Microsoft has published the link for the Windows 8 Release Preview. This is, for all intents and purposes, Windows 8 Release Candidate 1, and is expected to be the final official “release” of Windows 8 until the final retail version is released later this year. Enjoy.
Month: May 2012
Botnets getting frightening
I work in the IT industry, and when I read about the United States government urging large corperations and Internet Service Providers to volunteer their information in order to stop the spread of botnets and viruses, it gets a little more frightening than usual. Continue reading “Botnets getting frightening”
AfterFocus – photo editing for your Android
Their tagline is “Bring DSLR-like Photography to Your Smartphone.” And it’s very true. You have lots of focusing, color changing effects, and more. AfterFocus does a surprisingly good job considering it’s “not much more than a mobile app” – oh, and considering that it is free on the Google Play Store! Below is one of their sample pictures where they show changing the backdrop of a photo to black and white, while leaving the rest alone. Continue reading “AfterFocus – photo editing for your Android”
Show or Hide Formatting (extra characters) in Word 2007 / 2010
Do you have extra formatting characters or funny symbols in your Word Document? Do you have dots between every word in MSWord? Or are you proofing something so carefully that you might actually WANT those characters but don’t know how to turn them on? Here’s how you can easily switch them off and on. Continue reading “Show or Hide Formatting (extra characters) in Word 2007 / 2010”