Today’s Byte is short and sweet. It’s a very cool, one-purpose tool. Doodle http://www.doodle.ch/index.php.en It’s a simple tool that helps you schedule meetings or dates with a small group of people. 1) Go to Doodle. 2) Create a poll that lists possible times to meet. 3) A web site will be created for you. 4) … Continue reading
Category Archives: Computer Tips
Captchas can Save your Forms
I have a few web sites with simple forms to collect information from visitors. Sometimes we get spam through the forms, where a computer (or bot) has clearly read the form and filled it out as best as it could. It can be a hassle but for many forms it happens so infrequently that I … Continue reading
PDFs & Flash Paper
Last week someone asked me for a free tool to turn Word documents into PDFs. Here are the tools I suggested to her: pdf995: http://www.pdf995.com/ I used to use this all of the time. Each time you use it you get an ad, but I figured that was fair enough. You download this software and … Continue reading
Personal Home Page
Someone was just asking me about how they could create their own news web page. So I thought I’d write a Byte on web sites that let you create customized versions of your web site that you can use as your personal homepage. My Yahoo (http://my.yahoo.com) let’s you pick and choose the news feeds that … Continue reading
PC Pitstop Happy New Year!!
This year for New Year’s I’m bring up one of my very favorite online tools: PC Pitstop: http://www.pcpitstop.com PC Pitstop provides a free tune up for your computer. You just need to click on the Tune Up for new members. You can register, but it’s not necessary. It takes a few minutes to run PC … Continue reading
Posting PPT Online
Last summer I looked high and low for an affordable tool to easily and attractively post PowerPoint slides online. Well, this week I finally found a tool I liked PointCast (www.poinecast.com). (Cost was $100.) I used it recently to upload a presentation on email newsletters: http://www.treacyinfo.com/EmailMarketing/start.html It was very easy to use. Once I downloaded … Continue reading
All About Microsoft
Did you know that Microsoft has a public labs page just as Google does? That was news to me until Rick in Minneapolis sent me the link: http://www.microsoft.com/events/vlabs/default.mspx It’s a great place to see what Microsoft is working on. I’ll admit that a number of the projects were too techie for me – although … Continue reading
Possible Convert to Explorer 7.0
Last weekend I downloaded – and started using Internet Explorer 7.0. I have to say, so far so good. One of the big additions to 7.0 is the easy access to RSS feeds. (Now the RSS feeds are just a click away, which means (for web publishers out there) that I think RSS will soon … Continue reading
Microsoft Templates – Worth a Look
Lately it seems as if I’ve had Bytes for folks in Minnesota, business people, or web site owners – well, today’s Byte is for everyone. I had to make a flyer this week. Whenever I have to make something like that I always start with Microsoft Templates (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/default.aspx). I did a search on “flier” and … Continue reading
Google Earth – New Content
Today I tried out Google Earth (http://earth.google.com/). I shouldn’t have because it kept me distracted for too long, but it was really neat. (Google Earth is different from Google Maps http://maps.google.com/; I mention that because I’m hoping to research a new feature in Google Maps in the next two weeks and will mention it soon.) … Continue reading
