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  • Windows 10 Virtual Desktops

    One of the great new features MS has added in Windows 10 is virtual desktops. This has been supported in other OSs for a long time so it is good to see that MS has caught up to this. In fact it was available with addons as far back as XP but now it is…

  • Try using Queens English, Google!

    Lovely error message on Google Drive this morning Which doesn’t make sense until you realise this operation must have taken place on another computer or in another browser. It wouldn’t take much effort for the phraseology to be less terse and more user friendly, frankly.

  • Changing text font sizes on Blogger’s “Simple” template

    As you may have noticed most of my blogs use the “Simple” template (this one currently uses “Picture Window”). With various upgrades to Google’s blogger posting system over the years we can set some of the text sizes without having to directly hack the template’s HTML code. One of the changes I have been making…

  • How to print to a colour PCL printer from a Mac

    If you know the Mac platform well, then you know that PostScript is the preferred printing system for OSX and all its precedessors way back to the very early Macs. This comes about because Apple virtually invented PostScript printing and desktop publishing about thirty years ago partnering with Aldus, the inventors of PostScript (which later…

  • Mozilla Thunderbird

    So I am trialling out Tbird again. For some reason I disliked it for quite a long time even though I used it a lot, years ago. I suspect the interface was kind of clunky, but of course there are all these styles available now. Really easy to set up with Google and Hotmail accounts,…