Quick tip of the day here. Nothing too complex. Need to clear the “Recent Items” list under the start menu? Well Microsoft did it right this time. The old way took several steps, right-clicking and finding the right tab. The new way is as follows:
1) Right-click the words ‘Recent Items’
2) Click on ‘Clear Recent Items List’
Should have always been this easy.
Here’s some news from the Mac side of the spectrum. Newsweek posted a video about Apple’s upcoming release Mac OS X ‘Leopard’. It will be available tomorrow, October 26th, to the public.
Did you know we offer a FREE diagnostic for desktops computers? If you decide not to fix the problem, it’s no problem for us. You simply don’t pay anything!
One of my friends recently told me about a customer of a big box store. Apparently, he bought a new computer or his old computer died, so he wanted to transfer his favorites from Internet Explorer to another PC. Of course, the tech were more than happy to charge him more than a hundred dollars to perform this exceedingly difficult task ; ) Although they did have trouble figuring out how to get the files to a floppy disk! The moral of the story is don’t use Internet Explorer (that’s always the first rule) and secondly, download Firefox and install Foxmarks.
The Foxmarks add-in for Mozilla Firefox Web Browser is a very nifty little program. It really accomplishes two things at the same time. First off, it makes a back-up of your favorites or bookmarks every time you close your browser. As soon as you create your free account name and password, it uploads your data to a remote server and creates a sync file that it uses to compare your local file to the remote file. Secondly, it will keep your bookmarks consistent across multiple computers, even on a Mac. When you install it on a new computer, it will ask if you want to keep, discard or merge your bookmarks, and that’s it! No more paying someone else to retrieve your bookmarks.
Remember when you could watch the little rectangular segments move around on your screen when you ran a defrag on the hard drive? Good old Windows 98. Well, those days of being hypnotized by the defragmentation process have been replaced by ominous Windows Vista messages such as,”This may take a few minutes to a few hours…”
But there are alternatives! Enter the new, free Deffragler program from the makers of CCleaner. To be honest I’ve only used it once, but hey, it’s got little segmented blocks for indicating drive fragmentation and a progress indicator (i.e 50% completed). Try it out. It’s so much more satisfying to run. Plus you can choose which files you want to defragment, or just defrag them all!
