I’ve just posted a new set of articles at Terry’s Computer Tips:

• What Can I Do With My Old Computer?
• Email Receipts not Working
• Pocket Hard Drive Questions
• Adding a Computer to an Existing Home Network

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This week’s online articles include:

*   Catastrophic Hard Drive Failure

*   My Security Software Recommendations

*   Accessing and Reading Usenet Newsgroups

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The Google Screensaver is one of the amazing free applications that is part of Google’s free Google Pack software package. Make your PC more useful. Get the free Google Pack.

The Google Screensaver is optional as part of Google Pack, but it’s one component that you should not miss. With it, you can have a screensaver that uses your own photos that you’ve accumulated and edited in Google Picasa, from Picasa Web Albums, from your own photos from folders on your computer that you specify (so you can use some photos as screensaver images, but not others), and from photo feeds (which defaults to “Default Google Photo Feed.”)

You can control how often the picture changes. You can also control the type of transition from one image to the next. The Visual Effect lets you choose Pan and Zoom, Collage, Wipe and Cross-Fade.

You can access the control panel…

Continue reading Using the free Google Photo Screensaver

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*   Updates Last Week

*   My Security Software Recommendations

*   Fun Stuff on the Web

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*   Creating a Home Computer Network

*   Updates Last Week

*   Sharing Files and Printers

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This week’s email and on-line newsletters are now available:
*   free weekly Terry”s Computer Tips email newsletter
*   weekly on-line Terry”s Computer Tips newsletter

This week’s online articles include:

*   Choosing to Send Plain Text or HTML in Outlook Emails
Fonts, colors and special formatting are sometimes appreciated in emails. However, often, recipients don’t want them. It’s easy to change the default settings and the setting for an individual email…

*   Updates Last Week
I watch a few operating systems and programs for updates — mainly because these are the ones that I use or in which I am interested. What updates or versions were new last week?

*   Backing Up Your Files
A subscriber asks me what I use to back up my files…