Posts Tagged ‘basic’

Have a Messy Desktop? Here’s a great solution

Tuesday, September 1st, 2009

If you find yourself with a load of files on your desktop and need a way to organize and clean things up Fences by Stardock may be a great resource for you.

With Fences you can group your files and programs to your liking. You can change the name and size of your boxes as well as hide them from the desktop completely by double clicking. Double click again to have it re-appear. If you fill up a box with files or programs a scroll bar appears for those you can’t see. So if you aren’t using a file or program often you can keep it on the desktop but not have it showing all the time. It is easy to use and in only a few minutes you can have your desktop organized and looking much less cluttered.
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Check it out at http://www.stardock.com/products/fences/ and make your desktop manageable and free from clutter. It’s free for personal use!

So what is this Twitter thing anyways?

Friday, February 20th, 2009

You may have heard about a new web service named ‘twitter‘ recently and be curious as to what it actually is. The best way to describe it would be a way to let people know what you are doing at this very moment. You are limited to only 140 letters to describe what is going right now. This has also been termed ‘micro-blogging’.

Where things start to get more interesting is when you begin to follow other people and keep up to date on what they are posting.  A number of my family members are on twitter and it’s a really handy way to keep up to date with each other’s every day lives.

If you are concerned about your privacy (by default, everything you post is viewable by the general public) you are given the option to lock down your account so that only people you authorize may view your updates.

If you are curious and want to try it out, go to www.twitter.com and create an account. Feel free to follow me, or check out the twitter advanced search page to find people with similar interests, or people in your area.

Computer Components-So what’s in that box anyway?

Sunday, January 4th, 2009

We just built a computer as we needed a faster one for using CS4 (a program used for design and video editing) which has large requirements in terms of memory and speed. We took pictures as we went along and will put a name and an explanation by each component. If you were ever curious about what components are in your computer and what they do… this is the post for you! (more…)