TIM and Tim’s Top Tips by Tim Lambie & Tim Jones
Do be careful in your frustration when the internet goes down, not to press the “reset” button on your router. Most people these days have routers and they all have a hidden “reset” button which is designed to be pressed in two ways. If you press it quickly it will restart the router and will
normally provide the internet when it comes back up and running. Press it for longer than a few seconds however and it will wipe the settings and never connect to the internet again. So, by far the safer way of doing it is never to touch it and simply switch the router off at the wall. Otherwise, we may have to come and setup your router again! If you are just about to start using iTunes or Windows Media Player, then make sure you change the ripping setting to mp3 from the default which is different for each program. You might think that they would rip the music in mp3 format, but they do not, so buy an ordinary mp3 player and the likelihood is you will not be able to use the music you spent so long ripping. Also, if you have a large capacity hard drive, think about turning the quality of the ripping up a bit to make a bigger, but better quality file.
Ever wondered if there is any way of checking out those hoax emails that we all seem to be getting with regularity? There is a site which has many of them listed, so you can see before you click and look silly when forwarding them on yourself.
linked to other sites that may have what you are looking for in the way of “urban myth” - like the Red Arrows performing for London 2012. Another useful site is
hoax-slayer.com We are often asked about Parental
Controls. There is a feature in Windows Vista and 7 that allows
It is American, so it
may not have many of the emails that we have seen, but it is a useful tool nonetheless -
www.snopes.com and it is
parents to better control how their children use the computer. It has been around in many different forms for some time now. As a parent you can restrict your children to navigate on certain websites, play particular games, which programs can run, how long to use the computer, etc. For “Parental Control” to work, you need to have at least 2 accounts: an account with administrator privileges (the parent) and another limited account (for the child) - you could have more than one account, different for each child. The detail can be found in “How to create user accounts” in Vista help. There is though little substitute for being in the same room as them and checking every now and then! Internet Explorer can get very cluttered especially if you have a few toolbars showing that you may have downloaded without realising. So, when viewing a website it will appear in a much smaller window than you might like and therefore you may have to do some scrolling. One way around that is to “auto-hide” the toolbars. This is easily done when on any website, press F11 and it will all disappear, thereby filling your screen with just the site. If you want it all back again, then press F11 again and it will all revert back.
There is a feature in Windows Vista and 7 that allows parents to better control how their children use the computer
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