Easy PC Tips

PDF (Portable Document Format) is the pseudo-official document publishing format for the web. The advantages of publishing and using PDF files are wide and varied:

PDF files are smaller than the original file from which it was created so PDFs are quicker to email around and download from websites
The software needed to view PDFs is […]

Hot on the heels of the release of the latest version of it’s arch-enemy Internet Explorer, the guys over at Mozilla Corp. have delivered, as promised, the latest version of Firefox - version 2.0
Changes can be found in:

the inclusion of anti-phishing capabilities (much like Internet Explorer 7.0)
improvements to tabbed browsing - the ability to […]

Unfortunately, some problems with the databases at our hosting company put us out of action for a couple of days over the weekend, for which, we apologise. BUT, we are back now, and with a vengeance and hopefully the problems we experienced were just a one off and it won’t happen to us again.
Fingers crossed!
Internet […]

I’m regularly asked to help set up an email account on friends and colleagues PC’s. So here’s a quick how-to on getting Outlook Express set up to send and receive email using a POP3 email account provided by your Internet Service Provider (ISP).
While this guide covers Outlook Express 6.0, much of the stuff covered here […]

There’s more than one way to skin a cat
- especially true when using computers.
For example, within Windows, if you want to copy a piece of text there are at least 4 ways to perform that particular task. First, we select the text we are after and then either:

From the edit menu, choose ‘Copy‘
From the […]