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Monthly Archives: September 2009
BCC Me ASAP
Do you ever get those emails from family or friends; the ones they send to you and 60 others in their address book?
I’m sure you have; I get five a day.
My problem is that everyone now has my address in their email system; maybe not as a contact but it’s still there. Gmail, Outlook and [...]
You think you have problems?
My wife Amanda was given a task: change the file names on up to 1000+ files; some she had to create names for, some she had to remove the date from the file name. It was a bit daunting.
After an hour she had new names for about 100 files, but there were 800+ left [...]
Posted in Daily, Friday: Casual Day, Software 1 Comment
Select All
If you want all the files in a folder – to delete, move or whatever – there’s a simple way to “Select All”
Start by clicking one item in the folder that you want, then hit CTRL+A. It’s that simple. You should see all of your files highlighted.
This works exactly the same way on the mac, [...]
Zip your files to pass them on
If you need to send a bunch of files – whether over email or drop.io (for big big files) – it’s easiest to archive them: put a bunch of files into one “ZIP” file. Both windows and mac can help you do this.
On your PC, select all the files you want to “zip” (archive) and [...]
Posted in Daily, Mac, Tuesday: Press Here, Windows Tagged Archive, Explorer, Files, Files and Folders, Finder, Zip Leave a comment
Big, big files
Sometimes I need to send a BIG file to someone – a bunch of images, a presentation, whatever. I’m talking about files that are too big for email. I could put it on a disc and mail it, but drop.io is faster.
On the home screen I click to add the file I want and [...]
Facebook, quickly
Tuesday is normally about a feature; something that will make your digital life simpler. Today it’s Facebook… Lite
If you use Facebook but don’t want to deal with all the Mafia Wars, Quizzes, Likenesses and what-nots; try Facebook Lite.
Simple; Brilliant.
What was the score again
Monday mornings are for getting organized and getting caught up; maybe something you saw over the weekend and thought “I should check that out…”; like the new Minnesota Gopher Stadium – I wanted to see pictures.
One way to search in your web broswer is to go to the “Address Bar” – that place with the [...]
Forgot your password
I fixed a friend’s computer the other night. It was simple work as far as computers go except for one bit: She didn’t remember her password.
Fixing that is not simple.
Passwords are tricky; they need to be simple enough to remember and complicated enough to be secure. Luckily most password systems give you some help – [...]
Monday: Simplicity
Tuesday: Press Here
Wednesday: Meltdown
Thursday: From the Hip
Friday: Casual Day
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