Green Party deputy jailed
Report into crash released
Killer on the loose
Facial recognition at border?
PM ups attacks on Poilievre
CRA will get the money: PM
Ukraine uses new missiles
Biden signs war aid measure
New US rules for airlines 
BoC officials split on rate cut
Big loss for Boeing 
Metro sales edged higher
Vees dominating Vipers
Warriors snakebitten in loss
Iginla off to Europe
Coachella fined $28K
Those are her nipples
Kanye to launch porn studio
Free cloud storage, a correction to last week’s newsletter, and a couple of tips. Enjoy this week’s scattered thoughts!
Holy smokes! Microsoft OneDrive offers unlimited storage!
Microsoft announced that Office 365 subscribers will have unlimited storage on OneDrive. Whoa.
OneDrive (https://onedrive.live.com/) is Microsoft’s online file storage system where you can keep files private or share them. Upload or save files to OneDrive and then access them with any web browser or device that has an internet connection. Similar, competing services include Dropbox (https://www.dropbox.com) and GoogleDrive (https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2424384?hl=en)
If you have Windows 8.1, OneDrive is already there for you with a full terabyte of storage. If you also subscribe to Office 365 (http://office.microsoft.com/en-001/products/), you’re going to get unlimited storage when Microsoft rolls it out. They have already begun. You can request to be an early adopter by completing the request form here: https://preview.onedrive.com/?wt.mc_id=oo_blog_onedrive_insertblogtitlehere.
Last week’s column link was wrong in some places
Last week’s column, Should I Allow It? Is a pretty good column, but a little hard to find for my newsletter subscribers. Castanet readers got the correct link, but one of the links in the newsletter directed you instead to the column the week before. Here is the correct link, I promise: http://rlis.com/columns/column479.htm. I caused the problem --- not you folks. Thank you for your patience.
People ask me about this all the time. The Menu Bar is near the top of a window, and shows choices for File/Edit/View/Tools, and so on. If you wonder what happened to the Menu Bar in Internet Explorer and Firefox, it’s in there, but by default it’s just turned off. Why is it off by default? Beats me. The good news is it’s easy to turn it back on.
Open Internet Explorer or Firefox, then press the ALT key, and you’ll see the familiar choices displayed in the old familiar places. Nice trick, right? The problem is that as soon as you do anything, the Menu Bar goes into hiding again. If you want it there all the time:
- Press the ALT key
- Click on View | Toolbars
- Place a check next to Menu Bar
There. That does it!
Are you using Google Chrome? Tough luck. No menu bar for you! Click on the list icon over on the right side of the window to get to the items that you would other wise find on the Menu bar.
And while we’re on the subject of browsers…
Several times last week while I was cleaning malicious software out of customers’ computers, people told me they had no idea anything was wrong until the computer became almost completely bogged down.
Here are a couple of early warning signs that something bad is happening:
- When you open your browser, your Start page is something unexpected. This is called a browser hijack.
- When you search for something, the search results are ads, and some of them are rude. Again, your browser has been hijacked, and your search results are almost certainly going to take you places you don’t want to go.
- You receive pop-ups like crazy, even on legitimate sites like Castanet. The website isn’t infected. Your computer is infected!
- Programs show up “out of nowhere” telling you about your computer errors and offering to fix them for a fee. Don’t pay. Get some help cleaning this junk out of the computer.
None of these situations is normal, all of them indicate trouble. Get help.
Enjoy the extra hour of sleep on Sunday, November 2, as Daylight Saving Time comes to an end: http://www.timeanddate.com/news/time/usa-canada-end-dst-2014.html.
Do you need help with your computer? I'm here to help you and your home or business computer get along!
Cate Eales runs Computer Care Kelowna (http://computercarekelowna.com/) a mobile service helping home users and businesses get along with their computers. To arrange an appointment phone her at 250-764-7043. Cate also welcomes your comments and suggestions. Send email to [email protected].
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