It's the Simple Things

It’s the simple things we don’t know about that make like so much easier.

How many times has someone told you, or you have told someone else, how to do something on the computer and it has totally changed things and made it so much simpler.  Not only on computers, but other things in life too.  We sometimes do things the hard way because no-one has ever shown us or told us about a different easier way.

We work on computers all the time and often have no idea that there is something we have just never know we could do.

I came upon this about a week ago when I was complaining about how long it took me to check out new people who had circled me on Google+.  Then someone just happened to mention that they open each one in a new link.  Durgh – why had I never thought of that???!!!  Actually I had no idea you could do that – you certainly couldn’t on my old system before I started using Google Chrome recently.  I obviously knew that when you click on some things they open themselves in a new link but I didn’t know you could right click and open them yourselves in a new link without losing the old link.  Now it is just so much easier to look at lots of things by using this method.  The photos, for instance.  Before when I looked at photos I lost my place in the stream when I went back as it took me to the top again – now I can open a new link and then look at them straight away or later if the stream is moving fast.

The times I have seen other people doing something the hard way (or long way) and have shown them something I do which is much easier.  We all know different things and I am sure we could all learn the odd thing or two from someone else, who is not necessarily any more experienced than you but has just found an alternative way.  Then of course, there is the fact that if you don’t use something very often you forget how to use it.

We learn new things all the time and we never stop learning.

Today’s trivia snippet:

Owls are the only birds who can see the colour blue.

Today’s chuckle:

CATHOLIC ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEST ANSWERS

IN THE FIRST BOOK OF THE BIBLE, GUINESSIS, GOD GOT TIRED OF CREATING THE WORLD SO HE TOOK THE SABBATH OFF.

ADAM AND EVE WERE CREATED FROM AN APPLE TREE. NOAH'S WIFE WAS JOAN OF ARK. NOAH BUILT AN ARK AND THE ANIMALS CAME ON IN PEARS.

LOTS WIFE WAS A PILLAR OF SALT DURING THE DAY, BUT A BALL OF FIRE DURING THE NIGHT.