The usual Windows Notedpad is just a plain textarea where you just type your text.  But what if Notepad 2008 is more like the Office 2007 interface now, with the ever famous Ribbon UI. Check this out. Download it here and it’s a freeware. [ via Life Rocks 2.0 ] [Read more]

This is a great tool for the techy medical practitioners who usually do medical documents. MacMedia is a tool for medical spell checker and works for Office 2008 for Mac. Features: Includes thousands of critically important terms from medical, surgical, chemistry, and laboratory terminology. Covers 35 medical specialties including: anesthesiology, biology, cardiology, hematology, immunology, internal medicine, neurology, nursing, oncology, ophthalmology, radiology, toxicology, urology, and more! Includes medical procedures, diseases, surgical terms, genetic research, medical slang, thousands of drug names, brief word forms, and medical devices, as well as AIDS diseases and treatments. Works inside Mac Office 2008… so there’s nothing... [Read more]

Many of my friends use Norton Antivirus and they asked me on how to disable the Norton AntiVirus Office Plugin. I am not using Norton and I do not know the solution for that… but then I googled it. Here’s a repost on the Turning on and turning off the Norton AntiVirus plug-in for Microsoft Office: Turn on the plug-in for Microsoft Office XP/2000 Start Norton AntiVirus. If Norton AntiVirus is part of Norton Internet Security or Norton SystemWorks, then start that program. Click Options. In the left pane, click Miscellaneous. In the right pane, under “How to keep Microsoft Office documents protected,” check Enable Office plug-in. Click OK. Turn off the plug-in for Microsoft Office XP/2000 Start Norton AntiVirus. If Norton... [Read more]

Here’s a great tip on how to create your own “To-Dos List” using Microsoft Outlook. [Read more]

Now, another great update from Google Docs, the bibliography options. This allows you to add a list of references used in your documents. Read more here. [Read more]