Category: Propellerhead Top Tip
Stitch Your Pix
If you have a digital camera you've got to try AutoStitch. This ingenious little program, unearthed by Propellerhead, is a brilliant way to create spectacular panoramic images, and it's almost foolproof. Simply stand in one spot and snap away trying…
Wheely Easy Firefox Tips
Here are a few more unpublished Firefox shortcuts from Propellerhead, plus a couple of tricks to try if you have a 'wheel' mouse. You can easily highlight sections of web pages by holding down the Ctrl key and left…
Double Quick Display Dodge for XP
If you are anything like the techno-twiddlers at Propellerhead you will be forever opening Windows XP Display Properties, to tweak settings, mess around with screensavers and change the appearance of the Windows desktop. If so you'll know that to…
Candy Canes and Teapot Spotting…
You would not believe how much time the folks at Propellerhead and BootLog have wasted bringing you this tip. It concerns one, possibly two 'Easter Eggs' concealed inside Windows XP. Easter Eggs are small hidden programs or features within…
Word's Secret Calculator
Over at Propellerhead they've unearthed yet another hidden facility in Microsoft Word. This one is a built-in calculator, it's fairly basic just add, subtract multiply and divide but it's very easy to use and just the job if you need…
Printing IE Favorites
Over at Propellerhead they’ve found an easy way to print out a list of your Internet Explorer Favorites, without the need for any extra software. Open IE and go to File > Import Export > Next, click Export Favorites then…
Lightning Reaction – Protect And Survive
We are rapidly approaching thunderstorm season here in the UK and every year we hear terrible tales of woe about PCs, hard drives and modems, fried and frazzled by nearby lightning strikes. Hundreds, possibly thousands of PCs are zapped every…
Hidden Zoom In Windows Paint
As all PC-savvy Propellerhead readers know Windows Paint is a handy, though not especially sophisticated image-editing program. In amongst the tools there's a zoom control and if you click on the magnifying glass icon you'll see there's a choice…
Word Week – Auto Backup Macro
Propellerhead's Word Week draws to a close with one of the best ever Word tips. It's a Macro, a simple little program that runs within Word and It has saved me countless hours of worry and frustration over the years….
Word Week – Adding Path And Filename To Documents
Propellerhead’s Word Week is drawing to a close and to round off we’ve come up with a couple of real stonkers Recent versions of Word let you add a line at the top or bottom of the page showing…