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Using the Google Chrome Browser – Cool Searching Tips

In this Google Chrome browser tutorial video, I’ll show you some cool search engine tips. Now there is no need for multiple toolbars to search various search engines. Now you can use Chrome to search any search engine, any specific category of a search engine directly from the Google Chrome address bar. So, you can [...]

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Using Windows Vista Speech Recognition

In this video tutorial, we are going to look at the speech recognition application in Windows Vista. The speech recognition program allows you to control your computer using speech. You will need to have a microphone attached to your computer – which you can purchase for as little as $10 or $15 dollars including headphones. [...]

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Speed Up Windows Vista Using ReadyBoost

Windows Vista introduced a new utility which can speed up your computer’s performance by utilizing your spare portable storage. Instead of using your hard drive, which is generally slower, you insert into your computer a USB drive, secure digital card (SD), CompactFlash and other portable storage. Windows Vista will use this faster storage for disk [...]

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Using the Text Function in Excel to Extract and Concatenate Data

The Text Function in Excel 2007 can be used to extract data from Excel. Using use the Left, Mid and Right function arguments, data can be easily extracted. Taking this one step further, your extracted data can then be combined or concatenated, thus making this a very power tool. In this video, we show you [...]

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How to Use the Text Function in Excel 2007

There are some marvelous things you can do with the Text function in Excel 2007. There are functions that were convert your text into upper case or all capitals, lower case, and proper – which will turn all case into proper case. Using the Text function in Excel is easy to learn and another great [...]

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