I try out two wireless mice and have a clear winner.
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February 24th, 2007
February 23rd, 2007
For perfectionists. One of the things that always bothered me about Excel was the way it handled right alignment in cells with certain types of number formatting applied. The Problem For example, in the following illustration you’ll see that some cells containing values have currency formatting and other cells containing values have comma formatting Continue reading Excel Alignment Tips February 22nd, 2007
A surprisingly simple solution. If you operate a blog-based Web site — or even a Web site that includes a separate blog — there’s a good chance that you can use the built-in category and RSS feed features to distribute special offers to site visitors by e-mail. I set this up on my Continue reading How to Advertise Special Offers with your WordPress Blog February 20th, 2007
What’s the Difference? Today I got a phone call from our local newspaper’s “business advocate” — the guy who writes stories about business. He was researching an article about blogging and figured that I was the most active blogger — if not the only blogger — in town, so I might be able Continue reading Web Site vs. Blog February 20th, 2007
On the Future Tense Podcast. One of the other podcasts I really enjoy is American Public Media’s Future Tense. This public radio show has 3 to 5 minute segments on topics related to computing and technology. I highly recommend it for a quick dose of what’s new presented in plain English. For those Continue reading iPod Microphones: A Review February 16th, 2007
Information from Software Update. Security Update 2007-002 is recommended for all users and improves the security of the following components: CoreServices iChat UserNotificationCenter For detailed information on this update, visit http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=61798 February 15th, 2007
Information from Software Update. Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 5 adds support for the latest Daylight Saving Time (DST) and time zone information as of January 8, 2007, and delivers improved reliability and compatibility for Java 2 Platform Standard Edition 5.0 and Java 1.4 on Mac OS X 10.4.8 and later. Continue reading Java for Mac OS X 10.4, Release 5 Now Available February 13th, 2007
Information from the Microsoft Web site. This update contains several improvements to enhance security and stability, including fixes for vulnerabilities that an attacker can use to overwrite the contents of your computer’s memory with malicious code. System requirements Before you install this update, make sure that the Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.3 Continue reading Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac 11.3.4 Update Now Available February 9th, 2007
Now you can see the extremes I can take this stuff to. Okay, so I get my category feeds set up and I get them redirected to FeedBurner. But I decide that I don’t like the name of the site feed (Maria Langer, The Official Web Site*) appearing as the name for all of Continue reading More Feed Stuff February 9th, 2007
Informit gets around to publishing one of the articles I wrote in December. Back in December, I added individual RSS feeds on FeedBurner for the book support categories on this site. The main reason I did this was to take advantage of FeedBurner’s e-mail notification feature. E-mail notification is like RSS feeds for novices. Continue reading FeedBurner E-Mail Notification Article Now Online February 9th, 2007
But what I really need is some advice. As my sick dual G5′s hard disk churns away for the seventh straight day of data recovery efforts using TechTool Pro and I start work on my Leopard book, I have come to realize that I’m going to need a new desktop Mac before year-end. Probably Continue reading I Need a New Mac February 8th, 2007
The fruits of my labor. Yesterday, I spent a good part of the day updating my site’s .htaccess file to redirect requests for my WordPress-generated feeds to my corresponding FeedBurner feeds. This included the main feed for my site as well as individual category feeds for my Book Support categories. I discussed why I Continue reading .htaccess Modifications Boost My FeedBurner Numbers February 5th, 2007
Did you read the article? If you’re a subscriber or frequent visitor here, you may have caught my how-to article about including category feed links for each post’s category. You can see how this looks on every post on my site — at the top of the post is the category name with a Continue reading WordPress Category Feeds February 4th, 2007
We’ll see. The first thing I did when my hard disk failed on Friday (for the fourth time in less than 10 years) was to go online and find an external hard disk that had enough capacity to back up my computer’s entire hard disk. And while I was at it, I’d get one Continue reading Backup at the Touch of a Button? |
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On Geniuses
Why I don’t Genius Bar hop and other comments regarding my recent hard disk problem.
One of my jobs as a blogger is to produce at least one blog entry a week. As you may have noticed if you follow this blog, it looks like I’ve been slacking off lately. Well, I just
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