Google Plus

There’s a lot going on with Google+ and I’ve written a short guide (pdf) called Getting Started with Google+.  It’s a fast track to help you start using Google+. The guide is 8 pages long and includes some powerful tips, tricks and tools.  I skip through some of the basics like how to upload a [...]

Bill on August 15, 2011 in Promotions | Continue Reading...

Dual Boot Mac and Windows

I recently installed Windows XP on a Macbook Pro running Mac OS X Snow Leopard 10.6.6. Here’s my experience, why I did it and what you can expect when doing something like this. Running Windows on a Macbook Pro Yes, you can run Windows XP on a Macbook Pro.  You can also run Windows 7 [...]

Bill on September 1, 2011 in Apple Mac | Continue Reading...

Smartphone Apps

Continuing on from part one of my favorite Android Mobile Apps here are 10 more apps on my Droid X that I hope you find useful and entertaining. 1. Spread The News – I’ve become fascinated with Pulse.me because I can tailor it to the news I want to read and easily share.  Pulse.me streams [...]

Bill on July 18, 2011 in Mobile Phones | Continue Reading...

Android

I’ve been using the Motorola Droid X phone for a few months now. It’s powered by Google’s Android Operating System. Like the Apple iPhone, the Android app market is huge, providing every kind of app you would want, some free and some paid. But for now, here are just a few apps that are on [...]

Bill on June 10, 2011 in Mobile Phones | Continue Reading...

Here are five favorite websites and/or tools you can check out for this weekend.  I hope they enhance your web explorations.  Whether old or new these are some of my faves that I came across this past week. 1. FFixer FFixer is a customizable script that enhances your Facebook experience using Firefox or Google Chrome [...]

Bill on April 23, 2010 in Links | Continue Reading...

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 [...]

Bill on November 26, 2009 in PC Maintenance | Continue Reading...

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 [...]

Bill on July 18, 2009 in Microsoft Windows | Continue Reading...

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 [...]

Bill on April 30, 2009 in Contest | Continue Reading...

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 [...]

Bill on November 12, 2008 in Blogging | Continue Reading...

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 [...]

Bill on November 11, 2008 in Web Development | Continue Reading...

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 [...]

Bill on November 1, 2008 in Social Media | Continue Reading...

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 process stuff while [...]

Bill on October 30, 2008 in Web Development | Continue Reading...

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 [...]

Bill on October 29, 2008 in Wordpress Themes | Continue Reading...

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 [...]

Bill on October 28, 2008 in Microsoft Windows | Continue Reading...

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 [...]

Bill on October 20, 2008 in Wordpress Themes | Continue Reading...

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