I put a call out on Facebook and Twitter to send me your tech problems. I have put the call out there before, but I finally figured out how to word it to actually get a response! What I said was, “Do you have something technical on your to do list that you’d love a tutorial on?” My problem sometimes is that I know how to do a lot of technical things. Sometimes it’s hard for me to understand that [...]
A few of my friends have recently asked “So what IS Google+?” Then a friend of mine who is already ON Google+ posted yesterday “OMG, GOOGLE+!!!! I DO NOT GET YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1” So I decided some serious tutorials were in order, in addition to the review I have already posted. Plus, (no pun intended), I’ve been using the service some more, and have really liked what it’s got to offer. This week will be all about how to do stuff in [...]
If you have a blog, chances are you’ve installed a plugin to enable easy sharing of your content on some of the most popular social media and sharing sites. You also may have installed LinkWithin, which is a great plugin to show someone other posts you have written that deal with the topic of the current article. If you have installed SexyBookmarks by Shareaholic and LinkWithin, by default they appear in what I think is the wrong order. You would [...]
Yes, way back when I had a Blackberry Pearl. Definitely wasn’t my favorite phone ever, but it did the job. I kept said phone in my back pocket quite frequently. When I’d go to sit down on the toilet… sometimes the phone would take a dive into the toilet. I won’t even say how many times. You’d think I’d have learned my lesson after the first time! Trust me, it hasn’t happened to any of my recent phones. I’m a [...]
I’ve had a few clients very recently because their blog has been hacked. So I would say now is a good time to check out your site to make sure it’s not suffering from the same problem. The hacks I’ve seen recently have mostly been spam injection, and meta hijacking. What this means is that if you do a google search and your site comes up, instead of seeing “Technology for Moms” They will see “Viagra”, like in this image… This [...]
You see people post on Facebook with hyperlinks to people and pages on Facebook all the time, yet you don’t know HOW to do it! Facebook has actually made it pretty easy for you now (if not somewhat annoying). Now if you just start typing a friends name their profile will come up, you can click on it, and instant hyperlink. The reason I call it annoying is that every time I’m typing the word the my friend Therese pops [...]
I ran a promotion on Friday for my Organized Mom blog, and I came to the realization that the MAJORITY of people do not know how to take a screen shot. It’s fine that almost everyone doesn’t know this skill, I just wasn’t aware of the fact that people didn’t know it! It was definitely another one of those, “why would I post about this, everyone knows how to do it” kinds of things, where I completely forget my audience [...]
This one comes to you from one of you guys! My wonderful readers! It went a little something like this… Dear Tech4Moms, Will I hurt anything by deleting the icons on my desktop? I can barely see the picture underneath there are so many! Thanks, Nervous in Nashville Well Nervous, that can really depend on what you’ve got on there! Typically anything with a little arrow on the icon is a safe delete, as it’s only a shortcut to the [...]
As a member of some popular groups on Facebook, my inbox started getting flooded! My inbox is already flooded with PR pitches, random newsletters from sweepstakes I’ve entered, and Paypal’s constant hounding of me to tell me about every single transaction on dhpnow.com. I don’t need Facebook telling me everything else on my email. I already have email notifications turned off from when people post on my wall, but I do get emails when they send me a message. I [...]
I was having a discussion the other day with my Mother, who started talking to me about a toolbar within Internet Explorer. I told her this extra toolbar wasn’t necessary since all you have to do is “click the little button” and the website you want to revisit will be saved up on the toolbar already. The problem I have had in the past is assuming everybody already knows certain things. I hesitated to put the taskbar tip in my [...]
I mentioned yesterday that you should have an “offsite” backup, whether it lives in your car or at someone’s house. I also mentioned that you should not keep your external hard drive plugged in and on at all times. Here are a few more I wanted to mention, but I was getting too wordy… Your backup drive should not be used as “additional” storage. If you need additional storage you should buy a separate hard drive for storage only. If [...]
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