I’ve wondered how to do this a few times. Having been watching a great film or TV programme through Windows Media Player I’ve wanted a single screenshot of one particular frame. Using the Print Screen button has never worked by default but there is a fix. Read on….
- In Windows Media Player click on Tools and then Options.
- This will bring up the Options dialogue box and you’ll need to choose the Performance tab as shown in RED in the image below.
- In the Performance tab click on the Advanced button towards the bottom.
- In the dialogue box that appears uncheck the Use Overlays tick box again shown in RED below and click OK.
- You can now capture a screenshot of any file you’re playing in Media Player with the Print Screen button.
There shouldn’t be any loss of quality or noticeable differences so capture screenshots using Print Screen at will!
I’ve been using Microsoft Office 2007 for a few months now and I’ve come to hate the default font used among the different products. They use Calibri size 11 (so bad I won’t show you what it looks like) which wasn’t even a default font in Office 2003. So let’s change it quick.
Change the default Office 2007 font for Word
- In Microsoft Word make sure you you have the Home tab selected at the top of Word
- In the Styles section of the menu right click in left most text box and then click Modify. See the image below.
- You’ll get the Modify Style dialogue box appear. See the image below.
- Scroll through Font stypes and various styling.
- At the bottom of the image below you’ll see two radio buttons. If you want to permanently change the default font in Word then choose the “New documents based on this template” button.
- Click OK to confirm.
Now you no longer have to format your Word 2007 font document each time.
Change the default Office 2007 font for Outlook
It’s easy in Word 2007… but in Outlook 2007 it is a little more long winded. Here’s how…
- In Outlook 2007 click Tools then Options.
- Select the Mail Format tab highlighted in RED at the top of the image below.
- Click the Stationery and Fonts button again highlighted in RED in the image below.
- A dialogue box will appear that will let you change your default font in Office Outlook
Select your favourite font, style, size, colour, and effects… and then click OK to confirm.
By looking at my Google Analytics account I am able to see the search terms people have put into Google to get to my site. These are what are known as organic searches as they come straight from what a user types into the Google search box, rather than a link to the site. It’s an incredibly useful tool as it shows you what your visitors are looking for even if your site has the information they want or not.
The search term “add my blog to google blog search” has come up a few times and upon further investigation I read up on Google Blog Search. It’s where you can use Google search technology to look specifically at blogs (user generated content) for the topic you’ve searched for. So then, how do you as a blog owner get your content listed on Google Blog Search?
The Short Answer…
All you need is a site feed! That is to say you need something like an RSS feed coming from your website. If you’re on Wordpress your theme has a 99.99% chance of having an RSS feed built into it. When Google comes along and spiders/crawls your site it will think “hey, here’s a feed…add this to Google Blog Search”. It’s all done for you! So my RSS feed(http://how-to-solutions.com/feed) was added the first time Google crawled this site and now I’m added to Google Blog Search.
How To Solutions on Google Blog Search
Just to prove that it really is that simple, let’s have a look at this site on Google Blog Search. Firstly let me say that I never “added” myself to Blog Search, it was done for me automatically by Google. Yet I’m still listed in Blog Search, sometimes in the number one spot depending on the keywords. Let’s have a look.
So we can see that for the keywords I used in my post covering a HTML Signature in Outlook 2007 the actual blog post has made it into the #1 position in Google Blog Search. Similarly the same has happened for my SEO for Wordpress Beginners Guide, also reaching #1 for certain keywords.
I hope this has helped answer a question a few people seem to have been asking recently. To find out more look at Google Blog Search Help. The help page does state “…we will soon be providing a form that you can use to manually add your blog to our index, in case we haven’t picked it up automatically. Stay tuned for more information..”. So people, get an RSS feed active on your Wordpress blog and get that site indexed.