A great, free utility which I came across recently is DropBox.com. It is an offsite, online, secure backup and synchronization facility, but that makes it sound far too complicated. In fact it is a folder on your desktop which you can access from anywhere and from any machine. Continue reading
Another free utility, which I now use all the time, is Google Calendar. There are many calendar programs around, but this one is well designed, easy to use and has great calendar sharing facilities. Continue reading
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There are several ways to address this problem. Continue reading
Occasionally clients send PDF proofs in which the pages are in double-page spreads, with two A4 pages on each PDF page. Printing them with only an A4 printer can be a problem. If it were only one or two pages, then we can simply use the zoom Continue reading
Many indexers will think that if they don’t have a website, then they don’t need a domain but actually having a domain has serious advantages for client communications. Continue reading
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There is only one thing more annoying than deleting a file accidentally, and that is overwriting it – for example, accidentally deleting the content and then saving. At least, with deleting, the Recycle Bin saves us sometimes.
Well, with windows Vista there are copies of every file saved every time you boot the machine, so at least you can go back to yesterday’s file and probably a few days before that.
This “shadowing”, as it is called, is turned on by default in all versions of Vista Continue reading
H. asked:
Someone/thing has accessed my hotmail address book and appears to have sent messages out under my name (advertising some electronics website). I noticed as I received one myself and a number of ‘undeliverable’ messages.
There are two possibilities. First, Continue reading
On the right of the Twitter home screen is a Search box which lets you search the tweets. If used correctly it can help you find work opportunities.
Indexers have a particular problem. Searching for indexing will find thousands of useless posts, mainly about the computer-associated meaning of the word indexing, Continue reading
The topic today is PDFs and there is probably something for everyone here, whether you aren’t sure how to handle them or why you would want to, or whether you have Acrobat Pro and think that is all you need. Continue reading
