Slow Internet? Try Changing Your Domain Name Server (DNS) Addresses

May 22, 2009

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 Name Server) If you’re running a PC with Windows XP, I encourage you to check out a troubleshooting piece that [...]

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Make a Website, Changing the Look and Layout with a WordPress Theme

May 21, 2009

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 instantly begin posting content on the Web and establishing your own Internet [...]

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Make a Website, Starting with Bluehost

May 17, 2009

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 you down the middle of the road. This series assumes [...]

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Making and Managing a Website as a Blog

May 14, 2009

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 software (also called a blogging platform), make a few tweaks to the design, [...]

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YouTube Video Stops or Freezes

May 9, 2009

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 browsers store that often cause problems. That didn’t [...]

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Address Mailing Labels or Envelopes with Mail Merge

May 8, 2009

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 addresses from that [...]

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Converting Text to a Table for a Mail Merge

May 6, 2009

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 heard of this and saw the list, [...]

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Microsoft JScript Compilation Error: Expected ‘;’

May 4, 2009

If the Microsoft JScript Compilation Error Expected ‘;’ dialog box has popped up on your screen, don’t just cross your fingers and hope it goes away. It won’t. Even if you can perform the Java task you’re trying to complete, that nagging box is likely to pop up several more times during the process, requiring [...]

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WordPress… 4 Million Themes… Ugh!

April 26, 2009

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 you’re reading right now, for example, is [...]

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Backing Up Data the Easy Way

March 22, 2009

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 port on my computer. I have two computers, each [...]

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