Thursday, 15 November 2001

, ,

Honing your search engine technique

Be more specific when using web search engines. First of all make sure you're using Google as it's undoubtedly the most comprehensive search engine ever to have existed, and what's more, the hits it returns are actually relevant to your search queries - surprisingly a feature which all too many search engines lack! Now that Google is set as your home page remember to use Boolean queries whenever...

Saturday, 3 November 2001

, , ,

How do I close full screen pop-ups that do not have menu bars?

A quick way to do this would be to use your Task Manager. This displays a list of all the programs/windows you currently have open. To summon the Windows Task Manager you can press control, alt and delete simultaneously and then select the 'applications' tab. Alternatively, you could open the Task Manager by selecting the run option from your start button and typing in 'taskman'. When the applications...