Using background images for web pages is something most people do not know how to do correctly. Typically most will use an image that is not suitable for the text on the web page, as some parts of the image will be light and others dark. In addition, the image looks terrible tiled. A small tiled image is by far the best thing to use if you want a background...

One of the lesser known – but very handy – features of Windows XP is the ability to select multiple separate running applications in the taskbar as a group, then using the right-click context menu to do things you more or less can’t do anywhere else. To select running apps in the taskbar, you click the first one so it’s...