http://computing.hbkpg.com/index.cfm Computer and internet tips from Harrison Bookkeeping. en-us Sat, 04 Sep 2010 07:52:26 -0400 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:02:00 -0400 BlogCFC http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss gwen32539@gmail.com gwen32539@gmail.com http://computing.hbkpg.com/index.cfm/2008/11/5/Copy-and-Paste-Without-the-Crap Are you frustrated by attempts to copy and paste text from web pages into another program? Not only do you get the text, but you get all the formatting and other crap that's on the original page. There are three ways to dump the crap. [More] Quick Tips Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:02:00 -0400 http://computing.hbkpg.com/index.cfm/2008/11/5/Copy-and-Paste-Without-the-Crap http://computing.hbkpg.com/index.cfm/2008/4/1/Unclutter-Your-Desktop Do you have a gazillion icons on your Windows desktop? Are they hiding a beautiful wallpaper picture? Here's an idea that unclutters your desktop and makes it easier to find programs. [More] Quick Tips Tue, 01 Apr 2008 17:59:00 -0400 http://computing.hbkpg.com/index.cfm/2008/4/1/Unclutter-Your-Desktop http://computing.hbkpg.com/index.cfm/2008/2/18/Stop-Website-No-See-Ums Have you ever clicked a promising link in your Google search results, only to find yourself on a website where you don't see what you seek? [More] Quick Tips Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:30:00 -0400 http://computing.hbkpg.com/index.cfm/2008/2/18/Stop-Website-No-See-Ums http://computing.hbkpg.com/index.cfm/2008/2/8/Alternate-Internet-Browsers If Internet Explorer becomes corrupted because of a virus or some other problem, how do you access the internet? [More] Quick Tips Fri, 08 Feb 2008 15:00:00 -0400 http://computing.hbkpg.com/index.cfm/2008/2/8/Alternate-Internet-Browsers http://computing.hbkpg.com/index.cfm/2008/2/5/Improve-Your-Laptop-Battery-Life When you use a modern operating system and run out of memory for your software, the operating system swaps out part of the memory to the hard drive to free up the memory for more tasks. If you run several programs at once or have little RAM, this swapping can occur constantly, making your computer run much slower and more often. All this hard drive activity is a drain on your laptop's battery, meaning that the more you use the hard drive, the more the laptop uses the battery. [More] Quick Tips Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:48:00 -0400 http://computing.hbkpg.com/index.cfm/2008/2/5/Improve-Your-Laptop-Battery-Life