Tekee Tim's Tips

Taking a screenshot of your device

If you want to capture some information that’s displayed on your screen, such as a receipt, it can often be helpful to take a screenshot.

Luckily this is easy on all devices, Windows, Mac, iOS and Android.

Avoiding online scams

Following any large scale cyber incident, such as the recent CrowdStrike issue that took down millions of Windows PC, there's always a surge of scam emails trying to cash in on that event so we thought we'd go into a bit more depth about how to spot and avoid online scams.

Sending files in the most efficient way

This tip on how to send files using Dropbox is one of our most popular tips as this topic comes up a lot. Sending large files by email is never a good idea as it fills your email account up unnecessarily and can make your email slow to a crawl while it tries to send the file.

We've updated this tip a few times to make sure it fits with the latest versions of Dropbox for your devices.

WiFi, but no Internet?

Occasionally, when you're connected to a strong WiFi signal, you may find that you can't actually call up any web pages or send any emails. There are a few reasons why this can be the case and we'll run through some ideas that can help you get online here.

Annotating PDFs on your Mac

If you're sending photos or PDFs to people it can be very helpful to add your own annotations, whether it's to give someone directions or point something out in the photo. This is very easy to do using Preview on the Mac and below we'll show you how to do it.

How to uninstall Adobe Flash

Now that Adobe Flash is to be discontinued at the end of the year, it's a good time to check to see if you still need Flash installed and to remove it before it becomes unsupported.

Not many websites still need Flash and some browsers, such as Edge and Chrome, have their own version of Flash built in although this is usually disabled by default now.

In this tip, we'll show you how to check and see if Flash is installed and how to remove it from your Mac and Windows PC.

Get Smart with your filing

If you like to keep your files and emails organised, the Mac has great features to help you do this automatically, with Smart Folders and Smart Mailboxes.

Smart Folders allows you to create a folder on your Mac that looks like a normal folder, but instead of you having to move or copy your files into it, it will ask you for a set of rules and automatically display files that match.

How can I set my default printer?

If you have more than one printer, perhaps a mono laser for letters and an inkjet for photos, you will often print to one of them more often than the other and selecting the correct printer each time can become annoying.

On both Windows and Mac you can set the default printer easily so when you print you don’t need to change anything.

Turning off smart quotes

If you're working a lot with websites, you need to stick with standard ASCII characters so that they can be displayed properly on the site. By default macOS uses 'smart quotes' in order to make the quotes look better in a document but these can cause problems if you try to copy and paste the text into a website CMS.
Luckily, it's very easy to turn off smart quotes so that you use standard ASCII characters instead.

How to get the best from your WiFi

Having WiFi at home or work can be really convenient when you're using laptops or smartphones/tablets as it means you don't have to be confined to one area when you want to use the Internet, unfortunately just about everything interferes or blocks WiFi to some extent but luckily there are things you can do to try to get the best signal possible.

Where did my download go?

We're often asked how to find files that have just been downloaded through a web browser, so we thought we'd put a little guide together to show you how to easily locate your downloads.

Double click action!

Want to change what application opens when you double click on a file?

Sometimes you may have more than one application on your computer that can open the same type of document, for example on Windows you may have Adobe Reader and the built in Reader application that can open PDF files, and on Mac OS you may have Adobe Reader and Preview.

So, if you’d like to set which application opens a PDF file when you double click on it, then this is very easy to do. Just follow the steps below. You can then use this method for any type of file.