You can easily paste your charts from Excel into your Word documents.

1. Select the chart in Excel that you wish to embed into your Word document.
2.  Press Ctrl-C to copy the chart on to your computer clip board
3. Open your Word document.
4. Place the insertion point in the place you want to place you chart.
   In verison of Word prior to 2007, click Edit on the menu bar and then Paste Sepcial. In Word 2007 display the Home tab of the ribbon, click the down arrow under the Paste tool, and then choose Paste Special. 
5.  Select the Microsoft Excel Chart Object as the preferred method of pasting. This term may vary depending on the version of Word you are using.
6. Make sure the Paste Link radio button is selected. 
7.  Click on OK. Word inserts the linked chart in your document.

Thanks to Word.tips.net for providing this tip.

When you are using a public computer like  in our computer lab or the library, be careful when logging into a sites that require a password. Uncheck boxes like “Remember Me” and do not use the “Remember your password” or “auto-fill” options offered by your web browser. If you are not careful you may be allowing the next person who sets down access to your email or , personal information.

Your best bet is just not to access personal data on public computers if possible.  If you do check your email at the library or in the computer lab always remember to sign out of the application when you are finished.

PC Maginze has publised their annual best of the web 2008 (according to them) page. Look at various catgories divided by, Top 100 classic websites, and Top 100 undiscovered websites.

We didn’t make the list this year. There’s always next year.

PC Magzine’s 100 Best websites of 2008

Good information from SmartComputing.com;
“It’s important to remember one often-overlooked tip regarding password security:

Never give it to anyone who asks for it. Ever.

An organization such as your bank or eBay should never require your password for system maintenance or upgrades, because their tools should have the rights to perform any account activities automatically. At worst, a system may require your password to be reset to something new, but any secure system will reset your password, email you with the change, and then request that you change it via an automated system. Another human being shouldn’t be involved.

It seems this message is getting through to people, if slowly, because hackers are now resorting to simulating legitimate Web sites for the purposes of getting you to type your password. If you believe a message regarding your password might have a kernel of truth, simply don’t click any hypertext link from the email; instead, just open a browser window yourself, navigate to the legitimate site of the institution that purportedly emailed you, and log on. “

Here a tip form the Smart Computing webstie:

If you have a email you want to forward to your friends but you don’t want the long list of address of who else the addresses who got the message also; use the Bcc (blind copy) option rather than the (cc) carbon copy function.

This will give the only show the receiver of  the message their address. They may thank you when the don’t have to scroll down a long list of email addresses  to read your email.

You got a big file that you need to send to someone but your Internet service provider (ISP) sets a limit on the size of attachments or the number of people that you can send the file. Then the website Yousendit is your answer.

Yousendit lets you send upload up to a 2 gigabyte file for free. Once you upload your file, you can email your friends a link to download it. You can send up to  a 100 megabyte file without registering an mail address. Files from 100 megabytes to 2 gigabytes require email registration.

Yousendit

Are you one of these people who love to take things apart and see how they work, or you want to learn how to start a Facebook page. Then the website Howstuffworks is for you. Read articles and watch videos on 100′s of subjects like autos, electronics, to how to start a business.

How Stuff Works

If you think you have a virus on your computer, before you jump in and start deleting infected files. First backup your files to a CD or DVD before attempting any recovery operations. Although your your anti-virus program may have removed the virus, you may experance unpredictable trouble from your system. A backup of your data is improtant to restore your files to like they were before your problem.

You’ll need to scan your backup media with an antivirus program before you return the files to your computer or move them to another PC.