The tips system is a powerful tutorial system. You can click on the Fetch button and then get more tips from the Internet.
You can easily translate the tips, by using the Translate button. Note that from version 6.8.5.0 TAD can even translate the last seen status message. Just press Alt-F2 for that
In some rare situation; you could get a List out of bounds error with the tips.
The reason is as follows:
Say your copy of TAD had 15 tips; and then you reached the 15 tip inside that (i.e. the last tip). Then you quit and restarted the program; and again you fetched Fetch This time our server had only 12 tips. But the last tip available in your system was 15 – which now does not exists. Hence this error may come up.
The error is harmless, you can ignore it if it does turn up.