Archives by Tag 'Embroidery Tutorials'

Computer Tip – Personalize your Desktop and Screensaver

Personalizing your desktop is not only simple, but it will make your computer run much faster and efficiently. Do you remember your first computer where you had the ability to add shortcuts to your desktop? And you thought you were in heaven as you could add a shortcut to every program on your computer! The [...]

Computer Tip – Windows Explorer Replacement

Windows Explorer is something that most of us use on a daily basis.   I have found that the one thing I really dislike about Windows Explorer is that there are only two panes to work with.  Several years ago I found a replacement for Windows Explorer that I honestly think is the best thing since [...]

Embroidered Monograms

Initials and monograms are funny things – they seem to go in and out of style, but are never really out of style. Monograms have been used for many years as signatures for many things, but gained the most popularity and use in the early 20th century. In the 1920′s and 1930′s the monogram was [...]

Computer Tip – Reading PDF Files with Adobe Reader and Foxit Reader

If you work with a lot of PDF files, such as e-books or other lengthy documents, you probably find it either frustrating or annoying that the documents always open at page one rather than the last page you were viewing. However, with Adobe Reader 8 there is a way to have the program remember the [...]

Embird Tip – Searching for Designs

There are all sorts of hidden “goodies” within Embird that are not well known.   One is the search function.   At the top right panel in the Manager screen, there is a magnifying glass with the letter “F” in the centre.   This is your search icon and is helpful to find files where you know the [...]

Computer Tip – Removing Thumbs.db files

Thumbs.db is a system file generated automatically by Windows XP when you view the contents of a folder in thumbnail view. It contains a copy of each of the tiny preview images generated for image files in that folder so that they load up quickly the next time you browse that folder and also stores [...]

Happy New Year 2009

May I wish each and every one of you a very Happy New Year 2009. As we look forward to 2009, and think back to what has happened globally in 2008, may I wish for you: Light at the end of the tunnel. Joy in a world that seems so joyless. Love and peace when [...]

Computer Tip – Backing Up Data

Backing up data is simple to do, but unfortunately the task is commonly overlooked. I cannot stress enough, the importance of doing at least one data backup per week or even more often. I am sure  you are asking why should I back up my data. The simple answer is because it’s easy and can [...]

The Thrifty Sewer

Have you ever gone into one of your fabric cupboards or drawers to find something and more or less shook your head in dismay, wondering how you had ever managed to store so much in one cupboard or on one shelf? Then you never do find what you are looking for as it isn’t where [...]

Computer Tip – Virtual Desktop Manager

Do you find that you quite often have more than one application open on your desktops at a time, or perhaps even as many as five, six or seven applications open. The ideal situation would be to have two monitors, but the downside of that is (a) space on your desktop and (b) the price [...]