Save 8 Days A Year – and Other Essential Computer Tips
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Soon to start your first job? Keen to become more productive at work? Read on to find out how to save up to 8 days a year with these essential computer tips
Are you nervous about joining an office environment? Are you wondering what sort of hidden/soft skills youre expected to have? Well, weve made a list of basic, but essential things you should know how to do on a computer, most of which are work applicable. Even if you dont need to set up anti-virus software for the entire office, its worth knowing how things work so you can effectively communicate with your IT department when something goes wrong.
Check through the list, and if there are things that you cant do, or dont even understand, go and learn about them! The more you can offer an employer in the way of skills, especially technical, the better chance you have at finding a job. Not to mention, you can demonstrate your keenness to self-improve, and in turn, enhance your employability.
1. Save time with shortcuts
If you dont know CTRL-Z by now, then give yourself a slap on the wrists. A calculation by Brainscape suggests we could save 8 days a year of time by using shortcuts! EIGHT WHOLE DAYS. Lets run through some of the easiest ones with this handy little infographic weve made you (Youre welcome)
2. Clear out all the junk
Ever wondered why Yahoo is your default search browser? Is your computer running slower than normal? What are those random icons on your start bar? You probably need to clean up your computer and remove all of that junk thats slowing you and your computer down. Try a tool like CCleaner to clear out all the unnecessary temporary files, cookies and affectionately named crapware. In the future, try and carefully read all those clauses youre agreeing to when downloading something to your computer (i.e. Set Yahoo as Homepage?). But, either way, CCleaner will help you out.
Wouldnt it be so easy if you could access your home computer while youre out and about? Well, guess what? You can! There are a few ways to do so, such as storing your documents on the cloud, i.e. a Dropbox account, or by actually accessing your computer from another computer. You can use the inbuilt Windows Remote Assistant, but we wouldnt recommend it. Instead, try the free app, TeamViewer. Its easy to setup, you just need to have it downloaded on your home computer, and the computer you want to use for remote access (e.g. I have it on my home laptop and work computer). Then you need to make sure both computers are logged into TeamViewer, and then they can connect. Easy!
4. Instantly share a file with another computer
It does depend on the size of the file, but there are various ways to transfer documents quickly to your friends or colleagues. You can use instant messaging services, such as Skype, team collaboration apps like Slack, online (up to 2GB) file transfers with WeTransfer, upload to Dropbox and share the link OR just use the inbuilt function in your system. Both Mac and Windows have inbuilt sharing functions when youre connected to the same local network. These involve a quick bit of setup, and then you simply drag and drop any file onto their system. More tips can be found here.
5. Keep your personal information safe
The internet is not a safe place. If youve watched Mr Robot, youre probably incredibly paranoid about how secure your online activity is and so you should! But its not that difficult, you just need to spend a little bit of time getting set up. There are thousands of How-Tos on this topic, so dedicate a few hours to researching and implementing these safety nets. Dont have time right now? Well, here are a few essential tips:
Dont use the same password/email combo on more than one site.
Make secure passwords that dont contain personal words, like your pets name.
Dont use public Wi-Fi networks without protection.
Read the whole story here: http://www.grb.uk.com/news/save-8-days-a-year-and-other-essential-computer-tips/2016/05/11/2674
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The humble desktop PC or laptops have become the workhorse of the business world. Lacking the glamour of a smartphone or tablet, their importance can often be forgotten.
Whilst your desktop or laptop may not have had a fancy launch party from the manufacturer, create buzz on social media or be adorned with a fancy cover. Yet as a key part of your business it does deserve some tender loving care.
When your laptop or desktop is not working is running slow it can affect the productivity of individual employees and even your company as a whole. The good news is there are a few simple things you can do to that will help keep your businesses computers running smoothly.
Keep Your Desk (top) Tidy
It is tempting to create shortcuts and keep folders on your desktop. Too many can slow the start-up process as the computer loads all these icons and documents as part of the process.
Dont Run Too Many Programs/Tabs At Once
Each computer only has a certain amount of processing capacity, every program you have open takes up some of this space. If too many programs are open at the same time the computer will slow down and become less responsive.
A simple fix is to close down programs you are not using, there may also be some running you are not aware of.
This was originally found at:http://www.onesourcecommunications.co.uk/quick-tips-to-speed-up-your-pc-or-laptop/
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Most people are trusting types, and they also dont expect to be tricked by othersand those two reasons are precisely why a lot of people actually do get tricked into spreading computer viruses.
One way computer viruses find their way onto computers is through emails or, specifically, attachments that are sent with an email.
A virus lurking in an email is like what youve see in old crime shows on TV, where someone receives a package in the mail and inside theres a bomb. Of course, the recipient doesnt know itits exciting getting a package in the mailso they open it up. Kaboom.
A virus-loaded email is something like that. It will look like every other email you get, but inside theres danger in the form of a hidden computer program that will hurt your computer and/or steal data from you and others.
How viruses travel by email.
Heres an explanation of how a virus can end up spreading through your email, with your unwitting cooperation:
You receive what seems to be an innocent-looking email from someone you know well (or at least know by name). The email will include an attachment that seems to go with the message of the emailif the message says something about a picture or video you have to see, the picture will have a name that seems to fit. If you open it up, youre on your way to trouble.
If theres a virus hidden in that email, its usually one of a few types:
An attachment virus is a program attached to an email message, with a name that sounds intriguing. It pretends to be a photo or movie that you can watch right away. This is the most common type of virus.
An HTML virus is called active content code and is a small program written in a software language such as JavaScript or ActiveX. The HTML virus goes to work when you open the message to read it. In fact, the virus can be launched even if you simply open the message preview window.
A Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension virus (called a MIME virus) takes advantage of a security gap in browsers or email programs. Its somewhat complicatedlets just say the bad guy overloads whats called the email header with information. The overflow information, instead of being discarded, goes into the memory to run programs. The virus program then gets run instead, unnoticed.
How the virus starts to spread.
Viruses come in different types and they can do different types of harm, but one thing they all have in common is that that reproduce or propagate.
A virus can go through your online address books, scan your old email files for names, or even look at your documents or spreadsheets to find names and email addresses to attack.
With those names in hand, the virus uses the captured email addresses to send copies of itself to your friends, colleagues and familytypically by using the same tricky email it used to fool you!
The email the virus sends looks as if it came from youand may have some of the documents attached it stole from you. The email your friend receives might not even have YOUR name in the emails From sectionit may have the name the virus took from your address book.
If your friends open the false email from you, theyve fallen victim and have helped the virus do its work. Thousands of people could be affected at one time.
Payload delivered. Damage done.
Once the virus has taken root, what happens next depends on the kind of virus that was spread. It might result in a threatening message, erased hard drives, frozen computers or corrupt files. None of it is good.
The damage delivered is known as the viruss payload, and it can hit right away, after a specific allotted time after delivery, or the virus may go off on all infected computers on a predetermined day and time.
So the next time you get an email with an attachment from a friendand it seems perhaps just a little unusualthink twice before opening it.
By not opening it, you could be doing yourself and hundreds of others a huge favor.
Read more: http://whatismyipaddress.com/email-viruses
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How to clean your laptop screen.
A couple of months ago, I decided that my TV screen, a 55 Vizio E-Series flat screen, needed some maintenance. I play a lot of video games, and it was slightly unsettling to chase players down in Call of Duty: Black Ops 3 with these great swaths of dust littering my field of vision. Seriously, it was like watching a battle take place inside an Australian dust storm. When I had finally had enough (after watching my KDR drop to about .65 because I thought I was shooting enemy combatants, when I was really just nailing dust bunnies), I took it upon myself to grab a can of pledge and a paper towel and wipe my bad gameplay away.
Big mistake.
Now, Im left with what appears to be permanent streaks across my television, giving the appearance that there are giant gray clouds in every scene. This doesnt only affect my game play, it also gives my movie and television-based web surfing a dull sheen that wasnt there before. I paid a lot for that TVand my laziness in researching a proper way to clean it has resulted in a significant sadness in my day. Is there a dumb emoji? Something like a smiling yellow face with a giant question mark where its brain would be? Please make me a t-shirt of that and send it to me.
So I went from my TV to my laptop, since now I had a CoD: BO3 jones that wasnt going away, and since I can play Xbox One games on my laptop via Windows 10, I was ready to go. And that was about the same time that I realized that my gaming laptop has been sitting unused for about three weeks, and the dust that accumulated there looked like what Howard Carter must have seen when opening Tutankhamens tomb in 23. As Carlos Santana once said, Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Or George Santayana. Either or
So I went to the one source who knows cleaning better than anyone else. And she promptly told me to stop playing so many games and grow up a little. Not a lot of help. I then went to the experts at B&H Photos SuperStore, who were a little more helpful and a lot less judgmental, and heres what they told me:
1. Try dry-wiping first
Dont use paper towels; also, avoid tissue paper, toilet paper (ewww) or old rags. These can scratch a screen or leave grooves in the material (maybe not enough for you to notice right away, but combined with the wrong cleaning material, it can create the aforementioned and dreaded gray swath). Try to use cloth made from the softest material possible (like micro fiber cloths). Also, cool that we just found out about it, these new detachable lens cloths by Tether Tools. You stick it on to a camera or laptop, then just peel it off and use the whole piece as the cleaning cloth. Neat. And you never have to look for those cleaning cloths againyou know the ones that you throw away when you greedily open your new electronic purchases? Yeah, those.
2. Dont press too hard
If you dont see the dirt lift right off, dont think applying more pressure is going to wipe the slate clean. On LCD monitors, big screen TVs and laptops, putting more might into your cleaning efforts may result in irreparable damagemost likely by destroying the pixels in the screen.
3. Dont use chemical cleaners
If you do decide to use a solution to clean the screen, heres a list of things not to use: ammonia (like Windex, although Windex does make a cleaning solution specifically for LCD screens), ethyl alcohol, or anything with acetone or ethyl acetateas a matter of fact, your best bet is a little distilled water and white vinegar mixed in equal amounts. The chemicals listed can adversely affect the coating used on LCD screens and flat-screen TVs.
4. Dont spray directly on the screen
This one was tough to learn, and I learned the hard way. Cleaning solutions, even water, will run down the screen and into the bezels, giving them access to the inside of the monitor or TV. If youre quick, you could catch it before it does further damage, but its a good practice to simply wet the cloth you are using and wipe the screen down instead of directly applying solvent or liquid. This is especially true (and dangerous) with laptop screens.
5. Always unplug the TV first
There are two reasons for this: the first is that unplugged, youll be able to see more of the dust and dirt against the black background of the screen, and two, if you do use a liquid to clean, you want to reduce the chance of electrical shock.
And there you have itfive quick tips that could save you thousands of dollars. You put a lot of money into your TV; dont be the dumb emoji and just spray it with chemicals, like me. Once youve got a clearer view of your world (and your screen), your wallet (not to mention your eyes) will thank you.
Article First Appeared at: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/explora/computers/tips-and-solutions/5-tips-cleaning-your-tv-or-laptop-screen-safely
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Dealing with a slow laptop is frustrating but theres no need to upgrade to a new model. Follow these simple tips to clean up your laptop and give it a major speed boost. See more at: http://www.saga.co.uk/magazine/technology/computing/how-to-guides/7-ways-to-speed-up-a-slow-laptop#sthash.DrCz8EU9.dpuf
As your laptop ages, it can get clogged with unwanted programs and files, reducing its performance to a crawl.
Rather than splash out for a brand new laptop, our easy tips will speed up your laptop and give it a new lease of life.
1. Check for viruses
Serious laptop slow-downs can be caused by virus infection or malware.
Make sure real-time protection is switched on in Windows built-in anti-virus program Windows Defender.
Run a full scan of your laptop to detect and remove any malware.
See more at: http://www.saga.co.uk/magazine/technology/computing/how-to-guides/7-ways-to-speed-up-a-slow-laptop#sthash.DrCz8EU9.dpuf
2. Delete unused programs
Over time, your laptop may get bogged down by programs you no longer use.
Removing unwanted software will help speed up your laptop. Click Start > Control Panel > Uninstall a program.
From the list of programs that appears, click the program you want to remove and then click Uninstall.
Windows 10 users can uninstall programs from the Start menu by right-clicking the program listed under All apps and selecting Uninstall.
Guide to using Windows 10.
3. Remove temporary files
Temporary files created through everyday computing tasks can clog up your laptops hard drive.
Use Windows built-in Disk Cleanup tool to delete these, freeing up hard disk space and speeding up your laptop.
Click in the Taskbar search box, type disk cleanup and select it from the results. Select the type of files you want to delete and then click OK and then click Delete files.
To free up even more space, click Clean up system files too.
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4. Add more hard drive storage
Your laptops hard drive needs enough free space to work effectively. Once its more than 85% full, it will start to perform slowly.
A quick and easy solution is to move some of your files onto an external hard drive. Large files, such as photos, music and video clips, are good files to offload.
5. Stop programs starting automatically
If your laptop takes ages to start up, there may be too many programs trying to launch when you switch it on.
You can stop programs that you dont need from loading automatically in Windows 10 by right-clicking the Taskbar and selecting Task Manager. Click More details and then select the Startup tab.
Here youll see a list of programs that load automatically when your laptop boots up, along with the impact this has. Right-click a program and select Disable to stop it loading.
See more at: http://www.saga.co.uk/magazine/technology/computing/how-to-guides/7-ways-to-speed-up-a-slow-laptop#
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Windows 10 is free.
This is a statement which makes many people uneasy. After all Windows didnt used to be free and nothing in life is ever really free, right? So when will the real cost of Windows 10 be revealed? Well now we know and it hits both customers and Microsoft in very different ways
Lets break them down:
1. Windows 10 Cost to Microsoft: $1.5 Billion
If you ever doubted Microsoft was taking a huge hit to give users Windows 10 for free, doubt no longer. This month the company announced its Q3 results and revealed this carved a massive $1.5 billion hole in its revenues.
2. Windows 10 Cost to Users: Choice
The most obvious point to address is Windows 10 will not always be free.
Microsoft has long stated Windows 7 and Windows 8 users will enjoy a free upgrade window during Windows 10s first year of release (July 29, 2015 to July 29, 2016). It has been implied that after this date the standard retail costs will apply ($119 for Windows 10 Home, $199 for Windows 10 Pro).
And yet this remains a grey area as Microsoft refuses to explicitly state this is what will happen.
Why? Because it gives Microsoft the option to use the free period to drive upgrades then extend it possibly forever at the last minute. So thats not the total solution to getting money back. Neither is Windows 10 Enterprise as it has never been free and therefore isnt part of lost costs.
Instead where Microsoft will recover its lost Windows 10 income is through a much less popular route: Control.
Using default settings (the norm for most mainstream customers) gives Windows 10 an incredible amount of user data (anonymised though invaluable) and absolute control over updates and the installation of new features and services. Whats more, by being free, Microsoft clearly feels more entitled to use Windows 10 to push users towards its own products.
This was initially subtle. Several Windows 10 updates in August casually switched user preferences (such as default browser) back to Microsoft solutions, then stepped things up by automatically deleting some third party apps and tools in November. Since then the company has become more overt. This week it declared all attempts to use rival search engines in the Windows 10 search bar would be blocked and all results must load in Edge, no matter the users default browser.
Microsofts logic? Avoiding a compromised experience that is less reliable and predictable but for whom?
Needless to say, such positions have led many to declaring they will never upgrade to Windows 10. But unless they plan on switching to Mac OS X (an even more controlled environment) or a distribution of Linux, that wont be an option forever.
For the first time in the history of Windows, Microsoft has declared it was making versions of Windows incompatible with new hardware. More specifically Windows 7 and Windows 8 will now not support the latest Intel, AMD and Qualcomm chipsets. Some compromises followed but this has still effectively marooned 60% of the worlds operating systems to ageing hardware.
Not everything is sneaky tricks.
Windows 10 has an increasingly credible app store for revenue and apps work across PCs, tablets and mobile (even if this impressive technical achievement is hit by the failure of Windows Phone/Mobile). Similarly Microsoft can justifiably point to its rivals employing similar tactics. Apple has long exerted extreme control over its platforms and Google trades users their anonymised data in exchange for free products and looking at ads.
And these points are fair. Rivals have long employed similar tactics to those Microsoft is being now criticised for in Windows 10. But, then again, thats also the point: Microsoft was different from the controlling Apple and the data mining Google. Now? Not so much.
And that is where the true cost of free Windows 10 really comes in.
Read the Full Story: http://www.forbes.com/sites/gordonkelly/2016/04/29/free-windows-10-cost-expensive-secret/#3a4b6671403f
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SAVE THE WEB
Get Evernote in your browser.
You’re on the internet. You see something awesome. What do you do? Clip it. Articles, recipes, travel confirmations. Save it to Evernote and always have it with you. On or offline, anywhere you go.
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Install the Evernote Web Clipper extension in your internet browser.
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YOUR BACK POCKET SCANNER
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Don’t let receipts and paperwork clutter up your life. The Evernote camera recognizes documents and automatically captures, crops, and enhances the text. More legible, more searchable. Throw it in Evernote, then throw it in the recycle bin.
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Download the mobile app and start scanning documents.
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SET REMINDERS ON NOTES
Notes that notify you.
Evernote reminders put the information you need at your fingertips when you need it. Got an important meeting or event coming up? Create a note with whatever details you need to know, and set a reminder for when it starts.
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KEEP IT TOGETHER
Attach documents to notes.
Digging through folders can be a nightmare. With Evernote, all your documents are kept in context right alongside your notes. PDFs, Office docs, images—file it in a project notebook and find it in a flash with powerful search.
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Drag and drop files right into your notes. For the best file organizing experience, download Evernote for desktop.
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IDEAS TAKE MANY FORMS
Capture them all.
You never know when inspiration will strike. But when it does, you’ll be ready. Write a text note. Dictate to the voice-recorder. Sketch it on a napkin and snap a photo. Just get it into Evernote and you’ll always have it with you.
TRY IT OUT!
Download the mobile app so you can capture your thoughts anywhere you are.
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STAY ON TRACK
Plan. Act. Succeed.
You’ll be amazed what you can get done when you get organized. Make checklists of things you need to do. Check them off as you complete them. Track your accomplishments over time.
TRY IT OUT!
Create a new note, then click the checkbox on the formatting bar to start a to-do list.
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MAKE A NOTE OF IT
For everything you want to remember.
A note is a container for information, from your simplest idea to your wildest project. Meeting notes, to-do lists, voice memos, photos- the sky is the limit. And once you make a note, it’s accessible wherever you go, forever.
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