THIS:   I'm settling in to my new laptop... and I have just learned that I can scroll the screen up/down/sideways (webpage or Word doc) with two fingers on the touchpad. HOW DID I NOT KNOW THIS?!?!? SO much easier than hitting the correct up/down/side arrow. Yep, I just checked on the old laptop; two fingers works on it, too. FIVE YEARS I've ( Read more... )

So, I finally got a new laptop. I was planning to wait awhile, but [a] the old one was getting very irritating and [b] when I checked around, it was apparent that if I didn't want to deal with Windows 11, I had only a shortish window before I wouldn't be able to find Win 10 anymore. As it was, there weren't a lot of models still available with Win ( Read more... )

My muse hijacked me again today; I produced a floorplan for the 'Charlie Safehouse' in The Old Guard. When I posted it, I knew I had missed a couple of tags, so I clicked on one of my other art posts to make a note of them. (Guess I need to add 'Art' tags to my tag-list post from last week.)

ANYway, I went back, hit edit, added the tags, hit ( Read more... )

I posted about making Word docs for my iPad. One problem I occasionally run into is, if I want to make edits, where did I store it? Duh, you say, in the author's folder! Yes, I answer -- but which one? Say a story is a crossover; I often keep a copy in both of the fandom folders (say, NCIS and SGA) and in my "Crossover" folder. Or if the story ( Read more... )

Want to gaze at beautiful, pristine beaches, maybe dream about "getting away from it all"? Well you can gaze, but never visit, because This Beach Does Not Exist. They're all AI computer-generated images, but they sure are pretty. (Some are too pretty; real nature isn't that pristine. But, oh well.) There are two buttons on the page; you can ( Read more... )

Many of you already know that I read a lot of my fic in my iPad. If it's over 7,500 words I'll think about sending it over; over 12,000 words almost always gets sent over -- simply because I don't have time to read in one session, and it's easier to grab my iPad at odd moments than my laptop... especially when I'm standing in line to check out ( Read more... )

Thanks again to Elderwitty. She wrote, "I just read something that suggests you can put '*' between keywords to look for combinations.

So I tried it --

name: 'can*I*forgive'

-- and it came up immediately, the only one out of dozens of folders with thousands of fics in NCIS. Then I tried with the most generic title I could find --

name: 'what* ( Read more... )

Courtesy of Elderwitty over in a thread on LJ.

In the larger thread, I was complaining that searching for a title when I don't know the author is much harder in Windows 10 than it was in Windows 7. The things is, I have [a] Fandom folders, in which are several hundred [b] Author folders, in which there may be a few [c] genre or universe folders. ( Read more... )

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Y'all know I'm not the most computer literate person. I'm good at aspects, but not the totality, and often don't know how to fix things that go wrong.

So, I was reading Politizoom when all of a sudden, my computer wouldn't open the next article I selected; I got a "Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead" message. It was very sudden -- I'd read 3 ( Read more... )

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So, folks -- I know how to do things with the computer -- Photoshop, MS Word, etc. -- but I don't really know about computers. I'm stumped; can anyone point me in the right direction ( Read more... )