The password is…
How many of you have a password that is easy to remember but hard for others to guess? Not many. In fact, most of us rely on very traditional password creations and then we never change them. So let’s...
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A Picture of Your Screen
I’m often asked by folks how they can get a graphic of something on their screen. In fact, there are many ways to do this. Some involve free software. Some involve commercial software. But the easiest...
View ArticleEasy Tip for Printing Folder Contents
You have a folder named MY STUFF on your computer. Inside MY STUFF is a bunch of other folders and documents. You want to print a list of all those things inside MY STUFF. But how? When you open a...
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David Pogue, technology columnist for the New York Times, recently conducted an interview with Dag Spicer, curator of the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley. The transcript of that interview is...
View ArticleMaking Gmail Your Default Mail Program
After our series on Google For Educators, many of you have become avid Gmail users. However, when you click on a link in a web page to send an e-mail, your computer still opens Apple Mail or Entourage...
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Google Enhances Search Options
Google added new features to their search page overnight and the new options give you a lot more control over the results you get from a search. When you do a search on Google today (go ahead, I’ll...
View ArticleReminders on E-mail Etiquette
We all use e-mail every day for both professional and personal communication. And after all that practice, you would assume people would know and follow basic “rules” to make their e-mail more readable...
View ArticleProtecting Your Password
Whether you are protecting your computer at work for HIPPA guidelines and confidentiality, or protecting your bank passwords and online transactions at home, the security of your computer is very...
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Empty Your Trash…For Real!
We delete tons of documents and folders from our computers throughout the week, but they aren’t really gone. When we put a document in the trash and then select “Empty Trash”, the document remains on...
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Screen Snapshots
There are many times and reasons for wanting to take a snapshot – called a screenshot – of something on your computer screen. Maybe you want to show a pulldown menu during a training. Maybe you want to...
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