A desktop email program has not been supplied with Windows since Vista and neither 7 nor 8 has ever had one. Many users that have kept up with Microsoft’s operating system have already sorted out their email requirements, but with the end of support for XP a lot of users of that old OS are… Read More
The Pictures folder or library in Windows is ideal for storing photos and you can organise them into subfolders by date, occasion or whatever is most useful. How do you view the most recently added photos though? It is easier than you might think. This tip will work in Windows 7 and 8, but Windows… Read More
Google Keep is a note taking app that can be accessed in a browser on the web, or using an app on your phone or tablet, and it works everywhere. It is a convenient place to store text, images, lists and other items. It can now turn images into editable text using OCR (optical character… Read More
Apple TV hasn’t had much competition and has mostly had the set top box market to itself for several years now. Steve Jobs famously called it a hobby. Now Amazon has released Fire TV, which goes way beyond what Apple TV does and it looks like a killer product. The hardware consists of a… Read More
Google’s apps on Drive just keep getting better and in a recent update the facility to edit images within slides in presentations has been added. They can be cropped, frames and masks applied, and more. To see the new editing features that have been added, log in to Google Drive and either load a slide show… Read More
Cookies are a way for websites and services to store information on your computer and they are saved to the disk drive as you browse the web. Some cookies are very useful, such as those that store usernames to aid logins, website preferences, shopping carts and so on. Not all cookies are useful though and… Read More
There are around a quarter of a million words in the English language and that figure does not include technical terms, scientific words and slang. That’s just ordinary everyday language and if you include every word used by English speakers the number comes to over one million. How many do you know? Most people know… Read More
Intel is working on new processors and technologies for 2014 that will bring some exciting developments to the market. The company is focusing on all-in-one (AIO) computers that does away with the old separate boxes for the system and monitor. There will also be a top-of-the-range high powered eight core CPU for people that require… Read More
Have you ever been browsing the web and after seeing an image you would like to save and use elsewhere, you right click it and select the save facility only to find that it wants to save as a .webp file? What is a .webp file and why is it used on the web? How… Read More
If you have read some of the reports on the internet about Windows XP you might wonder if the world will end on April 8th. It seems that your computer will either stop working or instantly become the target for every malware and hacker out there. Is this really the case? Two things will happen… Read More
Panoramic photographs provide fantastic views that show you what you would see if you stood at a spot and turned and looked in every direction. There are two problems though. One is that your camera or mobile phone may not have a panorama function built in, and the other is that even if it does,… Read More
There are two versions of Internet Explorer in Windows 8 and this can lead to some confusion. There is a full screen version of IE that can be opened from the Start screen and the desktop version that can be run on the old desktop. When you click a link, which version of the browser… Read More
Touch sensitive screens are great on a mobile phone and are much better than keys. Touch is also fantastic on a tablet and it is intuitive and easy to use. Touch on a desktop or laptop computer is completely different and despite Microsoft building touch capabilities into Windows 8 and lots of laptops having touch,… Read More
Microsoft has announced that there are now 3.5 million subscribers to Office 365, the suite of applications including Word, Excel and PowerPoint. The company has also revealed that there will be a new version of this suite and the aim is to boost subscriber numbers even more. Here is the current deal and it is… Read More
Google has always provided a generous amount of free online storage, but these days it is easy to exceed your allowance and the price of additional storage space used to be expensive. However, Google has slashed its prices and it is now cheaper than ever.
There are two things missing from Windows 8.1 and the Start menu is the obvious one and this makes accessing programs that are installed more difficult than it used to be. The other missing item is libraries, but you may not have noticed because they were nowhere near as popular as the much loved Start… Read More
It sometimes seems like you cannot publish anything on the web these days unless it has an image embedded into it. Some sites appear to make this rule, leading to crazy situations where the image is irrelevant to the article because the author couldn’t find one that fit in with the text. Now there is… Read More
Your Linux distro probably comes with a text editor, but the bundled one is often very basic. With Gnome-based distros for example, you often get Gedit and while it is OK for simple tasks, it doesn’t have a lot of features. An alternative is Geany, which is a powerful, yet lightweight editor for plain text… Read More
Although some people have truly unlimited broadband internet access, a lot of people don’t. Bandwidth may be limited at certain times of the day, such as during peak hours in the evening. Even internet accounts advertised as unlimited occasionally aren’t, as you will discover if you try to download an unlimited number of files. This… Read More
Most people don’t have a problem with Windows Update and it works fine, downloading essential updates in the background and automatically installing them when you shut down or restart. Sometimes though, Windows Update gets in a muddle and it may not download one or more of the updates offered, it might stop part way through… Read More