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Site Remodeling – Take 4

Adam and I met this evening for one of our first strategic planning sessions in almost two months. We always make gains towards our goals of world domination in the tech help department. We looked and experimented with more web design options and settled on this one…we think. It seems to embody the things we need for the site and bring a more pleasing look to the site.

However, since we never rest until we get it right, please leave your feedback on what you think of this design.

Learning a new computer

I have spent more than 10 years helping computer users get the most out of their computers. Without hesitation, I can say that the biggest obstacle any computer user encounters is change (which is precisely why I can’t figure out what Microsoft was thinking with Vista and Office
2007).

Intro to Ubuntu Linux

Yesterday, we mentioned Ubuntu Linux quite a bit so I wanted to pull out our Introduction to Ubuntu video again for you to see if you haven’t seen it yet.

Set a startup password for Microsoft Outlook

Outlook PasswordSome computer users who work in an office or on a PC with other roomates or kids would like to password protect their email, calendar, contacts, etc in Microsoft Outlook. Until today, I didn’t know how to do that. As you know, when I learn something new, I pass it on to you. Remember, this tip is for OUTLOOK users NOT Outlook Express users:

  1. Start Microsoft Outlook
  2. RIGHT Click the Outlook Today icon on the left or the "Personal Folders" icon
  3. Click Properties
  4. Click the Advanced button
  5. Click the "Change Password" button
  6. Leave the "Old Password" box blank since you never had one
  7. Type the password you want to use in the "New Password" box
  8. Type the password again in the "Verify Password" box
  9. DO NOT check the "Save this password…" option
  10. Click OK on all three open screens

The next time you open Outlook, you will be prompted for the password you just set thus protecting access to your Outlook data.

Five reasons I’m not a geek

A geek, as I define it, is a person who lives and breathes computers. Geeks have no outside loves (outside of the computer or outside of their room). Once in a while I will get in a conversation with a geek who expects me to be like him since I work on computers all day. Alas, I he quickly discovers that I am not a geek and he is thoroughly confused.

Here are five reasons that I am not a geek:

New computer does not equal faster Internet

I believe that I’ve written about this before, but since I ran into this phenomenom at least three times over the past week, it bares mentioning again. Many dial-up Internet users using Windows 98 or Me buy a new computer and after taking it home setting it up and jumping online with their dial-up systems find that the Internet and email are just as slow as their hold systems. I then get the question, "Why?"