If you do a lot of writing or editing in Word, you will often find yourself wanting to change the case of selected portions of text – perhaps to upper case or to title case. You can do this manually of course, but there is a much faster way.
First highlight the text you want to change the case of, and then press Shift+F3. Pressing this keyboard shortcut once will convert the highlighted text to upper case. Pressing it a second time will convert the text to all lowercase. Pressing it a third time will give you title case (first …

Any way you slice it, there is a lot of junk on YouTube. And 72 hours of new junk is uploaded every minute of every day. It would take you 6,400 years to watch all the videos on YouTube. Doubt you have time for that.
Devour.com comes to your rescue. This site sifts and sorts the junk to find best videos and a well-curated collection is posted every weekday. Fewer cute kittens, fewer nutshots, fewer laughing babies, and best of all – no crazy comments. Awesome! Visit Devour.com to watch some great videos.…

With our camera-equipped smartphones, most of us are snapping more pictures than we ever did before. And while not quite the same as working with a digital single-lens reflex camera, the cameras on today’s smartphones can take amazing pictures.
Among the many features they now have, most smartphone cameras offer a zoom function. Nice to have a zoom, but you shouldn’t use it. Why? Unfortunately, smartphones don’t have fancy lenses. This means they have a digital zoom, not an optical zoom. When you use a digital zoom, the camera is “extrapolating” what is really there. Essentially this means the firmware …

PDF documents are great when you want to make it easy for anyone to view or print a document. But what happens when you need to alter a PDF? You can, of course, do it with Adobe Acrobat or other expensive PDF Editors, but you can also do it for free with Google Docs! It’s easy.
First, take the PDF you want to alter and upload it to Google Docs. Next, check the Convert text from PDF and image files to Google Documents checkbox. This converts a PDF document into a rich text document you can edit. When you are …

Smartphones, tablets, laptops and computers are more reliable and stable than ever before. Most of us take this for granted and we leave our devices turned on 24/7.
However, that doesn’t mean you should never “reboot” your device (i.e., turn the device right off and restart it). In fact, a regular reboot can be helpful.
Many programs and apps have “memory leaks” (i.e. they grab and use memory as they operate, but then don’t release it for other programs when they are done). While memory leaks may slow a device down (by limiting the memory the device can use for …

Sometimes you just want to sit back and listen. It is very easy to have your iPad or iPhone read text to you (iOS 5 and iOS6). Go to Settings General Accessibility and turn “Speak Selection” to on. After doing this, simply highlight or select the text you want read to you, and then hit the Speak button.
See how it works for you, and remember to try tweaking the configuration to suit your preferences (you can make it read faster).
There are various screen-reader apps, some of which have more features, but Speak Selection can do the job for …

By default, the delete confirmation pop-up appears whenever you delete a file on a Windows computer. The intentions are good – prevent you from accidentally deleting a file. However, that extra click can be annoying, especially if you are deleting a lot of files.
You can easily disable the delete confirmation pop-up. Right-click on the Recycle Bin and select Properties. Uncheck the delete confirmation box, click Apply, and then OK. After doing this, deleted files will go directly to the Recycle Bin.
And another neat trick, you can bypass the Recycle Bin entirely (i.e. deleted files won’t be placed into …

It is costly to replace the cartridges on laser and inkjet printers. You can save money by printing in draft mode, which uses a lot less ink. In most cases, you will probably find draft mode printouts are acceptable. Try printing in draft mode, and if the bulk of your printouts are fine, consider setting your printer to print in draft mode by default. You can then manually switch to full quality when necessary.…

To avoid viruses and spyware, you should only download software from reputable sites you know are safe. One of the best sources of safe software downloads on the web is FileHippo.com. It has the newest versions of the most widely used software (freeware and shareware), browsers and browser plug-ins. The downloads on this site are 100% spyware and virus free. FileHippo also has old versions of some programs, allowing you to return to an old version is you don’t like the new version. There is also an Update Checker to scan your machine for old software. Visit File Hippo …

Have you ever forgotten the password on your router? Hate when that happens! But don’t fret it, with routerpasswords.com you have no worries.
If you forget your router’s password and want to reconfigure it, you must reset it. Doing this will reset all settings to factory defaults, including the administrator password. Next, visit routerpasswords.com and enter your router’s make and model number. This site will give you your router’s factory default administrator login information. Nice!…