Clicking the down arrow beside where you type addresses in Windows Explorer doesn’t list all the websites you visit. I always wondered why this was. This week I found out. Apparently only web addresses you actually type in will show there. Mystery solved! What computer mysteries have you solved?
Archive for the ‘Web search tips’ Category
Easier web searching
Posted in Web search tips on June 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Quicker web searching
Posted in Web search tips on June 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Ever been searching the web, wanted to go back to a site, but can’t remember how to get there? Are you sick of clicking the back button to get back to where you want to go? Well I have a tip that will help. Click on the tiny black down arrow next to the back button in Windows Explorer. [...]
Video clip not playing smoothly?
Posted in Web search tips on February 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I learned this great tip from a workshop I attended last year. When you play a video clip it has to go through a process called buffering. Buffering can make the clip freeze as it tries to play. To fix this let the clip play all the way through once. Then come back and play it again and it [...]
Google alerts
Posted in Web search tips on February 13, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Recently I’ve been trying Google alerts (a new search tool from Google). A normal Google search brings you 1 set of results. By using alerts you can ask Google to re-search on a daily or weekly basis. You can also tell Google how comprehensive you want the search to be. I’ve used alerts twice. The first one delivered poor quality [...]
