Archive for the ‘Productivity’ Category
Mailbox Cleanup.
Outlook 2007 menyediakan fasilitas mailbox cleanup untuk membersihkan mailbox Anda dari email-email yang sudah tidak diperlukan. Caranya, dari menu Tools pilih Mailbox Cleanup ..
Anda dapat memilih/memfilter email berdasarkan umur email atau berdasarkan ukuran filenya. Setelah mengklik tombol find anda tinggal mendelete email-email hasil filter ini.
Jika anda ingin menghapus email-email dengan subject tertentu saja, gunakan fasilitas Rules and Alerts ( dari menu Tools).
Office 2007 Keyboard Shortcut
Kebetulan hari ini mouse wireless saya mati (baterenya habis) dan kebetulan pula menemukan fitur keyboard shortcut untuk Office 2007 di Lifehacker.
Caranya sangat sederhana.
Untuk mengaktifkan shortcut anda tinggal klik tombol ‘Alt’. Seperti terlihat pada screenshot di bawah, setelah anda klik ‘Alt’ akan muncul angka-angka atau huruf dalam kotak kecil (contoh di bawah untuk ‘Home’).
Untuk ke shortcut level berikutnya anda cukup mengklik angka/huruf yang sesuai. Misalnya ketik ‘h’ maka akan mucul shortcut berikut:
Selanjutnya jika anda ingin mengganti font, tinggal klik ‘ff’. Mudah ya!
Keyboard shortcut
“Shift+F3″ to change word case (ALL CAPS CASE, Initial Cap Case, all lower case)
“Ctrl+SHift+K“ to make small caps
Sumatra PDF
How to compress ppt file
Ever wonder why power point file (.ppt) become significantly increase when you insert image files? PPTTools give a concise explanation.
The easy way to squeeze the file size is by utilising ‘Compress pictures’ before saving.
1. Open the original ppt file ( in my sample the size is around 18MB)
2. Select Save as, Tools, and Compress pictures

3. The new file size is 3MB (compression ration = 80%)
Why Exercise Boosts Brainpower
link from Slashdot
“Tests on mice showed they grew new brain cells in a brain region called the dentate gyrus, a part of the hippocampus that is known to be affected in the age-related memory decline that begins around age 30 for most humans. Researchers used magnetic resonance imaging scans to help document the process in mice — and then used MRIs to look at the brains of people before and after exercise. They found the same patterns, which suggests that people also grow new brain cells when they exercise.”
Menggabungkan Beberapa file PDF Menjadi Satu File dengan pdftk
Tips menggabungkan beberapa file pdf menjadi 1 file. Jika anda bekerja di Ubuntu download filenya dengan perintah
sudo apt-get install gs pdftk
Misal anda ingin menggabung file a.pdf, b.pdf, dan c.pdf menjadi all.pdf, jalankan perintah berikut:
gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOUTPUTFILE=gabung.pdf -dBATCH a.pdf b.pdf c.pdf
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Untuk Windows, download file pdftk.exe di Accesspdf. Untuk menggabungkan file ketik perintah berikut di DOS prompt:
C:\pdftk a.pdf b.pdf c.pdf cat output all.pdf
Commercial Software Gratis
Giveaway of the day is a site that offers one commercial software for free every day. The trick is that the application is available on the site for only one day.
Windows Live Mail (Beta)
Originally uploaded by GiG@Bites.
Today, I found my hotmail (now change to Windows Live Mail) storage increase to 2GB. In Total I have more than 5.5 GB (2.7 Gmail, 1 Gb from Yahoo)
Size does matter ???
How to read ODF file on Firefox?
On some occasion you have created ODF file from OpenOffice but later you decided to remove OO from your PC because you need to free up some space or you’ve downloaded ODF file somewhere from the internet and now you need to re/read the file.
Obviously, reinstall OO will solve your problem. However this small tips will do the trick. Look for ODFReader extension and you can easily open and read ODF file on Firefox.
Now, if you need to save your ODF file as PDF, you need to download Primo PDF.


