It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T More on Passwords: CyberJokester Dave Gibbons sends along a tip to easily create secure passwords if you can type without...
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Security Tip: Yesterday I suggested creating complex passwords to make them secure. But how do you remember something that looks...
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Here's an amazing video of a large flock of starlings over San Rafael, California. They make endlessly varied shapes, like a...
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Firefox Tip (and perhaps IE7?): I don't want you to think that I never use the mouse; web browsing is often mouse intensive. I'm...
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Windows Tip: You probably know that you can everything currently running on your computer by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del and choosing...
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Windows Tip: When your Quick Launch bar grows too large, a double arrow (>>) appears indicating some icons are hidden. Click...
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Windows Tip: Use the Quick Launch bar instead of the Start menu. Drag icons of applications, folders, documents, whatever onto...
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T (Not Just A) Windows Tip: In Internet Explorer and Firefox, F11 takes you to full screen mode (hiding most toolbars and menus)....
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Windows Tip: Most email programs use the standard keystrokes for Reply, Forward, Send, etc. To reply to an email, type Ctrl+R....
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Windows Tip: Don't waste your time shutting down and rebooting your computer, use Sleep mode instead. I always save my work...
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T (Not Just A) Windows Tip: Reading a long document in your web browser or a long email? Read an entire screen, then press the...
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Windows Tip: All those tips about using the direction keys to move through, and select, text also work inside most edit fields...
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Windows Tip: Remember yesterday's tip about selecting text by adding the Shift key? That even works with the mouse: Hold down...
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Windows Tip: Yesterday's tip about using the keyboard to navigate faster comes with a bonus: if you add the Shift key to any of...
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Windows Tip: Use your keyboard to position the cursor instead of pixel-picking with the mouse. The Home key jumps immediately to...
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Windows Tip: Got a bigger monitor and now your text is too small? It's easy to resize text in Office and web browsers. Hold down...
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Windows Tip: Some of you took issue with yesterday's phrase "more deleted." But in Windows (and Macs), "deleted" doesn't...
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Those of you who remember Sierra when it was run by Ken & Roberta Williams may also remember how that company changed competely...
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Today's CyberJoke 3000T is quite late because I've been without an Internet connection for many hours. It just came back on. See...
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Windows Tip: When you have a pulldown list (e.g., a font menu), don't waste time scrolling down the list with your mouse....
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Windows Tip: Learn to right-click things. The list that appears is called a Context Menu because it only shows actions you can...
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Windows Tip: After bringing a window to the foreground (using Alt+Tab and/or Shift+Alt+Tab) you can close it by pressing Alt+F4....
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Windows Tip: Yesterday I mentioned using Alt+Tab to switch between open windows. But what if you have many windows open, cycle...
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Windows Tip: To switch between open windows, don't reach for the mouse and then head for the taskbar. Instead, hold down the Alt...
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Windows Tip Update: Bob Barrett reminded me that yesterday's Move Your Taskbar tip only works if your your Taskbar is unlocked....
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Windows tip: Do you have one of the new, wide-screen monitors? Since web browsers and most documents are more often vertical,...
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Windows tip: Thanks to several of you who suggested a better alternative to yesterday's Windows-M tip. Windows-D both minimizes...
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Windows tip: To get to your desktop instantly, press Windows-M (at the same time). To get all your windows back just as they...
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Windows tip: Change between applications by pressing Alt-Tab. Why reach for the mouse and then mess around trying to hit that...
It's Al Lowe's CyberJoke 3000T Windows Tip: Double-click any title bar to make its window full screen. Is this the phone that Apple will announce at MacWorld?...
