USEFUL-keyboard shortcuts,

Using keyboard shortcuts can greatly increase your productivity, reduce repetitive strain, and help keep you focused. For example, highlighting text with the keyboard and pressing Ctrl + C is much faster than taking your hand from the keyboard, highlighting the text using the mouse, clicking copy from the file menu, and then putting your hand back in place on the keyboard. Below are our top 10 keyboard shortcuts we recommend everyone memorize and use. Ctrl + C or Ctrl + Insert Copy the highlighted text or selected item. Ctrl + V or Shift + Insert Paste the text or object that's in the clipboard. Ctrl + Z and Ctrl + Y Undo any change. For example, if you cut text, pressing this will undo it. This can also...

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TIPS-Top 10 computer mouse tips

Most computer users don't take full advantage of the computer Mouse. Below are computer mouse tips and secrets that help you get the full potential of your computer mouse and increase your overall productivity while on the computer. Shift key and mouse click Many text editors and programs allow you to highlight all or portions of text using the Shift key and the mouse. For example, place the cursor at the beginning of a paragraph in a text editor, hold down the Shift key and click at the end of the paragraph to highlight the full paragraph. Bonus tip: Holding down the Alt key while dragging and highlighting text in a text editor will allow you to selectively highlight text....

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TIPS-Top 10 Facebook tips

Below is a listing of our top 10 tips for the popular social networking website Facebook. Hide users, games, polls, etc. It quickly gets annoying seeing some users posts, game invites, polls, etc. Hovering your mouse to the right of the post and clicking the Hide button as shown below can hide any post. Once this button is pressed you'll be prompted with the option to hide that user or in the case of a Facebook application the option to hide that application from ever showing up on your profile. To unhide someone or unblock an application click the Edit Options link in the bottom right corner of the news feed as shown below. Greasemonkey and FB Purity Although Facebook does not allow the ability to...

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HOW-TO--Shut Down Windows Without Installing Updates

Shut Down Windows Without Installing Updates Has this happened to you? You're sitting at your laptop, typing away, when you glance at the clock and realize it's time to go. So you shut down Windows--only to be informed that it needs to install some updates first. Ten minutes later, you're still waiting for the job to finish--effectively held hostage by your operating system.That, my friends, is a hassle with a capital 'H.'How hard would it be for Microsoft to add a deferment, an "install updates later" or "not right now" option? This whole thing about forced updating during shutdown is borderline insulting. Fortunately, if you see the little update-alert icon alongside the Shut Down button, there's a simple way to bypass it. Here's...

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HOW-TO-Create your own ebook simply and easily

Ifyou are a writer in the 21st Century it is a damn sight easier and cheaper to get your work published and 'out there' to your potential adoring public than ever before. The romantic idea of the tortured author taking his manuscript from publisher to publisher, possibly striking a deal and then waiting for it to be printed and published is not the only way to get your story across. The rise of the kindle has created an online marketplace where readers are avid for more online ebooks and I believe Amazon sold more ebooks than the paper equivalent last year. PapyrusEditor is a simple but powerful online editor that lets you create, design, publish and sell your ebook without your having to trudge the streets looking for break.The kindle...

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HOW-TO--Facebook Timeline Looms - What You Need to Know

Facebook Timeline Looms - What You Need to Know Soon Facebook users who have been avoiding the social network’s Timeline feature won’t be able to stave it off any longer and will be seeing their profiles change considerably. That’s because Facebook is making Timeline compulsory and is rolling it out to users in the next couple of weeks. You should be aware of several things before the launch. Here's how to prepare.Are Your Posts Viewable by Strangers?Instead of a linear stream of your posts, the new Timeline is a visual aggregation of everything you’ve ever done on the site: the information you’ve included on your profile, your photos, everything you’ve ever “liked,” any Facebook apps you’re...

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How To-- Draw Animals Section

Drawing tutorials on any subject are always in demand, but learning how to draw animals seems a particularly popular quest for vast numbers of artists of all abilities. Maybe it's our inherent love of animals - their innocence, freedom and general lack of human frailties. Or perhaps it's our desire to capture their grace and movement, maybe against a backcloth of their natural environment. Take the Kangaroo illustrated here, for instance. If you're new to learning how to draw animals, this might not be the subject you'd first think about - though if you're in Australia, perhaps you would! Whatever, it just proves that following the simple steps in the articles, you can pick your choice of subject at will.. Perhaps you'd...

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