टिप्स बॉक्स से: आईपैड डिजिटल पिक्चर फ्रेम, सीडी स्पिंडल केबल रैंगलिंग, और एमएस एप्स में यूआरएल खोलना

I’ve had an iPad for a few months now and every day when I’d plug it in to charge and sync I’d just leave it propped up on its little stand, lock screen staring at me. One day I noticed (why I had never noticed this before I have no idea!) a little flower icon right next to the unlock band on the bottom of the screen. I tapped it to see what would happen and suddenly the iPad was a digital picture frame, displaying all the photos in the media folder. I feel like a total idiot for both not knowing the iPad had this feature and for not even noticing the little flower icon before now. When I plug my iPad in to charge now, I can see slideshows of my favorite photos instead of a static lock screen wallpaper!

I work in a small IT department and we’re up to our necks in cables of all sorts. We’ve tried various solutions over the years but all of them have been lacking: wrapping cables like Indiana Jones was fun and geeky but a bit of a time waster, putting them in plastic bags was tedious and wasteful, and using wire tires was just a pain in the ass. Somebody in our group had the idea to start recycling the piles of CD spindles we were tossing out every month as cable caddies. They’re perfect for the job. You just open the case, coil the cable inside, and close it. They’re clear, they’re sturdy and stack well, and they contain the cables without wrapping them too tight and stressing the connections and wires.

I have just discovered that to open a link in a Word document I can hold down CTRL and click the link. Is this something new in Windows 7 or am I just behind the eight ball?