Phew – a busy week!

With all the Royal Mail strikes restricting the post, I seem to be getting even more time to write!

Anyway, I’ve just finished a new article – The Ins and Outs of Cookies.  Cookies havea  slightly daft name, I’ll grant you, but if you have any trouble with websites (for example not being able [...]

Different Web Browsers

There are a handful of differnent web browsers you can use – but it’s not obvious why you’d want to.

Chances are you use Internet Explorer – would you be better off with a different one? 

You can read all about it in the article I’ve just finished: http://www.pcinnercircle.co.uk/index.php/articles/web-browsers/

Tim

Windows 7 launched today

A big day today.  I don’t mean the postal strikes.  I mean the launch of Windows 7 – Microsoft’s newest version of Windows.  It looks a lot like Vista but it works better, faster and with fewer crashes. 

Microsoft are desperately hoping it’s popular, after the bashing Vista got when it was released.  And [...]

New article – system restore

Hello

I’ve just added a new article to the website – about system restore.

If you have the book Computers One Step at a Time, you’ve probably already read about system restore.  But the article goes into a little bit more detail – and it’s worth a reminder of how useful it can be anyway!

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Clubroom – now slightly easier to use

A good idea from one member recently – there’s now a link at the top of the clubroom that takes you straight to the box where you type your question or comment.

It saves you scrolling all the way to the bottom of the page – just click on it and it takes you [...]

Printable articles

Hi all

I just wanted to let everyone know that I’ve just added a new feature to the articles page – a printable version of each article. This should solve the problems a few people had with only the first page of each article printing out and also means they’ll look a bit better [...]

A quick tip for the clubroom

I’ve just discovered something I didn’t know – in Internet Explorer, if you hold the ctrl key on the keyboard and press space, it whizzes down the page.  Hold it for a second or so and you’re at the bottom of the page.

When would you use it?  Well, it’s handy on the clubroom [...]