How to disable trackpad when typing on your laptop

How to disable trackpad when typing on your laptop

First look for a button or hot key combination that your laptop might provide to disable the trackpad or adjust its sensitivity…that will be the best method. However, if you cannot find or don’t have that option, these two downloads may help you type in more peace with your laptop: TouchFreeze TouchPadPal ...

16 Educational Web Sites to Bookmark Now!

This month’s radio show focused on education and the web. Education related sites for students of all ages and sites for adults who just have inquisitive minds! If you have a great education related web site you want to share, please leave a comment with a link to the site. Enjoy. Global Scholar – Tutoring for all ages Spark Notes – Study guides, test prep, and more! Edu 2.0 – Online teaching and...

EULAlyzer can help you stay safe

I ran across this tool a few years ago, but more people have asked about it, so here you go. What this free tool does is analyze all those End User License Agreements (EULA) that we agree to blindly when we install new software or sign up for an online service. After downloading and installing this tool, you can use it to analyze the agreement for you before you click agree. It will hunt for things like privacy problems,...

How to dual boot Vista and XP (with Vista installe...

This article helped me immensely today. He doesn’t link the EasyBCD program in his article that is critical to getting everything going, but I’ve linked it here. He also links to another article of his that explains how to dual boot XP and Vista with XP already installed. Good stuff! How to dual boot Vista and XP (with Vista installed first) — the step-by-step guide with screenshots. ...

DriveImage XML Backup Software

Free disk imaging software. DriveImage XML Backup Software.

Ubuntu Keyboard Shortcuts

A show listener asked about keyboard shortcuts for Ubuntu Linux…ask and you shall receive, click here.

Find where cell towers are located

Gene called in today and wondered how to locate where cell towers are for his service. MJ in our video chat room had two sites and I know we have one in Tedd’s archives. Here are the two that MJ shared: Cell Reception Antenna Search Tedd, our bargain guru, sent me this site: Mobile Media

Download video from the web

Here is a link for that downloader program that helps download streaming video from the web.

Convert audio files

Sally called today and wondered how to get her iTunes to a micro-SD card that she can then listen to on her cell phone. I’m not sure of the legality of this program, but it appears to do the trick. It’s called Sound Taxi.

K-Meleon – Super small browser

Garry called in today and asked if we had mentioned anything about the K-Meleon browser. We hadn’t, but now we have. Thanks Garry!

Transfer iTunes from Windows XP to Vista

Pat called today and needed to transfer his iTunes library from a Windows XP machine to his new Vista machine. We didn’t have any great advice besides buying a Mac, but did find this step-by-step process that explains how to do it.

Microsoft Outlook not saving password any longer

I found this answer at this site: Optimizing your PC So, I haven't tried it or had to use it, but the process seems plausible. In some cases Outlook doesn't save your password, even if you enable the option to save the password. This error is caused by a malfunctioning of the Protected Storage Space from Windows. To solve this problem, run the registry editor and navigate to the key...

Converting FIleMaker Pro database files to OpenOff...

For Susan in Alaska, here are some forums dealing with converting FileMaker Pro databases to OpenOffice Base format that you can use in any operating system including Ubuntu: Filemaker Pro to Base? File Maker Pro Database to Open Office Database Filemaker Pro to Base? Filemaker Pro database – access from OO? ...

Open Office Outlining Solution

Greg called in and is using the OpenOffice Word Processor (Writer) and had a problem with outlining. Here are two links to read up on possible solutions or post the question at these forums: Disabling AutoFormat Load styles at startup ...