E-mailing Links
Links are a great way to connect people with content. But how do you do mail a link to someone, and how do you make them look nice? By “nice”, I mean not some great big horrible tech mess like this: Let’s deal with the Read More …
Category: Windows
Putting your Photos in iCloud
Fancy having your photo collection available everywhere? Yes, of course you do. The good news is, that now it’s possible with iCloud to share your photo collection between all the devices you have and keep them available all the time. And now that most people Read More …
Messing with your Start Menu…
…sometimes you need to switch things round a bit! The Windows Start Menu is often overlooked. There is so much you can do to get it organised so it suits you really well. Of course, you either click in the bottom-left corner or press the Read More …
Create an e-mail signature in Windows Mail
Do you get a bit annoyed that you have to keep typing your name and details at the bottom of an email? It can be very tedious having to type in your phone number, job title, name and all that stuff at the bottom of Read More …
Setting up a G-mail account in Microsoft Mail
Have you got a shiny new Windows PC and an existing G-mail account? Of course, you can just continue visiting the Gmail site on the web and look at your mail the old fashioned way… or you can use Microsoft’s smart new e-mail program and Read More …
Run out of Desktop? Create a new one!
Now in Windows 10 you can make virtual Desktops! It can be annoying when you run out of space on your monitor and need some more open Windows. Luckily though the bods behind Windows 10 have thought of that and you can now create additional Read More …
Don’t store it all on the Desktop!
Do you have a Windows Desktop like this? During my training days, I saw this a lot. Files and folders all stacked with content and placed on the desktop either in some sort of order (that meant something to the user) or just some random order, (like the Read More …
What version have you got?
Knowing the version, helps you when you talk to IT… So many problems we have on our computing devices stems from version of software we have. Whatever that software is – Operating System or Program. Operating System? This is the software that drives our device. Read More …
Windows on a Mac? Go Virtual!
Switching to a Mac can be great, until something doesn’t run! I don’t regret shifting to the Apple platform when I did in 2006. Windows was pretty awful then, and my children’s computer was playing up daily. I hated coming home from work to the Read More …
Multitasking in Windows 10 with Task View
One really great feature of a Mac has always been a thing called “Mission Control” (previously known as “Exposé”) – a way of showing everything that’s running now by exposing all the windows you have open… (these days its achieved by pushing 4 fingers up Read More …