Too busy to read? Want to catch up with me, the Ultimate Geek Girl, while on the bus or exercising? Listen to my posts on your iPod or MP3 player – or even at home on your computer!
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Read how I created an audio feed at Turn your blog posts into podcasts!
The process was as easy as 1-2-3 and now, I have audio of all of my posts, so you can listen on the go!
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The process is actually pretty simple if you follow these steps. Keep in mind that this doesn’t mean you have to record your posts or pay an actor to do it for you!
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Tidy Start Menu, a free program, is perfect for people who want to minimize their start menu without a lot of complications. Users install the program and can organize their start menu to their personal specifications and tastes. The program does make suggestions for categories, but it up to you to put programs where you want them to be.
One of my favorite features is that you can always move a program from one folder to another if you feel it would better fit in a different category.
Before:
After:
The difference is like NIGHT and DAY!
photo credit: Ikhlasul Amal
Thanks to everyone who responded with suggestions in my previous post, Help the Geek Girl get a new laptop!
Your suggestions were great and very helpful! THANKS!
After consulting with many, many websites, reading your suggestions, talking to a couple of “computer gurus” and comparing dozens of computers, I finally settled on the Toshiba Satellite U305-S7467 13.3” Widescreen Laptop.
This laptop meets all of my requirements – small, widescreen and powerful!
WordPress is the world’s most popular content management system (CMS) for a reason – it is customizable by anyone with the skills and desire to tweak the program to their specifications.
However, this also opens the door for bad guys to do harm to your WordPress powered blog.
Perhaps the easiest way to protect your blog is to make an empty /wp-content/plugins/index.html file. Create an index.html file with any website creator software like Microsoft FrontPage, Nvu or Komposer – or by hand. Upload to the wp-content/plugins/ directory. Now, the bad guys can’t see your plugins list and try to attack your site via this directory!
There’s a lot going on with web applications and websites since the new year, so I wanted to roundup 4 sites you HAVE to bookmark.
These websites/applications provide a wide range of functions, but the best part is that they are online and are great additions to your daily web arsenal!
If you have an online application you simply LOVE, add it in the comments!
There are many ways to get more out of your WordPress blog. For example, we’ve covered WordPress themes, WordPress plugins to use, tagging and more.
Here are a few more tips to help you get more out of your WordPress blog – from traffic, post ideas and functionality!
One of the most common things computer users do is to disable AutoPlay (autorun) of their USB or external drive unintentionally – and they don’t know how to reset these settings!
What is AutoPlay (autorun) and why do I need it?
Autorun (sometimes spelled in CamelCase as AutoRun or AutoPlay) is the ability of many modern computer operating systems to automatically take some action upon the insertion of removable media such as a CD-ROM, DVD-ROM, or flash media.
Autorun is intended as a convenience feature: software distributed on a disc can automatically start an installer when the disc is inserted.
This is Step #34 in the 101 Steps to Becoming a Better Blogger.
WordPress 2.3 introduced us to built-in tagging support, which has been a great addition to every blogger’s blogging arsenal for three reasons:
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