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How do I create a Facebook page for my business?
Question How do I create a facebook page for my business? Also, I want friends, but don’t want all those comments showing up on my business page. What do I need to do? Answer You are confusing Facebook pages with Facebook’s Business Solutions pages a little bit. Facebook pages are personal pages. You create your…
How to Edit Bookmarks in Chrome
Question I am using Google’s Chrome browser. It works great, but I can’t seem to edit the bookmarks. The help tells me to the “Tools” menu, but I can’t find it. Answer Google was a bit tricky with their default installation, but the fix is easy. Go to your preferences for Chrome. Under the “Basics”…
Adobe Illustrator — How to Add Type to a Path
Question I am trying to do something in Illustrator and I can’t figure out how to make it happen. I want to make letters go in a semi-circle, and the help menu says to select Type -> Type on a Path -> and the option I want. My problem is that “Type on a Path”…
Get your business listed in the Google Local Business Center
Did you know you can get yourself listed in the Google Local Business Center for free? Here is how! Visit google.com/lbc Create a Google account if you don’t have one, or sign in with your account. Enter information about your business, including address & phone, hours & more: You can even add photos of your business…
Exporting Mailing Lists to Make Mailing Labels
Question: Do you know of a software patch that allows the exporting of Macintosh Address Book contacts to run mailing labels? Answer: I can help! To learn how to export your addresses out of your Address Book app, you can read this article I wrote a while back: How to Get Your Address Book into…
Parental Controls on iPhone or iPod Touch?
Question: My son’s top Christmas request is an iPod Touch. Am I able to put parental controls on Internet content if I get him one of those? Answer: Yes! Here is how: With your iPod Touch (or iPhone) on, go to “Settings”. Scroll down to “General” Select “Restrictions” Select “Enable Restrictions”. You will be prompted…
Keeping Your Friend's Emails Hidden When Sending to Groups
Question Recently a friend of mine had her email address book used without her permission by a spammer. Probably when she sent a multi-addressee email. How may we send email messages to multiple recipients and keep the actual addresses hidden from everyone else receiving the message? Answer This is a good question as it often comes up for more than…
Drop Box – Easy access to files for everyone!
I ran across DropBox a couple weeks back. My dad is using it for some of his projects and told me about it. It’s pretty cool and I bet you can find a use for it. Dropbox is software that syncs your files online and across your computers. Put your files into your Dropbox on one…
Font Humor
If you enjoy or work with different fonts, you will probably find these very funny. Font Fight Font Conference
Help! Duplicate Entries on My iPhone.
I recently had this problem and thought I’d share the solution. I have a .me account for my Macintosh that syncs with my iphone. My iPhone had duplicate iCal and Address Book entries even though my computer did not. The trick is to completely replace everything on the cloud (.me) and your iPhone and replace…