Digital Insights: Computer Tips & Tricks

So you have a word document that has a blank page after table on the previous page. If you place your cursor on that page and press backspace several times but nothing happens it means you have a paragraph mark inserted after table which lies on the bottom paragraph preventing you from deleting that page.

To see whether an empty page has paragraph mark activate pilcrow menu (see below)

Paragraph mark looks like this

Select this paragraph mark (it should be highlighted) and start reducing font size from let’s say 11pt to 1pt. This trick makes paragraph mark smaller on the empty page and by some point it should jump back on the previous page under the table. When this happens empty page in word 2007 disappears

If this doesn’t help try one more trick. Select paragraph mark like previously and right click select paragraph properties. Indentation and spacing should be set to 0pt

Write in the comments if this helped you to delete the annoying empty page in word document.

Pretty much every site where you have to register using email declares that “we hate spam too”, “we promise not to spam you” and similar promises. But your email inbox is still full of fake cialis offers (I don’t even bothered to search the google what it is used for). So it’s almost impossible to identify which sites are collecting your email or selling to spammers because of course they never use the domain name on where your registered.

But here are the good news for Gmail users. Gmail does pretty good job identifying spam emails but I’m about to tell you 1 trick how to identify spammers. It’s interesting to know which sites are using spam methods or selling your email. For example if you detect that new online shop use your email for spamming then you will know it’s better to keep your money for other e-shop. Read the rest of this entry »

If you’re afraid that some virus or trojan might log your keypresses on the keyboard you can use on screen keyboard to make impossible to track what password combination you are typing. Read the rest of this entry »

If you wonder how to save pictures from Word document like from web browser you may see that word doesn’t offer such a function to directly save image.

Instead you can use simple trickprovided that you have Power Point installed.

Copy the image from Word document and paste it into the Power Point presentation. Now press right mouse button and you will see option Save as Picture. This is what we need. Now you can save the picture from document like from web page.

This is a little trick to view file properties faster with only 2 clicks of a mouse (to view file properties normally it takes 3 clicks).

To view file properties for a single file or a group of files you have to:

1. Select them;
2. Right click on them;
3. Select properties;

Hovewer this method is sometimes very time consuming, especially if you have installed many programs which has additional functionality while right click on the file. Read the rest of this entry »

Are you familiar with the situation when you see the html, php or any other language code on the screen but can’t copy it because it’s an image?

So typing the code down by yourself isn’t the best idea. At first you will waste your time instead of understanding more of the material.

You need some kind of OCR (Optical character recognition) software. Scanner isn’t needed because you already have the picture on your computer.

One way to extract code (or text) from the image is to use Microsoft Office OneNote program. It’s a great tool to keep your notes in one place and it has both the features to make a screenshot with one click and extract text from the image. Read the rest of this entry »

Have you got suspicious looking email or saw a link that seems to open a page fool of trojans or other malware? If you want to see how the page in the hyperlink looks like you can get a photo preview.

Go to “thumbalizr” and paste the link in box. You can take a screenshot or whole page from the top to the bottom. Select your choice and press “thumb it” button.

After a few seconds you will get a link to download images of the webpage. You could save it in various resolutions up to 1280 pixels width. Read the rest of this entry »

Recently I searched for free american based anonymous proxies which could help stream such sites like hulu.com, aol, abc and others and in one comment found this beautifull advise for others who don’t want to go through many technical stuff but just watch free videos from outside USA. Read the rest of this entry »

Many common words and phrases are dominated by Wikipedia and it has first position in search engines. As you know the vast majority of people always clicks on the first or second result. If your search phrase is being dominated by Wikipedia the least you can squeeze out of it is to determine how popular this keyword is. Read the rest of this entry »

If you want to use Skype for business and personal use but don’t want to share your personal skype username the only thing is to have 2 separate Skype contacts working at the same time from 1 computer.

Hovewer you can not simply launch another instance of Skype like Word document. So you either have to turn it off and switch to another account or use the following technique and 2 Skype accounts working at the same time. Read the rest of this entry »