This video is a short beginners guide to installing Ubuntu by Nixie Pixel, who you will see is far from the stereotypical computer geek. This is just one of a number of informative and useful videos that she has put up on YouTube. Nixie also has a YouTube channel dedicated specifically to Lin...
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Wednesday, 26 October 2011
Apologies for not posting anything recently. I have been very busy with the start of the new university year. Since things have calmed down a bit now, I have found time to tidy up the Freeware page on this blog, as well as adding a few Linux applications to the list.If you would like to share your favourite freeware packages with your fellow readers, feel free to add a comment to this post with a link to the web site for the softwa...
Thursday, 1 September 2011
I have featured OpenOffice.org on this blog a few times in the past. It is a free office suite featuring a word processor, a spreadsheet program, and a presentation maker. Until recently the software was produced by Oracle Corporation, but fears that they would cease to support the project or stop it being open-source resulted in many of the programmers setting up their own project: LibreOffice.LibreOffice is a fork of OpenOffice.org (now produced...
Friday, 24 June 2011
If you look around your keyboard, you will notice a number of keys with characters on that you may not know the name of. In this post I will tell you the most common names for those esoteric characters. I am only looking at those characters that appear on my UK qwerty keyboard. I will explore those special characters and symbols that don't appear on the keyboard in future posts.¬This is called 'not' and is most commonly used in propositional logic...
Friday, 20 May 2011
It has been some time since I last posted on this blog. In that time there have been a number of major new software releases. These include version 4 of the Firefox web browser, version 11.04 of the Ubuntu family of Linux operating systems, and version 4.8 of the XFCE desktop environment for Linux.Firefox v4The latest version of this web browser sports a new look, more similar to that of Google Chrome. According to Mozilla the latest Firefox is much...
Friday, 1 April 2011
Inserted images in Word and Powerpoint may appear small, but they are actually stored as their original size unless compressed. This can cause printing to take a long time and needlessly increase file sizes. Thankfully there is a way to compress images in both these applications.Office 2000, XP and 2003Open the view menu and select 'Pictures' from the 'Toolbars' sub-menu. The picture toolbar, as shown below, should appear.Click on the 'Compress pictures'...
Thursday, 24 March 2011
After a long hiatus, keyboard shortcut of the week returns to 'Bloody Computer!' This week, we will look at new features of the Windows 7 taskbar.You can open any program on the taskbar by holding the Windows key [shown right] and pressing the item number on the taskbar. For example, to open Internet Explorer on the following taskbar you would press Windows Key + 1. The calculator is Windows Key + 2, and so on.If Internet Explorer is already running,...
Wednesday, 16 March 2011
Cutting down on the amount of paper used in printing not only saves money, but is also more environmentally friendly. Some applications offer the option of printing multiple pages per sheet of paper. In this post I will show you how to print two pages per sheet in MS Word and Adobe Acrobat Reader.MS WordOpen the print dialogue from the 'File' menu in older versions of Word, or by clicking the Office Button in newer versions (as shown below).Simply...
Friday, 25 February 2011
The Google search engine syntax offers a number of options for getting better results. You can search for a specific phrase, search only on a particular site, or exclude pages with certain words. You can use the advanced search page to make use of these or you can use these simple rules of syntax in the normal search field or on Google Toolbar.To search for a specific phraseSimply put the words in quotation marks. For example, "Lady Gaga"To search...
Wednesday, 16 February 2011
Even though I redesigned this blog some time ago, I still only offered my old link image rather than use the nice new one that my brother designed for me. I have decided that I should make available some new code for anyone who wished to link to this blog.Simply paste the following code onto your blog or other website. If you need any help, or advice with this then please leave a comment.<a href="http://bloodycomputer.blogspot.com"><img...
Sunday, 30 January 2011
Windows offers the facility to hide all the icons on your desktop. The default option is to show all desktop icons, but this may be switched off either by accident or on purpose. To change this setting simply right-click on the desktop and a menu will appear.On Windows XP you need to open up the 'Arrange icons by' sub-menu and then either tick or untick 'Show Desktop Icons'.On Windows Vista and 7 the option is available in the 'View' me...
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
There are a number of sites that offer you storage space to back up or share your files over the Internet. Many of them have a limit on the size of file that can be stored, but this is not the case with Dropbox. Dropbox offers 2gb of storage space for free. This capacity can be increased if you upgrade to one of the payment options.Dropbox provide software that enables you to access your storage space as if it were a drive on your computer. This...
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