Important HelpMeRick.com Newsletter/Email Alert

For the second time in just over a year, my newsletter company has made some changes that will affect the way I deliver information to you via email.  In early 2009, my email newsletter delivery company went out of business suddenly. After some thought, I elected to deliver only headlines from my web site via FeedBlitz. To spare you the advertisements associated with that service, I signed up for the “pro”...

I need your help, please

I missed last year’s annual newsletter subscriber drive, so I need your help once again to make this year’s drive a success. As you can see from the Email Newsletter subscribership number in the orange box in the right column of my site, we are holding steady at just over 2700 subscribers. My goal is to double this number by the end of the year. All I ask is that you refer just one more friend, relative,...

Yes, the site look has changed again

I spent the better part of the weekend tweaking, hacking, and polishing up HelpMeRick.com to make it faster and easier to read. Also, the search is working better and better, and I will continue to add tons of new information and tips as I always do. Leave your comments or suggestions by clicking the title of this article and then filling out the form! Thanks as always for stopping by and keep spreading the HelpMeRick.com...

Advanced Linux Meeting next week

First off, I need to stress that this new group has no affiliation what-so-ever with the Grand Junction Computer Users Group, and also need to stress that it is for advanced hobbyists only. Last week, I met with Joe Mason last week who is very interested in this idea of starting an Advanced Linux Users Group. The conversation and information overwhelmed me, but also inspired me on how much more I want to learn about Linux. He...

Weekly updates are winning, but…

Many of you haven’t voted yet for whether you want a weekly email update or the new daily update (actually it is sent daily only if I have new material on the web site). I will leave the poll on the web site for five more days, but hope to get at least 20% voter turn out before making a decision. Also, please keep recommending new subscribers for the email updates/newsletter as well. With the new site, I’m posting...

Newsletter poll

For all you newsletter/email update subscribers, I have a poll at the web site asking for your preference of weekly versus daily emails. Go to the web site and vote for your choice. Thank you.

Improved Site Searching

I worked on the searching situation here at the new HelpMerick.com, and I think you will find it much more responsive to your needs. Use these tips to help find the information you need out of the nearly 2000 articles on the site: Use multiple words (ex: home networking, or email attachments) Always check your spelling Try different forms of the word if your initial search wasn’t successful (ex: network, instead of...

Important Newsletter Information!

If you are a weekly newsletter subscriber, please read this information. After two weeks of soul searching, research, and web browsing, I decided to move the email newsletter subscribers to my FeedBlitz service. Feedblitz picks out my newest articles and delivers them to you in an email. The service works great and I will be moving the address list into it starting on Monday or Tuesday. As soon as I move the list into the...

Special edition of Castellini on Computers Radio P...

This Friday there will be a special edition of the Castellini on Computers Radio program on our local public radio station, KAFM. Anyone can listen from any where by listening to the live web stream at the KAFM web site. Like all public radio stations, they host an annual fund raiser to keep the air waves open. The KAFM management asked if we would be willing to do a special edition of the show during the fund raiser,...

KAFM Community Radio Show

Over the past six months, Adam and I have been fortunate to start a relationship with our local public radio station(not affiliated with NPR). Currently, we do between 1/2 hour and 1 hour one day a week…the third Wednesday of each month between Noon-1 PM Mountain Time. Similar to our old terrestrial radio program, the show involves banter between Adam and myself, questions via phone calls to 970-241-8801 Ext. 1, and a...

No Live Show Tonight

In honor of Valentine’s Day, we are not doing a live show tonight so we can spend it with our wives/families. We will return next Thursday night here at HelpMeRick.com, AND next Wednesday at Noon on KAFM Radio 88.1 FM in Grand Junction, CO simulcast on their web site. We hope you all had a good Valentine’s Day!

Rick and Adam return to terrestrial radio on Wedne...

We are returning to the Grand Junction, Colorado air waves this Wednesday the 19th on KAFM 88.1 FM. KAFM is our local public radio station and has a fantastic line up of music and public service programs. We have been give the opportunity to appear once per month (third Wednesday of every month) from Noon to 12:30pm Mountain Time. At this moment, we plan on talking mainly about newsy tech items and possibly end with a...

Picasa class coming this Tuesday!

See below to pre-order my new Picasa tutorial CD. I will ship it out on Tuesday. Click on the "Buy Now" button and follow the directions. Note the link for non-PayPal users. After month’s of requests, I am finally doing an entire class on Picasa. On Tuesday, November 27 from 7-9pm in conjunction with our regular digital photography user group, I will be teaching about Picasa for the entire two hours. The class...

Chat log excerpt Oct 11, 2007

For those how have never joined our live chat, here is an excerpt from the chatroom. If this doesn’t make any sense, don’t worry about it. We don’t get all of it either. mustut: Wish we has more time to define our terms, per Voltaire’s admonition. NOA-MIKE: VOLTAIRE’s CANDIDE NOA-MIKE: if the shotgun fits mazeco…. NOA-MIKE: DUCK helpmerick: now now guys…go easy on each...

Video Introduction to our new show.

This is my first crack at a video recording via our new pod/video cast that we are starting tomorrow night. The video and audio aren’t in sync, and the sound is pretty distorted…but again it is my first attempt at this kind of recording. Our setup for the show is much cleaner. We had a cleaner run during our initial testing Monday night. We are excited to start this new venture and hope you are too. ...