Warning: Unresponsive Script Error

Subscriber Richard Fuller wrote from New Zealand (not Australia, as I mistakenly wrote in an earlier article) to ask about a fairly common problem. Most web sites have some JavaScript, whether it’s used for interactivity, automatic page updating (e.g., quibids.com updating with every bid that anyone makes), as part of their advertizing, etc. Our web [...]

Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletter – February 5, 2012

This week’s email newsletter articles are: "Warning: Unresponsive Script" ErrorSubscriber Richard Fuller wrote from New Zealand (not Australia, as I mistakenly wrote in an earlier article) to ask about a fairly common problem. Most web sites have some JavaScript, whether it’s used for interactivity, automatic page updating (e.g., quibids.com updating with every bid that anyone [...]

Google’s New Privacy Policy — Read it and Weep

Google announced that it is consolidating all of its myriad privacy policies (roughly one per service that Google offers) into one over-arching privacy policy. They’re written it at an easy to understand level, too. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it’s scary. I’m not sure that it really says anything new, but [...]

What’s This Desktop (or Desktop.ini) File on my Windows 7 Desktop?

One of the strange changes that came with Windows 7, at least for those of us who previously used Windows XP, is that some of the operating system options don’t work the same way. Advanced Windows users often want to display all the hidden files and folders, including protected operating system files(which is a separate [...]

Terry’s Computer Tips Newsletter – January 29, 2012

This week’s email newsletter articles are: What’s This Desktop.ini (or Desktop) File on my Windows 7 Desktop?One of the strange changes that came with Windows 7, at least for those of us who previously used Windows XP, is that some of the operating system options don’t work the same. Advanced Windows users often want to [...]

Can’t Send Reduced Size File Attachments

Subscriber Richard Fuller wrote from New Zealand to ask about a problem he was having in emailing photos… Hullo Terry, Here’s a problem that’s new to me. When sending photographs by e-mail I always use the Send To > Mail Recipient feature of Windows Explorer to reduce the file size and make the pictures viewable [...]

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