Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard Shortcuts

  Using keyboard shortcuts can increase your productivity. These shortcuts will help to keep your hands on the keyboard where they are most useful and eliminate the need to reach for your mouse to right click or use the sometimes frustrating ‘File’ or ‘Edit’...
To sleep or not to sleep?

To sleep or not to sleep?

With computers being so fast nowadays, there is really not much that can be done to speed them up any more. One thing can be done to reduce the time it takes to boot up your computer when you want to use it. There is a way to bring the machine online in just a few...
Google tricks you may not know

Google tricks you may not know

There are so many things that Google can do, it is no surprise that you may not have known of these gems…. Definitions – Show the definition of any word by typing define followed by the word you want the definition for. For example, typing: define incredible would...
Dust yourself off…

Dust yourself off…

With most households having at least a couple of home PCs or laptops, it is easy to see where a lot of our money is going. Computers can be a fairly easy to maintain item, but what happens when things go wrong and they start to slow down, or get virus attacks that...
Internet browser tricks you may not know

Internet browser tricks you may not know

Even browsing the internet can be made faster and easier if you know the right shortcuts! You don’t need to enter the http:// portion of a web page: When typing an Internet address there is no need to type http:// or even www. in the address. For example, if you...
Anti-virus Software

Anti-virus Software

Do I really need it? (or “why is my computer acting funny and where on Earth are all of my photos?”) Many people out there have never seen a virus on their home computers, while some have a seemingly non-stop run of attacks. The sad fact is that there are coders out...