Easter Break

A quick note – I’ll be away from Thursday to Tuesday over the Easter break, down in Plymouth with Mum and Dad.  You can still put any questions on the Clubroom and I’ll answer them when I’m back on Wednesday – but I thought I should let you know you won’t hear back quite [...]

New Article: 7 tips for PC problems

You don’t have to use PC for long before you experience some kind of problem!  Here are 7 things that fix the most common types of problem (in fact it’s the list I use when I get a problem!)

http://www.pcinnercircle.co.uk/index.php/articles/7-tips-pc-problems/

Tim

At last – you can now search the clubroom

You can finally search the clubroom for questions someone else has asked to see if someone’s asked about something you’re after.

Until now when you used the search box over on the right (the one that says “Type here and press enter to search this site”) it only looked in articles, my journal and [...]

New Video: Favorites in Internet Explorer 8

When Microsoft brought out Internet Explorer 8, they changed how you use favorites – which led to lots of confusion!

This new video goes over how to use favorites (also called bookmarks) to try to make it a bit simpler again!

http://www.pcinnercircle.co.uk/index.php/videos/favorites-in-internet-explorer-8/

Tim

New Article: Stopping a printer gone haywire

A new article on how to stop a printer from printing – perfect if you’ve ever clicked on print and then noticed the document is 76 pages long, or that it’s set to 54 copies!

You can get at it here: http://www.pcinnercircle.co.uk/index.php/articles/stopping-a-printer-from-printing/

Or get the printable version from the Articles button above.

Tim

A quick question

A quick question for you: If you’ve used any of Serif’s programs (PhotoPlus or PagePlus are the most likley ones), what do you think of them?

One of the big advantages of Serif is you can get their programs free – not the most up to date, all-singing-all-dancing versions, but decent versions that really [...]

Possibly the daftest error message ever

I couldn’t resist sharing this – I’ve long thought that most computer error messages could be more helpful (see my article about attachments and file extensions, for example) but this one takes the biscuit:

“An error has occurred because an error has occurred”.

Some programmer sat their and thought that was a sensible message [...]