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Saturday, December 31, 2005
TechTip: Emailing Photos
There are several ways to transmit photos over the internet. We'll start with the easiest method for people using Microsoft Outlook for Windows.
Step 1: Copy your pictures from your digital camera's memory stick to your computer hard drive.
Step 2: Open the folder containing the copied images. You might want to make a desktop shortcut to this folder for easy access. To do this right click the folder containing your photos, scroll down to "Send To" and follow the arrow across to the list of options that appears. Left click on the "Desktop (create shortcut)" option.
Step 3: Compose a new email message in Microsoft Outlook.
Step 4: Go back to your photo folder using Alt+Tab (Hold down the Alt key and click tab until the your photo photo is selected. Then let go of the alt key. Think of this like tabbing through fields except your tabbing through your open programs).
Step 5: Select the photos you want to email using your favorite method (i.e. dragging across them with the mouse, holding down CTRL and clicking each one, etc). Then let go of the mouse. At this point your hands should not be touching the keyboard.
Step 6: Click on any of the selected photos and without releasing the mouse, drag your mouse down to the new email message screen that is minimized on the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. Has the cursor should changed to a a perforated box with an arrow (see picture below)? If yes: Good. Keep holding in the mouse key and proceed to step 7.
If no: Go to Step 6b
Step 6b: Release the mouse button and repeat Step 6. If you are still unable to get the mouse to a cursor try an method for attaching pictures to an email. You can either copy and paste them or click on the paper clip icon in the new mail message window.
Step 7: Let go of the mouse and Voilla! Your pictures are attached to the email
Step 8: Verify your recipient address(es) is entered correctly, you've written a subject and body to your email if you want these, and then click send to send your message.
Bon Voyage little email!
This tutorial for emailing photos is a Hosting Central TechTip in honor of the wonderful parents of the world, computer users or not.
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Step 1: Copy your pictures from your digital camera's memory stick to your computer hard drive.
Step 2: Open the folder containing the copied images. You might want to make a desktop shortcut to this folder for easy access. To do this right click the folder containing your photos, scroll down to "Send To" and follow the arrow across to the list of options that appears. Left click on the "Desktop (create shortcut)" option.
Step 3: Compose a new email message in Microsoft Outlook.
Step 4: Go back to your photo folder using Alt+Tab (Hold down the Alt key and click tab until the your photo photo is selected. Then let go of the alt key. Think of this like tabbing through fields except your tabbing through your open programs).
Step 5: Select the photos you want to email using your favorite method (i.e. dragging across them with the mouse, holding down CTRL and clicking each one, etc). Then let go of the mouse. At this point your hands should not be touching the keyboard.
Step 6: Click on any of the selected photos and without releasing the mouse, drag your mouse down to the new email message screen that is minimized on the taskbar at the bottom of the screen. Has the cursor should changed to a a perforated box with an arrow (see picture below)? If yes: Good. Keep holding in the mouse key and proceed to step 7.
If no: Go to Step 6b
Step 6b: Release the mouse button and repeat Step 6. If you are still unable to get the mouse to a cursor try an method for attaching pictures to an email. You can either copy and paste them or click on the paper clip icon in the new mail message window.
Step 7: Let go of the mouse and Voilla! Your pictures are attached to the email
Step 8: Verify your recipient address(es) is entered correctly, you've written a subject and body to your email if you want these, and then click send to send your message.
Bon Voyage little email!
This tutorial for emailing photos is a Hosting Central TechTip in honor of the wonderful parents of the world, computer users or not.
Hosting Central is a full service low cost web host, offering Domain Registration, Personal Site Hosting, Dedicated Servers & Colocolation- A leader among small business web hosting companies.
TechTip: Concatentation In Excel
Here's how you concatenate several cells in Microsoft Excel. But first off, what is concatenation and why would one use it?
You have a list of words in column A and a list in column B. You want to join the two together to make a phrase. For instance, column A is a list of your favorite animals: cats, dogs, chimpanzees, gorillas, etc. Column B is a list of animal attributes: red, black, soft, friendly, gentle, voracious, intelligent, etc. So, if you wanted to pair every attribute with each animal you would either have to retype the words or find a better system.
Here is the better system. With concatenation you set the formula for which cells to join and then apply that formula to all the cells. The steps are as follows:
1. Generate your columns of words. They should be next to each other- Column A, B, C, etc.
2. Place your cursor n the top cell of the first blank column after the last column with contents.
3. Type the equals sign to begin the formula followed by the word "concatenate" and an open parenthesis. It should look like this: "=concatenate(
4. Select the first cell of the column whose words you want to appear first in the concatenated phrase.
5. Select the cell of the next column.
6. Continue like this until the first cell all of the columns you want to include have been selected.
7. Put in a closing parenthasis.
8. Hit enter.
9. Drag the cursor from the bottom right corner of the top cell in the concatenated column downward as you would in making a magic numbered list.
Voila! Less typing. Way more fun. Many great applications (try making a broad match search into an exact or precise search by concatenating some columns of quotes or brackets).
Good luck and have fun!
You have a list of words in column A and a list in column B. You want to join the two together to make a phrase. For instance, column A is a list of your favorite animals: cats, dogs, chimpanzees, gorillas, etc. Column B is a list of animal attributes: red, black, soft, friendly, gentle, voracious, intelligent, etc. So, if you wanted to pair every attribute with each animal you would either have to retype the words or find a better system.
Here is the better system. With concatenation you set the formula for which cells to join and then apply that formula to all the cells. The steps are as follows:
1. Generate your columns of words. They should be next to each other- Column A, B, C, etc.
2. Place your cursor n the top cell of the first blank column after the last column with contents.
3. Type the equals sign to begin the formula followed by the word "concatenate" and an open parenthesis. It should look like this: "=concatenate(
4. Select the first cell of the column whose words you want to appear first in the concatenated phrase.
5. Select the cell of the next column.
6. Continue like this until the first cell all of the columns you want to include have been selected.
7. Put in a closing parenthasis.
8. Hit enter.
9. Drag the cursor from the bottom right corner of the top cell in the concatenated column downward as you would in making a magic numbered list.
Voila! Less typing. Way more fun. Many great applications (try making a broad match search into an exact or precise search by concatenating some columns of quotes or brackets).
Good luck and have fun!
Thursday, December 08, 2005
Getting Rid of Junk Mail
"There is so much of it."
"Every one is from a different email address."
"How did they get my address (I didn't give it to anybody)"
"How can I get rid of all this junk mail?"
How to get rid of junk mail; that's the question a lot of email users have been asking and continue to ask. "I installed this and that junk mail zapper but they didn't get rid of all the junk mail". Certainly, Norton Antispam junk mail filter, McAfee Spam Killer, Spam Buster and the like create the protocol for removing junk mail. Depending on how many lists have got your email address, labelling junk mail as junk mail can be like a full-time job. You would think that getting rid of junk mail would take a big effort up front and then a lesser effort as time goes on, but this is not always the case. Spammers can create as many email addresses as they want so when one gets blocked, they are not out of spam. So how do you@peachesandroses.com who just wants some quiet in your emailbox tackle this junk mail problem?
Here's what you can do.
1. You're going to need to say goodbye to that generic email address you were given by your service provider. If you're getting load of junk mail, it's already on the spam lists and it's going to be a losing battle. You'll still be able to receive those genuine message coming from that address but there are a few things you need to do first.
2. Register your own domain name. It doesn't matter which domain extension you choose- .com, .us, .biz, .name, .org, .info, .pro, an international domain extention. That's depends on what your online purpose is and is topic for a separate discussion. They will all work fine for sending and receiving email and you can configure them for POP (post office protocol- what let's you get your email in programs like Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird) email access.
3. Write down five or six email addresses based on your domain name. Designate one as the primary address where you would like real email from friends and family to be sent; one as secondary, as an email to use on secure severs and other registrations from sources who you trust (your bank, credit card account, etc. Do check any boxes or give your consent to share your email address with third parties); one as tertiary to use on non-secure (http instead of https) user registrations/forms that ask for an email address; a fourth email alias for more casual emailing environments and as a backup for the third. This address is ideal for Skype profiles, chatrooms, user forums and the like; a fifth alias as reserve. You can always create others ad infinum but more than five email aliases and your own spam status might be in question.
4. For the registrant information of your domain registration account, use alias #4 or 5 as your contact email. If you haven't picked up on it already, tackling the junk mail problem and many a technology issue is like a science experiment. You have to go about it systematically, setting up controls, and closely monitoring the results so you know what is coming from where. In this case, you might choose for alias #4 a name that indicates its purpose. Beyond being the contact information by which an eager buyer of your domain name, suitcase full of cash in hand, will be able to contact you, its purpose is to isolate the junk mailers and weed out their junk mail. Make sure you apply the registrant information to all registrant types- technical, adminstrative, and primary.
5. Also regarding registrant information, if you don't want to see any junk email, you probably also don't want to see any regular junk mail. Your options are twofold on this: the first is set up a separate mailbox (physical address) that you designate as for junk mail, similar to idea of creating several email aliases. Use this mailbox address for your mailing address to avoid junk mail sent to your home/business address. The second is to privitize your domain name registration.
6. Setup the primary email account from your web hosting administration using the primary email address you wrote down and the subsidiary accounts using the aliases.
7. Create an email account with the prefix "catchall" to catch any emails sent to your domain that are not addressed to your primary email address. The complete address will be "catchall@yourdomain.com" and we'll see how it comes into play in the next couple of steps.
8. Set the default or "catchall" account to the account you created in step 7. Alternatively, set the default account to "bounce" any stray emails sent to the domain.
9. Setup your email accounts in whichever email client you are using. Note: your username may be the full email address and not the actual username you use to sign in to your hosting backend. Make sure to setup an account for the catchall address.
10. Create a separate email box for your catchall account, to which you will direct all mail addressed to this address.
11. Setup a junk email email rule instructing that all incoming mail addressed to catchall be sent to the catchall mailbox. This is like the filters you were using before but instead of filtering junk mail multiple times on end, you set up one junk mail filter for all junk email.
*note: some emails above may not officially be junkmail. They have been subscribed to and later marked as junk mail.
That should take care of it. Now the only messages coming into your inbox should be from sources to whom you have directly given your primary email address. All other messages will go straight to the catchall junkmailbox. The only reason you will have to look in that box is to get the messages from your old service provider address but those messages will become fewer and fewer as people learn of your new address. And even until then you won't have to go digging because the junk mail swarm won't have reached you.
I think we got 'em. Translation: All those junk emailers, they think they got us but I think we got them . No more junk mail to sort. NO MORE JUNK MAIL PERIOD. That's all there is to it!
"Every one is from a different email address."
"How did they get my address (I didn't give it to anybody)"
"How can I get rid of all this junk mail?"
How to get rid of junk mail; that's the question a lot of email users have been asking and continue to ask. "I installed this and that junk mail zapper but they didn't get rid of all the junk mail". Certainly, Norton Antispam junk mail filter, McAfee Spam Killer, Spam Buster and the like create the protocol for removing junk mail. Depending on how many lists have got your email address, labelling junk mail as junk mail can be like a full-time job. You would think that getting rid of junk mail would take a big effort up front and then a lesser effort as time goes on, but this is not always the case. Spammers can create as many email addresses as they want so when one gets blocked, they are not out of spam. So how do you@peachesandroses.com who just wants some quiet in your emailbox tackle this junk mail problem?
Here's what you can do.
1. You're going to need to say goodbye to that generic email address you were given by your service provider. If you're getting load of junk mail, it's already on the spam lists and it's going to be a losing battle. You'll still be able to receive those genuine message coming from that address but there are a few things you need to do first.
2. Register your own domain name. It doesn't matter which domain extension you choose- .com, .us, .biz, .name, .org, .info, .pro, an international domain extention. That's depends on what your online purpose is and is topic for a separate discussion. They will all work fine for sending and receiving email and you can configure them for POP (post office protocol- what let's you get your email in programs like Microsoft Outlook or Mozilla Thunderbird) email access.
3. Write down five or six email addresses based on your domain name. Designate one as the primary address where you would like real email from friends and family to be sent; one as secondary, as an email to use on secure severs and other registrations from sources who you trust (your bank, credit card account, etc. Do check any boxes or give your consent to share your email address with third parties); one as tertiary to use on non-secure (http instead of https) user registrations/forms that ask for an email address; a fourth email alias for more casual emailing environments and as a backup for the third. This address is ideal for Skype profiles, chatrooms, user forums and the like; a fifth alias as reserve. You can always create others ad infinum but more than five email aliases and your own spam status might be in question.
4. For the registrant information of your domain registration account, use alias #4 or 5 as your contact email. If you haven't picked up on it already, tackling the junk mail problem and many a technology issue is like a science experiment. You have to go about it systematically, setting up controls, and closely monitoring the results so you know what is coming from where. In this case, you might choose for alias #4 a name that indicates its purpose. Beyond being the contact information by which an eager buyer of your domain name, suitcase full of cash in hand, will be able to contact you, its purpose is to isolate the junk mailers and weed out their junk mail. Make sure you apply the registrant information to all registrant types- technical, adminstrative, and primary.
5. Also regarding registrant information, if you don't want to see any junk email, you probably also don't want to see any regular junk mail. Your options are twofold on this: the first is set up a separate mailbox (physical address) that you designate as for junk mail, similar to idea of creating several email aliases. Use this mailbox address for your mailing address to avoid junk mail sent to your home/business address. The second is to privitize your domain name registration.
6. Setup the primary email account from your web hosting administration using the primary email address you wrote down and the subsidiary accounts using the aliases.
7. Create an email account with the prefix "catchall" to catch any emails sent to your domain that are not addressed to your primary email address. The complete address will be "catchall@yourdomain.com" and we'll see how it comes into play in the next couple of steps.
8. Set the default or "catchall" account to the account you created in step 7. Alternatively, set the default account to "bounce" any stray emails sent to the domain.
9. Setup your email accounts in whichever email client you are using. Note: your username may be the full email address and not the actual username you use to sign in to your hosting backend. Make sure to setup an account for the catchall address.
10. Create a separate email box for your catchall account, to which you will direct all mail addressed to this address.
11. Setup a junk email email rule instructing that all incoming mail addressed to catchall be sent to the catchall mailbox. This is like the filters you were using before but instead of filtering junk mail multiple times on end, you set up one junk mail filter for all junk email.
*note: some emails above may not officially be junkmail. They have been subscribed to and later marked as junk mail.That should take care of it. Now the only messages coming into your inbox should be from sources to whom you have directly given your primary email address. All other messages will go straight to the catchall junkmailbox. The only reason you will have to look in that box is to get the messages from your old service provider address but those messages will become fewer and fewer as people learn of your new address. And even until then you won't have to go digging because the junk mail swarm won't have reached you.
I think we got 'em. Translation: All those junk emailers, they think they got us but I think we got them . No more junk mail to sort. NO MORE JUNK MAIL PERIOD. That's all there is to it!
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Internet Connection Speed
You know your connection is slow if you can peel an orange by the time your directory tree appears...
Either that or your FTP Client(program) is not configured properly. Depending on your hosting platform and server configuration you will probably want to have "passive transfers" checked. Are you using a ftp program that is reliable. Try Filezilla or SmartFTP rather than ftping through windows explorer or internet explorer.
…if you've finished the orange and your list of files and folders has not yet popped up, check that the cable is plugged in and restart your machine.
Either that or your FTP Client(program) is not configured properly. Depending on your hosting platform and server configuration you will probably want to have "passive transfers" checked. Are you using a ftp program that is reliable. Try Filezilla or SmartFTP rather than ftping through windows explorer or internet explorer.
…if you've finished the orange and your list of files and folders has not yet popped up, check that the cable is plugged in and restart your machine.
Thursday, December 01, 2005
Internet Age Advice: Organizing One's Time
Multi-tasking between the screens on one project is one thing; between the sets of screens involving more than one project means one is working at capacity. Some work best when confronted with several challenges and the need to deal with all of them simultaneously. Some, probably most, work best with one task at a time to tackle.
The challenge then becomes transitioning from one to the next. From a project in word-processing project to a graphic designing project. Or from a computer project to a development team meeting. The key is harnessing one's strength in moving from one activity to another.
If you have to be somewhere at 3:30 is it better to spend five minutes or 5 minutes earlier on the next?
The extra moments might afford you the peace of mind to focus on a goal. We hope these tips are helpful. The Hosting Central Blog points directly to the Low Cost Web Host where you transfer, renew, register domain names for $1.99 with any other service! Unlimited quantity and basic hosting packages are now on sale for $4.95!
The challenge then becomes transitioning from one to the next. From a project in word-processing project to a graphic designing project. Or from a computer project to a development team meeting. The key is harnessing one's strength in moving from one activity to another.
If you have to be somewhere at 3:30 is it better to spend five minutes or 5 minutes earlier on the next?
The extra moments might afford you the peace of mind to focus on a goal. We hope these tips are helpful. The Hosting Central Blog points directly to the Low Cost Web Host where you transfer, renew, register domain names for $1.99 with any other service! Unlimited quantity and basic hosting packages are now on sale for $4.95!
Internet Age Advice: Taking The Shortcut
A lot of succeeding in this internet age is knowing when to take the shortcut. We want our work to be well-done, professional and thorough. We don't want to leave dangling web pages or slow-to-load jpegs. So often when the opportunity arises to use the quick edit we might hesitate to leave any corner unswept.
A prime technical example: Say you're logged into your website's backend as the adminstrator and using the configuration page to set the name of your site. But when you the desired change and press the "update" button, the change you made has not taken effect. You try again, still nothing. A third time, squinting at the screen to carefully proofread all of the entries. Still, you find no errors on your part.
This is the time to ask, "Is what I am trying to accomplish worth the effort". Does the benefit outweigh the cost? If the answer is no and you have an alternative option to solve the issue, you may save your self a chunk of time. If the answer is yes, then take the next step. Make sure you put some restriction on this; say a search of the superpages directory or 5 minutes on a search engine. Very important as people on the point of frustration embarking on an internet search without any limitations are the ones who get lost in cyberspace. Even a few minute diversion does not further resolving the task at hand.
You search one user forum and there's someone who asked the same question, but no answers, not a single reply. You search the web for the topic and no results. Ok...
Now is the time to stop and ask once again, "is the effort worth the reward". If the answer is no and another option exists, the time has surely ripened to make the move. The alternative may leave a "t" uncrossed or an "i" undotted, but if it saves time and still accomplishes the result, you'll thank yourself later for making the decision.
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A prime technical example: Say you're logged into your website's backend as the adminstrator and using the configuration page to set the name of your site. But when you the desired change and press the "update" button, the change you made has not taken effect. You try again, still nothing. A third time, squinting at the screen to carefully proofread all of the entries. Still, you find no errors on your part.
This is the time to ask, "Is what I am trying to accomplish worth the effort". Does the benefit outweigh the cost? If the answer is no and you have an alternative option to solve the issue, you may save your self a chunk of time. If the answer is yes, then take the next step. Make sure you put some restriction on this; say a search of the superpages directory or 5 minutes on a search engine. Very important as people on the point of frustration embarking on an internet search without any limitations are the ones who get lost in cyberspace. Even a few minute diversion does not further resolving the task at hand.
You search one user forum and there's someone who asked the same question, but no answers, not a single reply. You search the web for the topic and no results. Ok...
Now is the time to stop and ask once again, "is the effort worth the reward". If the answer is no and another option exists, the time has surely ripened to make the move. The alternative may leave a "t" uncrossed or an "i" undotted, but if it saves time and still accomplishes the result, you'll thank yourself later for making the decision.
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