AutoCAD 12 and later Dear Friends, In my former article “Hatching from A to Z“, I wrote about hatching in detail. In this article, I will talk about how to...
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Hip tip: Adjusting HATCH scale to fit drawing scale.
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Word 2008: How to assign command-G to ‘Find Next’
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Word 2008 is so bad that it is driving me positively nuts. Yet I have no choice but to use it sometimes, and in such situations I need to try and reduce the mental pain...
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Adobe!!! Stop making Acrobat useless with out Photoshop installed!
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I already mentioned this type of lameness once! Thankfully this time it struck while I was at home with my CS3 disks. I installed Photoshop before, so that I could...
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Snippets: Howto Grey-Out The Screen
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This snippet grays out the screen and allows you to create a modal environment. A gray out is useful for creating a DHTML dialog box, or showing off a picture or video....
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Is This An Error?
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Here’s a dialog box from Visual Studio 2008 Team System: This begs the question: is this an error? No, it isn’t. The last time I was giving my usability...
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Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin
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It's back! Go get the Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin Installation of the Windows Media Player Firefox Plugin may require administrative access to your PC. It is...
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Making changes to published Web Gallery albums
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Even after you’ve published a Web Gallery album, you can always make changes to it right from iPhoto ’08. If you want to add new photos, simply drag the photos to the...
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Presenting Template Shelf
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I created Template Shelf because I needed quick and easy access to all the template in my weblog. I had just started to redesign Movalog and the new modular templates...
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Social network in a Gadget?
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Reading the Google Gadget FAQ, it sure sounds like we'll see a form of social network springing up around this space soon. Is anyone working on this?You can now have...
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Get the NEW Windows Live Mail Beta 2 Download!
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It’s been about 3 months since our last Beta release for WL Mail, and I know that many of you have been eagerly awaiting an update. Well, wait no more! Today...
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Adobe InDesign CS3 5.0.3 Updater: Why does it require me to quit Safari?
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A short while ago, Adobe released a stand-alone updater for InDesign CS3 (version 5.0.3). Today, I got around to downloading it and installing it on my machine. I...
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Force Open/Save Dialogs to Use Details Mode in Windows XP
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The common Open/Save dialogs are so prevalent in Windows applications that each little annoyance ends up driving us crazy after a while. The most frustrating thing for me...
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Automation
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I was quite excited about the prospect of Automator when it was introduced, because it offered the prospect of being able to write quick scripts to solve little workflow...
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How to Use Saved Searches
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Since the earliest days of Eventful, we've had a feature that let you save a search that the system would run on an ongoing basis, emailing you the results hourly, daily,...
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Migrating from Netscape to Flock
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Following on from yesterday's announcement, Netscape users eager to give Flock a try do not have to start with a blank slate. The team at Flock has created a simple...
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What's keeping you? What's keeping me?
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Filed under: Utilities, Macintosh, FreewareIt's no secret that we install a lot of programs here at Download Squad to review. And when the review is over most of them get...
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Thoughts on Casio's W53CA for AU
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After my recent announce of the new AU Summer Collection, I had to wait a couple months before the official release of the Casio W53CA phone. I got the phone a few weeks...
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Adventures in Safe Mode
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You will notice in several places I have this disclaimer/warning: WARNING! The Firefox Extension Guru is an independent beta-tester and is not affiliated with Mozilla...
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Rediscovering Three-pane Merging with TortoiseMerge and Team Foundation Server
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I find that merging without a real 3-pane merging tool is painful at best. When I was a Subversion user, I always used TortoiseMerge, the merge tool that comes with...
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Adobe Reader 9 is released – to install, or not to install
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Adobe Reader 9 is released but wait a minute before you go ahead and install it. Although you can install Adobe Acrobat 9.x or Adobe Reader 9.x on a computer that...