Archive of various topics not covered elsewhere……….
Browsers
If you are having a site built, remember to click reload or refresh when viewing your site so that you are not viewing a cached page.
Modern browsers include Microsoft Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox and Chrome. Your site may look somewhat different in each of these on a PC or Mac, and very different still on a mobile device.
Email
My personal preference is Thunderbird, but many business professionals use Microsoft Outlook.
Email Attachments
File Transmission or How to Send Stuff by Email Made Real Simple.
These topics are covered elsewhere on this site.
Cooliris
Cooliris adds a new dimension to any gallery enabled to use it.
Download Cooliris from this page:
http://www.cooliris.com
install it and then load
http://dropbears.com/../france_2008/
Mouseover any of the thumbnails and a small arrow will appear in the lower right corner. Click the arrow.
Zip files
These are archived files – groups of files condensed into a single file in such a manner that the whole is often much smaller than the sum of it’s parts, making for faster transmission. Some zips are self-extracting, others require appropriate decompression software, for instance is WinZip (commercial) and Winrar (open source).
Saving a Page to File
In Chrome, Right click on the page, click Save As, choose whether HTML only or Complete.
In Internet Explorer, top left corner click File > Save As >
then choose a location to save it, preferably a directory (folder) which you access frequently and in which you keep your working files, for instance c:/work
Under file name change it to something short, ie “boxer” or “news”.
Under Save as type select Webpage, HTML only
Encoding: Western European (should be default)
Click Save
There is a similar function in Firefox.
Pinnacle Soundbridge I no longer use this system, but hopefully these notes will be of use to someone who does… Want music from your computer that you can run through your sound system. Store your music digitally, send it by WiFi to your sound system, and control it either via remote control at the sound …
Sharing & Posting on Facebook – Make the Posts your Own Important: Make the posts your own. Copy the image from the Facebook original post, along with the key text, and a link to the original post, page or article – you get the long-term credit, whilst still crediting the original. There is little long-term advantage …
Facebook Advertising Campaigns I’ve run several Facebook campaigns. In my opinion they’re great for getting a page off the ground but a little pointless for a well established page. One I ran a year or so back reaped a 1000 likes, but none of them seem to engage in the posts I make, or very very …