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New Software Page On Brandstar.co.uk!

Alex — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:41:44 +0000

Brandstar have recently released a brand new Software page! The software page attempts to tackle the problem of not knowing which software is worth buying and downloading. After all, there are so many options to choose from! It covers a variety of both free and commercial products in the genres of Computer Security, Media, Office Applications and System Tools.

It’s worth checking out!

Quick Tip – Basic Shortcut Keys

Alex — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 22:37:59 +0000

We have decided to do a six week series on useful shortcuts for your computer. It’s worthwhile learning some of these as it will increase your speed and efficiency whilst using a computer.

Our topic this week is….

Basic Shortcut Keys:

Alt + F – Open file menu in current program
F1 – Universal Help (for all programs)
Ctrl + A – Select all text
Ctrl + X – Cut selected item
Shift + Del – Cut selected item
Ctrl + C – Copy selected item
Ctrl + Ins – Copy selected item
Ctrl + V – Paste
Shift + Ins – Paste
Home – Go to beginning of current line
Ctrl + Home – Go to beginning of current document
End – Go to end of current line
Ctrl + End – Go to end of current document
Shift + Home – Highlight from current position to beginning of line
Shift + End – Highlight from current position to end of line
Ctrl + <– (Arrow Left) – Move one word to the left at a time
Ctrl + –> (Arrow Right) – Move one word to the right at a time

Next week it will be Microsoft Windows Shortcut Keys!

Disclaimer: pctoolbox.co.uk cannot be held responsible for any problems that are caused from using the shortcuts. All shortcuts work to the best of our knowledge.

Quick Tip: Working with Emailed Documents

Grae — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:11:43 +0000

This weeks quick tip is about how to work with files that have been emailed to you! Sounds simple to some but I am often asked “Where has my file gone? I definitely saved it…”. After a bit of digging I find that the user has just opened the file directly from the email and while the file has been saved, it is just not where they expect it to be!

If you open a file directly from an email and save it once open it will be saved in a Temp directory much like a Temporary Internet File.

So, here is the tip!

When you get sent a file through and you wish to open it to work with, please ensure that you save it to your documents folder or desktop first and then open it from there, rather than opening the file directly from your email client. Saving should be as easy as Right Clicking on the file and choosing Save As! But it will depend on your email client

We hope that helps!

Quick Tip: Opening Firefox with Multiple Tabs

Grae — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:47:29 +0000

Our Quick Tip for this week: Multiple Homepages Open on Firefox Startup

To have multiple tabs open when you open firefox or when you press the Home button can be really useful and all you need to do is the following:

In Firefox go to Tools > Options
and in the ‘Homepage’ box enter the sites you want to open seperated by a bar | so you would have something like:

www.brandstar.co.uk | www.firefox.com | www.bbc.co.uk/sport

Then all 3 will open when you open Firefox