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Tech Tips [ Is Your Flash Drive Size Lying To You? + Browser Shortcuts On Your Phone - The Path The Efficiency + Your Icons Go Round, And Round, And Round... ] 05/17/2012

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Quick Tip

Inverse Selections

Have you ever needed to select *most* of the files in a folder using Windows Explorer? Maybe you're copying them to a floppy, moving them to new home, or doing some other type of exciting file management activity.

In any case, it can be a hassle since most of us just select up to the first file we don't want, do whatever it was we were going to do with the files, then move on to the next section.

Here's a better way!

First, select the files you DON'T want. If there are multiple files that you don't want, hold down your Ctrl key as you select the files. I know, it sounds like I've finally lost it, but stick with me here.

Next, go to the Edit menu and select " Invert Selection " from the menu.

The files you selected previously are now deselected and everything else is selected. It's almost like magic, isn't it?

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Want another one? OK, take this:

Go into the folder with the files you want, hit Ctrl+A (that will select the whole mess).

Next, hold down your Ctrl key and click the files you don't want. That'll deselect 'em good.

Note: If you're using Windows 7 you may not see a menu bar at the top of your explorer window. Press your ALT key to make it pop up.

~ Steve

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Computers 101

Dennis from MD writes:

I recently purchased a 32GB USB Flash Drive. Using Windows 7′s computer button to view all system connections, I selected the new drive and requested its properties via a right-click.

It indicated a capacity of 32,027,770,880 Bytes followed with 29.8GB.
Why is there a difference between these numbers, and actually how much available space is on the drive?

USB Flash Drives, along with hard drives and other types of computer storage, are measured in bytes. The problem is that the definition of a megabyte/gigabyte isn't really the same between computers and storage manufactures. A computer says a kilobyte is 1024 bytes and a megabyte is 1024 kilobytes. So one megabyte (one million bytes) is actually 1,048,576 bytes. To get to 32 gigabytes you have to multiply 1024 (bytes) x 1024 (kilobytes) x 1024 (megabytes) x 32 (gigabytes) which gives you 34,359,738,268 bytes of information.

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However, computer hard drive and storage makers had the clever idea that a gigabyte is defined as a "billion" bytes, so why do they need to give you extra bytes you didn't pay for just because someone who made the PC decided 1024 bytes are in a kilobyte? So industry practice is to label things in even numbers, even though computers will see less space as measured in GB. You do get 32,000,000,000 bytes when you buy 32GB, but your PC isn't counting the same way everyone else would!

~Tim

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On The Move

Android 4.0 Home Screen Browser Shortcuts

There are many logical reasons for browser shortcuts; convenience, efficiency, etc. or, in my case–somewhat less logically–annoyance. Due to a sensitivity (paranoia?) to permissions required by Android apps, I decided that the most recent Facebook for Android app finally asked for one too many annoying and meddlesome permissions, when it required the ability to record audio and take pictures and videos.

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From The Archives

OpenOffice: It's All About The Keys

Many people much prefer using key combinations over the mouse when completing their work.

Some just find that it takes way too much time to keep removing their hand from the keyboard to accomplish something with the mouse. Mostly I agree, it seems that 9 times out of 10 things move faster when I know the key combinations to work with.

At any rate, if this is you then you may be wondering how you can find the key combinations that are used in OpenOffice.

Probably to get a list quickly that can easily be printed you'll want to go to the OpenOffice help.

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Today's Feature

Circle Dock

Circle dock is an open source (free) program that allows you to that customize your files into a dock—a circle dock. Like rocket dock, circle dock gives computer users ease of access to their files and programs. However, circle dock is a bit more advanced than rocket dock, because the designs and the main functions of the programs require more tweaking. The following shows you how to install and use circle dock.

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~ Amanda

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Upper Falls

This is usually the first falls I photograph when I'm in the Old Man's Cave area of Hocking Hills State Park. First, you walk across the bridge you see in the photo, then follow a little path down to the bottom. Now, the "normal" thing to do here is (more)

Snow Goose Taking Flight

captured this image one sunny January evening at Bosque Del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. The snow geese were there in force, and this little pond had a lot of activity going on. The birds were coming and going, trying to decide where to stay for the night and I was just ... (more)

Hidden Hoodoos

We had just finished shooting some sunrise scenes at Bryce Canyon when my 9 year old son asked if we could hike down into the canyon and explore. Well, it didn't take much arm twisting to convince me! As we rounded a corner on the way down, we saw... (more)

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