|
December 2002
Miscellaneous Stuff You Need to Know
-
When using a laptop on the
road it's a good idea to carry the system restore disk you got when
you bought the thing and back up CDs of your critical files. This
has saved me from major disaster several times.
-
Wi-Fi is a wireless
Internet connection being provided by parks, airport lounges,
Starbucks and many other public and private places. You can get a
cheap card for your computer (some new laptops are already set up
for it) and be surfing at high speed, while sipping your Cappuccino.
I'm going to use it in my new house to make everywhere including the
pool area connected.
-
Windows XP is really
taking over. Many sites are showing it to be rapidly overtaking any
operating system visiting. I love it and rarely have to reboot
anymore even though I push my computer hard all day.
-
While we're talking about
XP, know that you can use it's narrator function to get it to read
to you.. Click on "Start", "programs" "accessories" "accessibility"
"narrator" to try it out.
-
You can purchase the
Copywriting Combo which includes 2002 instantly usable
headlines at
http://www.professionalspeaker.com/catalog.htm Scroll down to
"e-books."
-
I use an opitcal mouse
which has no mouse ball to get dirty or wear out. It's especially
great for traveling because your mouse takes a beating as it's
carried around and packed and unpacked. I've never had a mouse
failure since I started using the optical one.
-
Beware of cables. I just
had a pesky problem that everyone thought was my Internet provider.
It turned out to be a cable that was working fine for months, was
never moved around (which might break one of the wires) and was not
suspect at all. It was the culprit. It just went bad and when I
replaced it, everything worked fine. I still can't believe it went
bad on it's own, but it did.
 FEATURE
Advanced Weekly Webmaster Tip from
William Bontrager
(you must check in weekly to see each tip because the current
tip is replaced each week with the new tip)
Back to December 2002 Index page
|
