Tech Tips

April 2004

Clip Art Etiquette

by Barbara J. Feldman April 27, 2004

Before using clipart or music files you’ve found on the Web, always get permission from the owner of the files. On most clipart sites, there will be a copyright statement about how the files may be used. If you do not find one, email the site owner. Often, however, the website publisher is not the [...]

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News To Go

by Barbara J. Feldman April 13, 2004

Even if your handheld offers Internet access, it is often slow, expensive, hard to read, and difficult to navigate. A lower tech way of getting news, movie listings, weather and sports on your PDA or smart phone is through your daily computer sync. You do sync every day, don’t you? AvantGo offers thousands of free [...]

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Changing the Default Graphics App

by Barbara J. Feldman April 6, 2004

Although Picture and Fax Viewer is the default graphics viewing application for Windows XP, you can easily change this. Open Windows Explorer, and then right-click on any picture file. Select Open With, and then (even if your graphic program is listed) click on Choose Program. Now highlight your graphics program, and check the box titled [...]

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