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| Having trouble viewing parts or all of the newsletter? View the entire newsletter here! Lynne from Tennessee writes: I'm trying to learn Windows 8.1 and it is really confusing me. Can you explain what: an App is and do I really need it? Can I compute casually with APP? Lynne, an app is simply an application also known as a program. An app can run the gamut from a casual game to a complicated productivity application. You will need some apps for your computer to function. Just substitute the word program in your mind for app and it won't be so confusing. Instead of purchasing an app on a disk at the physical location of a store, you download them from the Windows 8 Store directly to your computer. Check out this article from our archives to learn more about apps: What Are Apps? You might also want to consider our Windows 8.1 DVD. ~ Cynthia Click here to rate this tip | Printer friendly version
Still Fumbling Around In The Dark? Accidentally Key Your Own Car or Door? You Need a Light That's With Your Key 24/7! HOW ABOUT ONE THAT'S ON YOUR KEY! WOW! THAT'S BRILLIANT! Slip It On Your Key And Have a Light Whenever You Need It! No More Hunting For Keyholes In The Dark! It Even Makes Tough Locks Less Painful To Open! AND IT'S ONLY $1.97! "Wow, that's simple!" So there I was, working late one night... I head out to go home and it was dark. Since it starts getting dark around 5 PM this time of year... by 7, it's practically the middle of the night! I reach for my keys, and I quickly realize I have no way to see the lock. I need to lock up the office, but I just can't get the key in the keyhole! WHY ARE THERE NO LIGHTS AROUND HERE?! Now, I could carry around an extra flashlight, but that's a big bulk for a 2-second chore. Who wants to fill a pocket with a big flashlight just to see keyholes?! What if your key WAS a light! SLIP THIS KEY COVER ON AND IT IS! I'd love to give you full instructions on how this thing works... but I already did! All you have to do is slip this little cover on top of your key and you're ready to shine a light where you need it! With this thing on, when you have to navigate around at night, you can quickly and easily get into your car or home! No more scratching up all the paint, no more frustrated jabbing of the key! You know those REALLY tough to open locks? The ones that take power-tool level torque to get opened up? It hurts your fingers just thinking about it! Well, this comfortable key cover is going to make that less painful! We ALL have those one or two keys we use 90% of the time! This even makes 'em easy to get out of the crowd! I don't know about you, but I've got WAY too many keys and now I can find the important ones faster! REMEMBER - IT'S ONLY $1.97!! http://store.worldstart.com/product/9490 But this sale ends Thursday and that means this goes up to $4.97!!
Improve Your Search Skills Part 2 Knowing how to conduct an efficient and productive search on the Internet is an important skill in the world we live in, but sometimes the results can be frustrating. In part one of this article, we looked at how simple things like a question mark can make a big difference in your results. Now we continue with even more helpful hints. I mentioned punctuation is ignored, but some punctuation in Google is recognized. (This may be different in other search engines.) Here are some that are recognized.
A couple other search tools that could be helpful: If you are searching for information and want results only on a certain site, use the" site:" term. For example, if I want only advanced searching tip results on Worldstart, my search would look like this: Notice all results come from Worldstart. When using this term, it's important to note there is not a space after the colon. You can also use this with quotations around a phrase you want to find on a certain site. Alternately, if you do NOT want results from a site, you can use the minus sign in front of site. For example, " Benjamin Franklin -site:wikipedia.com " . A search like this will search all sites except wikipedia.com for information on Benjamin Franklin. Finally, Google can be used as a calculator, a unit converter, and a dictionary very easily. Simply type in your equation and it will pop up the results in a calculator. Similarly, type in a conversion you would like to see. Notice the arrows by temperature. This is a drop down screen that you can choose what you would like to convert – including length, speed, and mass, among others. Type in define:term, and a dictionary entry pops up. It's really that simple. These tips have often helped me to narrow down my results to exactly what I needed. If you are still not getting what you need, remember to try different words that mean similar things. Or you may want to try using another search engine like Bing to see if there are different, better results. And don't always rely on the very first results, scroll down, go to another page, or even see if a page that doesn't give exactly what you need links you to a page that does. -Audra Click here to rate this tip | Printer friendly version Do you have a question for us? Ask it here!
Sharon and Ray from Salina, Kansas write: I was directed here to ask about a simple home inventory program for my computer. I am using Windows 8 but I don't need a financial package with it. Can you suggest one for me? You have several options. Let's start in the Windows 8 store. Select the store icon to go to the Windows App store. Then search for home inventory. Here you'll see a variety of options ranging from free to $4.99. To learn more about the App Store, check out WorldStart!
6 Quick Shortcuts For Your Mac What I love about my Mac is that now I know a ton of shortcuts it has become easier and more enjoyable to use and I can get my work done faster. In this article I've noted 6 of the most useful shortcuts that I use all the time. Check them out and start using them for yourself. Take A Screen Shot Or Capture A Selection Of Your Screen Taking screen shots seem to have become incredibly important these days whether it's for documenting work or writing tutorials such as this one. There are many ways to take a screenshot on a Mac; the most common are the following: Whole Screen: (Command + Control + 3) This will capture your whole screen, if you have more than one screen it will take pictures of both and they will appear as 2 separate image files on your desktop. Selection Screen Shot: (command + Control + 4) Your mouse arrow will change into a plus sign with some numbers adjacent to it, you can now click and drag over the selection that you want to capture. The file from this will also appear an image file on the desktop. The screen shot file on the desktop beginning with 'Screen Shot + date and time'. Quickly Access Spotlight Spotlight is a one of the most useful tools on a Mac for finding lost files or quickly locating files that you need to get access to. To speed things up simply use... Just click WorldStart to learn more!
Cel Mengata from St Paul, Minnesota writes: What is a certificate and how does it work on a computer? Cel, a digital certificate is an attachment to an electronic message used for security purposes. It is the digital equivalent of a physical or paper certificate. Just as a physical license serves to identify an individual and show what they are allowed to do, e.g. a driver's license identifies someone who can legally drive, a digital certificate is presented to prove your identity and the right you have to access certain information on the internet. It is used to ensure that when data passes from one computer to another over a network, the data will not be able to be read by an unauthorized entity and for extra security measures, the data will be checked by the receiving computer using a digital certificate to verify the integrity of the data and to ensure that it was not altered in transit. When data is sent through a network, there is usually a risk that the message may be intercepted, read and even modified by an unauthorized person. To prevent this, data is usually encrypted to prevent it from being read and understood until it is decrypted. This is where digital certificates come in. Digital certificates use a... Head on over to WorldStart for the rest of this helpful tip! For stories, jokes, quotes and cartoons every day, sign up for our Just for Grins newsletter.
Music Machinery I don't typically follow music blogs, but I do follow this one. Albeit it is a recent following, I got hooked on the music maps. And the music maps are why I'm sharing the site with you today. You can check them out by scrolling down the page and navigating blog style, navigating by Category and selecting Data, or you can check out the following links to get hooked on this blog. Anti-Preferences in Regional Listening Favorite Artists vs Distinctive Artists by State Exploring Regional Listening Preferences Each of these displays a map of some sort. The first one displays a music map, and the rest use a map of the United States. It's really interesting to see how things differ from State to State. And makes me really curious about how things compare around the world since a lot of artists have global audiences. Check them out for yourself today! ~Amanda Click here to rate this tip | Printer friendly version Do you have a cool, non-commercial site that you want to share?Send it to Amanda at amanda@worldstart.com
Slow Computers Suck! Go From Painfully Sluggish To Supersonic - In Minutes! It's The New PC Supercharger You GOTTA GRAB!
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Are You Ready to Be LIGHTNING FAST? Wish you had a new computer? Why not just give your current one an upgrade for PRACTICALLY NOTHING? You can make it BETTER than a new computer with just POCKET CHANGE! No long setups, no wallet-draining price tags. Just a top-speed, error-free existence on the PC you've already got! System Mechanic is the ULTIMATE PC RENEWAL! Bring your computer back to its peak with this amazing SOFTWARE SUPERCHARGER! You get ALL THIS AND MORE in ONE ULTIMATE PACKAGE:
And all of it as simple as pressing a button. Seriously! This is the one piece of software EVERYONE needs to have! It's THAT simple! The BRAND NEW System Mechanic Premium will breathe new life into an old PC. Heck, it'll even fix up the PC you just purchased! And after you get your PC supercharged, it'll KEEP it that way. It. Does. EVERYTHING! NOTHING compares to System Mechanic. Period. Okay, so System Mechanic Premium has a LOT of stuff. I mean, a LOT! Here's a tiny look at what you're getting when you install this software: That's Only A FRACTION Of The Features! That list there is about as simplified as it can get... and it STILL doesn't show you everything that comes with the software! From faster bootups to faster loading to faster Internet to faster SSDs to, well, faster everything! It cleans the mess. It fixes the errors. It even removes the junk. And the best part? It MAINTAINS your computer afterward. With the built-in anti-intrustion tools and the system maintenence features, once you get your PC lightning fast, it will STAY lightning fast! The moment you pop the disc in your drive, it's gonna BLOW YOU AWAY! The VERY first thing it does is IMMEDIATELY upgrades itself to the latest version automatically! Yep! No hunting for upgrades, and no outdated features. You get the latest and the greatest. The second thing you'll probably notice is this: Oh no!! But wait! This is a lot more common than you might think. Even EXPERTS can't prevent computers from degrading without software like System Mechanic Premium. For everything you might know about your computer, there's at least a hundred more potential problems lurking around the corner. But, now that you have System Mechanic, it only takes one click to get ALL those problems out of your life forever. Just Press That "Repair All" Button! That's the one-way ticket to a lifetime of carefree, computer BLISS. If you want System Mechanic to give your PC the works, that's all you have to do. But maybe you're a little more tech-savvy than most of us. Want to get under the hood with it? NO PROBLEM! Every single tool and utility with System Mechanic Premium can be used manually to allow you total control over what it fixes and what it leaves alone. It's the perfect program for ALL levels of technical experience. Either way, when you let System Mechanic Premium do it's work, you're going to get to computer paradise: It doesn't matter how good your computer was before. Now it's better and faster. You WILL be BLOWN AWAY. Stability, speed, and peace of mind. Remember, it's never what you know that hurts your PC. It's the million little things you could have NEVER expected. But nothing surprises System Mechanic PC Total Care! It sees every nook and cranny and makes them sparkle. Want a sneak peek at how this incredible software gives your PC the power-wash you always dreamed of? If I tried to talk about EVERY feature of System Mechanic, we'd be here until the Sun burnt out. Get ready for some major highlights that'll have your jaw dropping. Booting up your PC is always a pain. No matter what you do, you could cook a Thanksgiving dinner before your computer is done starting. It doesn't have to be like that. By eliminating unnecessary or even HAZARDOUS programs from your startup, there'll be no more watching the clock, wondering when you can actually begin to use your computer. And without all these wasted resources going to unneeded programs, your computer will stay fast after booting. Do you LIKE some of your startup programs? No worries. If you don't want System Mechanic to take control, you can go in and see each and every program it wants to disable. Regardless of which path you take, it's easy and fast to get your PC booting properly. Oh, and do you ever get those annoying error messages when you boot up? Chances are after this, you'll never see them again! YES! In addition to startup programs, there's ALWAYS just TONS of files and applications that end up on your PC. Sometimes they came installed with the computer, other times they sneak in through vulnerabilities or hidden in other software. No matter how they go there, they are taking up GIGs of space!! Don't worry, CRUDD Remover is on the job. All this CRUDD (Commonly Redundant or Unnecessary Decelerators and Destabilizers) adds up into one giant, super slow, gunk of a mess. Even if you knew what programs were the trouble makers, it would take AGES to manually hunt through and clean up all those files. System Mechanic removes the work and eliminates all that unwanted mess - in minutes! Fully Controllable - You can make sure that System Mechanic doesn't remove anything you need to keep. This thing is crazy. Not only are you going to get even MORE speed by removing all that useless junk from your PC, but talk about clearing space! Your hard drive has its limits, so taking this giant burden off its back is going to give you a lot more wiggle room for stuff you DO want. Surfing the Internet Collects Clutter! Your computer has an "amazing" ability to hold onto a lot of useless stuff that you never even knew it saved. PC Cleanup has your back. With the push of a button you can clean out tons of wasted space and temporary files that you didn't even know were there to begin with! WOW! This is the ultimate solution to loaded hard drives. You can get back hundreds of megabytes in storage space... heck, you might even get a couple GIGABYTES of space back. Maybe you won't need that $200 external hard drive you were thinking about. Now you're saving space AND money! Computers always manage to have a ton of errors without any indication of how to solve them. How can anyone expect you to fix a problem when all you get is a string of numbers and a giant OK button. Let System Mechanic take care of it for you! From unintelligible error messages to mysterious lockups and even full-on system crashes, System Mechanic will find the solution. The All-In-One Repair Tool came straight out of your dreams and now it's a reality. This program will AUTOMATICALLY fix pretty much any problem your computer throws at it. No error is too obscure for System Mechanic. This is the total tune-up, repair, supercharge, computer fixing miracle. EVEN IF YOUR COMPUTER WON'T BOOT PROPERLY! SERIOUSLY! You can use the System Mechanic CD to boot and recover your computer. It's a life-saver. If just cleaning up junk didn't make your computer as fast as you wanted it, System Mechanic is only warming up. It's got a toolbox FULL of utilities to make your computer so fast it won't be street legal. Just running ONE of these things is going to give you astonishing speed. But when you get them all going? Oh man, you're going to think someone slipped a supercomputer under your desk. But that's not all, honestly it's barely even HALF of the performance tools alone. Speed is great, but how about some raw, mind-blowing power? If you use some serious software, or even just want to get the most out of your PC as possible, System Mechanic has the adrenaline shot your computer needs! EnergyBooster! Take your PC to the next level with this incredible tool. By automatically turning off unnecessary background programs, your computer's limited resources are going to be free to turn their attention to the tasks YOU need them on! Don't let worthless background processes hog your memory or processor, use them how you want them. If you do high-quality video, audio, web design, ANYTHING, you'll immediately notice how ridiculously fast EnergyBooster makes your PC. Interested in something BRAND NEW? System Mechanic is always expanding its armory of tools and this version is no different. With new AcceleWrite, you'll almost never have to worry about disk fragmentation again. By automatically ensuring optimal storage of files, the creeping slowdown that your computer experiences over time from disk defragmentation is a thing of the past! It does the work for you, which means more time for yourself and a healthier life for your PC. Slow Internet? That's when NetBooster takes the stage. Each Internet connection is unique and your computer can't be pre-configured from the factory for an optimal setup for YOUR system. NetBooster examines your current connection and makes those specific changes so you get MAXIMUM PERFORMANCE. You'll see double, even TRIPLE speeds. And remember, if you don't want to go through these individually, System Mechanic can do pretty much everything on its own. It's impossible NOT to get huge gains from running this software, and it's as simple as a few mouse clicks. What more could you ask for? Especially nowadays, computer security has become a really big issue. You may think you're secure, but new vulnerabilities pop up ALL THE TIME! Even the tiniest of security holes can spell disaster for your privacy or your computer's ability to function. With so much on your computer, there's no excuse for taking risks. With just one button, System Mechanic will comb your computer for security flaws and fix every single one it finds. Blocking off hackers from entry, you get peace of mind that your files and confidential information are safely protected. You can NEVER be too secure. After your vulnerabilities are patched up, what about other kinds of intrusions? Unwanted programs, intrusions, or malware trying to hijack your system. System Guard will be the shield that keeps your PC defended and in tip-top shape. System Guard does SO MUCH at once. If new programs try to add themselves to your startup, it will let you know. Dangerous programs trying to run? System Guard stops them IMMEDIATELY. Browsing can be hazardous, but with System Guard, your computer and browser are protected from even the wiliest of hacking attempts. If you've ever had your homepage suspiciously changed or a new toolbar appear out of nowhere, you'll know how important System Guard is! Privacy is just as important as vulnerabilities when it comes to security. With System Mechanic, you can make sure nothing you do gets to the wrong hands. With the Privacy Cleaner, anything you do can be erased, from browsing or search history to cookies and chat transcripts that websites or programs often automatically save. Or maybe you need something deleted? I mean... REALLY deleted. The Incinerator will make sure any of your private files, from old taxes to company memos can't be easily recovered by ANYONE. System Mechanic takes security seriously, and you can rest easy knowing you have the best programs protecting your PC and files. System Mechanic is loaded with SO MUCH and if you want to, it can be COMPLETELY AUTOMATIC. But if you want to know exactly what it's doing, you can examine every tool to see what it intends to fix or change. You'd be INSANE not to take advantage of all these amazing tools, but if you want to, you can pick and choose what you use and how you use it. But that's not all! It comes with a tool to completely customize your PC's operations. From hiding unwanted icons to making your start menu react faster, there's almost nothing out of your control - AMAZING! System Mechanic looks too good to be true, right? Especially with all the extra free stuff, how can so much power be packed together into one amazing product? Well, you don't have to take our word for it! With over 36 million users and countless awards tell you all you need to know.
And now for the BEST PART! With all this greatness in one package you're probably expecting it to be really expensive. Well, you're right and you're wrong. If you go out to the stores to buy this, you might right into something like what you see below. And honestly? It's worth that much. But here are WorldStart we know you want the BEST price and that's what you're going to get. So, what's YOUR price? For System Mechanic Premium, with the built-in security and full-system repair it's only $14.97 with FREE US SHIPPING! I don't even have a joke for the person crazy enough to miss this because there's nothin' funny about passing up the deal of the millenium! http://store.worldstart.com/product/8075 PS - These sell like CRAZY. Don't let total PC bliss pass you by. Even if there ARE any left, the price is going up to $24.97 on Thursday!
March Wallpaper Is Ready! Here it is - our free desktop calendar wallpaper for March! I've decided I've had enough of winter, so here's a few that remind us of the warmer times to come. Enjoy! All can be found here and are 100% free: http://www.backcountrygallery.com/wallpaper/ Oh, and if you enjoy these images, please tell your friends!
For these and other great selections of desktop wallpaper, head to: http://www.backcountrygallery.com/wallpaper/ As always, the wallpaper is 100% free, so enjoy! Photo Tips Did you get a chance to check out my new photo tips from last month? If not, head over to my YouTube channel and check 'em out: http://www.youtube.com/backcountrygallery
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WorldStart Tech Tips 2014-03-12
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