Patrick Norton gives this tip to clean your camera lens.
1. Clean off your lens with a brush or air.
2. Use 90% Isopropol alchohol and a 5 to 10 mixture with water.
3. Put it onto your microfiber rag and twist it until it stops dripping.
4. Then rub it against the lens lightly to remove any spots.
He also recommends using the LensPen as an alternative.
The general rule of computing is that no matter how large your hard drive is, it will eventually fill up and tell you that it’s out of space. While you can certainly add a new larger hard drive, another option might be cleaning up your old hard drive and get rid of all those giganto files. The problem is how do you “easily” find those large files and folders?
WinDirStat.info is one highly recommended program to do just that.
It may take a while to scan your drives, but when you check back, it will give you a visual picture of what is taking up all that space. Then you can move or delete those files and folders to give yourself more breathing room.
If you’re ever on vacation and are using someone elses computer, it’s always a bit of a pain since you don’t have your computers bookmarks handy. You try to remember all those URL’s, but it’s no use. iKeepBookmarks is one solution. (Thanks to Bev for this tip.)
Your first setup a free account and then import your passwords. While they don’t mention importing Firefox bookmarks, I did it without any problem. Now you’ll have your bookmarks handy no matter where you go or which computer you use.
Note – after using this program for a couple of weeks, my desktop disappeared. Literally all the icons on my desktop went away. I also noticed that when you install the Fences program it also installs “Stardock Impulse,” another program taking up resources. They don’t ask you if you want to install it, they just put it on your computer – not very nice.
I have now uninstalled both of these programs
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Chances are your desktop looks something like this – probably a lot worse. One solution to organize and keep things a bit neater is the FREE program Fences. I’ve tried it on two XP computers and it does a great job, although I did have to reboot on one computer. Here’s what my desktop looks like after I Fenced it in.
If you just can’t seem to get your fill of online news Google FastFlip might just be what you’re looking for. It allows you to quickly flip through mounds of articles and even specify areas of interest like hi-tech or health etc.
