When you are working on your computer or simply browsing the web for fun, you will occasionally need to temporarily store information. One way of doing this is with sticky notes apps and there is no shortage of utilities, but Google Keep now runs on the desktop. Google Keep is a note-taking app that enables… Read More
For many years computer monitors, and televisions for that matter, were square. They roughly measured the same horizontally as they did vertically and having a taskbar at the bottom of the screen made sense. Today’s monitors are not square and the bottom of the screen may not be the best place for the taskbar. Nearly… Read More
If you have ever manually run Windows Update to see if there is anything new, you might have noticed an optional item called Bing Desktop. What is this extra and do you need it? After seeing it for what seems like years, I finally succumbed and installed it. It is odd that Bing Desktop is… Read More
It is easy to dismiss the Photos app in Windows 8 as a lightweight that doesn’t offer very much and it is true that the original wasn’t that impressive, but the latest version with Windows 8.1 has more features than you might think. It has filters that enable you to apply effects to your digital… Read More
We all take crooked photos occasionally and if you aren’t careful with the camera and hold it exactly horizontal, the resulting slope of the landscape can ruin a good photograph. This is most obvious where the horizon is horizontal, such as when you take a photo at the beach and you can see the sea,… Read More
Windows used to come with a built in Backup program that could be used to back up your files to a second disk drive, such as a USB disk. Windows 8 doesn’t have this facility and instead it has File History. What you may not realise is the large amount of space that File History… Read More
The Windows 8 Start screen does not show every app and program that is installed and instead, it shows a small selection. The tiles are large and sometimes they have no name, so you can’t fit many apps on the screen or tell what they are if you make them small. Down at the bottom… Read More
There is nothing like a picture to brighten up a page and if you are creating a website, writing a report, or a project for school or work, you should consider using one. It has to be relevant of course, but even with a tenuous link, it can work wonders. It makes a page of… Read More
Action Center is an a feature of Windows that aims to bring to your attention potential problems with the computer, such as no anti virus, no firewall, no spyware protection, and so on. It displays pop-up messages at the right side of the taskbar above the notification area. Although it means well, it can sometimes… Read More
It is a shame that Microsoft abandoned desktop gadgets because they were a great feature of Windows 7. They partly died out because few people used them, but this was because Microsoft gave little support. Other developers created some fine gadgets and a few are still available today for people continuing to run Windows 7.… Read More
File History is a new way to back up your files in Windows 8 and it replaces the old backup facilities that were in previous versions of the operating system. The problem is that people never bothered to back up. This one is simpler, you don’t need to be an administrator to set it… Read More
Google Mail is not like other email services and people either love it hate it. One of the ways in which it is different is that it doesn’t have a preview pane. Many email programs and online web mail services show the inbox as a table showing the sender, subject and date/time, and either below… Read More
Security is a constant worry and when you are using the internet there is always someone, somewhere that is watching you. Mostly it is harmless and advertisers are always trying to get better information about the people that see their adverts, websites want to know who their visitors are, and so on. That is understandable,… Read More
