So the Touch Pro 2 is my only hope of having an extremely fancy yet advanced smartphone.  Granted, there are others but none of them have really impressed me especially when compared to the iPhone.  But the Touch Pro seemed to come the closest.  So I have held out hopes that the Touch Pro 2 would meet my expectations and give me a phone similar to the iPhone.

One advanced feature is that it will turn the voicemail into text for you and then SMS text message you or email you the text of the voicemail.

Google Voice is in its pre-release form and will be available to everyone soon.  If you want to know when you can use it, fill out this short form for Google, and they’ll email you.

For more info, visit Google Voice is Online Voicemail.

The tech-side of me wants to rush right out and buy a computer that has one of these chips, but then the frugal-side of me reminds me that my budget can’t handle it.  So, alas, I wait….and know that at some point I will be using one of these babies!

Intel Core i7

Oftentimes when doing design work in Microsoft Office program, you need to move various items fractions of an inch.  In Publisher this is rather easy; simply, hit the various arrow keys and it moves ever-so-slightly in that direction.  But in a program like Word, hitting the arrow key results in a much bigger movement of the object than is normally desired especially if you are lining up various objects.

Thankfully, Microsoft has an answer to this.  Simply select the item you want to move and instead of hitting the arrow key by itself, hold down the CONTROL key and then hit the arrow key.  Doing this moves the selected object one pixel in the chosen direction.

Another helpful feature is when you want to drag an object to a certain location.  Oftentimes it is impossible to simply drag the object horizontally without also moving it slightly vertically; the reverse is also true–it’s hard to move the object vertically without moving slightly horizontally.  But sometimes you just want the object to go up/down or left/right.  To help users with moving an object in only one direction simply press the SHIFT key and then proceed to drag the object in the direction you want it.  This saves you the step of having to realign your object.

These shortcuts and helps apply to Excel, Word, Powerpoint, and Outlook.

To do this, open up Trillian.  Go to the drop-down box at the top titled “Trillian” and select “Trillian Preferences.”  Then choose “Activity History.”  Look for “Save History To” and click the “Browse” icon.  Change the location to a place that is easy for you to access.  Perhaps making a new folder in Documents labeled Trillian and choosing that as the location for your logs to be written.

But before you go through the hassle, make sure you have PDFs set to be indexed and searchable in Windows Vista.  Open “Control Panel.”  Go to “Indexing Options.”  Click the “Advanced” button and then click the tab “File Types.” Scroll down and make sure that the PDF file type is selected.  If not, select it and PDFs will now be indexed and searchable.  If it is checked, then you will need to download the Adobe iFilter software.  Adobe iFilter Software