The Older Geek

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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) [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

eBooks are hot right now, and it’s no wonder. They are incredibly convenient: you can load your favorite eBook into your favorite eBook reader (whether it be a SONY Reader, a Kindle, an iPod, a netbook, or anything) and take it with you anywhere. Most eBooks are in PDF form. PDF stands for Portable Document [...]

StumbleUpon is a website/community that allows you to share and discover new websites. It was started up in 2001, purchased by eBay in 2007, and then sold again. It’s now privately-owned. StumbleUpon is very popular among bloggers; getting a blog post “stumbled” can increase traffic exponentially. I have had blog posts receive upwards of 10,000 [...]

If you work at the computer all day, as I do, you learn very quickly how tiresome all the billions of hand movements can be. It becomes a chore to move from the keyboard to the mouse to the keyboard and back again. Ugh! I am a big fan of keyboard shortcuts, especially for the [...]