Sometimes it’s useful to enlarge your window when viewing websites, photos and videos and go full screen by losing the header bars at the top and the taskbar at the bottom (if the taskbar isn’t locked in place). Open any webpage in a browser, or a photo in Windows Photo Viewer, or open a photo […]
Re-open closed browser tabs
Accidentally closed a browser tab? Instead of trawling through the browser history, get a recently closed browser tab back by using the Ctrl+Shift+T shortcut key. This will quickly re-open that tab. Use the shortcut keystroke again and it’ll open the tab you closed before that, and so on. This should work in IE, Firefox and Chrome, indeed […]
Adding Links in WordPress
Adding a link to existing pages, products or posts couldn’t be easier in WordPress. Select the text you want to create the link with, then click the chain icon (Insert/edit link). Expand the ‘Or link to existing content’ section by clicking on the text. Rather than having to type out the URL or look for […]
Schedule Blog Posts
You may not want to publish your blog straight away. In WordPress, you can schedule posts to go live at a particular time and date. Log in to your WordPress site’s back end. Click on Posts and then hover over an existing post you want to schedule and click Edit, or from Posts click Add […]
URLs and Reading Lists
Get URL In Safari, you can press and hold any link in order to review the web address it will direct you to. A menu will pop up showing the destination address in the dark bar along the top and will also present you with various options. To cancel, tap elsewhere on the screen. Open – will […]
Find out how much space available on your Kindle
K1,K2, Kindle Keyboard and Kindle:Press the ‘Home’ button, then the ‘Menu’ button.On the top left corner of the screen you will find the free space available on the Kindle. Kindle Touch:From the home screen tap the ‘Menu’ button and select Settings. Tap Menu again and then select Device Info. At the bottom of the Device Info box […]
Safari tab tip for the iPad
Want to change the order of your Safari tabs? On the desktop, you can do so by clicking a tab and dragging it to wherever you want to go. So, can you guess how it works on the iPad? Yes, you got it – just tap, hold, and drag any browser tab left or right.
Close an unresponsive program
When an application freezes on your computer, use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Alt+Delete (although this may bring up a menu where you have to select Start Task Manager so to reduce the number of steps needed to open the Task Manager directly try Ctrl + Shift + Esc). A Windows Task Manager window will open up. Select […]
Formula Syntax
Sometimes you might find a quick reminder of the formula syntax useful when working in Excel. If this is the case then type an equal sign followed by the function name and then Ctrl+Shift+A. For Example typing =Sumif and then using the keyboard stroke Ctrl+Shift+A will give you: =Sumif(range,criteria,sum_range). In 2010 you will find Excel […]
Annotations in your formulas
Say six months ago you wrote a formula similar to this: =10000+787-12*299.64. Now you find you just can’t remember what exactly each figure represents. Try writing yourself a reminder about the calculation and add a hidden note to your formula by using the N() function i.e. =10000+787-12*299.64+N(“Loan+Interest-12 months of loan repayments”). The N() function converts […]
