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Have you ever visited a website and wanted just a bit of content from the page, but ended up printing the whole web page?

Well most users are not aware that they can actually print off just a selection of text. So instead they end up wasting tons of paper printing a whole web site when they could have just printed off the part they needed.

OK, so here is how you can print off a selection of text from a web page.

• Select the text you want to print, by clicking the mouse and highlighting the text.
• Right-click on the selected text and choose “Print”
• On the print dialog, under “Page Range”, check the option called “Selection”

That will just print off your selected text. Now you can save paper and save time!

The New Windows Live is launching pretty soon and looks to be a cool service. The new and updated Windows Live services will help you stay in touch easier, faster and better than before.

Along with this new service, there are also a bunch of cool new icons. And who doesn’t love a nice icon?

Below are some samples of the new icons that will be launching with the new Windows Live services.

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Autorun occurs when a CD or DVD is inserted into a Windows computer. When this happens, Windows looks for a file called autorun.inf. If the file exists on the CD/DVD, the instructions in the file will be followed - generally to run a .exe or other installer type file.

There is malicious software out there that relies on the autorun feature in order to execute and infect computers, so many users these days are turning the autorun feature off. You will have slightly better security with it turned off, but you will then have to manually run the contents on the CD/DVD.

To disable the autorun, you will need to edit the Windows registry. Always be careful when editing the registry and you do so at your own risk.

Click start -> run, type “regedit” to fire up the registry editor:

Browse to the location:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\Explorer

If “NoDriveTypeAutoRun” does not exist, Right click on the “Explorer” folder, select New -> DWORD value. Call the key “NoDriveTypeAutoRun”.

Set the value of this key to B1. To turn it back on, set the value to 91.

Vista and Autorun

In Windows Vista you will be prompted with a dialog asking you what you want to do. You can either choose to run the file or you can set the defaults. When you choose to set the defaults you will see the following options. (these options can also be accessed via the control panel)

So for each type of media, you can choose whether it autoplays or whether you should be prompted. For things like software it is a good idea to be prompted everytime. You never know what might be lurking on a CD/DVD.

It looks like we will all have to wait a bit longer for the Firefox 3.1 Beta 2 release due to bugs, and lots of them.

The beta 2 release has been halted by approximately 17 bugs.  While the team is hard at work fixing the bugs, this will probably delay the release date to somewhere in late November. For now you can download the beta 1 version.

If you are still not using version 3 of Firefox, then you should upgrade ASAP, as there are many cool new features and interface tweaks.

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If you want to uninstall a program on Windows XP or Vista, you can do so by going to the Control Panel and selecting the “Add or Remove Programs” option. Then you just browse through the list and select the programs you want to remove.

This generally works pretty well, but in some cases there will be programs that cannot be removed via this method. Quite often spyware/adware applications wont uninstall and some programs that are missing their uninstall file also won’t be going anywhere in a hurry.

The options are to just leave the program hanging around in the program list and delete its folder and related files, however, this does not necessarily remove the registry entries for the program. In the case of some adware, it can reinstall itself if it still exists in the registry.

So for really stubborn programs we recommend something like Perfect Uninstaller. This should be able to uninstall pretty much anything. It’s a very simple program to use and it does the job. If you need to remove something, try it out via the free download trial below:

Uninstally annoying and unwanted programs

The Professional Developers Conference has just been going on from October 27-30 and Microsoft has been releasing alot of info about their new upcoming products as well as demos of Windows 7.

Below are some links to the keynote presentations from Day 1 and Day 2. If you have any interest in Microsoft related products, you should find these very informative.

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Just recently at the PDC conference, Microsoft has revealed further information about their Azure platform.

Azure is a Microsoft hosted platform that allows for internet-scale cloud computing and services. It can be used to add web service capabilities to existing apps, build web apps with minimal on premises resources, perform services off premises, reduce costs and develop new web services inexpensively.

Read more about Windows Azure

Well it seems that Microsoft has finally come up with an official name for their new Windows 7 Operating system and it looks like they have thought about this long and hard.

The official name is……..Windows 7.

Pretty original huh?

Anyway, who really cares what they call it. Lets just hope it meets expectations and with all the new user feedback they are getting, it should be a better OS than Vista.

One of the features that we have all wanted to see is support for the Windows Taskbar across multi-monitors and it looks like this could finally be addressed in Windows 7.

Microsoft have said that this feature is not as easy to implement as it may seem, and there is no promise that Windows 7 will feature this support. But nonetheless, rumours are that Microsoft is working hard on this feature. We will most likely see the outcome at the upcoming Professional Developers Conference in Vegas.

Yahoo Messenger 9.0 is now available and integrates with the latest versions of Windows XP and Vista.  Of course it comes with a bunch of new features and redesigned interface and is ready to compete with the latest release of Windows Live Messenger.

One of the new features is the Yahoo Messenger Pingbox. This lets users IM you without the need for Messenger or a Yahoo ID. There will also be a few new skins and more emoticons. Overall it is a better and easier to use product.

The new Pingbox feature:

For all of you Yahoo Messenger fans, you can download the latest version below.

Download Yahoo Messenger 9 Here