Category: Fun
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FreeRice
The presents have been opened. Christmas dinner is eaten. You’ve taken a walk along the Ridgeway or up Yew Hill. Now the night is drawing in, but you don’t want the day to end. An idea hits you. You install the Freerice app. You open it and see: You click “merry” (well, it is Christmas!)…
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Copy Me That
When I started writing this in February, I thought it was quite niche. But when restaurants and pubs closed because of Covid-19, home cooking became the new eating out and it’s now surprisingly relevant. I’ve always been a keen cook and have a shelf of recipe books, a box full of recipes ripped from magazines…
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A knowledge of fonts
As well as being Winchester Computer Tutor, since the spring I’ve been the editor of a local newsletter, the Badger Farm and Oliver’s Battery Community News. I’ve enjoyed redesigning the newsletter and when setting up my first edition I took a long time choosing the fonts. Font choice is like housework – no-one notices when you do a…
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Summer snaps
Summer means holidays. Holidays mean photographs. Lots and lots of photographs. If you’re like me, when you get home and go through them, you’ll find a few that you want to do more with. Or one special one that would make a perfect painting, but you just don’t have the artistic skills. And if you’re…
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An art gallery on your desktop
A picture can inspire, can calm or can amuse. And if you spend many hours in front of your computer, what better showcase for the pictures you love than your desktop? Fortunately, Windows makes it really easy to create your own exhibition. Here’s how! The first thing to do is create a folder for your…