Subscriber JPB wrote several times this week about troubles he was having with his computer monitor: I have a question (though I think I know the answer). I use two monitors. My secondary one has developed a problem. It takes 5 minutes for it to fire up in the morning. It flickers on and off [...]
Finding the Missing Digital Photos
Subscriber Jody Bell wrote with a challenging problem. Apparently she had not invested in an external hard drive for backing up her computer — and now has lost, or lost track of, all her digital photos when her computer had problems. In these days of digital cameras and storing our photos on our computers, rather [...]
Google’s Picasa Photo Editor and Gallery
Google offers their Picasa photo organizer software as a separate download or as part of the Google Pack. You don’t have to download the full Google Pack to get Picasa, although you could. The Google Pack includes multiple programs and you can install only those that you desire to install. The Picasa Photo Gallery is [...]
HowTo: Copying an Image from a PDF File
Subscriber Glenn Wilkes wrote to comment on my PDF article in the September 21st email newsletter: Enjoyed your PDF article in newsletter. Question: On a PDF page with 4 diagrams, can you highlight one and move it only to Word or to another document? How? There are several alternatives. The first is the easiest, but [...]
Keeping Your Digital Pictures – What kind of backup is best?
Some of the more recent questions I’ve answered recently were about digital photos. The questions were about after you’ve gotten them from the camera to the computer. “How do I keep my pictures for the future? Do I need to keep them on my hard drive, copy them to CD, or what?” There are a [...]
Using the free Google Photo Screensaver
The Google Screensaver is one of the amazing free applications that is part of Google’s free Google Pack software package. The Google Screensaver is optional as part of Google Pack, but it’s one component that you should not miss. With it, you can have a screensaver that uses your own photos that you’ve accumulated and [...]
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