Windows 7 tip: shake it!

Posted by ali on Nov 22, 2011 in Tech Tip Tuesday Sounds like a new dance craze? Try it in Windows 7 today. To focus on just one window when several are open, just shake it. Left click and hold the top of the window pane and shake your mouse. Every open window except that one instantly disappears. Jiggle again—and your windows all come back.

Windows 7 tip: Peek

Posted by ali on Nov 15, 2011 in Tech Tip Tuesday Peek gives you the power of X-ray vision to see the desktop right through your open windows. To peek at your desktop, move your cursor to the peek button, (the rectangle to the right of your clock at the end of the taskbar.) As you hover over it, all open windows will become transparent, showing your desktop. Left click on the peek button and all open windows will instantly minimize, (this is...

Windows 7 tip: Snap it into place

Posted by ali on Nov 8, 2011 in Tech Tip Tuesday Snap is a quick way to re-size open windows, simply by dragging them to the edges of your screen. Depending on where you drag a window, you can make it expand vertically, take up the entire screen, or appear side-by-side with another window. To snap: left click and hold the top of a window pane and drag it to the left, right or center to snap it into place. Drag it back to the center to set it...

Screen Shot

Posted by ali on Nov 1, 2011 in Tech Tip Tuesday Take a picture of what is on your screen. To take a screen shot press CTRL and Print Scrn/SysRq in the upper right hand corner of your keyboard. You have now taken a picture of your screen. Now you can paste it into a blank word document, paint program, or compose a new email. Paste it in by pressing CTRL and the letter V at the same time.

Keyboard Short Cut Keys

Posted by ali on Oct 25, 2011 in Tech Tip Tuesday Try these common Shortcut Keys: F1 = Universal Help in almost every Windows program Ctrl + A = Select all text Ctrl + X = Cut selected item Ctrl + C = Copy selected item. Ctrl + V = Paste  

News Tech Tip

Posted by ali on Oct 18, 2011 in Tech Tip Tuesday See the top news from around the world by going to http://www.newseum.org/ and click on “Today’s Front Pages” on the right side.