Squidoo (http://www.squidoo.com) is a web site that lets you build one-page web sites quickly and easily. The idea is that everyone is an expert on something – and Squidoo is the place to showcase that expertise. Squidoo will put ads on your page – but they will give you commission on the clicks on your … Continue reading
Author Archives: Ann Treacy
Flip Video
I rarely do this – but I’m going to give a huge product endorsement for the Byte this week. This year I got a Flip Video (http://www.theflip.com/) for Christmas. Really I got it about 6 weeks ago and we have just loved it. The best thing about the Flip Video is that it’s so easy … Continue reading
Automatically save .docx as .doc
I want to thank Andy Rose for his great one-sheet (Save as Doc) on how to automatically save .docx as .doc. Apparently this came up often at his office and he was kind enough to share the cheat sheet he made for co-workers. Thanks! Continue reading
Opening a Docx
Last week we ran into a problem when my husband, using his laptop with Vista with Word 2007 tried to send a document to someone who didn’t have Word 2007. Word 2007 automatically saves documents with a .docx extension. Unfortunately no one with earlier versions of Word can open these documents. Microsoft Word has a … Continue reading
Starting a New Blog
I have a friend who is looking at starting a blog for her vacation. I told her I’d write up some quick instructions and so I thought I’d share them here too. I am a fan of WordPress so that’s the blog we’re using here: Sign up on the WordPress site: http://wordpress.com/ They will ask … Continue reading
Quick WordPress Instructions
Below are a few quick instructional videos for folks who are looking to post article to the Blandin on Broadband (Bob) blog. The information is general enough to applicable to any WordPress blog. Each BoB author will receive an email from WordPress inviting them to become a member and become an author. To sign up … Continue reading
CSS Helper Tools
Today’s Byte is for folks who manage their own web sites. If you don’t build sites, here’s a web site that will help you build a gingerbread house with kids: http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/cafe/grahamcrackergingerb.html (Guess what we’re doing soon? This is from Zoom, and generally their stuff is super easy to do.) Back to web sites… CSS or … Continue reading
Holiday Coupon Tip
Did you miss me last week? My email list tool was on the fritz. Sorry! I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving. I have one quickie Byte today for anyone who might be doing some online shopping in the upcoming weeks. I have had excellent luck finding coupons for various products or shops by simply searching … Continue reading
MyContactForm
I thought I had mentioned this tool before but apparently not. I love this new tool for building contact forms: MyContantForm http://www.mycontactform.com This is a free tool that will build a contact form that you can paste into your web site. So, what wouldn’t you just code a form? Well here are the things I … Continue reading
Nov 8 World Usability Day
Tomorrow is World Usability Day. The theme this year is health care. I know almost nothing about health care usability and I’m actually at a conference in St Cloud (MN) this week but I’m hoping that they archive the events so that I can read up on it later. To celebrate: You can join a … Continue reading
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