pc tips

Perhaps obvious but if your wireless mouse/keyboard gobbles batteries get some rechargeable batteries and a charger.  Rechargeable batteries come in ... more here

Hopefully you know about Have you tried turning it off and on again?  It should work with anything that has control programming: washing machines, digital ... more here

A chum complained to us that on the pop up print window (Ctrl + P) in web browser Chrome the Print button had changed to Save.  We fixed it by clicking on Change... where Print Destinations was set to Save as PDF and changing the destination to a printer.

Useful keyboard shortcut is Windows + E which pops up file explorer with Frequent folders and Recent files ... go on, try it.

Often an extra line at the bottom of the screen would be useful.  We sort of created one by setting the taskbar to auto hide (right click on the taskbar/Taskbar settings/Automatically hide .. more here

When listening to a BBC radio station on Freeview you can get the red button ... who would have thought?

We recently had to copy a postal address in the Russian alphabet from an email to a package with a non-digital pen.  To make the foreign address easier to ... more here

Looks like Facebook is uploading pix in hires by default so we've reduced the size of our uploads.  Don't mind you using our pix for editorial as long as you credit us AS A LINK, making the pix is work for us so to acknowledge it for hires we make a nominal charge.

Roy: Have you tried turning it off, counting to ten (gives your un/sub/conscious a chance to get your attention and point out where your getting it wrong), and turning it on again.

That Mr Google has been not very nice to us over the past couple of years so when we received a letter (a letter not an email) from him this morning we thought maybe he was worried he'd offended us ... no, he was suggesting that if we give him £120 he might be a bit nicer to us.

Our previous BT router had a useful pull out thingy on the top with the logon details.  When we got our new and present router the useful thingy on the top had gone, What a pity we thought.  We moved the new router last week and discovered there's still a useful thingy but it's on the side.

Do you recall Windows Millennium Edition?  Released in September 2000 (a year before Win XP) it was Windows 98 with some extra goodies like Movie Maker.  We always suspected that Lady KRJ thought everybody else's copy said Windows Kate ...

Thunderbird is the free multiple Operating System email app that's particularly useful if you're running an older OS.  It's moved from the Mozilla web site to its own domain ... hopefully we don't have to have a bad feeling about this.

Five years ago we didn't bother backing up to BT's Cloud as it didn't retain the source file structure.  Given time even mega organisations sort ... more here

We've banged on about rechargeable batteries before.  Recently we bought eight Eneloop AAs for a sizeable £20 but boy they made our flashes fly, they recycle faster than we've ever seen before.  Then we found this YouTube vid proving that the half the price Ikea LADDAs were even faster, but do they hold a charge well when not in use?

Wish we'd found this sooner, you can stop those bloody annoying animated gifs in Twitter auto-starting.  Click your Twitter profile pic top right, go Settings and privacy, halfway down unselect Video auto play and then Save changes.  BE WARNED you may have to enter your Twitter password to confirm the change(s).

TODAY around near the coast Freeview will need re-scanning if it doesn't do it for itself.  No advantage to near the coast, the great and the good are moving some frequencies because they think they can make some money out of it.