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...
