Good To Know!
By Cate Eales
Appeared January 10, 2008 on castanet.net
I was browsing through my
EverNote
notes in search of material for this week's column. I found several items
that I had tagged "good to know" and the next thing I knew, I had a
column!
Update your Ad-Aware
If you use Ad-Aware SE to scan your computer for spyware, you
should upgrade to Ad-Aware 2007. There are no more updates to the SE
version. You can
get Ad-Aware 2007 here. It will find and uninstall your old SE
version.
Resize Vista icons
Have you experienced Vista yet? Most of my clients who have
jumped from XP to Vista had the same observation: "Those icons are HUGE!"
As luck would have it, you can make those icons just about any size you
want. One way is to double-click on the Computer icon on your desktop.
Then click on the down-arrow next to "View". That will open a list with a
slider. Move the slider up or down to increase or decrease the size of
your icons until you're satisfied.
You can also simply click on an icon you want to resize, hold down the
Ctrl key, and scroll your mouse wheel.
Get a free, basic calendar...or get more
There are tons of calendar and reminder programs ) that will
play sounds to remind you of something, or keep track of your
appointments. And there are lots of us who need things like that. But
sometimes, you just need a simple calendar that is quiet and efficient.
Xcalday is that calendar.
Check it out here.
If you want something more, try
LClock, here, or
Chameleon Clock, here.
Back up your Outlook Express email
Do you really need all the email you have? Well, you might. But do
you really need it all in one place?
Outlook Express Backup 6.5,
available here, will let you archive that email from 1996 that you
might need one day, move it to a CD or another hard drive, and easily
restore it when you actually need it. You can see and restore individual
files; you don't have to restore the whole archive. Best of all, the
program is free.
Uninstall programs with MyUninstaller
MyUninstaller is an alternative to the Add/Remove programs control
in Windows XP. It provides more information than the basic Windows
uninstaller, so you rarely have to guess just what it is you're
uninstalling.
Get
it here.
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Links
EverNote
http://www.evernote.com/
Ad-Aware 2007
http://www.lavasoft.com/products/ad_aware_free.php
Xcalday
http://xcalday.sylfid.com/
LCLock
http://fileforum.betanews.com/detail/1092761816/1
Chameleon Clock
http://www.softshape.com/software/desktop/chamclock/features/
Outlook Express Backup 6.5
http://www.download.com/Outlook-Express-Backup/3000-2242_4-10211218.html
MyUninstaller
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/myuninst.html
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Cate Eales has been helping people make online computing safe, accessible
and fun for over 20 years. She lives in Kelowna with her husband, Eric,
and her dog, Sandy. Cate is a partner in Real Life Internet Solutions,
helping individuals and small businesses with virus, spyware and malware
eradication; personal computer training and management; digital image
management; music transfer; and website design, hosting and management.
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