pc tips

Facebook have been pratting about with the pix at the top of a page (the cover); it's too big, low res and by default the top half is missing when landing.  We dislike it so much we deleted it and FB then replaced it with a grey wilderness.  We gave up, laid back and thought of England ... and another thing the associated slideshow editor is buggy, clearly Wayne the work experience kid hasn't been properly supervised.

The HP Support Assistant on our workstation is generally annoying; it nags, is slow and usually unhelpful though it did recently point out the security on our User Account Control wasn't high enough.  Mind you it made a dog's breakfast of a recent BIOS upgrade.

Freeview tv channels seem to continually change.  Yesterday channel 25 which was once ITV4 (for Le Tour and now on channel 26) became W.  Despite the promo W seems to be mostly some progs off of ITV and the same mix of emergency service and property shows just like most of the other channels.

In January the other Alexa said they were retiring in May but they already seemed to have shuffled off for pub lunches and Croc wearing.

The BBC's news mirror web site on the dark web has been running since October 2019.  It is a way to access the news in countries where the Beeb is blocked.  News is available in Ukrainian and Russian.

We'd forgotten that BBC 3 returned at the beginning of the month but stumbled across it last night.  Not surprisingly it's very ... more here

Without actually trying it we were pretty sniffy about Wordle ... it's very addictive.

A bit surprised that today's channel moves on Freeview have included the return of BBC 3 though it won't be doing anything useful until Tuesday 1 February.

That's very disappointing, the other Alexa (an Amazon company) is being retired in May.  Semrush is probably the best substitute.

Really wish we'd stumbled across this so much earlier.  Keyboard shortcut Windows key + V pops up the Clipboard with copies going back a good hatful.  Click on a list entry to paste it and there's a perhaps overly discrete scroll bar on the right.

After a Windows update a while back a new icon appeared on the task bar to the left of the system tray.  We found it popped up an annoyingly large window whenever the mouse pointer strayed near the icon.  It was surprisingly easy to get rid of, right click on the task bar then News and interests and then Turn off, that'll do it.

We find this keyboard shortcut useful to reduce distraction when doing something non-digital at a pc especially as our ... more here