that used a driver only obtainable from some password protected website in China, that just so happened to be down.  After talking with ... http://www.techtipdaily.com/?p=173 Who doesn't love Excel?  On top of all of the great things it can do, it does a heck of a job of looking neat and organized.  While you can create gridlines of certain styles and thicknesses around each cell, sometimes the standard thin-gray ones do the trick.  But by ... http://www.techtipdaily.com/?p=171 Microsoft has long been criticized for it's lack of attention to security.  For a long time, the majority of its products have not only had some major holes, but has done little to prevent the end user from jeopardizing their well-being.  Fortunately, this trend has changed in the past few ... http://www.techtipdaily.com/?p=169 Almost everyone has heard about the digital TV switch of 2009.  If you haven't heard of it yet, do a google search to learn all about it.  Ever since the word started to spread, there has been a big push for people to take steps to receive "Over the air" ... http://www.techtipdaily.com/?p=167 Yesterday, I talked about how you could convert your copy protected TV shows on Windows Media Center to another, less restrictive file format.  But who has time to sit down at their computer and watch TV shows?  What we really want is to watch these files on our portable devices ... http://www.techtipdaily.com/?p=163 If I had unlimited space on my Media Center computer, I would never stop recording.  Unfortunately, that's not very feasible (yet).  While I do have quite a bit of storage space between all of my machines and devices, because of Microsoft's DVR-MS copy protection, I'm only able to watch recorded ... http://www.techtipdaily.com/?p=157 So I've postponed today's article for a different one.  Yesterday, Google released it's new browser, coined "Chrome", to compete with Firefox, IE, Opera, and Safari.  So far, it's not having any problems doing this.  Preliminary tests show that Chrome is nearly 10 times faster than the other browsers on the ... http://www.techtipdaily.com/?p=159 I got a call from my Mother the other day, stating that her computer was having problems.  When she opened 'My computer', it would often take 30 seconds to a minute to load up and display all of her network drives.  During this time, the window was blank and the ... http://www.techtipdaily.com/?p=139