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Want to print a nice header and footer...with a background image...in letter size...in Word 2003? Here's how you get a background to show up and PRINT in Word as one full background (and not a bunch of tiles and not stretched or nasty-looking) with overlaying Header and Footer text.

1. Open Powerpoint 2003. Yes. Powerpoint.
2. If you have Photoshop, Open it and create the background in 8.5 x 11, 300 dpi, letter size and save it as a jpg or gif.
3. If you don't have Photoshop, continue in Powerpoint. Go to File > Page Setup and choose Letter Paper and change the width and height to 8.5 x 11 (it'll say 7.5 x 10 by default). Then select "portrait" for both on the right side.
4. Go ahead and create a background in Powerpoint (exact same way and choices as in Word).
5. Save it. But, save it as a .tif. When it asks you, tell it to only extract the current slide. Don't worry about saving the actual presentation.
6. Go back to your Word doc. Format > Background > Printer Watermark. Choose the "Select Picture" tab. Navigate to the .tif you created in powerpoint. Change Scale to 100%, Uncheck Washout. Hit "OK".
7. Now you can add Header text and Footer text OVER your background image and everything will print out in true color.

Important Note: You're still constrained by your printer's ability. If it doesn't print edge-to-edge (which most printers don't) you'll be stuck with a white border around your printout. This is your printer's fault. Or your "Page Setup" setting's fault. Good luck.

Took me forever to figure this one out. Winrar 3.9.0's right click "extract here" always worked before.
I was also able to select multiple photos in Windows XP and rotate them with a right-click > rotate photo clockwise.

All that stopped one day. I didn't know why. I finally got fed up and looked for the answer.

The culprit was the CuteFTP Content Menu. It was breaking other context menu's in Windows XP. Specifically, it broke my ability rotate multiple images and it also broke the WinRAR 3.9.0 context menu. Everything started working fine once I unchecked the option in CuteFTP's General options. I found the solution using the tips here: http://windowsxp.mvps.org/slowrightclick.htm

If it's happening to you, download the program mentioned in the link above and start disabling all non-Microsoft Context Menu handlers one-by-one until your Right Click works again.

Good luck.

Here's the deal, both of these video submission programs essentially do the exact same thing. They bulk upload videos to various video sites in order to grab traffic. Yes, they upload bulk videos, that's it.

So what's the big difference between them? Well, there's 2 major differences. Firstly, VideoBot can spin the Titles and Descriptions in order to prevent bannings and suspicious behavior.

But the ultimate second factor comes down to price.

Videobot: $29.95 (One-Time Payment...You Own the Windows Software)
TrafficGeyser: $100 PER MONTH! (OUCH!)

It's obvious that Traffic Geyser is hosing their customer's wallets to death.

My Winner: VideoBot. Inexpensive, well built software by the guys at Incansoft that gets the job done.

Plus, free updates for life. No brainer.

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More iPhone drama. After updating my iPhone to 3.1, I started experiencing a freezing iPhone every so often. It really does freeze, by the way. No attempt to hold any button will bring it back. The iPhone becomes completey inresponsive with a silent, black screen.

The good news: there's a way to get the phone to work again.

The bad news: it won't fix the bug itself.

To get your iPhone working again, do this: hold down the power button and home button together for around 10 seconds. This will reboot the iPhone without losing any data. Do this everytime your iPhone freezes up and you'll be ok.

Good luck.