Achieve Your Goals (with a little help from your friends)

We all need a little help to achieve our goals whether it be losing a few pounds, eating better or saving money for a family vacation. While it helps to write down your goals there are other things that you can do to help yourself achieve these goals. For reinforcing your commitment to a goal […]

Master Internet Explorer

If you are like most users you use your mouse a lot as you are browsing the web in Internet Explorer. However, there are a lot of secret and hidden keystrokes that you can use instead of the mouse and which save you switching continually between the keyboard and the mouse. These keystrokes can help […]

Our Green Thumbs Guide to Online Gardening Sites

If you are an avid gardener or someone who would like to start growing plants to look at and to eat then we’ve rounded up a variety of great gardening sites for you. Some are chock full of great resources, there is a great online garden planning tool and a site that showcases unusual uses […]

Save Images You Find on the Web

When you find a photo or image on the web that you want to keep for reference you can save it to your computer. Here’s how: When you save an image from a website onto your computer you will have it safe for all time. If the website disappears you will still have the image. […]

Make Internet Explorer More Useful

Internet Explorer, like most applications, has some features that you can display or hide depending on your preferences. Some of these features place tools and handy sites in a more visible position so you don’t have to go looking for them. We’ll show you four of these handy screen features and explain what they do […]

Send Large Files Safely

Have you ever encountered problems when sending a large file via email, such as one containing lots of images? It’s a problem that a lot of people encounter. The reason is that e-mail delivery is limited to smaller file sizes so it is not designed for sending large files such as videos, large photos and […]

Find a Recently Visited Website

Have you ever experienced the situation where you know that you visited a website recently but you can’t remember what the site was and you are having difficulty finding it? Luckily Internet Explorer keeps a history of the websites that you’ve visited and you can view this history list to find sites you have visited […]

Better Browsing with Internet Explorer

If you use Internet Explorer as your browser here are some handy tips that you can put to use today to improve your browsing experience. Open a New Tab Often you will want to open a link that you find in a new browser tab. You can do this by right clicking the link and […]

Online Backup with Carbonite

If you have a lot of photos and other valuable documents stored on your computer then an automatic backup will be more efficient than trying to backup manually. Most automatic backup tools nowadays backup using the internet so your files are stored safely online. If you lose your computer or if it is damaged, stolen […]

Home Decoration Inspiration at Houzz

Do you need help decorating your new house, designing a room or purchasing a gift? Sites like our favorite Houzz.com give you all this and more. They provide a one stop resource for planning and exploring designs and products. The inspiration behind Houzz.com is that it is a place where you can browse and save […]