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

A bit techie but if you have your own web site this might be interesting.   We hadn't visited Google's PageSpeed Insights for quite a while.  Today we discovered it's had a major makeover, doesn't optimise graphics anymore and it looks like Lighthouse buried in the Chrome browser is more useful.  (Lighthouse didn't like our robots.txt file but 100 speed score.)  Yes, we're confused too.

Amazon have sent us a card inviting us to try a second 30 day free trial with a letter telling us we won't believe the changes they've made.  Hopefully this time they wouldn't start charging our credit card without warning.

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