Category: Tips

10 things to consider before emailing

| December 21, 2008 | 2 Comments

I get a lot of email. on a typical day I get no less than 100 different emails. Hating a cluttered inbox, I try to go through them and handle them appropriately right away. More than a few things aren’t relevant to me or annoy me so much that I just delete them. Here’s some [...]

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6 tips to getting your new blog indexed quickly in search engines

| September 6, 2008 | 10 Comments

If you have a new blog and you want people to find you when they search Google, you’ll need to get indexed quickly. Otherwise, indexing can take a while. Here are some different ways to getting your site indexed. If you use Google webmaster tools, submit a sitemap. Use the “add url” page on Google, [...]

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How to insert random text in Office documents

| June 17, 2008 | 0 Comments

Have you ever been writing something or working on a website and wondered what the finished results would look like complete with text? If you use Microsoft Office you don’t have to wonder. There’s a way you can enter “dummy text” effortlessly. It’s great if you’re working on a newsletter. Depending on which version of [...]

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How to keep up with your WordPress plugins

| April 20, 2008 | 0 Comments

Have you ever gone into the plugins section of your WordPress dashboard only to see that several of your WordPress plugins have been updated? They don’t appear in the dashboard tab to see when you first log in, which I think would be really helpful. So, in order to keep up with my plugins I [...]

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Do you use shortcuts?

| December 15, 2007 | 0 Comments

Three coworkers at my last job always marveled at how fast I got some things done at work. One day one was at my desk so I could show her something and she saw me use control-v and expressed amazement. That’s when I realized that even though some people use computers on a daily basis [...]

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Is your computer a pain?

| October 5, 2007 | 0 Comments

Do you start to feel uncomfortable when you’ve been at the computer for a while? Your desk may not be ergonomically correct. I had carpal tunnel and had to have it surgically corrected, and it isn’t something I recommend as a fun time. So if you’re having any issues such as pain, numbess, tingling, cramping, [...]

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