Odds & Ends on a Sunny Day
* After a week of overcast and cold, I am looking out my window at sunshine, and from the motion of the branches, wind. (Question: why isn’t the word spelled “whind”? Wind is what a mountain road does.) I’m eager for summer to get here. It’s my favorite time of year.
* A reader commented on yesterday’s article on how to remove hidden metadata in your files, and he pointed out that the Office 2007 suite has a feature called Document Inspector especially for this purpose.
For those of you who have Office 2007:
In the copy of your original document, click the Microsoft Office 
Select the type of metadata you want removed.
(For all the details on document inspector, click here.)
* Last week was
Tech – for Everyone’s second birthday. I wrote my first article June 8th, 2007: The first Tech Paul Post: secure your web connection
As you can see from the title, helping people stay safe from online dangers has been a priority for me right from the jump.
Over those two years, Tech – for Everyone has:
- posted over 700 articles.
- received almost 2000 reader comments.
- been read by more than a half million people.
- not posted one advertisement.
- developed a few more gray hairs.
Before I move on to my next “thot”, I want to say to you, Dear Reader, that of those statistics the most important one to me is the comments. “Reader feedback” – as it’s called – keeps me honest, keeps me stimulated, and is my sole “reward”. It is also a good source for topic ideas, so please keep them coming!
* The sunny skies has me thinking about a word, and that word is “vacation”. I like that word, that concept, and the act itself.
But I’m not a 100% clueless idjit (only about 50%). I am aware of a little thing called a Global Recession.
But vacations are necessary for our health and mental “well-being”. It is my sincere hope that you, Dear Reader, will find a way to give yourself some time to depressurize and step back from life’s demands, and maybe get a change of scenery too.
Today’s free link: 13 ways to make vacation budget-friendly
Today’s free download: Today I am going to ask you, Dear Reader, if you have a free program that you consider a Best Of Breed and/or consider indispensable. I’m inviting you to post it as a comment and share it with my readers.
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• About Tech Paul
I am a Retired computer & network technician. I used to think the machines were pretty cool. Now I don’t.
They’re anything but.
I regularly posted how-to’s and tricks & tips and general computing advice here starting in 2007. (Use the Search tool to find answers. But be aware, many are rather dated.) Sometimes I answered (your) specific questions in an article if I believed the answer was generally helpful to “everyone”. All the writing you see was my own, typos and all. There always is/was an implied “IMHO” in what you see here.
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