Blog, Tips, Tools and techniques, Windows, Windows 7
Windows 7 comes with some luscious eye candy for your desktop. The built-in themes feature striking photography. If you hanker for more wallpaper you can grab additional themes from Microsoft’s Personalisation Gallery. To change your theme, right-click an empty spot...Tips, Tools and techniques, Windows, Windows 7
If you’ve been computing for any length of time, you’ve probably experienced that frisson of panic when you realise your data is gone—perhaps you overwrite a file or maybe your hard drive dies. If your data is well and truly gone and no amount of tinkering or...Blog, Commentary, Internet, Reviews, Ruminations, Tips
WordPress delights and terrifies me. This open-source blogging platform is a wonder to use. Not easy, but easy enough, and filled with such endless possibilities. A huge number of people contribute plug-ins, themes and other bits and bobs which enhance an already...Blog, Tips, Windows, Windows 7
Windows 7 includes all sorts of small improvements that will make your computing life more enjoyable. These tips will help you make the most of your desktop working environment. Snap tricks Snap is one of Windows 7’s nifty new features: drag a window to the side of...Blog, Office Apps, Tips, Word
If you have a document open in Word 2007 or Word 2010 and you open another document, that second document is displayed in the same window as the first. To view the now-hidden first document, you can’t, as you might expect, swap between the two documents by...