Archive for April 2008

How to create an easy to remember, hard to break password

Choosing a secure password is easy. What you need is a combination of a alphabet in upper and lower cases, numbers, and symbols, and the most important is, it is a nonsense string (not in the dictionary). An example of good password is iH2c&1W. However, can you memorize it (or, a multiple of it)?

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Password protect PowerPoint 2007

PowerPoint Password

To password protect a Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 file,

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Password protect Excel 2007

Excel Password

To password protect a Microsoft Excel 2007 file,

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Open a Word 2007 document in an earlier version of Word

In the previous article, I have shown you how to open a Word 2007 document without having to install Microsoft Office 2007.

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Disable Windows Autorun

This tips is useful for disabling Windows XP from running the Autorun.inf file.

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How to backup WordPress data

Backup is a process of duplicating data, so that it could be used to restore the original after a data loss event. This tutorial will show how to backup your WordPress posts, pages, comments, custom fields, categories, and tags easily, using WordPress eXtended RSS (WXR).

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Box multiplication

The box multiplication technique is suitable for people that has problem with numbers, since it will organized all the number in place.

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Multiply two 3 digits numbers in your head

This article will show how to do multiplication of two three digits numbers from right to left. Consider 234 × 456.

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Insert figures to LaTeX

LaTeX is a good tool for creating articles or books. However, when it comes to inserting figures, it is a very cumbersome process. This tutorial will show the steps for producing LaTeX documents with figures. For the purpose of this tutorial, we will use a graph from an excel document.

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Wordpress xmlrpc.php error 404

A Weblog Client is a desktop software that you can use to post to your Wordpress blog from your PC without the use of Web browser, via xmlrpc.php. By using a Weblog client, you are able to write posts offline and save drafts. However, some Web hosting provider block the access to xmlrpc.php, due to some security issues, at least for an older version of Wordpress.

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