Archive for September, 2008

How do you structure a blog post? I often do it in the same way I wrote essays throughout high school. You can blog faster and more effectively when your posts follow a well-defined structure. One such structure that I frequently use when blogging is the essay structure. Don’t let the word essay fool you — [...]

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Almost anyone who starts a web site (including bloggers) will eventually look into methods of growing traffic levels. The desire to get people to visit a site has spawned an entire industry — there are countless blogs, message forums, books, e-books, podcasts, and conferences focusing on the challenge of promoting a web site. But before [...]

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How to fight ISP bandwidth caps Watch Out for Advertisements Disguised as Windows Dialog Boxes Watch TV On Your PC and Windows Mobile Phone with TVU Player Increase Your Mac Trackpad Efficiency Microsoft Pro Photo Tools Gets An Upgrade

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You may have seen our tutorial on transferring files over a network with OS X 10.4 Tiger… if you use Leopard, exchanging files between two Macs on a network is even easier. OS X 10.5 Leopard puts shortcuts to shared items right in the Finder’s sidebar. 1. Open the Finder Open up a Finder window and look [...]

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How do I copy files between two Macs with Tiger? You can use the “Network” portion of the Finder to connect to another Mac over your network and share files using OS X 10.4. 1. Browse to “Network” Pop open a Finder window, and click on “Network” (which is usually at the top of the left-hand sidebar). Give [...]

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In computer terminology NAS means Network Attached Storage, and is the name for a computer system that provides data storage services to other computers on a network. A NAS is a device set up on a network whose purpose is to store files. Other computers on the network — client machines — connect to the NAS [...]

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“Comcast: “The Patriot Act” Mandates We Need Your SSN” from consumer affairs blog The Consumerist tells the story of Ryan, a person who was refused a new account by a Comcast representative because he would not disclose his social security number. In reality, you are not required to supply your social security number in order [...]

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The simplest way to put it: a Wiki is a web page or pages that can be edited by anyone. A wiki develops its content by allowing many different people to collaborate on the writing and editorial process. Wikis are powered by special wiki software that implements the unique editing capabilities of a wiki. Some of [...]

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Printer-friendly web pages, which present content that is structured specifically for being printed on paper, are a breeze to implement with Cascading Style Sheets. By utilizing CSS to style your content for printer output, you can avoid having to create duplicate versions of all the content on your site. A main tenet of web standards is [...]

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You may have seen stop motion videos on photo and video sharing sites like Flickr and YouTube — the herky-jerky movies made from a series of photos taken with a still camera. If you have a Mac, then you have all of the software tools necessary to make a stop-motion video. The process is extremely [...]

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