Interesting Internet Finds – WE April 11, 2014

I publish Interesting Internet Finds monthly in the Boca Raton Computer Society’s Boca Bits monthly newsletter, and share them through APCUG‘s PUSH program  with other computer/technology user group newsletter editors.

Each month, I find many more things than I can use, so have decided to start publishing some of those that were not used for the newsletter on this blog most Fridays.

I do not go into much depth about each one, I just put them out there for you to check out yourself.

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Titles, Links, Short Description

How to share an optical drive in a local network

http://www.ghacks.net/2014/04/05/share-optical-drive-local-network/
Have a mobile device without an optical drive, but have a local network with a device that does have one? Ghacks shows how to share that optical drive over the local network.

Quickly Displaying the Page Setup Dialog Box

http://wordribbon.tips.net/T010362_Quickly_Displaying_the_Page_Setup_Dialog_Box.html
If you use Microsoft Word 2007 or 2010, this tip if very helpful. There is also a link to how to do it in Word 97 to 2003, if you are still using one of those versions. (Remember Office 2003 support ended April 8, 2014)

Why do you prefer Macrium Reflect over Windows 7’s backup program?

http://askleo.com/why-do-you-prefer-macrium-reflect-over-windows-7s-backup-program/
Leo explains why he prefers Macrium Reflect for backups. I use Macrium myself, and really like it.

How to Never Fax a Document Again

http://www.howtogeek.com/186378/how-to-never-fax-a-document-again/
Still have a fax machine sitting around? How often do you send a fax? Check out this post from HowToGeek and maybe you can free up some office space by never faxing again.

Going Paperless: 3 Ways I Annotate Notes in Evernote to Make Life a Little Easier

http://www.jamierubin.net/2014/04/09/going-paperless-3-ways-i-annotate-notes-in-evernote-to-make-life-a-little-easier/
Jamie explains different ways to annotate notes in Evernote. This is something I had not thought about, but now will be implementing in my on notes.

Disclaimer

I have not necessarily checked each link or process out, but if listed I have used the site enough to trust them.

That said, please let me know if something doesn’t work correctly, or the listed site has incorrect information.

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Other April 2014 Finds

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