Terry Stockdale's Computer Tips and Newsletters for PC Users
This week’s email newsletter articles are: A Major Redesign at my Terry’s Computer Tips Web Site In last week’s email newsletter, I mentioned that I was hard at work on a major redesign of my Terry’s Computer Tips web site. After uncounted hours — somewhere in the 80-100 range — I’ve finally finished the conversion [...]
My old Terry’s Computer Tips online newsletters (the August 29, 2010 issue and earlier issues) are still available — here. At this time, I plan to convert them from individual web pages to WordPress pages when I get a chance — of course, that’s 5+ years of weekly issues, some split into multiple pages. [...]
What is Wikipedia? It’s the free encyclopedia. More interestingly, it’s a free online encyclopedia that is edited by its readers. You may have already heard the name "wiki", which is the name for a type of web site that is created by its visitors. Many wikis allow anonymous editing, at least to some extent. More [...]
I ran across a small ebook with a grand title The World’s Shortest Excel Book. At only 29 pages, the book is designed to cram the things you need to know into an easy-to-read electronic book (Adobe Reader .pdf file). Richard Kraneis, the author, matches the book with a series of videos to guide you [...]
After my article about zooming in Microsoft Word documents, Carol Bratt of Carol’s Corner Office commented in my Terry’s Computer Tips blog: There are a couple of rules of thumb to remember regarding zoom settings. If you are opening an existing document that you previously viewed in Page Layout view, Word will use the zoom [...]
These are a few of the HTML, CSS, PHP, MySQL and JavaScript books that I have purchased and recommend to you as good resources for web design and site building. Web Usability If you’re using FrontPage, get FrontPage 2003 The Missing Manual. FrontPage 2003: The Missing Manual offers help from the basics to meaty [...]
Internet Explorer 8 has a bunch of new features. Some are slight tweaks to its previous functions, others are playing catch-up with Opera and Firefox functions, and some are raising the bar for the other web browsers. First, IE8 has a new Compatibility function, accessed via the Compatibility icon on the toolbar — to display [...]
I know it’s happened to me, and it’s probably happened to you. No, I’m not talking about forgetting a website’s address or forgetting where your bookmark/favorite is. I’m talking about the site that had good information — but the site is not there any more. Sometimes, the site might be an online games site or [...]
As I wrote in my weekly email newsletter (sign up here), one of my subscribers wanted to know about a free program to let him fill in PDF forms. The Portable Document Format (PDF) was created by Adobe to be a cross-platform document display tool. Whether the user is using Windows, Mac, Linux or some [...]
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Some of my email and online issues resulted in a lot of similar stories of problems and solutions, as well as some additional questions. One interesting question was from Bob, who wrote to say: Terry… My brother is too far away from any substations to go DSL, Cable, or fiber optics, he is still on [...]
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