Wakerupper This is one amazing site. I say that without reservation because it has saved me, more than once, from a long boring, fruitless conversation with my partner and my nemesis, Chatty Cathy, er I mean EB. This is so cool Now when she drones on and on and on pointing out the massive amount of work she… Read More »
PaperBackSwap If you’re anything like us, you have lots and lots of paperback books laying around. One of our passions, besides computers, is reading. We both love to read and we both have tons of paperback books. Wouldn’t it be nice to be able to trade some of those old paperback books for other paperback books we’d like… Read More »
Joan wants to convert video files into other formats How do I convert flv, avi and/or vob files to mp4? Tried to download a software suggestion from CNET and Emsisoft flagged it as malware? Can you suggest some procedure I can use to do this? Our Answer Hi Joan — as you’ve already discovered, video converters which are… Read More »
WebFonter is Chrome extension and a bookmarklet that lets you try out fonts from the FontShop which features a large collection of fonts that you can buy. It does feature free fonts as well though the pickings are smaller. Fonts can cost anywhere between $45 to $2000+. What WebFonter does is that it lets you try out a font on… Read More »
Ét Tû Bruté: How to make those special characters you love(?) Don’t you wish you could write stuff like Et tu Brute like the title of this article – with all the fancy accent marks and so forth. YES! EB! I know you can find them in the Character Map but who wants to hunt through that thing?Són… Read More »
John wants to do some screenshots with arrows and highlighting I have been a longtime member of your weekly Newsletter and admire your unfailing helpfulness to all who seek your advice. I observe the highlighting, insertion of arrows and circles which you frequently add to various illustrations in your notes to us. Can you recommend a program I… Read More »