Quick Tip + Friday Fun + Miscellaneous
To start off today, I think I should explain: “miscellaneous” has long been one of my favorite words. It’s a “catch-all”, and gives one “wiggle room”, and saves time and energy. As a word, its main weakness (or, “fault”) is, despite decades of practice, I never spell it correctly my first try (thank you, Spell Check!!!) but I have never failed to be able to spell m-i-s-c.. Thesaurus.com tells us that “misc.” can stand in for other cool-yet-hard-to-spell words:
| Main Entry: | miscellaneous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | diversified, various |
| Synonyms: | assorted, confused, conglomerate, different, disordered, disparate, divergent, divers, diverse, heterogeneous, indiscriminate, jumbled, many, mingled, mixed, motley, muddled, multifarious, multiform, odd, promiscuous, scattered, scrambled, sundry, unmatched, unsorted, varied, variegated |
Variegated?
Today’s free download: Got Spelling? Some – but not all – programs have built-in spell checking of some sort. If you want to add spell checking to all of your apps (or a select group) then take a look at tinySpell (free and pro). If your favorite program does not have built-in spell checking, then tinySpell will definitely be a welcome (and very helpful) addition to your Windows system. They offer a portable version as well so you can take it with you to any PC.
Today’s ‘Quick Tip’: Press the “Windows key” and “D”, together, to quickly shrink your open windows out of your way, and expose your Desktop.
Today’s Quotable Quote: “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” ~ C.S. Lewis
Some reading reco’s:
* Free AntiMalware Software – And More – For Senior Computer Users
* Solitaire Brought to Life in 3D
* Upcoming Cyber Security Threats Part 5: Hackers Controlling Your Car
Friday Fun (video):
Misc: (ha!)
Yay! It’s Friday!
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I am a Retired computer & network technician. I used to think the machines were pretty cool. Now I don’t.
They’re anything but.
I regularly posted how-to’s and tricks & tips and general computing advice here starting in 2007. (Use the Search tool to find answers. But be aware, many are rather dated.) Sometimes I answered (your) specific questions in an article if I believed the answer was generally helpful to “everyone”. All the writing you see was my own, typos and all. There always is/was an implied “IMHO” in what you see here.
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