Tips and Tricks
How to Create a Signature in Outlook
Creating a signature to be automatically applied to your Outlook email messages is a fairly simple process, although somewhat confusing the first time you go through it. The below steps will walk you through setting up a signature, but there are several things you should keep in mind as to how signatures can be used.…
Read MoreOut of Office Replies in Outlook
I often get asked how to turn on the automatic Out of Office messages in Outlook, so I decided to make a quick post about it. The way it is done varies depending on what version of Office / Outlook you are running, and if you are connected to Office 365 or Exchange. Initially I’m…
Read MoreFatal error in media.php on line 953 or menu.php
Recently one of my clients performed an upgrade to WordPress 3.5.1. Unfortunately, the upgrade failed for some reason and they were locked out of the Admin panel with an error about undefined function get_taxonomies_for_attachments in menu.php. Research of the web produced the suggestion to manually reinstall all the WordPress 3.5.1 files. Doing that manual installation,…
Read MoreGiving WordPress Its Own Directory
Follow these instructions to move WordPress into its own folder, rather than residing at the root. Giving WordPress Its Own Directory « WordPress Codex
Read MoreStrategy for migrating from Live Mesh: Part 1
Many of you are aware that Microsoft has announced that Windows Live Mesh will be turned off on February 13th, 2013. While SkyDrive really has some nice features, there are several features missing from SkyDrive that are in Live Mesh: SkyDrive is not a true better replacement for Live Mesh. In fact, you are going…
Read MoreOneNote crash on startup caused by cache
OneNote 2013 crash on startup I hate it when a good app goes bad, and that’s just what happened to me a couple of times now with OneNote 2013. If you’ve been using OneNote (or ON as I like to call it – gotta have that abbreviation) then you know what a great app it…
Read MoreUsing categories on WordPress pages
One of the differences between WordPress Pages and Posts is that Posts can have a category assigned to them, whereas pages cannot. Frankly, I think that is just dumb… why shouldn’t pages have the ability to have categories assigned. Well, I’m not the only one that think pages should have categories and there are several…
Read MoreLinking WordPress posts and FaceBook Pages
Duplication of effort is, well, duplication. And when it comes to effort, who needs that? Well that’s what many of us who have both a WordPress blog and a FaceBook Page are faced with…. Whenever we make a post on our blog we have to make a similar entry on our FB Page Wall. Makes…
Read MoreHow to Turn Off the Power (Shut Down) in Windows 8
For quite a few years now we Windows users have been trained to access the power options (shutdown, sleep, hibernate) via the little “Start” button in Windows. For those of you who remember when that concept was first introduced, there was a lot of commenting on how illogical placing the power options on the Start button. …
Read MoreLinking to an existing WordPress Post
One of the most valuable features of the Web is how information is linked. That applies to your own information on your WordPress site. Linking from one post to another is a viable way of helping your visitor find information, and it also can help with your Search rankings. Here’s a quick video showing you how…
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