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If you cant get your printer to  print well aligned  labels done in  the Microsoft word 2007, this may simply be  the case of printer settings but please before you go ahead , make sure you are using the correct paper specification by the manufacturer, in this case we are talking about Avery L7160.

Ok here we go, see the following ;

1. Click the office button on Microsoft word.

2. Select Print and then select print again.

3. In the printer set up page, look in the “zoom” section

4. Adjust “Scale to Page size to A4″

5. Click on “properties”, Adjust the “paper size” to A4.

6. Click OK and return to print page,

7. Click “ok” to print and you should be fine.

Note: Re adjust your margin to normal if you had altered it due to following other  instructions on the net.

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5 Apps for online college students

In the age of digital textbooks, smartphones and online degree programs, having a list of must-have phone apps for your college experience can be a big help. Here are five course-related we rate as most useful.

1. Evernote
   First on our list is an app that allows students to copy classroom notes and record course lectures.  Evernote can be a life saver for students who want to replay a class session. The audio and visual files are searchable and easy to organize.
2. Dropbox
   Next is Dropbox, the most popular cloud technology app for computers and smartphones which allows users to synch files from multiple devices while reducing, or even eliminating, the need for flash drives which can be easily lost or compromised. For students using one computer at home, another at the library, and a smartphone while travelling, Dropbox provides a simple means to keep up with classwork and juggle various versions of one document for group projects.
3. My Class Schedule
   Students have a lot to juggle. Keeping track of tests, assignments, projects, and personal events makes a mobile time management app number three on our list. My Class Schedule is an Android-only app that can keep your entire life on track with easy reminder features that prevent last minute due date surprises that can rob you of sleep and GPA. The app has a free version with ads, but an ad-free version can be purchased for a nominal fee.
4. InClass
   iPhone users have their own excellent time management app that is highly comparable to the Android app, My Class Schedule. With a different user interface than the Android app, InClass still offers the same capabilities to organize the various events in your life.
5. Thinking Space for Android devices, SimpleMind+ for the iPhone
   Each term paper, class project, and synopsis a student writes involves organizing concepts and ideas and then breaking those down to subordinate thoughts. These brain mapping apps are both free and extremely helpful in organizing thoughts into visual representations you can use on the go. Long after you graduate, the apps will remain relevant well into your career.

About the author: Derrick Cruise is a professional writer living in the Indianapolis area. He specializes in technology and education articles. In his spare time, he contributes to stand-up comedy routines.

Website: http://skyesartwork.com/

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We find that most people usually like to stick to the stable platform of joomla version  they are using as upgrading to a new version  usually pose serious problems or you would like to use your 1.5 version template on the new upgraded version of 1.6 or 1.7,  for the brave ones  here is a little tip. Mostly please pay attention to the difference in  headers in your templateDetails.xml.

Firstly you may wish to visit these links to learn how to adapt your 1.5 version template to 1.6,1.7 versions. Visit Joomla Documentation and then here also. These would help you with ideas on what to do , there are not much documentations available for 1.6, 1.7 templates as at the time of this writing and the 1.5 versions of joomla would not be supported anymore in some months time.

One of the major problems is not  being able to find the 1.5 converted template when it has been installed on a 1.7 Joomla version.  It appears automatically on 1.5 version but not the same in 1.7 version. if you experience these problems please visit your admin and then follow Extensions manager > click on Discover > then  Discover on top close to purge cache.  If you have done everything right, your template should appear .

Have fun.

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One of the problems faced by webmasters with a static html websites is how to make it dynamic and also how to increase it’s popularity with the search engines. Every good webmaster understands that search engines likes dynamic pages and this is one thing giving rise to use of content management systems. I would argue that despite all the features offered by most CMS, some webmasters only need a basic use of it.

As usual most webmasters would like to feed constant dynamic contents to their static html pages which gives it that changing look and may attract some search engines to it.

After some good reserach you would find there are many ways to link up your blog contents or contents from other places of interest to be updated regularly on your static page.

If you are interested in this, you may like to try  Google Feedburner, i find it to be one of the best and most stable. When you have created your account, follow the instructions and set up your feed.  To publish on your web page, just choose Publicize and the BuzzBoost.

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All of a sudden, a computer monitor that works perfectly well and shuts itself down when the mains had been put off  suddenly starts showing you this red , green , yellow etc stripped box floating around your monitor with the text ” Self Help Feature Check”. I know how this gets into your head especially if you are the type that care about your computer .

• Please take your time and check the following:
• Make sure your DVI cable is well plugged in
• Make sure you VGA cable is plugged in directly into the port, some splitters or bridge may be causing this problem.

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Recently i had a problem with a very stubborn virus and was almost messed up if not for Malwarebyte antivirus software, this is highly recommended as it offers free and commercial version. The protection offered in it’s free version is highly commendable when compared with some antivirus programs .

Scanning with Malwarebytes is extremely fast and well detailed, please read the extract from it’s website below.

“Malwarebytes Anti-Malware helps you defeat Malware once and for all.”

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Hello All, thanks for continuously reading my blog, recently a client hosting with us asked a question about problems they were having on their dedicated server.

Problem: On a dedicated server, after creating an account and configuring the domain name servers very well, site is uploaded and it still does not resolve to  the domain, instead it produces a default cpanel page saying that cpanel is installed on this server. This can be a headache sometimes but try the following:

Solution: You many either wait for about 1 -72hrs , may be the domain is still propagating or if you are on  a dedicated server, try restarting Apache. To restart Apache go to your server if you are using c panel whm, then on the left menu under the heading “Restart services” look for the link “HTTP Server(Apache)“  choose yes if asked to restart server.

After this process, please clear your browser cache and type in your site url again into your browser, you should be ok, please contact your host to help out if all these does not work out.

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Let us call your attention once again to an issue with Oscommerce, especially those using the old versions. I had a client recently having problems with removing the rounded corner images on his shop based on Oscommerce.

I actually found this a bit challenging since i hadn’t used it for a while but lets get down to details.;

To remove the rounded images on the infoboxes  please find the file in your includes/classes/boxes.php and do the modifications there. One of the major problems is finding where the named images are embedded in the codes , you would find it in the above file. All you have to do is comment out the statement or remove the image link itself inside the quotes and leave the quotes there .

Example =

if ($left_corner == true) {
// $left_corner = tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . ‘infobox/corner_left.gif’);
} else {
// $left_corner = tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . ‘infobox/corner_right_left.gif’);
}

You can see from the above that it has been commented out.

Also find this line in the same file

$info_box_contents[] = array(array(‘params’ => ‘height=”14″‘,
‘text’ => tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . ‘I removed the image here ‘)),
array(‘params’ => ‘height=”14″ width=”100%”‘,
‘text’ => $contents[0]['text']),
array(‘params’ => ‘height=”14″‘,
‘text’ => tep_image(DIR_WS_IMAGES . ‘I removed the image here‘)));

Please see the highlighted.

One other thing is that after you have done this, you will see the number “1″ appearing in the info boxes, please  remove this by visiting includes/boxes/categories.php and  edit this line by changing all to “false”

$info_box_contents = array();
$info_box_contents[] = array(‘text’ => BOX_HEADING_CATEGORIES);

new infoBoxHeading($info_box_contents, false, false);

Also visit includes/boxes/shopping_cart.php edit this line and make it false.

new infoBoxHeading($info_box_contents, false, false, tep_href_link(FILENAME_SHOPPING_CART));

Please see highlighted.

Hope this helps, you may visit this page here for more info

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