If you are a photographer or artist, you are probably obsessed with having the correct colors displayed on your screen, printer, and at the press. Windows 7 provides a color correction utility in the display control panel. Open the Control Panel. Click on Appearance and Personalization. Click on Display. Click on Calibrate color.
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To save money consider making your own laundry detergent. It takes a short amount of time and can last you up to a year! Costing less than ten dollars for all items used (Fels Naptha bar, washing soda and borax). If you do a google search you can find many great recipes. Also, keep a [...]
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Don’t use cruise control on a rainy day. If you hydroplane on a puddle, the cruise control can lose contact with pavement and may speed up, cusing you to lose control on an already dangerous road. This post was submitted by Joyce.
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Get a new digital camera? Learn how to use it by shooting 100 photos of the same thing from different angles, with different settings, different light. With a digital camera, there is no cost for all this experimentation. Shooting the same object or scene over and over will help you learn what works and what [...]
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Rejection is a part of a writing career. Think of it as a business decision, not a referendum on your writing ability. Most of the time, rejection simply means you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Dust it off and send it out again. This post was submitted by Joyce.
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Consider your writing a product and as with any product, if you want to sell it, you have to know it. Be able to describe it in a few words (high concept), in 2-3 sentences (elevator speech) and in 1-2 paragraphs (back cover blurb). Write this very brief description on the back of your business [...]
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At some point in every writer’s career, the work has to be sent out into the publishing world. Make sure it’s your best work. Don’t forget the SASE. Send it out, and keep on working while you’re waiting for a response. This post was submitted by Joyce.
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I had the fortunate experience of being part of a new group within a large firm to tackle the Web. This organization had an elementary web presence and the team was formed to take it to a new level. Part of the problem in this company was the lack of understanding about the web – [...]
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When you right-click on a folder or file in Windows 7 Explorer and select Send To, there are a limited number of options available. If you hold down the Shift key, right-click, and select the Send To menu, you will see an expanded set of options.
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In Windows XP, there was a great power toy to Open Command Window Here when you right-clicked on a folder. Windows 7 has the same functionality, but you have to know a trick to have it appear. Hold down Shift and right-click on the folder you want to open in command prompt. Select Open command [...]