Google:
Most
of us are familiar with Google's excellent ability as a search engine,
but did you know that it can be used for much more? Well it can
be used as...
A calculator: For instance, if you type in the search box, 10+10*10 (i.e. 10 plus 10 time 10). that would give a correct answer of 110. The * is multiply, the + is plus, the - is minus, / is divide. Another useful function of the Google calculator is its ability to convert quantities by entering (for example 10) miles in kilometres in to the search box and it will come up with a conversion to 16.09344 kilometers.. For full explanation of calculator on Google, click here.
Google can also be used to define words. For instance, if you were to type into the search box, define: HTML (ensure the colon : is entered after the word define though), Google would come up with a list of sites with definitions of HTML - which incidentally stands for HyperText Markup Language. It's not just computer jargon that can be defined, but also you.
Typing weather followed by the name of your city into the search bar will bring up a list of weather sites for you local area.
To find a full list of facilities, the Google has click here.
Microsoft
Excel:
If ever you wanted to find out what day a certain date
was on, Microsoft Excel can help. The day of the week of any date
could produced in any cell you wished in the document with the following
formula... =text(cell ID, "dddd").
For example, say you heard somebody was born on 3rd December
1923 and you were curious to know what day of the week this was.
Simple enter the date 03/12/1923
in cell (for instance B1) and then =text(a2,"dddd")
in cell A1. This would give your answer in cell A1 as Monday
followed by 03/12/1923 in B1.
To copy a screen/window into a document
(as I have done above):
First of all, activate the window
you want to print/copy
by clicking on it, next press and hold the ALT key and press
Print Screen on your keyboard. Then paste the image into a document
(e.g. Word or Web page editor)
by clicking the Edit menu in the
document window, and then click Paste or use a keyboard shortcut by pressing
and holing Ctrl and pressing the V key - this process
is also known
as Screen Dump.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Have
you ever wandered how to get special symbol characters in a document
such as ½ or ¼ or ¾ or things like ® or
™ or © and more? Well here's a list of some of the keyboard
shortcuts...
™
- press and hold down the Alt key and type in 0153 on the numeric
keys (right hand side of keyboard)
©
- press and hold down the Alt key and type in 0169 on the numeric
keys
®
- press and hold down the Alt key and type in 0174 on the numeric
keys
¼ -
press and hold down the Alt key and type in 0188 on the numeric
keys
½ -
press and hold down the Alt key and type in 0189on the numeric keys
¾
- press and hold down the Alt key and type in 0190 on the numeric
keys
÷
- press and hold down the Alt key and type in 0247on the numeric
keys
°
- press and hold down the Alt key and type in 0176 on the numeric
keys
Security on your computer
When my
computer experiences started back in the early 80s, I really felt that here was
an appliance that was going to make my writing work so very much easier. Then
as time went by and I progressed from a stand-alone computer to one that was
connected to the internet, I found that I needed to “service” my PC just as
much, if not more than it was “servicing” me -
especially with all the threat of viruses, security and privacy. Now, I think I
have got on top of the problem at last after having installed, anti-virus software,
adware and spyware blockers. Something I give little thought to 10 years ago is
something now I would never dream of going on-line without!
Putting the obvious threat of the computer virus to one side for a moment, during my searches on the net, I have been really surprised to learn that only a fraction of computer users are using kind of adware and spyware blockers software and whatsmore, it is thought that around 90% of machines are infected with with adware and spyware. And these little “beasties” can harm your computer just as much and in some cases your credit card details can be stolen by a hacker.
So
where does the threat come from?
Mostly hidden,
spyware and adware files and are downloaded
as you browse the Internet. They tend to come from pop up ads, shareware &
freeware (free downloadable programs) and these days even instant messaging. And the story doesn't end there... Some machines contain them
when your first purchase them!
Blocking
Adware & Spyware
In my
opinion, the best thing to do is to avoid getting adware and spyware in the
first place and get a good spyware blocker. Some people seem happy to use the
many freeware programs available from various websites, but personally I prefer
to pay for a program.
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Recording Vinyl & Tapes
to Computer
Using a program called Music
Match Jukebox, I have recently recorded all my vinyl records to
my computer in the form of MP3 files and then burned them on to
CD.. Click here to read how I did it.
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