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Archive for July, 2007

Wi-Fi HotSpots

Monday, July 30th, 2007

I’m planning a trip to Idaho in the next few weeks. The last time I went there I was stuck in the Boise airport for hours. This time I’m going to be prepared! I’m bringing my laptop. I see by looking at Wi-Fi Free Spot that the Boise airport has free Wi-Fi. So if my [...]

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Spoofing

Friday, July 27th, 2007

Spoofing is another way the evil spammers wreak havoc on the world. Spoofing is when a spammer manipulates the “from” field in an email to say it’s from someone else. Not only that but sometimes they’ll take it to the next level. The spammers will actually send you email from yourself. OK, it’s not really [...]

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Website Helps You Compare Prices

Monday, July 23rd, 2007

I read about BooksPrice the other day and couldn’t wait to try it out!  Simply go to the site and enter the title of a book (or DVD) that you’d like to buy.  The site will show you a list of possible matches.  You tell it which one you’d like to look up.  Then the [...]

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WordPress – Scheduling your Posts

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Say you’re going to be on vacation but you want to keep your blog going while you’re away. You have the posts ready. If only there was a way to schedule your post so that it would be published automatically at a later date. It’s your lucky day! What you want is totally doable with [...]

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Akismet – Fight Comment Spam

Monday, July 16th, 2007

As my blog grows in popularity so does the amount of comment spam that I receive. I know that comment spam is generated by computers but I can’t fail to notice that the computers seem to perversely enjoy sending comment spam on articles relating to fighting comment spam. Go figure. I’ve previously written about using [...]

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Royalty Who Me?

Friday, July 13th, 2007

Read Marsha Perry’s profile at StartUpPrincess.com. The Start Up Princess site has been recently featured in Entrepreneur.

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WordPress – Adding a Photo

Monday, July 9th, 2007

There was one aspect of WordPress that I had a rough time with at first. For the life of me I couldn’t figure out how to add a photo. Like anything else in life once you know how it’s easy. Log into WordPress and begin to write a page or a post. (For the difference [...]

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Live Search

Friday, July 6th, 2007

I was looking up real estate listings the other day when I found a great new map site. It’s http://local.live.com/. Click on the “bird’s eye” view button to see amazingly detailed aerial views. For a few of the homes there was no aerial view on file but most of the time I felt like James [...]

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Making Money on the Internet – CafePress

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

CafePress makes it easy to sell t-shirts, coffee mugs and other items relating to your website.  There are no minimum orders, no shipping to do and you can set your own prices. How does it work?  Go to CafePress.com and get an account. They have detailed instructions that help you with the entire process.  Basically [...]

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