 3 Basic Tips for More Efficient Computing
Introduction
This article will seek to remind web developers of three basic computing
tips that are sometimes overlooked when working on the computer. The
three tips which can make working on the computer more efficient are:
- creating shortcuts of folders/files to the computer's desktop area
- bookmarking frequently visited sites and organizing them into folders
- creating a number of needed browser tabs and saving them for the
next computer session
The first tip relates to web development work offline, while the last
two relates to work online. Using these three basic tips can save us
time, energy, and money.
Desktop shortcuts
We usually have folders and files in our hard disk drive or removable
disks (like flash drives or memory cards) that we return to often for
editing and updating. Instead of going through the procedures of -
opening a disk, searching among its folders, and then zeroing in on
the file that we need - we can instead create a shortcut to that file
in the desktop area of our computer. The process to complete this
in Windows OS is as follows:
- open the hard disk or removable disk
- search for the folder that contains the file needed
- open the folder
- search for the file that is needed
- once found, click on the file once
- then while the cursor is on the file, right-click your mouse
- move cursor to "send to desktop (create shortcut)"
- click and see if the shortcut to the file appears on the
desktop area of your computer
You can use this procedure not only for files, but also for programs
and folders. Once your desktop area is populated with shortcuts, you
can then organize them neatly by dragging the shortcut images with
the mouse.
Saving and organizing bookmarks
When working online on the computer, we have sites that we need to
revisit often. To save on time, instead of typing the URL of the
web site in the address bar of the browser, we can bookmark this site
(and all our other sites that we work on for our daily computing).
Browsers usually have an "add bookmark" or "add to favorites"
feature that will save the page of the site for us. Once we have
collected quite a number of saved bookmarks, we can then organize
them into folders through the "organize bookmarks" feature of our
browser. There is a "create folder" feature in which we can use
the category names we want for our bookmark folders. In Internet
Explorer 8, you need to use the "move to folder" feature to move
a saved bookmark into its respective folder category.
As we go on in our web development work, it is common to discover
new sites that can help us progress in our work. So we need to
bookmark all these new sites and organize them by moving them into
the folders we have categorized. If you want to save all these
bookmarks into one HTML file, browsers usually have an "export
bookmark" feature which can save your organized system of bookmarks
as an .htm or .html file (bookmark.htm or bookmark.html). This can
come in very handy when you want
to use another browser. You can "import" this bookmark file in
another browser so that you can work in the same organized system
as you did with your original browser.
Once a week, it is good to update your .htm/.html bookmark file.
This ensures that any new web sites that have been integrated
in our organized bookmark system will also be saved. Updating
this file simply requires using the "export" feature again and
then replace the saved "bookmark.html" file.
Creating browser tabs and saving them
Another basic tip to use for ease of work in the computer, is to create
browser tabs that we need for every computer session. When we finish
a computer session, some browsers ask you if you want to save the tabs
for that session. Always click "yes", as this can save us time in
creating new browser tabs again for the next computer session. In
Internet Explorer 8, to create a New Tab, all you need to do is to
click on that empty tab space next to the default browser tab. After
you have created all the browser tabs you need, IE 8 asks you if you
want to close all the tabs. Click "yes" because the tabs are automatically
saved for the next computer session. When you open IE 8 again and the
default page appears, click on a "New Tab", and then move your cursor
to "Reopen Last Browsing Session". Clicking on this link will add again
all the browser tabs you have used in your last computer session.
Summary and conclusions
These three basic tips are valuable but in our web development work,
we sometimes overlook its usefulness. But employing these tips in
our computer work will lessen work procedures, save us more time,
and eventually delay the depreciation of our computer system - making
it work longer for us and save us money.
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