Making All Folders Behave the Same Way

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Making All Folders Behave the Same Way

Windows allows you to view the contents of a folder several way:

Large Icons - Large Icons representing each file in the folder.
Small Icons - Small Icons representing each file in the folder.
List - A list of only the name of each file in the folder.
Details - A list of the name, date, size and type of each file in the folder.
Thumbnails - A small view of each file in the folder.  Especially useful to see all the pictures in a folder.

There is a quick way to make all folders open using the view type you wish.  Open windows explorer and make sure you are in the c: drives main folder. 

1. Click on "Tools" and choose Folder Options. The Folder Options window appears, ready for you to change the looks of your folders.
2. Click on the View tab, and then click on the Like Current Folder button. It's a big and clunky button; you can't miss it. Click on the Yes button that appears and you are done.

Photo Orientation Options

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Photo Orientation Options

The orientation of a photo ? whether it is a "wide" or "tall" picture ? affects the way you look at the image. Digital cameras, like most of their conventional, film-camera brethren, are built using a horizontal layout, because that configuration is best suited for holding in two hands held side by side. Unfortunately, many photographers unconsciously slip into the trap of viewing every potential photo in a horizontal mode. They only turn the camera 90 degrees when confronted by subject matter that simply can't be photographed any other way, such as the Eiffel Tower, a rocket headed skyward, or any NBA player taller than a guard.

Here are some tips that will help you decide when it's appropriate to use a vertical composition, and when you should think horizontal instead:

• If you're taking pictures for a slide show or, more likely, for a computer presentation, stick with horizontally composed pictures. Slide show images are seen sequentially and should all have the same basic frame that is sized to fill up the horizontal screen as much as possible. Inserting a vertical picture may mean that the top and bottom of your photograph is cut off or appears odd on-screen. You can still have a vertically composed picture in your slide show; just mask off the right and left sides in your image editor to produce a vertical image within the fixed-size horizontal frame. The key is to make your "vertical" image no taller than the short dimension (height) of a horizontal picture in the same show.
• If your subject has dominant horizontal lines, use a horizontally composed image. Landscapes and seascapes with a prominent horizon, photos of sprawling buildings or bridges, many sports photos focusing on more than one team member, and the majority of four-legged animal pictures look their best in horizontal mode.
• If your subject has strong vertical lines, use a vertical composition. The Eiffel Tower, trees, tall buildings, pictures of individuals (whether full-length or portrait photos), and similar compositions all call for a vertical orientation.
• Use a square composition if vertical and horizontal objects in your picture are equally important and you don't want to emphasize one over the other. A building that is wide, but that has a tall tower at one end, might look good in a square composition. The important vertical element at one end would keep the image from being too static. Circular images lend themselves to square compositions, as the round form fits comfortably inside a square "frame."

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Opening Web Page in a New Window

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Opening Web Page in a New Window

When you are viewing a web page in Internet Explorer and click on link to another page -- usually -- the new page opens in the same Internet Explorer window you were just viewing.  To see the original page you have to click the BACK button.  An alternative is to hold either Shift key while clicking on the new link.  This will open the new web page in a separate Internet Explorer Window.  This is especially useful when viewing a page of search results.  You can open all relevant results in their own Internet Explorer window.  Although you can accomplish the same thing by right-clicking on the link and then clicking on "Open in New Window,"using the Shift key is easier and quicker.

Copy and Paste - With a Twist

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Copy and Paste - With a Twist

One of Word's nifty features is the ability to store more than one cut or copied block of text in the Clipboard at a time. So you can cut, cut, cut or copy, copy, copy, and then pick and choose which of those blocks you want to paste back into your document. They call it "collect and paste."

To view the Clipboard, just choose View, Task Pane, click the downward-pointing triangle at the top of the task pane, and choose Clipboard from the menu. You'll see a list of all the things you've cut or copied.

To paste any collected text in the Clipboard, place the cursor's insertion point where you want to paste the text in your document, and click that chunk of text in the task pane. To paste something else, just move the insertion point again and click on another chunk of text.

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Finding the Best Internet Service Provider for You

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Finding the Best Internet Service Provider for You

 

What's the best ISP? It depends. Do you want the cheapest? The best user support? The fastest?

If all you want is e-mail and access to the World Wide Web, almost any ISP (Internet service provider) will do, although the price ranges vary widely, and how easy it is to get started may be the deciding factor for you. If you have never, ever used a computer in your life and get frustrated easily, you might want to choose a service that emphasizes ease, like AOL, MSN, or Earthlink. Look at the ISPs and online services with access numbers that are a local call from where you are. Assuming there's more than one, find out how much help is available from your provider. Talking to someone from an ISP you're considering before you begin, and asking your online friends how they like the services they use, can give you valuable insight into which ISP is best for you. These days, the biggest difference between ISPs isn't technical ? it's the level of service. Don't waste time with one that doesn't offer good service.

Many people prefer small local ISPs who have live people in the same town and know the local conditions. If you live in an area that offers cable or DSL access and you intend to use the Internet with any regularity, be sure to check them out. In many cases, they do all the setup for you and cost about the same as dialup if you consider the cost of a second phone line. Here at the TOTD, we use a large national company for DSL, but we use a local ISP (ILCS) to host our mail server and website host.  Besides excellent service from the owner, ILCS provides outstanding virus checking of all incoming email and thorough spam filtering.  I recommend it highly.  Call Pablo Castro at (305)248-6142 if you are interested.

For information on how to find an ISP with local numbers near you, check out this site's ISP directories.

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