Microely Soft

Rounding up short series on Digital Video and your PC, Microely Soft offers a few words of advice on shooting the footage in the first place, and then assembling it. Given that most of the editing software available on the market today – from the very cheapest, up to fully professional packages – can accurately [...]

If you’re constantly copying text and data between different Office programs, here’s a way to save time by copying multiple items at once. The Microsoft Office 2010 suite of software includes some of the world’s most widely used productivity applications. Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Access and Publisher are among the programs included in Office [...]

Diagnosing problems arising from USB installations is better provided for than in most other areas of computing. That’s as it should be because Intel has been developing USB for several years now. Working hand in glove, as they do, with Microsoft, you’d probably expect a little help from the Operating System when problems become evident [...]

If you use a word processor, or a spreadsheet – or just about any other kind of program in which you create documents or files – the files you create will need to be saved onto your hard disk. Most programs offer you a “default” folder in which to save your work, but it’s not [...]

The simplest, safest and recommended way to uninstall an application is via ‘Add/Remove Programs’ (in Control Panel). Some applications (particularly older ones) do not create an entry in the ‘Add/Remove Programs’ list, but instead create an “uninstall” or “remove” shortcut in the Start > Program Groups menu. The remainder of these notes are intended only [...]

Remember the retinal scans in Star Trek? Technology is becoming available for security protocols to deny PC access to anyone who can’t authorize his or her use with a retinal scan, a fingerprint, a palm print, a facial scan, a voiceprint, or, farther down the road, a DNA scan. While the face recognition products on [...]

IBM recently announced its z196 processor, which the company claims is currently the world’s fastest microprocessor. Manufactured at the company’s 300mm fab facility in East Fishkill, New York, the chip contains 1.4 billion transistors on a surface measuring 512 square millimeters. IBM’s laboratories in Texas, Germany, Israel, and India also made major contributions to the [...]