It fixes many software and hardware problems on your computer. But don't just do a restart...power completely down and leave it off for 30-45 seconds. Something else I learned yesterday...My cell phone had kind of locked up...I shut it off and turned it on again, but it was still frozen....so I took the battery out and left it out for about a minute, and when I started it back up every thing worked fine.

Sleep is the best reboot!

Picasa2 is a free picture editing and storing program from the folks at Google. You can download it from here, and it will look for any pictures on your computer and put them in date order. You can also edit and put a caption on each picture and put them in different albums if you choose. The other nice part of this program, is that they will give you 1 Gig of web space to post your pictures. That is thousands of pictures!!! You can buy more space if you need it and they are so easy to upload. You can have public albums and unlisted albums. If you want to share an unlisted album, you just copy and paste the URL and send it in an e-mail to the person that you want to shre it with. This is the ONLY way to share pictures! No more e-mailing 25 pictures at a time, just send the URL and let them download the ones that they want!

I have decided that if I want anyone to even check this site at all I have to talk about something other than what I did today. SO, this blog will be about computer tips and websites that I have found helpful and/or interesting. The first one came from my cousin Chris Bertelson (Bertelson family Microsoft Guru). If you are like me at work, you may have a dozen or more windows open on your computer screen, and you need to get to get to the desktop. The easy way to do that  is to hold down on the Windows key, and hit the D key. That will instantly minimize all of your windows and leave you with just the desktop.

Thanks Chris!