Tired of your blog’s look and can’t find another in your library of appearances to suit you? Install a new one. It’s easy, a couch potato‘s dream. Go to Dashboard and click Appearances. Across the top there is a tab called “Install Themes.” Click it and a menu opens. You can either check the boxes [...]
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Need to highlight a pdf? or cut, modify, or label it? On the PC use FoxIt. On the Mac use Skim. Both are free and work very well. To get FoxIt you have to buy into a trial of a magazine or try out some other product, but Skim is totally hassle free. Enjoy!
The world just got a little easier for web developers who need to change their images. Go to http://www.picnik.com/. No need to register. It couldn’t be easier. Upload your photo, enjoy the very easy-to-use menus to adjust it for size, red eye, exposure, rotation, whatever, add some text to it if you like, save it, [...]
You don’t have to own Word or Excel to read these documents. Here are the free readers for these applications (couch potatoes like free): Acrobat Reader (for pdf documents) Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer. Read PC PowerPoint documents with PowerPoint Viewer 2007. PowerPoint 98 Viewer for Macintosh. Share your work with users who do not have PowerPoint [...]
Some web pages are very, very hard to read. No couch potato wants to work that hard. Problem solved: used Readability. It’s free and may help you a lot. What to do: Go to Readability Pick your desired style, size and margins. I chose Novel style, large size and narrow margin. Drag the Readability bookmarklet [...]
Would you like a photo of your desktop? For example, if you can’t download an image but you want a photo of it, or you’re about to change a setting and want a record of what the setting is now in case you screw things up by changing it? How do you do it? Easy [...]
Okay, you have your blog up and running and you are getting tired of looking at that entry at the bottom of every footer of every page. It says something like “Powered by WordPress” or “Designed by ______ whoever” replete with live links to their web page or blog. So get rid of it. Go [...]
Q.: How can I go directly to my blog to edit it? As it is, I have to log in to the blog, which happens automatically now, but even then I have to go to the page, find the “edit page” link, click it and then edit. It’s kind of boring waiting around. A.: Great [...]
If you’re wanting to make a photo gallery on your blog, don’t spend an enormous amount of time creating a photo gallery from scratch. Be a couch potato: point your browser to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/nextgen-gallery/ and download the nextgen gallery plugin. Then go to Dashboard, click on “Plugins”, scroll down to the bottom where it says, “Get [...]
If you’re using Firefox and want to make a quick post (vs. updating a web page) to your blog without bothering to go to your blog, be a couch potato and try ScribeFire. Download ScribeFire here; It is a (free) Firefox add-on or extension. Installation is easy enough. Go to the link and press “Download”. [...]
