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FIXING THE PICTURE ONLINE
Photo editing doesn’t have to be difficult or expensive. We’ve found a lot of free photo editors for use online. For example, go to Pixlr.com and click the “Express” link to get some amazing photo...
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SOME ONLINE COURSES ARE OFF
After logging on to a few free college courses at Coursera.org, which we wrote about last week, we have a few more choice words – and we will try to keep them printable. A lot of the courses are from...
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CRASHING CHROME
Until recently, Google’s Chrome web browser was our favorite because it’s faster and probably safer than Firefox or Internet Explorer. But recently it started crashing regularly on Joy’s computer. Too...
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BOOKS OF INTEREST
Here’s another “Head First” book in the ongoing series from O’Reilly. This one is “Head First HTML and CSS,” by Robson and Freeman, $40 at oreilly.com. This is a great series, one of the best we’ve...
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WE BUY A NEW COMPUTER AND PAY TOO MUCH
We just bought a new laptop, the HP Pavilion g7 notebook PC, for $650 ($600 after the rebate. It weighs 6.6 pounds, has a beautiful 17-inch screen, a 640 gigabyte hard drive, six gigabytes of RAM and a...
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USEFUL BOOKS
“WordPress, the Missing Manual,” by Matthew MacDonald; $30 from oreilly.com. WordPress may be the single most popular program for creating and maintaining a professional looking web site or blog. There...
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GET SQUARE WITH QR CODES
“QR” codes are doorways to other places. As you go through a newspaper or store, you will likely see some of these codes, square in shape and filled with dots and squiggly lines. Take a snapshot of...
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FREE PROGRAM BUILDS PHOTO WEBSITES
Website templates Zapd is a free iPhone app for creating websites. It’s as easy to build a site as tapping your finger and may be a good way to post photos and thoughts. First you choose one of 45...
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MAPS OF WAR
MapsOfWar.com shows you 5,000 years of history in 90 seconds in an animated map that changes as you move along a timeline. We looked at “Who Conquered theMiddle East?” (tip: Alexander the Great passed...
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WIN SOME, LOSE SOME
The Google Chromebook comes in four versions, one by Samsung, another by Acer, one by HP and the new Google “Chromebook Pixel.” Acer, by the way, is one of world’s largest computer makers, and just...
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DOT COM EXPANDS
Just when we got used to websites ending in “.com,” “.org,” “gov.” and “.net” along with 18 other obscure endings, ICANN, the nonprofit group that controls the dot endings, is about to expand the list...
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THAT’S AWESOME
If you surf the web with Google Chrome, you may notice that typing the first few letters of a website you’ve recently visited brings up the rest. Now Mozilla’s Firefox does the same thing. They call it...
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BEST BROWSER
Chrome is still our favorite web browser, and according to a recent Accuvant study, commissioned by the security firm ZoneAlarm, it is also the safest and the fastest –even though it’s only around five...
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YOU TRACKING ME?
Quite a few people seem upset over the possibility that their online activities are being tracked by the government. Yahoo acknowledges they have answered around 13,000 tracking requests from the feds...
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BEST PHOTO APPS
We love taking a photo with our Android phone and have it automatically show up in our Google Plus account online. Google’s Picasa can also upload photos to your Google Plus account and provides...
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YOUR OWN WEBSITE
There are dozens of ways to build your own website these days, but some are easier than others. The good news is you don’t have to learn HTML or coding of any kind, to produce a great site. And most of...
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A NONPROFIT WEBSITE
We heard from a church secretary whose job it is to create a website. She doesn’t know how to do that and wondered if we’re sticking with our previous recommendation, Yola.com. We’re re-thinking that....
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SHARING WI-FI SIGNALS
A pretty girl, very sweet looking, knocked on our door and said to Joy:”I have to get on the Internet. Can I use your password?” We didn’t know her and she wasn’t a neighbor, but she stood poised and...
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SHARING A LINK
This happens a lot: Somebody will tell us about a great site, article or video they saw on the web, but don’t remember exactly where it was. Google it, they’ll say. Sometimes that works and sometimes...
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CAREFUL WHEN YOU PUSH
“Push Bullet,” free for Android phones, is a handy way to send any file, photo or web address from your computer to your phone. If you find a great website while you’re at your computer, for example,...
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