Friedbeef’s Tech

How to Streamline Your Right Click Context Menu

Just last month we talked about ‘Giving Your Right Mouse Button Super Powers’ where you were able to add a ton of features to your right click.   Some of you loved it, but some of you thought the extra options were just too overwhelming!  For those of you in the latter group – here’s something [...]

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How to Get Ahead: Top 5 Essential Web 2.0 Career Resources

Just how do you get ahead these days?   Here are 5 high tech tools to supplement traditional job-hunting site on the web like Monster or Jobstreet.  Hopefully they’ll give you that little extra edge you need to move ahead in your career.  Of course, nothing beats the traditional method of working hard and smart – [...]

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How to get more space on your hard disk by cleaning out Outlook properly

  If you’ve ever done a thorough cleanup of your Outlook inbox, you’ll find that permanently deleting files or emptying your recycle bin gets rid of the file – but doesn’t really do much in terms of saving space.  To reclaim your hard disk, what you need to do is to compact your PST file.  [...]

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How to Resume Right Where You Left Off in MS-Word

  Here’s a simple tip which will save you oodles of time!  Suppose you’re working on a long and complex MS-Word document which can’t be finished in a single sitting.  When you get open up the document later – you don’t have to scroll through multiple pages to get to the part where you left [...]

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How to Convert PDF to Text

We’ve previously discussed ways to convert Text to PDF, but what if you wanted to do it the other way around?  Typically, copying and pasting directly from a PDF file will result in messy globs of unformatted text, making it barely feasible large sections of text.  PDF Text Online is a free web based service [...]

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