Insofar as templates provide a genuinely useful way of adding decorative and stylistic elements all at once, they’re generally useful. Their usefulness is even greater when you consider that you can create your own template, and customize a set of design choices that you’ll be able to return to in presentation after presentation.

To build your own template, start with a new blank presentation, and select the blank new slide option.

Click the OK
button, and then, from PowerPoint

’s main menu, select View|Master|Slide Master

When the slide master appears on the screen (as represented below), you’ll see a fairly black-and-white uninspiring template.

You can, however, change the fonts, colors, and background of the slide.

Begin by setting the background color: right-click over a blank area of the slide (outside any of the frames) to view a menu of options for adjusting the template’s background and color schemes.

From the menu, select Background
to introduce the Background
dialog that controls background colors.

From the Background

dialog, you can select from the default palette of colors, click on the More Colors
option to introduce more colors still, and/or click on the Fill Effects
option to introduce a variety of pattern/fading color options. (You might want avoid the fill effects, since they can potentially interfere with the clarity of text elements on the screen: if you do use fill effects, always double-check for visibility and clarity.)

Once you’ve set your background color, you can adjust the slide color scheme: this lets you choose default colors for a variety of elements that might appear on your slides. Again, start by right-clicking over a blank area of the slide (outside of any frame). Select the Slide Color Scheme
option from the context menu that appears. You’ll then be presented with a two-tabbed dialog, as illustrated below:

A range of preset color combinations appears under the Standard
tab. Under the Custom
tab, you have the option of setting screen element colors one at a time. Make your adjustments as you’d like and then click the Apply to All
button.

Next, you’ll want to adjust the Font styles, the Bullet styles, and the Animation Effects. To do this, you’ll need to click on the screen element you’d like to adjust (i.e. the title area) to highlight its border.

Then right-click on the selected frame to bring up a context menu of possible actions.

For differing slide elements, you’ll want to set differing properties, as outlined below:

Title Style
: Set only the font and font color; avoid applying animations to titles.

Text Style

: Font colors and animations can be set for the entire Text area by selecting the frame; alternately, individual heading levels can have font sizes, colors, bullet styles, and animations set one at a time if you select each line individually and right-click on a single line.

Date/Footer/Number Styles
: Animations should be avoided here. Font sizes and colors can be set.

Finally, if you’d like to include a picture (or a logo) as part of your slide template, you can use the Insert|Picture
item from PowerPoint’s
main menu,  and then add to your template whatever image you’d like. You should remember also that right-clicking on a picture and selecting the Order

option allows you to send the picture behind the text elements on your screen.

That’s it. Your template is finished. Click on File|Save As
and select Design Template(*.pot)
from the Save as type
field. Give your template file a name in the File Name

field, and then click the Save
button.

The next time you create a presentation, you’ll be able to apply your very own design template by selecting it from the list of options under the Format|Apply Design Template
list of templates.

Yahoo messenger allows one to set their online status, and appear offline to everyone (be invisible) or to a selected few contacts.If a person decides to keep his status invisible, his id will appear offline in others contacts lists.

To know if a contact is really offline or just hiding , one can use various softwares that can be installed or those which are available as online tools. I prefer the second kind.These online tools work on a vulnerability in the Yahoo! messenger protocol, and hence could stop working either temporarily or permanently if yahoo “patches up” it’s server. But that shouldn’t deter you from exploring a handful of these that work just perfect. At the time of writing this article, the following online tools are working as they should!

1. Yahoo invisible checker

2. YahooScan

3. Yahoo! Status

4. Y! Detector

So the next time if you suspect your buddy to be a charlatan, you’ve got the right tools back in your arsenal! Go get them.

I have learned this long time ago and I think this is not new to some of you. But for those who did not know yet, just read and learn from this post on how to enable multiple logins for yahoo messenger in your computer.

We will use the registry editor to tweak the registry entries of yahoo messenger. Go to Start -> Run, then type regedit to open the registry editor. If you cannot run your registry editor because it is said to be disabled by the administrator, enable it by going to Start -> Run, then type gpedit.msc. Just navigate through it, then look for the setting that disabled the registry editing, then set the value to disabled to enable the registry editor. You should find it there just be patient.
If you have opened the registry editor, navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER -> SOFTWARE ->yahoo -> pager -> Test. In the right column in the registry editor, right click with your mouse, click New, and select DWORD Value. Assign name for your DWORD as “Plural” and set the hexadecimal value to 1.

After that, try opening another Yahoo Messenger and login with a different account/user. You should have two yahoo messengers running in your machine, with different users.

For beginners, you can use the following steps:

1. Open a new notepad document
2. Copy and Paste the following code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\yahoo\pager\Test]
“plural”=dword:00000001

3. Save As “ymtweak.reg“.
4. Double click or run the ymtweak.reg and allow registry editor to add information in the registry by clicking yes button.
5. Start running multiple yahoo messengers.

This does not limit the number of YMs you can run so now you can have multiple yahoo messenger accounts online.

You can import data from any text documents like excel, word, notepad, and wordpad. If you want to optimize your work, you can use this technique. For example, you are writing and printing a letter to all of your recepients on your addressbook, you can create a body of the letter for everybody and then use the wizard to get the data from your address book(your address book is any of the text documents metioned above).

Here are the step-by-step procedures:
1. Open your word document and start writing each part of the letter, leaving the name and address of the recepient blank.
2. Next look for Mail Merge on the menus. For Office 2007, click Mailings and select Start Mail Merge.
3. Mail merge menu will appear on the right, you will have to select what type of document you are working on. On this case, we will select letters then click the Next: Starting Document link.
4. Select your starting document, we would like to use the current document so we will choose Use the current Document
5. Next you have to select your recepients. You can choose recepients listed on your excel file or any text files, on your outlook address book or you can type and create a new list of recepients. In this case we will use the first option.
6. Click Next: Write your letter link at the bottom.
7. Next you will choose which address block and greeting line to use. Or you can import the list of your contacts located on your excel file or any text documents Simply browse and select that file.
8. Select what data will be displayed on your letter. For example you will selec the name and address because you want their name and addressess to be visible on your letter.
8. Then you can start previewing all your letter for every recepients.
9. If you are done, you can preview your letters or you can print all of them at once. You can also edit individual letters by clicking Edit individual letters link.
10. Lastly, you can now print your document. When you print, you can then specify the range of records you want to be printed out. You can select to print the current record or you can select to print all records.

That’s it. I hope that this method will help you optimize your desktop works. If I have missed something, just leave me a comment.

If you have a blog, your posts can be automatically loaded and viewed on your facebook account, and will be visible to all facebook users as your notes. Here are the simple steps:

1. Click the applications menu at the bottom left and choose Notes.
2. In the Notes Settings, click Import Blog.
3. Paste theURL of your feeds and you’re good to go. For Wordpress users, to know the URL of your feeds, check your documentations. The same with other blog platforms.
4. Lastly, confirm Import.

That’s it…

Normally, owners of their own computers sets their password for them to keep their own files just for themselves. They think they are secured. But they are wrong. In order to be aware of that threat, I would like to tell you these simple steps on hacking the Administrator account using a guest account.

If you are logged in to computer with some other account here are the steps:

1.) Go to Start button click on run
2.) Type CMD and press enter
3.) A command window will open
4.) Type net users
5.) This will show you all the users of that computer.
6.) Now type net user administrator * and press enter
7.) This will ask you to enter a password
8.) Enter the password you want to keep for the administrator
9.) Re-enter your password to confirm it.
10.) DONE

You have changed the password of computer administrator. Now you can logoff from that guest account and login as administrator with the password that you have set. I hope this helps…

Note that this method is not applicable/suitable for all kinds of applications.

Now let me start with the process. If you do not have WinRAR Archiver, get one and install. After that, select an application and install it in you machine. After installation, go to it’s installation folder. Copy the whole folder containing all the files of that program and save it somewhere else in your computer. Right click on the folder and choose “Add to Archive” then winRAR will open. In the General tab, set the compression method to “Best” and in the Archiving options, check the “Create SFX Archive”. Go to Advanced tab and click SFX options button. In the General tab inside the SFX Options, type the filename of the application that will be run(example “photoshop.exe”). After that, still in the SFX Options, go to Modes tab. “Check” the Unpack to temporary folder. Set the silent Mode to “Hide All” and press OK. Then press OK button in the WinRAR(main) after you have done the following. After that Winrar will start compressing the whole folder and will create an EXE/Application on the same directory with the same filename. Just wait for Winrar to finish zipping.

That’s it. You now have created a portable application. You can change the icon and the logo of the portable app you created by using icon changer software. It can also be changed on the Winrar panel, just go through all the tabs and you will find it there.

Hope this helps…

Hi! I discovered one thing about Windows Vista Starter Edition. My Sister’s notebook is running on Vista starter edition and it complains everytime I run more than 3 programs. I can only run 3 programs at maximum. I also can’t afford of getting the other version of Windows Vista so I find ways on how to deal with the limitation.

When I selected a certain program to be visible on the tray while invisible on the taskbar(to minimize space on the taskbar), I noticed that Vista Starter did not detect the program running on the tray. So I googled on how to put all programs on the tray. Then I’ve found a very small tool which is the “TrayIt!”. no need to install, just run the program and then you can select all running programs to be visible on the tray when minimized.

That was it. I can now run multiple programs using the starter edition. I just have to double click the icon of the program i want to view, on the tray. If you want to have that small tool, just google it.