I know it’s a bit random, but my uncle sent this to me and I think it’s valuable info/reminder for everyone. Now that it has my attention I’ve decided it’s time to go buy a fire extinguisher as we are starting to cook at home much more. If you do buy a fire extinguisher make [...]
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Five Time Management Tips
Posted in how-to on December 13th, 2007 Comments Off
Here is a blog posting from Marci Alboher with the NY Times that discusses 5 tips to time management. Included in there is a discussion and a video on how to tame the e-mail beast. I listened to the video while working and thought it was pretty good. Not sure if I’ll follow everything said, [...]
How to access Gmail when it is blocked
Posted in google, how-to on February 15th, 2007 2 Comments »
On the subject of Gmail, figured I’d post this article I stumbled on. Luckily I don’t have this problem at work, but I’m sure many of you might- or may in the future. So how can you access Gmail if your work or school is using their firewall to block access? Read this posting from [...]
New Years Resolutions for your PC
Posted in how-to, software on January 17th, 2007 Comments Off
Here’s another great Lifehacker article to help you keep your PC behaving as it should. Check out this posting on New Years resolutions for your PC which contains some great tips on keeping your PC clean, secure, and most importantly BACKED UP! I’m going to be taking a closer look at some of the utilities [...]
I actually was going to write up step by step instructions on how to complete this because at first I could find any posts that didn’t have errors or gave clearly defined directions, but then I finally came across this blog post. This is how to backup your gmail inbox using Outlook however, you can [...]
Using Google homepage for more than search
Posted in google, how-to on June 3rd, 2006 1 Comment »
One of the best things about the Google homepage is it is simple. You have a text box to enter your search phrase, a fun logo, and less than a dozen links. SIMPLE. As you also may or may not have noticed Google has never placed a single ad on their homepage even though it [...]
Windows XP startup getting slower and slower?
Posted in how-to on April 10th, 2006 2 Comments »
Is it taking longer and longer for Windows to load up or are too many programs running in your task tray? You may want to take a look at what is in your RUN key of the HKLM registry hive. Of course unless you are an expert I don’t recommend doing that, but this is [...]
Web Hosting on Powweb
Posted in how-to on April 3rd, 2006 Comments Off
I’ve been getting a lot of questions about how I host all my sites, so I’d answer that question with a posting. I have twatm.com, ucftailgate.com, and dajacobs.com all being hosted from a single account on Powweb. It works out great because I have enough disk space to host all three and it saves me [...]