I was simply trying to teach somebody few basic computer wordprocessing skills, how the grammar and spell checker in Microsoft Word is used in constructing a basic and comprehensible sentence, how it behaves when it encounters a wrongly-spelled word or an erroneous sentence. I was not really thinking of anything in particular but out came […]
I have accumulated a lot of documents, videos, songs, photos and all sorts of files on my computer over the past years, but I have not even accessed most of them these days. I only deal with a few documents which I needed to finish some tasks. I’ve been planning to organize my files and […]
What’s probably the worst mistake a computer user can make is accidentally deleting his important files. Ouch! Has it happened to you? I’ve encountered this problem before but fortunately I have a back-up in a disk. What if I didn’t? That would have been a disaster! But if this ever happen to you and you […]
I was transferring my image files to a blank DVD this evening when I noticed that some folders in my main hard drive were empty. I was surprised about the discovery and a bit worried if I copied the files to another folder or simply lost it due to carelessness. Thankfully, I found the files […]
“Auntie, your laptop is hot,” my 7-year old niece told me knowingly. She would tell me that ‘important information’ almost every time she drops by and sits beside me on my laptop. So, that comment is already an expected one from her, and I would just reply with a shrug. Now I was a bit […]
One of our family friends dropped by our place one time and our conversation touched on topics about the Internet. The wife then mentioned about their little kid who is very much an expert with online gaming. The hubby just didn’t believe that their son can do that much. I bet our friend’s kid would […]
I’m so happy today! Finally, I was able to keep our desktop computer up and running with freshly installed Windows XP. No more dreaded blue screen screaming at me with it’s sorry-but-I-have-to-kill-your-PC words. It’s like a big thorn has been taken out from my brain. Now, I’m looking at a different blue screen that definitely […]