How you organize the data on your computer can be very important and warrants special attention. The two big reasons for this are: 1) it can impact your computer’s performance and 2) where you keep the data on your computer can determine if your data is being backed up or not. Here are some general tips for organizing the data on your computer.
One of the biggest headaches of using a laptop is how frequently you have to plug it in to charge it. Here are some helpful tips for getting the most out of your battery between trips to the wall outlet.
Note: While these tips are mostly geared towards laptop users, some can also be applied to desktop users that want to be more
greenand consume less power.
How many times have you said to yourself My computer has slowed down!
or asked Why do I keep getting this hourglass/spinning wheel?
Here are some memory management tips to keep your computer running up to speed.
Three new services on our Google Apps for Education domain can now be used with Colby Apps ([email protected]) accounts:
How many people start work at 1 a.m.? How about work until 11 p.m.? My guess is not many. So why does your Colby Apps Calendar show those times? Well, now you can collapse those hours so they take up almost no room on your calendar. Here’s how:
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Colby subscribes to an online service called VTC that provides self-paced training opportunities on a wide variety of software applications. These software titles range from Office applications like Word and Excel, to database programs like FileMaker, to programming languages like HTML, to operating systems like Windows and Mac OS X.
Have you ever wanted to format a part of your document to match another part, but can’t seem to get it just right?
Let me guess, you love using the Colby Apps Calendar, but you wish you could choose a view other than Day
or Week
? How would you like to have the ability to control exactly how many days appear in your calendar view?
Do you love working in Colby Apps but miss the keyboard shortcuts you were used to in applications like Eudora, Outlook, Word and Excel? Well have I got news for you! Google has its own built-in set of keyboard shortcuts and many of them are the same as the ones you were used to from Microsoft Office.
In the coming weeks you will notice the look and feel of your Colby Apps will change. Google has done research and listened to requests to make the interface look cleaner and hopefully easier to use. Below are side-by-side comparisons of the old (classic) and new looks for E-mail, Calendar and Documents.
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