5 Tools You Must Have to Take Care of Mom’s Computer

by Bill on November 26, 2009

Today is Thanksgiving 2009 and some folks celebrate at mom’s house.  Many people support their parents or siblings computers and today is a day to take the time and update, enhance and in general make YOUR life easier when you have to provide support.

So here are 5 things you can do to provide quick and easy support to your [...]

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How To Automatically Shut Down Your Windows 7 Computer

by Bill on July 18, 2009

Well, here we go again.  In addition to my How To Automatically Shut Down Your Windows XP Computer I showed how to set it up so you can use the ShutDown.exe command to schedule and automatically shut your Windows XP computer off. In my How To Automatically Shut Down Your Windows Vista Computer we stepped through the same idea.  [...]

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The 2009 Mother’s Day Contest

April 30, 2009

This contest is now over and thanx to all who participated.
Hey folks. I’m running a contest over at DailyTwiTip.com. I’m giving away a flip minoHD camcorder valued at $229.00 or a $225.00 gift card to buy.com (winner’s choice).
I’m trying to get past the 2,000 followers mark by Monday, 5/4/09 at 10:00pm United States [...]

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How To Create An Addon Domain

November 12, 2008

When you sign up for your own web hosting account you typically receive x number of free additional domains.  This means you can host other websites (domains) on your one web hosting account.  These are called Addon Domains or Sub Domains.  We’ll be discussing Addon Domains for this post.
For example, with my HostGator account I [...]

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An Introduction To DotNetNuke

November 11, 2008

DotNetNuke is a Content Management System or CMS. It is written in the Microsoft Visual Basic .NET programming language.
A Content Management System allows you to get a professional website up and running quickly.  It provides functionality to easily manage the users of a website, the content, design aspects, and many other attributes of a [...]

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10 Social Media Resource Tweets

November 1, 2008

Here are 10 tweets from Twitter on Social Media including statistics, links, tools, people and opinions.
1. Report: Social Web Usage Tipped in 2008 by ReadWriteWeb in care of a tweet by lizstrauss
2. Social Media Now 10.31.08 by Social Media Club in care of a tweet by jfouts
3. 10 of the Best Social Media Tools for [...]

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An Introduction To The Loop Structure – Everyone’s A Bit Loopy

October 30, 2008

Loops are things in programming languages and operating systems that process stuff. Loops do what they sound like. If you were to run around in circles you are also looping around in a circle. So, if you can imagine running around in circles in the same spot, you have the ability to [...]

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Thesis Theme 1.3 for WordPress

October 29, 2008

Hey, it’s WordPress Wednesday and I got more on the Thesis Theme for WordPress.  Now, I’m not trying to stick to a strict editorial schedule but since it’s Wednesday and I’m trying to update my Thesis theme I thought I’d write about it.
Shortly after I talked about some of the stuff I would like to [...]

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Windows Vista Search – Getting To Know You – Part 1

October 28, 2008

Searching Windows Vista begins with the Start Search box located on the start menu.  This little search box is pretty powerful.  Working in Windows Vista recently, I found myself paying more attention to the Start Search on the Start menu.
The Start menu search box offers fast results by returning categorized, matching results as you type.  [...]

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Thesis Theme 1.2 for WordPress

October 20, 2008

The WordPress Thesis theme is now at version 1.2 and there are a few changes as well as a bit of an overhaul in the plumbing – the guts of the theme.
While upgrading, if you follow the instructions by renaming your current thesis theme folder to something like thesis-old and then copy over the new [...]

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