Category: COMPUTING

How to get spellcheck to work on draft posts

FROT January 23, 2016

WHERE IS MY SPELLCHECKER? – My spellcheck underlines were disappearing when I saved posts to draft. And there was no spellchecker ABC icon on my toolbar. It seems that the WordPress spellchecker used to be supplied by Google and they discontinued it. Luckily Jetpack can sort this out. How to fix – go to: Dashboard Jetpack Settings Tick “Spelling […]

OUR NEW FROT ICO

FROT January 19, 2016

THE FROT ICO The square profile basic image works well for a variety of uses, and has become popular because it works well on phones and is used by Instagram.  Sizes used on Instagram are explained here. This is my own Instagram gallery. The minimum size for an ICO is 512 x512 px, although on the browser toolbar […]

LINUX

FROT January 3, 2016

LINUX A n00b goes for a test drive This is a bunch of stuff I originally wrote in 2010, and Linux has moved on a bit, but many of the the points below are still current. Here is a great up to date summary Information wants to be free Sometimes Linux looks to me like […]

OUR NEW WORDPRESS WEBSITE

FROT January 1, 2016

WE HAVE GONE ALL WORDPRESS When we did our first website in 1998 we used FrontPage 98 and posted our pages on a Paradise Homepage. In 2004 we switched over to Dreamweaver MX2004 and moved our pages to Free Parking, where they have been ever since. We have long put off modernising, but in September […]