This tip should be of interest to all the Entrecard chain-droppers out there (you know who you are). It works in Internet Explorer (version 7 and later), Firefox, and Safari.If you hold down the Ctrl key when you click on a link on a website the browser will open the linked page on a new tab, saving you having to right-click on the link and selecting 'Open Link in New Tab' (or 'Open in New Tab' on...
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Sunday, 27 April 2008
The Fourth Carnival of Computer Help and Advice
Welcome to the fourth monthly Carnival of Computer Help and Advice. As ever many blog authors contributed their posts, and as ever limitation of space means that some did not make it into the carnival.We start with a carnival regular: Andrew Edgington writes posts on the subject of digital imagery....
Thursday, 24 April 2008
Folder types: Music, Pictures, Videos, Documents, etc
Windows Explorer has different looks for different folders depending on the type of files contained within them. The bar down the left hand side of the Explorer window will have different content - as shown below - and the files in the folder will be displayed in different ways.Sometimes Windows selects...
Tuesday, 22 April 2008
Using AutoText in Word
If there are things that you find yourself typing regularly, there is a way of increasing your productivity. By using Word's AutoText feature you only have to start typing a few letters of your name or postal address before it offers an option to fill the rest of the text for you. Word comes with a...
Friday, 18 April 2008
Recovering text from Word documents (Part 2)
In the previous part of this article I looked at using the built in text recovery features in MS Word. But, what can be done if this doesn't work? One way to try to recover text from a corrupted file is to open it in Notepad.To open Notepad click on the Start button, go to 'App Programs', then 'Accessories'...
Wednesday, 16 April 2008
Recovering text from Word documents (Part 1)
If Microsoft Word runs into a problem with a file it usually offers a recover option when you open the program the next time. But sometimes this option is not given to you, and you have to try to recover text from a corrupted file manually.To do this pull down the 'File' menu in Word and select 'Open...'...
Friday, 11 April 2008
Jargon Busting: BIOS, boots and flashing
What has booting to do with my computer?The term booting is short for bootstrapping, which refers to a process by which a simple control system starts up a more complicated system such as an operating system. The term may have been taken from a story about Baron Münchhausen who pulled himself out of...
Tuesday, 8 April 2008
Password problem in Firefox
My recent post on new releases of web browsers provoked a number of comments from people who have been having problems with Firefox remembering to stay logged on to various websites and forgetting passwords. I looked into the issue, mainly because I was having problems with this myself, and have come...
Sunday, 6 April 2008
Spring Cleaning: How to clear out temporary files
Occasionally it is worth checking to see if you have any temporary files collected. These should be deleted whenever the application that created them is finished with them, or whenever Windows closes down, but bad programming and crashes mean that they can sometimes be left behind.In order to delete...
Thursday, 3 April 2008
A Safari through Windows and a new Firefox
SafariApple's web browser is now available for Windows XP and Vista. Safari had previously only been available on Macintosh operating systems. The browser is certainly quick and uses about as much memory as Mozilla Firefox; however, Safari takes up more hard drive space than Firefox: around 60Mb. Nevertheless,...