One of the new features in Windows 8 is notifications and you can be alerted to certain events that take place. For example, Start screen apps like Alarms, Calendar, News and others can display pop-up messages informing you of something that just happened. Sometimes, though, you just don’t want to be disturbed and you can… Read More
As you browse the web you may have noticed that many websites have a search facility. Whenever Chrome detects a search box on a web page, it stores it in its search engines list. It isn’t obvious that it is doing this, or why it is doing it. It is actually a powerful feature that… Read More
Adding a website your web browser’s bookmarks does two things: It saves you having to remember the URL and it makes returning to the site a simple point and click process. Unfortunately, the more bookmarks you add, the more of an untidy mess they become. Here’s how to sort Chrome bookmarks into order. Bookmark websites… Read More
Dropbox is a successful online cloud storage and file synchronisation service that has been around since 2008. I must have started using it not long after and have been using it for years. However, it is time to move on and I wonder if other people are thinking the same way. Is it over for… Read More
Google drive provides 15GB of storage space for free and 100GB at a ridiculously low monthly subscription fee and it is tempting to make use of it to store lots of files. What’s more, you can create documents, spreadsheets and presentations too and it is an online office suite. But how do you back up… Read More
Dropbox is an excellent utility and one of the useful things it does is back up files on your computer and sync them with your other computers. Sometimes though, it doesn’t sync and different computers can have different files. What is going on and how do you fix this? The problem can be caused by… Read More
Photographs taken outdoors tend to be a bit hit and miss. Sometimes you get a great one, but occasionally they are not so good. The auto-exposure of modern digital cameras and mobile phones can be fooled and you get a dark underexposed image. Here is how to fix exposure problems in Linux. Faults often occur… Read More
There are several ways that viruses can get onto your computer and one is through email. A malicious program can be attached to an email message and if you open it, you risk infecting your computer. Malware can lock your PC until you pay a fee to unlock it, it can corrupt files, and it… Read More
Do you use Linux? Do you have a laptop? You can configure the power settings to get the maximum performance or the maximum life out of the battery. Sadly, you cannot have both and it is one or the other. Of course, you could compromise and have a bit of battery saving plus a bit… Read More
Desktop gadgets was a great feature of Windows 7 and it enabled small utilities and information panels to be displayed on the desktop. Unfortunately, Microsoft abandoned widgets and they are no longer in Windows 8. In some ways Rainmeter is like desktop gadgets, only more flexible and more powerful. It is hard to describe Rainmeter… Read More
The latest news stories over the last week. Microsoft increases OneDrive free storage Right now, Office 365 subscribers get 20GB of online storage space on OneDrive, Microsoft’s cloud storage service. This will be increased to 1TB – 1,000GB – which is a massive increase in space and surely more than anyone will ever need. In… Read More
Do you use Microsoft’s Outlook.com email service for your messaging? How do you delete an email? This is not a trick question. Even if you delete an email and then empty the Deleted folder, it can be recovered. This could be useful if you accidentally delete an email, but scary if you really want to… Read More
If you are a Google Mail user, you will have noticed options to archive email messages. There is a button to archive the currently selected message in the toolbar for example. What happens to emails you archive? Where do they disappear to and how do you get them back if you change your mind? There… Read More
