This is very rough... but ready, up to a point. Not good enough for you? You can stop reading at any time! (^_^) Okay. I'm not very proficient in a LOT of what's involved here. Maybe you aren't, either? If some of what I have to say is "obvious" to you, I am very happy …
Month: August 2022
Boreman’s Three Hundred Animals
About 1730, a London bookseller, first published his "Three Hundred Animals". Or to be faithful to his creation, the book that by 1753 was "titled"... A Description of Three Hundred Animals, Viz. Beasts, Birds, Fishes, Serpents, And Insects With A particular Account of the Manner of their Catching of Whales in Greenland ! This wasn't …
Thunderbird- Export, back up just your contacts
There's a tool for exporting "everything". Of course you should use that need occasionally, or other techniques, to back up your Thunderbird assets generally... it includes your messages. But what if you want to take a copy of just your contacts. Take a copy that you can use in any general app? Easy! Use Tools/ …
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Skype Contacts- back up, use elsewhere
I like Skype. I liked it better before Microsoft took it over, but I guess I'm glad that the developers got their cash. Anyway... like all these things, it has sucked me in. My ink-on-paper copy of phone numbers I use is out of date. In any case, I might lose my smartphone, or it …
“Hidden” settings, filed msgs, Thunderbird
"Lost" a message you put in a folder that has sub-folders? Having trouble finding a setting? I was! Because I just assumed that Thunderbird folders and settings work the way I'm used to such things working... in apps. In fact, Thunderbird quite sensibly does what Windows (and many other systems) have done for a very …
Great mini apps useful in Windows
I have used the following for many years. They are part of the reason I stick with Windows. They add things which I find enormously useful. (This page is not "done". I wanted to test a feature of my WordPress site. Sorry. But the recommendations are heartfelt and sincere!) Shortkeys- there is a "lite" version …
Word wrap in emails
There was a time when ordinary people never wrote words to a computer or smartphone screen. Lines ended where the author decided to end the line. And if he/she wrote... I am no poet I have no art But do my part ... then that STAYED at three lines, each of four words. Which was …
Plain text emails
"In the beginning... " all emails consisted solely of "plain text". Then people wanted "more", and the programmers delivered. Then the marketing people started pushing for "give them anything they want... and don't count the cost." So now we can do (almost) anything... and sometimes it works. In The Good Old Days, if I sent …
The hippo in the room
This is about water. Or rather, our impending lack of it. ("Elephant in room" -> "hippo": another big African mammal, the hippoPOTAMUS, "horse of the river", one that suffers dreadfully at times when water is scarce. (Yes, I forgot to take my pills this morning.)) Two challenges for you... a) How much water do you …
Please turn off pagers, no photos, exits…
In London the standard announcement before the show was done with a recording, but at least they made it less boring by having the text read by one of the children from the cast. For a long time, I thought it was being read by Small Boy, which would have been quite amusing, especially for …
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