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 At our PTT session called Organising Photos on a Windows Computer held on Friday 20/6, we looked at the Photos app on a Windows computer, for finding photos wherever they 'live' on your computer and allowing you to see them on a timeline, group photos by person using facial recognition, create your own albums and more.
One of the questions that came up was about old photos that you have scanned and imported to your computer. The date associated with these photos is the date scanned so these photos won't appear in the right place on the timeline. Is there a way to adjust this date?
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 During the past week, I was asked to take a look at a small business client's Windows computer, which was very slow in opening Word and Excel documents. She wondered if it was time to look at getting a new PC, given that her current computer was several years old.
For appointments such as this, I always go through a series of checks to look for obvious things that may be chewing up processing capacity and memory on the computer. Here's a Microsoft support article that provides a great list of these things that you can look at yourself if your own computer is a bit on the slow side.  Client France O is doing her PHD, and has been told by the IT people at the university the she needs to use Google Chrome instead of Safari.
While Safari works perfectly well for nearly everything, I do find that there is the very occasional need to utilise Chrome. A good example for our own family recently was in using Google Meet for parent/teacher interviews. We encountered problems with video freezing if we joined the Google Meet using Safari, but had no such issues with Chrome. Usually it is just a matter of adjusting Preferences and Security settings in Safari, but sometimes it is that the website/service just doesn't work with anything but Chrome! So, for a case like Frances, how do you tell your Mac to always open links in Chrome instead of Safari?  A client this week was very puzzled to find that, whenever she used a recommended scanning app to scan a document using her iPhone (as covered by the PTT session video 'Ditch that Scanner'), the Mail option within that app seemed to create a draft email with an image of her document instead of a PDF - even though she had selected the 'PDF' format option in the scanning app.
She contacted iTandCoffee to find out how to force the scan to be sent as a PDF instead of image. This is one that I get asked about regularly by Apple device users.  I was asked recently to assist a client with downloading a YouTube video for embedding in a Powerpoint presentation.
(It should be noted that the downloading of YouTube videos is only legal if it is your own video, or you have permission from the owner of the video.) When I need to download any YouTube videos, I use an excellent app that is available as a free app in the App Store on the iPhone and iPad.  iTandCoffee Club member Tim F got caught out recently by a Paypal debit that he wasn't expecting.
He had purchased some software a year ago and not realised that he had committed to an annual payment. It can be tricky to find the place in PayPal where you can check what automatic payments are in place, and to stop any 'pre-approved' payments that you no longer wish to make. There are the links to a couple of places to look:  Here is just one of the tips covered last week at the PTT Session called Exploring some amazing hidden features of the iPad and iPhone.
In this clip from the video of this session (available to purchase here if you don't have Premium or Online membership of this iTandCoffee Club), we look how you can quickly access some handy options with a single press on the Home Screen. 
I was asked during a recent PTT session (which was about using your mobile for scanning documents and photos) about whether there is an easy way to scan old slides.
My suggestion at that session was to Google the words slide scanners to see range of physical devices that are available for this purpose. But I have since come across an App that may also be worth a try - and it is from the same people who made one of my favourite photo scanning apps (which I have covered in this previous Handy Hint: For those who are looking to organise all those old photos - there's a great app for that!). 23/5/2020 0 Comments A look at Task Manager for controlling what's running on your Windows computer and what starts up every time
A common query we get at iTandCoffee is how to work out what is slowing down a Windows computer.
Quite often, it is simply the number of processes that are running on the computer - many of which could be starting themselves up automatically every time the computer starts up. So how to you see what these processes are, and 'turn off' any that you don't need? 
At today's fortnightly Saturday Tech Time user group (free* for members of the iTandCoffee Club and only $10 for others), Client Trish A raised the issue that she could not seem to open two PDF documents in side-by-side mode on her Mac. Whenever she opened a second (or third, or fourth) PDF, it would replace the one that she previously had open.
Why was this happening and how could she see her PDF documents as side-by-side windows. |
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