Hello all, Aunt Digi here
again,
Well the weather is getting
so spring-like at the moment you could almost
forget about winter where Digi lives. With the
spring comes the time for spring-cleaning.
Clearing away all the cobwebs and dust of winter
and getting straight for the better weather.
Digitally speaking of course that can mean
tidying up the files on your hard drive. Backing
up those precious files, deleting those half
finished projects you know are just not right in
favor of starting afresh.
Do you have backup problems?
Lose precious files? Have duplicate files? Well
Digi has some neat little tricks for helping you
sort those problems out.
Have you got a catalogue of
all your jpegs, pngs, giffs etc., Well I know a
lot of you are running ACDSee, but did you know
if you haven’t got it you can download Picassa
from Google and from there catalogue all your
files? Oh yes, not just a browser for photos.
You can view and make new folders from your
picture files, label them, keep them stored in
more than one function. Look them up as pngs,
look them as jpegs, by name, date, and other
criteria you find helpful. Set it up properly
and you can have it doing the work for you as
you download your piccies.
Now Digi is going to make
sure that one of the girls here gets onto doing
a nice little tutorial on using and making the
best of Picassa for your scrapbooking. So look
out for it next month.
Another must when cleaning up
your files on your hard drive is to back up the
precious ones to disc. Even if you back up to an
external hard drive always backup to disc for a
permanent copy of your work and photos. Hard
drives break down, get broken, tripped over,
dropped, spilled upon and generally knocked
around. Hard drives have little or no capacity
to look after themselves. Whilst good old cd’s
or DVD’s are more or less there for keeps. Just
don’t get them near a magnet including those in
your speakers!!!!
So short and sweet this month girls, but Digi is
busy with a featherduster and mop in this
spring-like weather(digitally speaking) So speak
very soon.
