Category: Download
What seek and find computer games do you recommend?
Fellow blogger Skeet recently wrote about hidden objects games. I was familiar with the concept because my oldest son has a book full of pages with hidden objects. But I’d never played one on the computer and gone against time. After reading her post I was curious, so I found one that looked good. I [...]
Do you follow? I do follow.
This blog does follow. Are you wondering what following means? It has to do with – you guess it – links. Comment spam is a nasty problem that bloggers deal with. No follow means that a link in a comment shouldn’t be trusted, so it isn’t counted as a backlink. Now I write my blogs [...]
SearchStatus Firefox add-on tells you more than rank
I am continuing to go through the helpful add-ons I’m using for the Firefox browser. The one I am writing about today does a lot. By that, I mean it really does A LOT. When installed, this add-on (located at https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/321) displays the Google PageRank and Alexa rank, highlights keywords and no follow links, includes [...]
Firefox add-on for website translation
There have been several times that I came across a website that was not in English. Now I took French, German and Latin in high school and college but that was a long time ago and I’ve forgotten far more than I remember. Today I got an offer to trade links. It was a PR5 [...]
Nice Firefox add-on for handling links
I am on the internet a lot. There have been more than a few times where I saw a group of links I was interested in and it took me forever to get them all open. With Firefox this is no longer an issue. I am using a Firefox add-on called Linky. It can be [...]
Pixel Pick, a free color coding tool
Did you ever want to use a certain color that you saw on your monitor but couldn’t figure out the color code? It’s happened to me more than a few times. What can you do about it? Get Pixel Pick. Pixel Pick is a simple free program that will tell you the color code of [...]
How to install WordPress using cpanel 11 on your own domain
This tutorial presumes you have never installed WordPress before on your own domain. This tutorial is written for those whose hosting includes cpanel. This is not the only way to install WordPress but it is how an easy way to do it and it’s how I’ve done it every time. First decide if you want [...]
How to install Firefox
In the past few weeks besides switching from Outlook to Thunderbird I also switched from Internet Explorer to Firefox. Surfing the web has gone a lot more smoothly since then. Firefox is an open source internet browser. It’s free. It will run on Windows, Mac and Linux. It behaves differently than Explorer in a couple [...]
How to switch from Outlook to Thunderbird
Since installing Thunderbird and not using Outlook and Outlook Express a couple of weeks ago, my computer has behaved a lot better. Thunderbird is an open source email client and it runs on Windows and Mac. If you’re interested in switching to Thunderbird, for whatever reason, here’s the instructions on how to get it going. [...]
How do you unzip?
How do you unzip zipped files? Like many people you might use Winzip. Wizip is shareware, meaning if you’re going to use it you’re supposed to send in some money. Mind you winzip still works if you don’t pay, it just takes a long time to open (basically it counts to 150). I used to [...]
