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WorldStart Tech Tips 2012-05-21 Having trouble viewing parts or all of the newsletter? View the entire newsletter here! Howard from UK writes: I am using Windows 7 Home Premium. When I first installed it the aero snap feature worked, but now does not. Can you advise how to get it working again? Aero Snap, the feature which automatically expands windows when you drag them near the edges of the screen, can easily be enabled/disabled. Step 1.) Click on Start, then click Control Panel. Step 2.) In the search box in the upper right hand corner type: accessibility. This should bring up the options for Ease of Access Center. Click on View current accessibility settings. Step 3.) Click on Make it easier to focus on tasks, and then click Prevent windows from being automatically arranged when moved to the edge of the screen to disable aero snap. If you want to enable it, make sure the box is unchecked. Step 4.) Click Apply, then OK. That's it! Aero Snap is now enabled. 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The same way that you reformat ANY drive, Pinky… BY TRYING TO TAKE OVER THE WORLD! Sorry, been watching too much "Pinky and the Brain" lately. Actually, Bob, a flash drive can be reformatted the same way as any other drive. Start by going to "Computer", right-click on the drive, and then click on "format". Once there, you have the choice of whether or not to choose a "quick" format. Unless you're trying to seriously hide stuff from someone (in which case shame on you) then a quick format should be adequate. Click "start". Once it says "format complete", you're ready to go. Hope that this helps. ~Randal Schaffer Click here to rate this tip | Printer friendly version Do you have a question for us? Ask it here! Android Text Response With Android 4.0, a new feature was introduced that provides an option to personally respond to an inconvenient phone call. Now, along with the choices available in earlier Android versions–answering calls directly, or sending them to voice mail–calls can also be replied to quickly with a text response. Fortunately, if your Android phone isn't built on the 4.0 operating system, recent updates may still include this feature. As it was in earlier versions, to speak to the caller, just slide the white receiver icon to the green receiver. Read the rest of this tip here! (Want these tips in their entirety? Sign up for Premium!) Sending Distribution Lists in Outlook You know that person who e-mails everything so efficiently using distribution lists? And… what are you doing? Choosing each person individually for each message you send? Maybe you're searching out a previously sent message that went to the right group of people, creating a forward message, clearing out the old content of the message and then composing the new e-mail? What a lot of work! 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Check it out - our May wallpaper is ready to go! Also, we've been choosing only horizontal images for the wallpaper, but I get SO MANY requests for some of the vertical shots to be wallpaper, I just had to go ahead and do it. So, give it a try and let me know what you think by posting on the blog entry for this idea (Click Here) As always, all the desktop wallpaper below is 100% free. 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) It can all be found here: http://www.backcountrygallery.com/wallpaper/ Enjoy! ~Steve

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