Shackled to computers, as many of us are, we endure hours when bright backlit images drill through our eyes. No wonder that, at day's end when we unplug from the electro-trance and gaze dully at objects in three dimensions, we wonder who we are and where we have been.
But today we will not address the loss of moorings and identity through the virtual porthole - no, not today. Today we will get down-and-dirty practical and learn ways to make our screen displays more eye-friendly and balanced.
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Anyone who has been confronted with a screenful of overlapping windows can appreciate the need to execute the tasks from the keyboard rather than from the mouse... Read more
I frequently notice that, despite the fact that almost everyone I know uses a computer regularly - many all day long - their skills vary widely. It seems that people become proficient in the handful of applications which affect their lives, yet an incredibly useful program or function might be lurking nearby completely undiscovered and unknown.
Such is the case of Windows Explorer(tm), one of the handiest utilities you would ever want to have, built into Windows(tm) operating systems. I have seen many people who use computers heavily, yet they somehow never discovered Windows Explorer.... Read more
