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- Can you help me with Microsoft Windows Shortcuts?
- Do you know any cheats/quick helpful tips for building websites in CSS?
- How can I use search engines to make my searches more specific?
- How do I create a favicon?
Can you help me with Microsoft Windows Shortcuts?
Open Windows Explorer - Windows Logo+E:
Minimize all your windows - Windows Logo+M
Open the Properties box - ALT+ENTER. Works well with Email applications.
Create a Shortcut - Press and hold down CTRL+SHIFT while you drag a file to the desktop or a folder.
Refresh the current window - F5.
Select All - CTRL+A
And here's the Windows Shortcuts cheat sheet.
Do you know any cheats/quick helpful tips for building websites in CSS?
Just take a look at this cheat sheet from our techies: CSS cheat sheet
How can I use search engines to make my searches more specific?
Here are five ways you can harness the power of Yahoo, MSN, Google and Ask Jeeves:
1. Search within a Site
On all four search engines, you can find information on a particular site using site:url followed by the search term.
E.g. site:ukfast.net "dedicated servers" will return all results from UKFast's web address for dedicated servers.
2. Link search
See which other sites are linking to a specific web address. The links returned may be different if you include the "www" or not.
Yahoo + Google: link:http://www.graphiterack.com OR link:http://graphiterack.
MSN Search: link:http://graphiterack.com OR link:http://www.graphiterack.
Ask Jeeves does not support this short cut.
3. Search within a date range
Narrow your search to a specific window of time, for info such as "UKFast ISPA" between Feb and March 2005.
Google: ukfast ispa daterange:200502-200503
Ask Jeeves: ukfast ispa betweendate:200502,200503
MSN: after searching, use the + Search Builder pull-down results ranking link.
Yahoo: The Yahoo Advanced page has a drop-down menu with four choices from "anytime" to "within the past three months."
4. Word definition
Find what something means fast.
Google: define:network
Yahoo: define network
Ask Jeeves: define: network
MSN Search: definition: network
5. Convert stuff:
Find out quickly what 45 degrees Celsius is in Fahrenheit.
Ask Jeeves and Yahoo: convert 45 Celsius to Fahrenheit
MSN Search and Google: 45 Celsius in Fahrenheit.
How do I create a favicon?
1. Create an image 16X16 pixels in size. It's small so you can't really draw much in it. You should also restrict yourself to the standard Windows 16 colours, although 256 colours should work fine.
It's good to also create a 32X32 pixel icon, which will be scaled to size for the Favorites menu and the location bar. You can even put both 16X16 and 32X32 pixel icons into the same icon file. Systems like Windows will use the former for its menus and the latter when the user opens up a folder that is set to display large icons.
2. Save the image as an ICO file (named "favicon.ico", of course).
3. Upload it to your Website. It's best to put it in your root directory and Browsers will apparently locate it eventually. You can also upload it into your images directory, but you will need to modify your Web pages if you do.
4. If you have placed your favicon.ico file in a location other than the current Web directory (relative to your web page) or the root directory, you have to help your visitors' browser locate the favicon file by specifying it with a tag like the following in the
You should replace "/favicon.ico" in the above example with the actual location of your favicon.ico file, for example, "/images/favicon.ico" if you have placed it in your "/images/" directory.
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