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When you’re browsing the Internet, search engines can be very useful for finding pages that you don’t know the address for or for looking up information, but if you already know the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) then you can get to the page much quicker by not using a search engine.
Every PC comes with a lot of handy software installed, such as Adobe Reader and iTunes but after a while you often find that other software has been installed on your PC either as a trial that you never got round to removing or something that got downloaded as part of something else but isn't actually required. Occasionally cleaning up this unwanted software can help keep your PC running fast and stop it getting cluttered.
If you find yourself having intermittent problems with websites loading slowly, email not working and seeing out of date websites, you could be having problems with your DNS servers.
All Internet Providers provide DNS as part of the connection and these convert a website name such as bbc.co.uk into the actual address of the website which is something like 63.194.125.69. Unfortunately the DNS Servers that you get with your Internet connection are usually pretty bad. They can be slow and out of date and we always recommend using better ones.
In this tip, we'll show you have to switch over to using faster and safer DNS on your Mac, Windows PC and your home router.
When you're using your computer, you can usually make things faster and easier by using keyboard shortcuts. These allow you to perform many of the functions you usually do with the mouse but without having to move away from what you're doing.
We've listed a few of the most common shortcuts below for Windows, Mac and iPad. On Windows you use the Ctrl key for the shortcuts and on the Mac and iPad, you use the Cmd key.
Playlists are a great way to keep track of your favourite music in iTunes, they let you have quick access to the tracks that you want to listen to and you can easily swap songs in and out as you need to.
iTunes can also make you playlists automatically based on a few criteria. In this tip, we'll show you how to create a Smart Playlist.
If you receive attachments via email, it’s important to save them onto your computer. Once you’ve done this you can edit the attachments, email them on to other people and file them away into your filing system.
Below we’ll show you how to save your file attachments from Mac Mail, Outlook and iPhone/iPad Mail.
With everyone trying to work out the best way to allow their team to work from home due to Coronavirus, we thought we’d share some of the apps we’ve been using for years to allow our teams in different locations to work together and keep all our files and documents easily accessible by everyone.
We hope this helps you develop the best way of working from home and if you have any questions about remote working or need any help getting set up, just let us know at help@tekeez.uk
In a previous tip we showed you how to free up space on your disk in Windows 10, the process is completely different on Windows 11 so we deduced it was time for a new tip to help you if you start to run out of free space.
If you receive a computer from someone else, either because you've taken over from them at work, or someone has passed on a computer that they don't need anymore, it's important that you create a new user for yourself before you start to use it.
If you ever need to reset your Mac back to factory settings, for example, if you're upgrading to a new Mac and passing your existing one to someone else, it's very important to make sure that all your files and settings are removed from your Mac before giving it to anyone else.
This tip will show you how to reset your Mac completely so it's safe to hand over to a new user. Please note that this only works on macOS 12 Monterey and newer.
There's a small but very useful feature called Hot Corners in Mac OS X and it can be a very easy way to clear all the windows off your desktop or start your screen saver or put your display(s) to sleep if you're leaving your computer and don't want people to see what's on the screen.
We'll show you here how to set it up and how easy it is to use.
If you think you might have malware on your computer but your regular anti virus isn't showing anything, running Malwarebytes can help you find and remove anything that might be hiding on your computer. Below, we'll run through how to install and run it on Mac and Windows.
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