Friday, October 24, 2008

Cool Photoshop Tips

I like this site. Click here.

Impress your friends #1 - Keyboard Shortcuts

It's no secret that using keyboard shortcuts saves time.  Personally, I try to eliminate the movements of my mouse as much as possible. Shortcuts are most valuable in advanced applications like Photoshop and Sony Vegas Studio. 

If you got to Help, you can find shortcuts there.  Here's one for Photoshop:

How Google works

I found a well explained document on how Google works.

Thursday, October 23, 2008

Print Queue

Just a reminder.  Before your job actually goes to the printer for printing, it goes to something called a Print Queue...or line...managed by a Print Server.  Since we have several printers shared by at least 240 of us in the Middle School, we need to have somthing manage it all.

Now, if you go to the selected printer to get your work and it's not there, it's probably due to one of the following:

  1. The printer is off
  2. Out of paper
  3. Out of ink
DO NOT PRINT IT AGAIN! THE SERVER KNOWS THE SITUATION AND WILL PRINT IT WHEN THE PROBLEM WITH THE PRINTER IS RESOLVED.

The amount of wasted paper from duplicate printing is huge. It needs to be stopped. 

Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Logging Off

Please make sure to close all programs before logging off. Sometimes Windows can't close everything for you when you hit the log off button. If you walked away thinking it did, you're probably still logged on.


Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Print Preview
If you really want to save paper, use Print Preview before printing. It's available in all programs. 

Laptops
Some of the laptops do not have MSLABColor added. I'll try to get to all of them today. Please make sure by going into Settings>Printers. See me if you have any problems with this.

NetClassroom
If your password (and username) are hard to remember, I would suggest writing them to yourself in an email.