Once your idevice’s screens are stuffed with apps, there’s no need to uninstall an app before adding a new one to your collection. Just go ahead and install it. The app will be on your device, but hidden from view.
Dialog box shortcuts
Blog, Featured, Pre-7 Windows, Tips, Tools and techniques, Windows, Windows 7, Windows XP // 07/06/2011One of less than obvious tools Windows offers is the right-click menu within file dialog boxes. Give it a try: open an application and then press Ctrl-O or click the Open icon to display the Open dialog box. Right-click any of the files or folders displayed in that dialog and you’ll see a context menu pop open.
Top tips for the iPhone keyboard
Apple, Basic Computing, iPhone, Tips // 04/02/2011Some people love the iPhone’s ‘soft’ keyboard, others loathe it. Whichever camp you belong to, you can make your keyboarding life far more efficient by taking advantage of all the hidden tricks lurking beneath the keyboard’s apparently simple exterior.
A keyboard shortcut to save your sanity
Basic Computing, Blog, Mac, Tips, Tools and techniques, Windows // 03/28/2011I was sitting around a fire with a bunch of friends on the weekend and one of them was doing some work on her notebook. All of a sudden she cried out – her battery had died and she hadn’t saved her work.
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