by Joe Kraynak | May 22, 2009 | Broadband Internet, Troubleshooting
Many problems can cause a slow or unreliable Internet connection, including the following: Lousy Internet service Firewall or too many firewalls Defective Ethernet adapter Router problem Ethernet adapter speed setting Corrupted communications Overloaded DNS (Domain...
by Joe Kraynak | May 21, 2009 | Blogging, Website
In my previous post, “Make a Website, Starting with Bluehost,” I showed you how to sign up with Bluehost, register your own unique domain name, set up an email account on that domain, and install the WordPress blogging platform. With WordPress, you can...
by Joe Kraynak | May 17, 2009 | Blogging, Website
You can take several approaches to creating and managing your own site on the Internet, starting with low-end stuff like creating a free blog on WordPress.com to high-end stuff like hiring a professional designer to set up everything for you. In this series, I lead...
by Joe Kraynak | May 14, 2009 | Blogging, Website
Blogging software has become so sophisticated that most people no longer need complicated and expensive website creation and management tools to build and maintain a Web presence. In less than 30 minutes, you can register your own domain name, install the blogging...
by Joe Kraynak | May 9, 2009 | Troubleshooting, YouTube
Starting a few weeks ago, whenever I would try to play a YouTube video, it would play maybe a quarter to a third of the video, and then stop. Clicking my browser’s Refresh button didn’t help, so I tried clearing the cache – the temporary files Web...
by Joe Kraynak | May 8, 2009 | Mail Merge, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Word
In my previous post, “Converting Text to a Table for a Mail Merge,” I showed you how to transform a list of names and addresses into a Word table in preparation for a mail merge. In this post, I show you how to complete a mail merge to place the names and...
by Joe Kraynak | May 6, 2009 | Mail Merge, Microsoft Word
My wife came home from a high school reunion planning meeting with a list of addresses she was to send invitations to. During the meeting, the 150 addresses were divvied up among 5 people to reduce the workload of having to manually address so many envelopes. When I...
by Joe Kraynak | Apr 26, 2009 | Blogging
If you blog, you’ve probably heard of WordPress. It’s a blogging platform that makes it easy to post content on the Web. You just type your entry in a form, click the Publish button, and your entry appears on your blog (sort of like a Web site). What...
by Joe Kraynak | Mar 22, 2009 | Back up, Portable Computing
I always recommend that people back up the data on their computers, and now backing up has become easier than ever with the latest lines of portable hard drives. I recently purchased a Western Digital My Passport Essential portable drive that plugs into the USB 2.0...
by Joe Kraynak | Mar 9, 2009 | Email
I belong to a few advocacy groups run by well-meaning folks who are committed to spreading the message. Unfortunately, some of them are unaware of one of the first rules of e-mail etiquette – don’t pass along the email addresses of people you know to others...
