Archive for 'Computer Tips' Category

Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

There are “mouse” people and then there are “keyboard” people.   I have to admit that I fall into the category of a keyboard person as I always find it much faster to use shortcuts.  But then if you are trying to teach others how to use a program, I run into the problem of using [...]

Editing Clipart with Paint Shop Pro

If you digitize embroidery designs, at some point you will find that it is almost a necessity to have some sort of graphics program (other than Paint which comes with the computer) so you can do some basic editing on clipart to use for embroidery. The tulips to the right are presently 200 mm by [...]

Passwords and Internet Security

Do you remember the good old days when the only password you needed was to get past the imaginary blockade your friends had erected when you were playing a game and usually it was something silly like “Mother May I”? Well, those days are just a remote memory, aren’t they? We are now required to [...]

Designing Frames in Paint Shop Pro for use as images in Embird Studio

A combination of Studio and a graphics program gives you endless possibilities to both digitize or edit images in a graphics program and then take the image into Studio as a background image to use for digitizing an embroidery design.  You can create frames very easily using the available shapes in Studio but sometimes you [...]

Windows 7 Taskbar Shortcuts

It is amazing where you will find a really neat tip to make your computing life easier. One of my passions, other than machine embroidery, of course, is genealogy. On one of the genealogy mailing lists I found this tip that I just had to pass along. In Windows 7, the long bar at the [...]

Uninstalled Fonts and Windows 7

If you are working with either a 32-bit or 64-bit Windows 7 platform, by now you realize that you can no longer minimize a font to the bottom toolbar and then work with it as if it was an installed font.  That is a feature in all previous versions of Windows that, for some reason, [...]

Remove Text Formatting and Paste Unformatted Text

How many times have you copied something from a web site and found that you also copied the formatting that you really didn’t want?   Or you copied from one document to another and included unnecessary formatting.  It can be very frustrating at times, can’t it?  The standard method of copying (Control>C) and pasting (Control>V) brings [...]

Password Brain Drain

How many passwords do you have?  In any given month you probably enter over 100 different passwords to access e-mail, bank accounts, favourite retail sites and other assorted stuff.  Now, that can be mind boggling if you have more than one password to remember. According to security experts you should choose a different password for each [...]

Bulk Rename Files and Folders

How often have you wished for an easy way to rename files and/or folders without having to go through the tedious process of renaming each one individually?  I know I have gone through that tedious process more often than I ever wanted to until I found the Bulk Rename free file renaming software for Windows [...]

How to Combine Videos

Do you find when you purchase lessons in video format that you are downloading 5, 10, 20 or even more small videos? The reason for that is that when preparing videos for download, most people will try to break them down into smaller file sizes to make downloading easier for those who are on dial-up [...]