You can’t change Edge’s “new tab” search engine away from Microsoft’s Bing Well, that’s not completely true. You can change the default search engine that is invoked when you type your search term into the address bar, but you can’t change the default search engine that is invoked when you use the search box in …
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Deleting browser data upon exit
Chrome may no longer be deleting data when you close the browser I’m sure that there used to be a setting in Chrome that was relatively easy to find for deleting browser data when closing the browser. It’s just taken me fifteen minutes to find where they’ve now buried this setting. If you …
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Autocorrect – more tricks
You can do more with autocorrect than just correct spelling and type fancy characters In my blog post of 17/11/2023, I covered “re-setting Word options”. This included setting up your own autocorrect options so that, for instance, “thier” would automatically be changed to “their” every time you mis-type it. Let’s be clear that this is …
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A Conversation with Bard
One of Microsoft’s least endearing habits is re-setting “options” after installing updates Every now and again I get a phone call or email from a particular client telling me that Microsoft has done it again. It has installed an update and now Word has gone back to automatically starting sentences with a capital letter, and …
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Predictive typing in Word and Windows (10 & 11)
Do you remember the good old days of the Microsoft “Clippy” character in Microsoft Word? If you started to create a document that looked anything like a letter then it popped up a totally useless box with a totally fatuous and infantile piece of clipart, and a caption saying “It looks like you’re writing a …
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Drawing a range circle on a Google map
You can’t do this directly in Google Maps You would expect to be able to draw a circle around a point in a Google map, but you can’t. Every now and then, you might want to draw a circle of a specific radius from a given point. You can mark the distance between two points …
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Trusteer Rapport – more trouble than it’s worth?
A security tool that your bank may be encouraging you to use may be giving you grief Trusteer Rapport (which is installed on your computer under the name of “Trusteer Endpoint Protection”) is a piece of security software from IBM that is intended to make your online banking safer by spotting fake banking websites, …
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