In my last post about photo editing, I talked about cropping. I often try cropping a photo several different ways. The Reset function on Picnik is great for this. Crop, reset, crop, reset, crop – oh yeah, this one looks good.
And that led me to add this reminder: The best keystroke combination in Windows is [...]
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Reminder: Undo key
Posted in computer doodah on July 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Photos for the web (warning: geekiness)
Posted in computer doodah on July 2, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been playing around with Picnik, a web-based photo editor, at picnik.com. There’s no download or installation required, it’s free, and it’s really easy to use. You can pay more for some fancy stuff, but for basic photo editing the free version is dandy. I used it while we were on vacation because I didn’t [...]
Using the browser to search the web
Posted in computer doodah, tagged browser search, Firefox, Google, internet explorer, Safari, Yahoo on May 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
This post is related to my previous post about chrome.
Every browser has an address bar.
(Wait, what’s a browser? It’s the software you use for viewing pages on the internet. It’s not the internet itself, but the way in. Internet Explorer, Safari, and Firefox are popular browsers.)
The address bar is located at the top of the [...]
Computer chrome
Posted in computer doodah, tagged browser, chrome, internet explorer, ms word on May 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
When I’m watching someone else navigate around the web, or when I’m doing some tech support, I’m always amazed that people don’t know the difference between the chrome of a program and the contents of the program. This is important and useful.
Chrome is all the grayish silver stuff around the edges of a program window. [...]
I wish I’d thought of this
Posted in computer doodah, food, interesting sites, language, recipes, writing on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
My friend Alan just sent me a link to a New York Times article on Twitter and recipes. I’m not interested in Twitter, but I think what this woman is doing with it is amazing and wonderful. Read it, it’s great. It fits in six of my blog categories!
Really really really useful keystrokes
Posted in computer doodah on April 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m always lobbying for people to use keystrokes instead of the mouse for several very common computer commands. They’re so simple and useful. These are all for PC users. If you are a Mac user, substitute the option key for the control key. These commands work across 99% of programs. That means that you can [...]
Sending a web page by email
Posted in computer doodah on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There you are, surfing around the web, and you come across an interesting web page that you think might be useful to, say, your sister. How do you get it to her?
a. Print it and send it by snail mail.
b. Copy the contents of the page and paste it into an email message.
c. Tell [...]
Email warnings
Posted in computer doodah on April 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Everyone has at one time or another received an email warning about something. It could be about telemarketers getting your cell phone number, or Congress voting down funding for public broadcasting, or the latest virus that’s going to infect every PC in the whole world, or a host of other things.
Most of us (including [...]
Sending photos in a viewable size
Posted in computer doodah, tagged emailing photos, resizing photos on March 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m such a computer know-it-all. It always surprises me to learn some simple little trick. Here’s one I just learned.
This is a Windows thing, but it may have a Mac counterpart.
When photos come out of the camera they are generally enormous. Then you email those enormous things to someone, and the person complains that they’re [...]
Useful food information
Posted in computer doodah, interesting sites on March 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I got a cortisone shot in my shoulder today, so I’m resting my arm and doing no computer work. I am, however, surfing around, hitting the Page Up and Page Down keys with my left hand. I use Google Chrome as my browser, and I found a list of Google Chrome keystrokes. Very helpful this [...]
