For quickly copying formatting from one part of a sheet to another, or just to another sheet within the same workbook you can make use of the Format Painter. Format Painter is of utter help when it comes to extending a spreadsheet to accommodate new data as well as require formatting the new cells in order to match the original data elements.

For using Format Painter to copy formatting options to non-adjacent cells perform the following computer tips:

• Firstly, insert all the formatting options you wish to use to for least one cell.
• Now with the mouse pointer click on that cell for making it the active cell.
• Next click on the Home tab.
• Then on the ribbon double click on its Format Painter icon.
• Next click on a second cell for copying the formats right from the active cell to this second cell.
• Continue clicking on additional cells in order to copy the formatting to these cells too.
• Finally on the ribbon repeat clicking on its Format Painter icon to turn it off.

Early this week this warning came as a caution from the part of the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center, or the IC3. The center notified, “Recently, there have been instances of travelers’ laptops being infected with malicious software while using hotel Internet connections. In these instances, the traveler was attempting to set up the hotel room Internet connection and was presented with a pop-up window notifying the user to update a widely used software product. If the user clicked to accept and install the update, malicious software was installed on the laptop. The pop-up window appeared to be offering a routine update to a legitimate software product for which updates are frequently available.

The FBI recommends that all government, private industry and academic personnel who travel abroad take extra caution before updating software products on their hotel Internet connection. Checking the author or digital certificate of any prompted update to see if it corresponds to the software vendor may reveal an attempted attack. The FBI also recommends that travelers perform software updates on laptops immediately before traveling, and that they download software updates directly from the software vendor’s website if updates are necessary while abroad.”

According to a technology news source, the security experts find the warning has quite indistinct as it lacks relevant information and details owing to its occurrence or the originating source that encountered the cyber attacks as well as their modus operandi.

As per Robert Graham, CEO of security consultancy Errata Security, “Nobody has cited evidence specifically tying this to hotel rooms. My advice for travelers is that there is nothing you need to do for traveling that you shouldn’t already be doing anyway.”

Extensive study reveals that the guests who check in to hotels often become soft targets of hackers who ploy prying on the personal financial data. Trustwave’s SpiderLabs, the online security company’s researchers analyzed the criterion in 200 data breach cases. They deduced that 38% among the total data breached had been executed at hotels or resorts. Hence, it is highly recommended that the travelers should make it a point to log onto their laptops through a safe and secure virtual private network or a VPN.

Travelers should always perform a complete backup of their laptop’s data and also ensure that their antivirus software is regularly updated as well as get the system installed with the most recent operating system and application updates. This was an ardent suggestion urged by Stephen Cobb who is a security expert from ESET, the security and anti-malware Company and virus lab.

It is also strongly recommended that the travelers who had been victimized by this attack should straight away get in touch with their local FBI office as well as report it to www.IC3.gov, the IC3 website. This was urged by FBI this week. So, if travel is in your cards in any coming time get the necessary safety precautions implemented to avoid data theft through the hotel room network connections.

• These options can be viewed in Word 2002 and Word 2003, on the Tools menu. Here click on “Options”.
• These options can be viewed, in MS Word 2007 by clicking on Microsoft office Button and then clicking on the Word Options.

Perform the following computer tips to restore the Word default settings:

1.For editing the data registry key, firstly log onto the computer with administrative rights.
2.Now click on the “Start” button and type “regedit” in the Run text box and then press on “Enter” for the next. Now trace the following registry subkey, as suitable for the particular Word edition that you are running:

• For MS Word 2002 direct to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft \Office\10.0\Word\Data

• For MS Word 2003 direct to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ Office\11.0\Word\Data

• For MS Word 2007 direct to

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\ Office\12.0\Word\Data

3.Next select the Data folder and then delete the entire entries present in the right side panel.
4.Finally reload your computer and open Word in order to verify the Word default settings.

According to a technology news source, the App Center would be offering a wide range of apps and programs to make your experience more enjoyable when applied on the Web browsers, Apple and Android SmartPhones or tablet PCs.  Through this strategy, Facebook intends to hook up to around 900 million members via mobile gadgets.

Aaron Brady of Facebook had blogged, “The App Center is designed to grow mobile apps that use Facebook whether they’re on iOS, Android or the mobile web. From the mobile App Center, users can browse apps that are compatible with their device, and if a mobile app requires installation, they will be sent to download the app from the App Store or Google Play.”

Facebook had also rendered scope for software developers to prepare description pages to be listed in the App Center. Doing so, the applications will receive spots owing to quality, popularity and several other parameters set. Brady added “The App Center will become the new, central place to find great apps like Draw Something, Pinterest, Spotify, Battle Pirates, Viddy, and Bubble Witch Saga”.

Facebook would allow paid applications thereby charging users nominal yet low fees. Facebook has set the requisition to software developers to design the applications at the center in a way to let people register using Facebook Connect.

The following procedure helps you to add header/footer in PowerPoint presentation:

• Select the option “Header and Footer” from the “View” menu. A small dialog box titled “Header and Footer” will display.
• Now select “Slide” tab, next select “Fixed” and then the option “Date and time”OR
• Under “Include on slide” section select the option “Update automatically Date and time”.
• For adding the number, check the option “Slide number”,
• Whereas for adding footer, select checkbox option “Footer” and then add text you wish should appear as slide footer.
• Now click on “Apply” button in order to save “Slide” tab settings.
• Under the “Notes and Handouts” tab, select “Header” along with both “Date and time” and “Footer” options.

When the all necessary options are selected, click on “Apply to All” button in order to save all settings.

A technology news source reveals that Dell had decided to enhance its enterprise solutions portfolio so that its customers can avail a comprehensive range of products and solutions to reduce IT infrastructure management to bare bones. Dell had ever since been known for its highly combatable security portfolio which is also into its further augmentation process.  With SonicWALL in its advantage Dell is now armored with Dell KACE vulnerability and patch management, SecureWorks security services, and cloud security solutions and data encryption solutions.

Dell SonicWALL solutions would offer services to small and mid-sized business customers via customers of larger ventures. The solutions would be catered to large campus environments, government, retail merchandise, distributed enterprise settings, and healthcare based sectors. Owing to the frequently sprouting advanced technology stuffed threats, organizations are always at a stake and require executing wide-ranging and more vigorous security solutions.

Dell SonicWALL is dynamically equipped with power solutions to offer for network security and data protection. With SonicWALL meshed to Dell the solution offered would now have more commanding performance with their comprehensive Next-Generation Firewall and Unified Threat Management solutions. Using Dell SonicWALL customers can also avail solutions for Backup and Recovery, Secure Remote Access, Email Security, and Management and Reporting meant for any dimensional organizations. The Global Management System of Dell permits network administrators to centrally manage along with offering several security appliances over an extensively meshed up networks.

Dell having completely acquired SonicWALL, Dell’s prized and esteemed Partner Direct Program has evolved to be stronger with the implementation of SonicWALL. The concoction of SonicWALL Medallion Partner Program and Dell PartnerDirect Program the partners would be aided with competitive pricing, security for investment in sales activities. Apart from these the partners are provided with an enhanced networking and security solutions portfolio which offers a varied choice and value for partners as well as their customers. The new partners are allowed to choose if they intend to

• Join up Medallion Partner Program of Dell SonicWALL and partake unless the Program comes to a closure in the upcoming times.

OR

•  Enroll to the Improved Dell PartnerDirect Program that is in present officially incorporates Dell SonicWALL in it.

• Just click on any link with your middle mouse button or wheel and it would get opened in a fresh new tab.
• For Internet Explorer and Firefox just keep pressed your CTRL key and just click on the link to be opened and instantly find that link opened in a new tab.
• Again click on an open tab using the middle mouse button and the concerned tab would get closed.
• Mozilla Firefox users can just middle-click the back button and the previous page gets opened in a new tab.
• In IE, Firefox, and Opera press CTRL + T for opening a new tab.
• But to undo the closed tab, just press CTRL + Shift + T
• Just right click on any place of the tab bar and you would find this option displayed.
• IN Firefox and IE, users have to press CTRL and then press on 1 through 0 on their keyboard for opening that respected tab.
• Now just by right-clicking on the active tab you will get an option that would direct you to close any non-active tabs.

A technology news source reveals that Microsoft has announced a rocking deal that claims to offer Xbox 360 at a price of $99 and along with it is offered a two-year subscription to Xbox Live Gold at $14.99 per month. A user can avail this offer from Microsoft Stores across the country.

To bag the offer approach any of the 17 Microsoft Stores across. When you visit remember to carry along the offer code 885370366266 (or the coupon with that code scripted on it). Most probably this deal is currently not offered online or available at other retailers like that of Walmart and Best Buy but it is expected that in due time these retailers would also avail you with the offer.

But again there is a condition involved and to be met before you avail the benefits of the offer and that is to make a two year commitment to the Xbox Live service costing you around a total of additional $360. There is more to the conditional deal that specifies, in case you call off your Xbox Live account subscription prior to the two years term period, you are subjected to a termination penalty. The penalty amount extended from $250 for a period of five months, but since that followed a downward lane decreased to as low as $12 per month.

Perform the following computer tips to add YouTube movies into PowerPoint slides:

• Firstly you need to download the YouTube.com movies.
•  Now save them on your computer hard drive.
• If the available movies are in flash video file format on YouTube site, you can convert the downloaded YouTube movies to any common format, e.g., Windows Media Video file (WMV), Windows Video file (AVI) and Movie file (MPEG).
• Firstly open the presentation where the movie file is to be inserted.
• Next from the Insert” menu click on “Movies and Sounds” option and then select the “Movie from File” option.
• Select the movie to be inserted into slide and then click on “Ok” button.
• Next you would be asked “Do you want your movie to play automatically in the slide show? If not, it will play when you click it.”
• It is suggested that you click on the “OK” button to play automatically even though you prefer playing the movie only when clicked.
• Lastly save your PowerPoint presentation and further run it for test.

Twitter spokesman Robert Weeks through an e-mail told to a technology news source, “We are currently looking into the situation. In the meantime, we have pushed out password resets to accounts that may have been affected. For those who are concerned that their account may have been compromised, we suggest resetting your passwords and more in our Help Center.”

This list exposing the user data was too vast to accommodate in less than five Pastebin pages while posting. This was unconfined just a day ago and was blogged at Airdemon.net where the affected number of accounts ranged at about 55,000. It is yet to discover as to who posted the account passwords and what his intention behind publicizing the private affairs was. The actual estimated amount still remains to be a point of disagreement among which some passwords and accounts were notably duplicates.

As per Robert Weeks, “It’s worth noting that, so far, we’ve discovered that the list of alleged accounts and passwords found on Pastebin consists of more than 20,000 duplicates, many spam accounts that have already been suspended, and many log-in credentials that do not appear to be linked (that is, the password and username are not actually associated with each other)”.

The entire alleged list seems quite wooly owing to its several enlisted passwords that appear to be quite healthy and sturdy and yet fell foul to the prying eyes. Twitter alleges the apprehended list at Pastebin to having included spam accounts and erroneous login credentials.