I've read many bloggers around the web who recommend buying a domain name and setting up your blog with a web hosting service. That is considered the de-facto standard or professional way to setup a blog. However, while I agree with that thinking for the most part, I found myself in a casual conversation recently with someone who wanted to start blogging. He asked me what Continue Reading
How To Provide Remote Desktop Support For Family And Friends
Need to support your mother-in-law's computer, your father's computer, your girlfriend's/boyfriend's parents computer? The best way to support the less-experienced computer users in our lives is by NOT supporting them at all. ;) What!!? When you support your family and friends computer it could turn into a lifetime of free support by you, and lots of frustrating Continue Reading
How To Automatically Shut Down Your Windows XP Computer
It's been said, "Not owning a computer is the most secure computer." While that's true, we need to take steps to keep our computer secure. As a general rule, I like to shut my computer off when I'm away from it for long periods of time. That includes going out for the day or night, as well as going to sleep. Sometimes it's hard to remember to shut it off. So in this Continue Reading
How To Be A Rockstar Freelancer by Cyan & Collis Ta’eed
Cyan & Collis Ta'eed of the wildly popular Freelance Switch website that provides outstanding advice, jobs and resources for freelance techies, creative web folks, and I would imagine any freelancer, have released an eBook called How To Be A Rockstar Freelancer. The eBook contains 212 pages of expert freelancing advice. I just started working my way through Continue Reading
Databases with Access 2007
In this video we’ll take a brief tour of Microsoft Access 2007. Access 2007 is a database management system or DBMS for short. You can think of a database management system as your phone book - listing people, addresses, and companies all sorted alphabetically. Access can be used to create databases that track your home inventory to providing data entry screens and reports Continue Reading