Creating a Windows Global Keyboard Shortcut (Hotkey)

You have this favorite application that you always access from time to time? You want to quickly access the same by a keyboard shortcut, say Ctrl + Alt + your favorite key, while being at any window at any time?

I used this procedure to quickly access my favorite calculator application, Moffsoft Freecalc, by assigning a global keyboard shortcut of F7.

This article describes how to create a keyboard shortcut for a program in Windows XP. Note that this feature works only with program shortcuts on the desktop or the Start menu. This feature does not work if the desktop shortcut is a shortcut to another shortcut.

Creating a keyboard shortcut

1. Right-click the desktop shortcut, and then click Properties.
2. On the Shortcut tab, click in the Shortcut Key box.
3. Press the keyboard combination that you want to use to start the program. The shortcut combination must consist of one character (a letter, number, or symbol) plus at least two of the following three keys: CTRL, ALT, and SHIFT.
4. Click OK.

Can't Edit Pictures in Microsoft Office Picture Manager

Can't edit pictures in Microsoft Office Picture Manager? Even though you have a valid license for your Microsoft Office 2007?

Download the Service Pack 2 of Microsoft Office 2007 and you'll be good to go.

Download link.

Who Wants to Eat Spam?

Statistics say that Blogger/Blogspot is the number 1 blogging platform in the world right now. With that number I suppose comes the number 1 platform to accumulate the most number of abandoned blogs.

Furthermore, with the most number of abandoned blogs comes the most number of spam comments who went unmoderated.

Thus, Blogger/Blogspot could probably bag home the award for the top one spammer in the world.

Now, who wants to eat that spam?

Tumblr Being Down Lately

It has happened too often recently. Tumblr down for 4 hours or so. I wondering what's happening.

That's on top of the recent news from Mashable and Techcrunch that they have lately secured some funding from some unknown investors. Something could be brewing in the background. We can only hope for the best.

So Tumblr team, are we expecting something good out of these downtimes? Hope to hear your thoughts.

IPhone 4 Camera Flash Problem

iPhone 4 had a great camera. However, one problem I had was when using the LED flash at the back ofnyhe phone while taking pictures, all it returned are blown out green picyures.

I thought my iPhone's camera and/or flash is broken. Was actually planning of.bringing the samr to the nearest Apple store. Great that I googled about it before I did.

It appears that the problem arose from the fact that I have not yet removed or changed the plastic cover at the back that came with the phone. The same plastic was covering the flash and the camera, so that's why the flash is actuallu to the camera that's why the blown out pictures.

How fool of me.

What I'm Missing with the New Adsense Interface?

I hate it that when I open my Adsense account, I can't directly look at which ad units and ad channels are actually delivering me the ad revenues.

 

So, Google, what do you say about that? Please bring us back the old layout instead.

Is there a Better Way of Reading PDF EBooks other than Adobe Reader?

Actually, there is. And it's called Adobe Digial Editions.

The only thing I noticed that it offers as an advantage over the regular Adobe Reader is the ability to add a bookmark to a page to facilitate easy/quick going back to the same page where you last left off.

How I Find Tumblr Not So SEO Friendly

I was testing the waters with some sample posts in my Tumblr blog and try if Google can index it properly. (You may want to read, "110mb for Sale? What Happens Now to the Premium Subscribers".)

After a couple of days (or three), tried Google Web and Google Blogs — nada! The Google blogs actually even return at No. 1 (well, it was the latest) my main blog (Deuts.NET), which contained links to the latest entries at my Tumblr blog.

You see, my main WordPress (self-hosted) blog which shows only the title can actually rank higher than my Tumblr blog. Now, I'm wondering, should I retain my domain deuts.org hosted at Tumblr?

I'm starting to think twice. I liked Tumblr's Facebook application — no, I loved it! But the fact remains that I don't actually get that much traffic from Facebook anyway. Majority of the traffic in my Tumblr are from my followers there. Referrers — not even search engines.