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6. July 2010

How to Enable Comments on Blogger Pages

Blogger now affords bloggers the ability to incorporate “pages” into their blogs. Pages is a WordPress-type feature that lets you create static or “stand-alone” pages. You can link these special pages (such as your profile, resources, etc) from the home page of your blog. If you look at the header of this blog, you can [...]

24. June 2010

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How to Publish Your Blog to Amazon Kindle

I am frequently asked by other bloggers how to publish a blog to Kindle. I’ve written numerous emails and a few guest articles on it– but to keep things nice and simple, I’ll also post a visually-rich tutorial here. I hope it is useful to you. Amazon.com offers a terrific service to blog writers: have [...]

16. June 2010

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How to Install New Fonts to Your Computer

A computer font is a typeface, a style of text that displays on your computer. Most computers are equipped with the very basic font sets: Arial, Georgia, Trebuchet, Times New Roman, MS Sans Serif, and etc. But if you are looking for more options and better style, you can download new fonts from the Internet. [...]

9. June 2010

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More of the Best Other Free Software Programs

I am a bit of a software addict. I love downloading new “toys” to play with and discovering new and efficient ways to do things on the computer. Since so many of you like my previous post, The Ten Best OTHER Free Software Programs, I’m doing it again. Fences This is an incredibly classy and [...]

4. May 2010

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How to Connect a Netbook and Computer With a Crossover Cable

Netbooks are wonderful little gadgets. They are truly like an electronic notebook, perfect for travel or quick work while away from the main desktop computer. However, anyone with a netbook will soon realize that the CD/DVD drive is woefully absent. Adding a disc drive would add bulk to the netbook, making it less portable. It [...]

3. May 2010

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What Is a “Feed” and How Do I Find It?

A “feed” is, at it’s most basic, syndicated web content. The most common type of feed is the RSS (Really Simple Syndication). Atom is another format of feed. The RSS feed symbol is commonly displayed as a little orange boxed icon with white stripes. Graphic artists have become very creative with the symbol, and have [...]

29. April 2010

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How To Clean a Computer Keyboard

Keyboards take a beating; at least, mine does. Between my incessant daily pounding of the keys, the cat walking across the board, and the daily doses of dust (my house is very dusty) and extraneous lunch menu crumbs– it’s a wonder that my poor keyboard still works as well as it does. One of the [...]

28. April 2010

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How to Auto Publish Your Blogger Blog to Twitter

Despite the vast intellectual wasteland that is Twitter, there are gems to be discovered from time to time. Twitter is touted as a social networking site, but it has quickly morphed into a business networking site, because it is so popular with businesses (and pro-bloggers) as a way to get word out about their websites [...]

25. April 2010

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How to Reduce Photos With Irfanview

Most digital cameras take photos in very large sizes. This can easily eat up your computer’s hard drive space over time, not to mention make it impossible to email or upload to a photo-sharing website. You can reduce these photos with a very handy little program called Irfanview. Irfanview is a terrific photo-editing program, able [...]