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Need to give a technical presentation involving a website, application, or the operating system itself, and find it hard to focus attention to a particular link, dialog box, menu item, etc? The ZoomIt utility lets you activate a hotkey to immediately zoom in or out of the current screen, allowing those in the back of the room to more easily see a topic that you are discussing.

Besides zooming features, you can also draw on a zoomed or non-zoomed snapshot of the desktop in multiple colors, perhaps highlighting a menu item or web link the audience needs to notice. And, instead of having to open up Notepad to type description text, while in drawing mode you can press t to immediately begin typing on the screen snapshot. Plus, you can copy the snapshot with all drawings / text to the clipboard, or save it to a file. This way you could e-mail copies of the annotated screen to the participants or offer printouts at the end of a presentation....

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Google has developed a prediction tool for when flu outbreaks will spread in the United States and several countries around the world including Australia, France, Germany, Japan, and Russia. Based on search engine queries, Google claims this tool provides near real-time estimates of flu activity, while traditional reports may have a lag time of 1-2 weeks.

The Flu Trends website shows a a graph with current and predicted flu outbreak times based on historical data. Data can be further broken down by state / region / etc....

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Tired of relying on the mouse to perform common tasks in Windows and wish you could keep your hands on your keyboard? HotKeyz, a freeware application from Skynergy, lets you assign keyboard shortcuts to accomplish all sorts of tasks including minimizing windows, executing applications, muting the sound (useful if you don't have a multimedia keyboard), rebooting or shutting down the computer, opening web browsers to a particular web page, and much more.

While some other applications also support the creation of global hotkeys, HotKeyz lets you define keystrokes that perform multiple functions. For example, one hotkey can eject media, empty the Recycle Bin, and hibernate the machine. ...

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Depending on your configuration, when you right-click a drive or folder in Explorer, you may be given the option to browse the contents in IrfanView. This opens up IrfanView Thumbnails, allowing you to display thumbnail previews of the drive/folder contents and double-click a thumbnail to open the image in the main IrfanView window.

If this option does not appear and you would like this convenience, or if this option appears and you wish to remove it as you already have too many right-click context menu items, do the following:...

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While browsing the web with Opera, when you download files are you tired of the default location where the browser tries to store them, such as your "My Documents" folder? Perhaps you have a different folder, partition, or hard drive where you want file downloads placed. Changing this default location is easy:

1. Click the "Tools" menu, selecting "Preferences". Or press Ctrl + F12...

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While Google's Gmail has a variety of themes you can use to skin the application, did you know that if none of them are to your liking, you can choose your own colors? Unlike other methods of customizing Gmail, this requires no browser add-ons.

1. Click the "Settings" link near the top-right of Gmail....

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The FabTabs plugin for Mozilla Firefox causes the browser to automatically add colors to tabs based on the dominant colors used in webpages. Another option to instantly add colors to tabs is the ColorfulTabs plug-in, which at the time this tip was written has been downloaded over 10 million (!) times.

1. Visit the following page from within Firefox:...

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If you are having difficulty displaying a Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 slide show, either due to the graphics, video, and animation displaying slowly, poorly, or not at all, here are a couple of options you can try changing:

1. Click the "Slide Show" tab in the Ribbon....

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RegDllView is a portable freeware utility for Windows 98 and up that lets you view and register (Component Object Model) DLL, EXE, and OCX files. For each file the utility displays the number of system, user, and control entries; last registration date and time; .NET version (if applicable); company name; file and product versions; and other information. For each entry RegDllView shows the full class ID, name, program ID, threading model, and other information.

Other features include accessing entries in the registry editor by opening RegEdit; registering, re-registering, and unregistering files; accessing file properties; opening the file's location folder in Explorer; and outputting HTML reports of registered files. ...

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MediaMonkey is a multimedia organizer and player for Windows with support for many types of files including AAC, FLA, MP3, OGG, and WMA. Files can be organized and viewed by file location, album, artist, composer, and genre. Besides reading ID3 tags, you can key in a variety of classifications such as tempo, mood, occasion, and quality, plus album art and lyrics can be added.

Besides multimedia playback, MediaMonkey supports ripping files from CD, burning CDs and DVDs, converting audio between formats, syncing with external audio devices, downloading podcasts, visualizations (additional visualizations can be obtained online), and a special "Party Mode" that prevents changes to your media library and helps prevent switching to other Windows applications (with an optional administrator password lock). ...

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