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Browsing Posts published in March, 2008

An Analy parent has forwarded a link to a program that enables Mac users (is there a similar program for PC’s?) to synchronize their Google Calendar with iCal, Apple’s nifty calendar program. Go go Apple – Downloads – Productivity Tools – gSync. As the page notes, “This means you can update calendars across all your [...]

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”. [...]

You can make a web page on your blog if you like. It’s called a “static” web page. Go to the Dashboard, click Write and then Write Page. Enter your information just like you would if you were entering a blog post. You may want to make this “static” web page (or a different one) [...]

NOTE: this entry needs editing due to missing images. How do I use my blog to 1) upload a photo and 2) insert that photo into my blog’s page? Preliminaries: First, is your photo about the right size for your blog? See the entry on taking a photograph of your desktop to learn how to [...]

1. Use the web to reduce your load. How many times do you answer the same question? Why do people call and email you? What issues create the most work? Use the web to head off problems proactively. Workload on unnecessary issues can drop significantly and immediately. 2. Do no more than you have to [...]

Q: I tried making changing on my blog with Safari and it wouldn’t work correctly. A: We had the same experience with an earlier version of Safari, but the latest version (5.0.1) works very well. It’s also blazingly fast, like Chrome (Mac or PC). Chrome, Explorer, Firefox, Netscape, Opera, and others appear to work well [...]

You have a long document you want to post on the web. The idea of formatting it with html makes you cringe or it seems intimidating. Be a couch potato web person: just post it as a text document. An extremely easy way to create a web document with minimal formatting (line breaks, caps, spaces–as [...]