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How to Create an Email Signature with Image
In a previous post, I showed you how to create a signature in Windows Mail. Adding an image to an email signature is a little trickier as it requires a little html editing. By far, the best tutorial I have ever seen is one done by Rich Menga. I suppose I could spend hours and [...]
Continue reading...How to Remove Someone From Your Twitter List
10. November 2011
Twitter is pretty simple but sometimes they roll out some changes and features that are very confusing. For example, it’s so easy to create a list and add a person you follow to a list. Let’s say you have a mixed bag of people you follow– friends, business associates, local businesses and news organizations. You [...]
Continue reading...Fix: Google Earth Won’t Install
3. October 2011
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I’m not sure why some users are experiencing this problem: you download Google Earth, install the program, and…. nothing happens. The program application icon does not appear in the Start Menu. It’s not on the Desktop. Nothing. What gives? This happened to me last week. I downloaded Google Earth twice before I did some digging [...]
Continue reading...How to View Email Headers in Microsoft Outlook 2010
4. July 2011
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Microsoft completely changed their premier email client, Outlook, with their release of Outlook 2010. Rather than using their familiar “menu bar” interface of previous versions, Microsoft developed a new interface they called a “ribbon.” They assumed that everyone would love this new “ribbon” which supposedly made it easier to see all your choices at the [...]
Continue reading...Free Fonts
26. May 2011
Oh how I love fonts! It’s especially nice when they are free! I recently downloaded an entire caseload of free fonts, so I thought I’d share my resources. Here are where I get some of my favorite fonts: Smashing Magazine regularly releases information and screenshots of zillions and zillions of fonts. Many are free. Simply [...]
Continue reading...Viewing a Website’s Page Source Data
3. March 2011
You can learn a lot from a website’s page source data. Let’s say they have a very cool plugin and you want to know what it is! Check the page source data. Let’s say you want to know what blog theme they are using, or their website has a phenomenal photo or template color that [...]
Continue reading...How to Prevent Popups in Internet Explorer
24. February 2011
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Browser popups are much more than annoying. Popups are a security threat. Whenever you go on the Internet, an exchange of information is relayed between your computer and the website’s server computer (and sometimes through a number of other server computers along the way) through open doors called “ports.” Internet Explorer opens certain ports to [...]
Continue reading...How to Protect Your Facebook Account
8. February 2011
Face it, Facebookers, there is no such thing as privacy on Facebook. Problems with Facebook: 1. They sell your personal information, and you have no control over who gets it. According to CBS News, Facebook sells your information to third party vendors, such as marketers and advertisers. This policy seems to change from time to [...]
Continue reading...How to Flush Your Computer’s DNS Cache
3. February 2011
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Short version: Start > Run > cmd > ipconfig /flushdns > Enter. Long version: DNS stands for Domain Name Server. It’s an alphabetical value to a numerical string of numbers (namely, IP numbers). Every website– every computer device– is assigned an Internet Protocol (IP) number. The Domain Name Server serves the alphabetical domain name to [...]
Continue reading...How to Embed a Google Map in Your Website or Blog
17. January 2011
I love Google maps. While I’m not a big fan of the company (too big for their britches), I love what they’ve done with geography. One of their best inventions yet is Google Maps. The kids and I love playing with Google Earth and Google maps. Ever see Google Earth on a big computer monitor [...]
Continue reading...How to Convert HTML to WordPress PHP
17. January 2011
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HTML is a type or language, or code, used to create static website pages. PHP is another “language” used by the WordPress blogging platform. You can convert an HTML theme to PHP, and it’s not that difficult. Instead of regurgitating a tutorial, I’m going to send you to a very helpful website, The Theme Foundry, [...]
Continue reading...How to Manage Flash Cookies on Your Computer
16. January 2011
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Ever hear of browser cookies? If you’ve been on the computer and Internet for a while, you’ve probably heard of them. Cookies are small files on your machine, placed there by the websites you visit. When you visit a website, an exchange of information ensues between your computer browser and the web server software. In [...]
Continue reading...How To Delete Browser Cookies
15. January 2011
Cookies. We love them and we hate them (well, I do), especially with milk. Ha ha! Seriously, cookies (as far as computing goes) are small text files placed on your computer by the websites that you visit. Cookies contain information such as website name, date and duration of visit, and other extraneous stuff. Not very [...]
Continue reading...How to Secure Your Wireless Network, Part 1
26. November 2010
Without a doubt, a wired network is better than a wireless network. A wired network gives you an advantage over wireless in that your computer information and activity isn’t spewed into the air, ready to be captured and used by a hacker. But wireless is terribly convenient, and therefore the convenience outweighs the risks. It [...]
Continue reading...How To Take Screenshots
18. November 2010
At some time or another, you may need to take a screenshot of your computer screen. It can be an image of your desktop, your computer folder, your browser website, whatever. It can be very helpful for when you are submitting your blog to a blog community (sometimes you have to submit your own images) [...]
Continue reading...How to Choose a Digital Camera
15. October 2010
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One of the greatest modern inventions of our technological times is, in my opinion, the digital camera. How I used to labor over the old film-loading cameras! And what if I accidentally opened the case, exposing the camera! And oh, the expense of developing the film (if I remembered to do it!)! I got my [...]
Continue reading...How to Publish Your Blog to Amazon Kindle
24. June 2010
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 [...]
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