Summer in the City The thready fingers of heat are already rising from the city’s concrete soul. Another vapid, sullen, pedestrian summer morning awakens. Dawn brings with it, dreary, dull, oppressive heat; just another smothering, infant, summer day. It is already too hot to move and too muggy to breathe. I look at the tired trees through a dirty, streaked… Read More »
Make a Contact Sheet of Your Images – Sorta Remember back in the day before computers, the photographer would give you a sheet with maybe 20 different images on it so you could pick the best ones for printing or whatever. That, my friends, in case you are too young to recall, was called a contact sheet. Now,… Read More »
Add a Custom Toolbar to Windows 7, 8 or 10 One trick we’ve been using for a number of years is turning our most-often-used folders into toolbars that can be accessed quickly and easily from the system tray (Notification area). This is one of the most useful tips ever and we should have shared this with you… Read More »
7 tips to Help You Can the Spam 1. Never respond to unsolicited email. One response or “hit” from thousands of emails is enough for spammers to justify the practice. In addition, a response lets the spammer know that your email address is active, which makes it more valuable and opens the door to more spam. 2. Never send… Read More »
LastPass Warns of Data Breach We received the following from LastPass today (16 June 2015). All of you who have LastPass accounts should have received this. We think it would be a good idea to change your LastPass Master Password as soon as possible. While no secure data was stolen, email addresses and not encrypted data might have… Read More »
Edit, View, and Modify PDF Files with PDF Eraser There are a lot of free PDF viewers out there, but not many allow you to edit PDF files, change text, erase text, cut pages, add images, remove images, etc. We found PDF Eraser after we had selected our Freeware Pick this week, otherwise it would have been our… Read More »