Be brief with your tables

From a design standpoint, you may often like to include the contents of a page within a single table. However, doing so can slow down the time it takes for your Web page to appear to your viewers. Surely you've noticed pages where nothing happens and then all of a sudden, the entire page appears. That's because the contents within the table won't be displayed until the entire table is downloaded.

Modify your Windows Vista logon password

Passwords are necessary for protcting your data when you share a computer with multiple users. From time to time you’ll need to change that password. To do so:

Using digital sticky notes on your files (Photoshop CS/CS2/CS3/CS4)

Did you know that you can attach notes to your Photoshop files without exiting the application? Well, you can. The next time you have a file that's going to be modified by another designer or reviewed by someone else, and you want to include a note, just attach a digital annotation to it. To do so, select the Notes tool from the Tools panel and click on your document where you want the note to appear. It’s that easy! Also, keep in mind that these notes are compatible with Adobe Acrobat.

Install a template in your Joomla site easily

At first glance, your website design gives viewers an idea on what your site is all about. So if you’re using templates, choose them wisely. For instance, if your company is in the travel industry, a template theme with luggages, beaches, or famous landmarks where folks can visit will instantly convey a message that yoursite is about Traveling.

Change Outlook's default views in order to find what you're looking for (2000/2002/2003)

Have you ever found yourself looking for one particular email? You know it's from your manager and that your co-managers were CC'ed in on the message, but that's all you can remember about the specifics. You have hundreds of emails from your manager, so how do you easily find this one? Use the Customize Current View command.

An easy way to save unnamed colors in InDesign (CS/CS2/CS3/CS4)

Although it's tempting to mix custom colors in the Color panel as you work, forgoing the extra step of saving the colors in the Swatches panel isn't a good habit to develop. Not that the colors won't output properly, because they probably will. The problem with using unnamed colors in Adobe InDesign is that they're very hard to find in your document when the need arises.

Check out Microsoft's malicious software removal tool (Windows)

Nobody wants to think about getting a virus on his PC. On the good side, if you do, Microsoft provides a malicious software removal tool for detecting and removing specific viruses and worms. The tool works for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Windows 2000, and Windows Server 2003 and is updated regularly.

Have Outlook notify you when you receive a new message (2000/2002/2003)

You probably don't want to have to continually check to see if you've received new mail, so let Microsoft Outlook tell you when you have new mail. There are four ways you can be notified that you have new mail: have Outlook display a message, have Outlook make a specific sound, have Outlook change your cursor to a mail icon, and have Outlook display a mail envelope display in your system tray (not available in Outlook 2000).

How to create a multi-dimensional dictionary object (VBScript 4.0)

You can easily create multi-dimensional Dictionary objects if you first create a Dictionary object and then create a second Dictionary object and assign it to a value in the First Dictionary. Consider the following code:

Turn back the clock with System Restore (Windows)

The System Restore feature enables users and administrators to restore a computer to a previous state without experiencing the loss of any data. This feature enables you to undo any changes you've made to your system's hardware, software, or settings that have left your computer in an undesirable state.

Save JPEGs as PSDs to preserve quality (Photoshop CS/CS2/CS3/CS4)

If you start with a JPEG image, perhaps from a digital camera, and alter it, don't save it again as a JPEG; you'll lose image quality every time you re-save an image in JPEG format. Instead, save the altered image as a PSD file and make a JPEG copy if you need to post the image to the web, for example. In the meantime, you'll have a good copy of your altered image in Photoshop PSD format for use in other applications, such as for printing photos or using them in a printed brochure.

Change the default applications appearing in your Start menu (Win XP)

In Microsoft Windows XP, your favorite programs are displayed in the top-left column of the Start menu. By default, you'll begin with Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Outlook Express; however, you can easily have a different set of programs appear here.

Require that a hyphenated word remains on one line (Word 2000/2002/v. X/2003)

You may want to keep certain hyphenated terms from breaking at the end of a line. For example, if you'd prefer that the phone number 555-4312 not break to the next line between 5 and 4, you can insert a non-breaking hyphen. This way, if the phone number is too long to fit on one line, Word moves the entire phone number to the next line.

Selectively output content using the descendent axis in XSLT

You can select content to output from a data set by using the XSLT descendent axis to key on a component in available tagging.

Are you running an open relay? (Windows)

If your SMTP mail server is set up so it will process email that isn’t being sent to or from a local user, it's an open relay. Many organizations are running open relays without even knowing it. What's the problem? Spammers can route their spam messages through your server to disguise their identities. That can cost you money and lost productivity when your network's resources are being used (for no charge) by someone else. It can also cause your domain to end up on spam blacklists, which means your legitimate mail may not get through to recipients.

Internal DTD subset: Add character entity definitions to your well-formed XML instance

If you use special character entities in a well-formed (e.g., no DTD/Schema) XML instance, the document will no longer be well-formed, because the parser won’t know how to resolve the entity. You must add the entity definitions to the instance in order for the data to parse again.

Be sure to consider case when creating Dictionary keys (VBScript 4.0)

The Dictionary object is a member of the Microsoft Scripting Runtime Library. The simple definition of a Dictionary object is an array of key/item pairs. However, you should keep in mind that the Key values you use to create the Dictionary object are case-sensitive. This is especially important to remember when you're using non-numeric key values.

Assign [Insert] to paste the Clipboard's contents (Word 2000/2002/2003)

As an alternative to using the [Insert] key to overwrite text, you can also use it to paste the contents of the Clipboard into your document.

Determine the type of data in a variable using the VarType function (VBScript 5.0)

In VBSscript, all variables are variant types. However, even though the browser doesn't care what you put in the container, your application might. You can easily determine what type of data you've placed in a variable using the VarType() function.

Quickly change Internet Explorer's home page

The home page is the first page that loads when you open Microsoft Internet Explorer and is often a page you wish to visit every time you're online. Many Windows power users set their home pages to their favorite search engines, their email client, or their corporate portal.