Probably Windows 98 users remember that in the Start menu there was a possibility to see your recently open documents (as far as I remember, the list displayed the last 15 documents you opened). In Windows XP, this option is gone. Sometimes I found it useful, because I never remember the names I give to [...]
Tag Archives: tips
9 Ways to Digg-Proof Your Blog
November 22, 2007 – 7:00 am
This article is written by Ronald Huereca, also known as Ronalfy, web developer, author of the WP Ajax Edit Comments Wordpress Plugin and one of the main contributors to Reader Appreciation Project.
Congratulations, you’ve just made it to the front page of Digg. And your site couldn’t handle the load and had to be put [...]
Household Video Tips & Tricks
November 9, 2007 – 1:59 pm
Household Tip No 1
Did you know that you can power your TV set with one AAA battery? All you need is the battery, some duct tape and two audio-video cables. And a lot of courage, of course
Household Tip No 2
How to remove permanent marker easily
Household Tip No 3
How to vreate a high definition [...]
Quick Tip For Online Learning Addicts
November 1, 2007 – 9:16 am
Distance learning programs were available long before Internet was born. I remember a friend of mine, taking marketing courses by correspondence: she got the materials by snail mail, she did her homeworks, sent them to that university, and finally got a diploma. It was not the diploma, but the acquired knowledge, which led her to [...]
How To Remove Unwanted Items From Your Photos
October 18, 2007 – 3:39 pm
You love photography. You could drive for hours, you could wake up at 5 o’clock in the morning, you could walk through swamps, only for the sake of taking a great landscape photo.
What if your best shots are spoiled by those ugly electric cables which seem to be everywhere? What if naughty tourists move unpredictably, [...]
How to Learn Foreign Languages by Association
June 28, 2007 – 12:51 pm
Did you ever experience the frustration of visiting a foreign country and not understanding the language at all? Luckily, English is pretty much international these days. However, when I visited China I had the surprise that many people did not speak anything but Chinese, so my knowledge of three languages was rather useless, as long [...]
1001 Cats Blog Carnival 1st Edition
May 6, 2007 – 9:00 am
Welcome to the May 6, 2007 edition of 1001 Cats Blog Carnival. The purpose of this carnival is to provide a place for cat owners to exchange tips, tricks and any other useful information about cats of all breeds or ages. Funny cat stories, pictures or short movies also have their place here. We all [...]
Take photos deep in water with polarization filters
April 27, 2007 – 9:52 am
You don’t have to own a professional photo camera to take advantage of accessories such as filters. Many common cameras offer the possibility to attach filters in front of the objective.
Out of all kinds of photo filters, one makes it possible to photograph water in its depth: the circular polarizing filter. Polarizing filters allow only [...]
How to check if your photo camera can take infrared photos
March 7, 2007 – 5:09 pm
Infrared photography has many applications, such as cosmic photos, recovering texts of water damaged documents, quality checks for hidden material flaws, surveillance and public safety, or aesthetic purposes.
You would imagine that you need special equipment to take infrared photos. Well, for the “far” infrared spectrum (thermal light), indeed, you need it. But for the “near” [...]
How to wash your cat in 13 steps
January 25, 2007 – 8:01 am
This post opens the “what you can do with a cat” series, which is going to run here, at All Tips And Tricks, over the next few days. Since I’ve got myself a cute, little kitten, I started to look deeper into pet care and training. I did not succeed to train her on anything [...]
