http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips Computing Tips is devoted to up-to-date computer software and hardware reviews, IT articles, free software, computing news articles, computer networking, education and headlines, security, storage, new sofward and antivirus programms, IT jobs, buying guides and more. en Etta Etta Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:03:17 +0100 daily 1 The long-standing popularity of "word of the day" web sites and emails has been merged with Twitter to create Artwiculate, a Twitter-based word game that might passively expand your vocabulary while you're taking part in social interruptions. To play you simply use the word of the day in a tweet. You don't need to use a hash tag or anything special to acknowledge its use. If the word of the day appears in a message on the Twitter network, Artwiculate will pick it up and throw it onto the front page of the site for other Artwiculate users to vote on. At the end of the day, the top 50 uses of the word are shown on the Artwiculate main page. You can follow @artwiculate and receive the new word every day without playing along. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:03:17 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Twitter-Game/37/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Twitter-Game/37/ The world's largest search engine Google is going to press Apple on the market of online music starting new service for downloading music. It’s known that Google has reached an agreement already with such labels as Universal, Sony Music Entertainment, Warner Music and EMI. If Google will will get it the music market has all chances to come to the Internet finally. It looks that Google intends to announce the new service next week.  The new service is supposed to be a music search engine, which will allow the user to pre-listen to songs, videos, texts and articles related to the artist, all will be given in the search. The main task of the new service - providing the user the option to purchase music tracks. Providing this capability Google is going to cooperate with popular sites ILike and Lala. The new service will be called One Box. "Radio has lost its mojo" for promoting songs, says Phil Leigh, president of market research firm Inside Digital Media. "When new... Thu, 22 Oct 2009 10:13:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Google-Music-Online/36/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Google-Music-Online/36/ No doubt you can be more successful in your business sending needed mailings using free Email Marketing Software.  It seams that very soon you can get the chance to improve your business using open source and free softwares like WordPress and SendBlaster Bulk Emailer Free edition to build an email marketing website ready for a free email marketing software. Besides that dont you know that if you use WordPress 2.7 it cames with the post_class function which gives you a set of CSS classes to a post, depending on what’s in the post (e.g. based on what category it is in). The code that you use in your template to use this is simply like this: 1  This is a great function for changing a post’s display, the classes that it outputs are actually quite limited. Luckily, we can add our own, and we can also add our own dynamic classes. Basically it means that using some extra lines of PHP, you can add own classes into the post_class function depending on some other post information. The default... Mon, 28 Sep 2009 21:00:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Wordpress-post-class-function-use/35/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Wordpress-post-class-function-use/35/ Do you work for a client creating websites and using search engine optimisation? Your clients are probably wondering how well your techniques are working. They may even want to know if the pay per click ad is working the way it should. Luckily for you, sites like Google AdWords make it easy for you to prove if SEO and PPC ads are working. In the past you may have had to cut and paste the research you were doing into customised templates in order to show how well the ad was working. However, Google has since increased the use of their programme. You can now log into MCC Google Account, which is the My Client Centre. In this area it is possible to show how the SEO tactics are working. There are several reports that can be examined. The downside is that it is not as widely available as it once was. You have to be a Google Advertising Professional in order to get access right now. So where does that leave individuals who are not with GAP? Well luckily there is a downloadable option from... Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:04:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Website-Developers-Showing-Progress-with-SEO/34/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Website-Developers-Showing-Progress-with-SEO/34/ If you want to update the sound card driver, you should follow these steps: Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click System. Click the Hardware tab, and then click Device Manager. If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type the password, or click Continue. Click Sound, video, and game controllers to expand. Under Sound, video, and game controllers, double-click the entry for your sound card, and then click the Driver tab. Note If a Driver tab is not present, the entry that you clicked under Sound, video, and game controllers may not be the correct entry for your sound card. Try clicking any additional entries listed under Sound, video, and game controllers. Click Update Driver Software. Follow the Update Driver Software Wizard to update the sound card driver.  To update the sound card driver, follow these steps: Click Start, click Control Panel, and then double-click System. Click the Hardware tab. Expand Sound, video,... Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:06:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/How-to-update-a-sound-card-driver/33/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/How-to-update-a-sound-card-driver/33/ Someone dont like when coming on some site there is music sounding there they are to listen, but if however you want to add your favorite music to your blog you can give people  option to choose - to listen it or not to for their choice. Then. if you have your own music file whic is hosting on a site that allows for hot-linking music files, you can use the following coding, which works for mp3, wav and midi files: <embed src="full url of your music file here" hidden="false" autostart="false"> Just in case the above appears like a link, here is the coding in a more legible form, hopefully it won't read as & and # : <embed src="full url of your music file" hidden="false" autostart="false"> You haven't right to use the url of music files from other people's sites without their written permission, as that constitutes bandwidth theft and costs them money and could possibly lead to... Fri, 24 Jul 2009 20:00:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Add-mp3-Music-Into-Your-Blog/32/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Add-mp3-Music-Into-Your-Blog/32/ In economic downturn, employers are very picky about whom they hire. They’re often flooded by stockpile of resumes. It is a time-consuming process for businesses to pick the right candidates for right positions these days. They obviously can't afford to make any mistakes in the hiring processes. So how can a business process resumes efficiently to find the right person to interview? That’s where recruiting software and resume parser can help make staffing easier. With staffing software, not only can you track applicants and keep up with them, you can also build detailed profiles about the applicants. Resume parser program can automatically build candidate profile database. Whether you want to hire a new employee to fill a certain spot or outsource a job to a contractor, staffing software can come in handy. If you need help in outsourcing works to right contractors , then there are many different types of software packages that can simplify the entire process. Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:24:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Software-for-Recruitment/31/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Software-for-Recruitment/31/ Zaiff Urgulbunger reports that "after years of speculation, Google has announced Google Chrome OS, which should be available mid-2010. Initially targeting netbooks, its main selling points are speed, simplicity and security — which kind of implies that the current No.1 OS doesn't deliver in these areas! The Chrome OS will run on both x86 and ARM architectures, uses a Linux kernel with a new windowing system. According to Google, 'For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.' Google says that this new OS is separate from Android, as the latter was designed for mobile phones and set-top boxes, whereas Chrome OS is designed 'for people who spend most of their time on... Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:46:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/New-Google-Chrome-OS-2010/30/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/New-Google-Chrome-OS-2010/30/ According IDG News Service — when Bruce Schneier, the chief security technology officer at BT, an authority on cryptography and frequently speaks and writes on security-related issues, tried to sell a used laptop on eBay, he got rwice a sale aborted twice - first by a scammer using a hacked eBay account and then by a buyer who tried to trick Schneier into sending her the laptop after she cancelled payment. Schneier's first attempt to sell the used Sony Vaio TZ-series on eBay appeared to be successful within hours of its listing, but eBay cancelled the sale saying the winning bid came from a hacked account, he wrote in a blog post on Friday. A second attempt to sell the laptop also appeared to be successful within hours of being listed on eBay. The buyer paid for the laptop using PayPal and requested that Schneier send it to her using FedEx. She then canceled the payment by disputing it with PayPal, apparently hoping that the laptop would be shipped before Schneier found out.... Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:47:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Bad-Experience-of-Security-Expert-on-eBay/29/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Bad-Experience-of-Security-Expert-on-eBay/29/ You can make it easily just using keepvid.com/ Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:26:04 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/How-to-Download-YouTube-Videos/28/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/How-to-Download-YouTube-Videos/28/ If you find out in your mail box such mail as this one, be sure that’s scam! "Dear User, We are sorry to inform you that we are currently working on securing our server, during this process account which is not manually verified by us will be deleted, Please confirm and submit your information for manual verification by one of our customer care. Information which is to be provided is below: User Name: User Id: Password: Date Of Birth: Country (At Sign up): Upon confirmation of information from you, we will manually verify your Yahoo! Account and reserve it not to be deleted, We are sorry for any inconveniences this might have cause providing your information over the email. Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his/her account after two weeks of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently. "   This is definately a phising email,  no respectable company (especially one like yahoo) would ever email you asking for your password,... Sat, 23 May 2009 19:48:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Scam/27/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Scam/27/ No doubt all of us enjoy watching streaming video online and there are many different reasons we do that. But however sometimes some problems don’t let us to get complete pleasure on the way in case your videos take much longer to load and buffer than they do to play, especially when the video is constantly being interrupted to buffer or load.    There are some tips which can help you to make watching streaming videos much easier. First of all there are many ways to download the video onto your computer where it will not have to interrupt play. Otherwise, there are a number of steps you can take to decrease buffer times. So, the first step is to free up some memory on your computer so that videos can load more content at a time. Just use Task Manager, or Ctrl+Alt+Delete key combination, or by using Start -> Run, typing, qttaks, and hitting Enter, there you can see what processes are running and you can end ones that you don't need. Search and Destroy is... Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:55:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Improve-Your-Video-Streaming/26/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Improve-Your-Video-Streaming/26/ In the age of  electronic communication and getting information trough the microprocessor-based machine, along with great software we use ultimate tool dealing with not just text, but pictures, video and more. Therefore the broadband service you have chosen plays an outstanding role in quality of your communication with the world. We need to be able to receive as well as send, right? And here the data transmission speeds of your computer, its ability for downstream and upstream, exceeding 200 kilobits Kbps (bits per second) or 200,000 Kbps is really very important thing, isn’t it?   It’s said that knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. So today you have a great opportunity to find out practically any information you need including potential benefits of any broadband service, to check your available ADSL, cable or mobile broadband speed, compare broadband , get advice and tips then finally to find your best deal... Fri, 27 Mar 2009 03:17:00 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Broadband-Service-Tips/25/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Broadband-Service-Tips/25/ Well known actor, comedian, author and television presenter Stephen Fry's feed on the social networking site Twitter is one of the most popular in the world, BBC reports. He shared with his thoughts why he believes the web is such a wondrous thing on. At the time of going to press I've got 103,000 Twitter followers, which means I'm getting new "Tweets" all the time. And some of them are very amusing and some of them are rather silly but most of them are entirely charming, he said. If people want to announce their new this or their new that, they're going "I'm not going to do an interview, I'm not going to sit in the Dorchester for seven days having one interviewer after another come to me, I'm just going to Tweet it, and point them to my website and forget the press". And I think people must understand that about the internet - it is a new city, it's a virtual city and there will be parts of it of course that they dislike,... Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:47:00 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Twitter-and-Others/24/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Twitter-and-Others/24/ No doubt opening my mail box I should realize that not everyone on the internet is my friend and getting mail "this is the file you asked for" from someone unknown I should not open it but…. It just happened, I got the mail “you’ve got greeting card” and run it because it was exactly the day of my birthday, I thought that someone decided to send me congratulation then… I hope you guess what is next. My computer got idiotic virus named Trojan mIRC then 5 days long I tried to get it out. My antivirus program AVG detected a Trojan but could not manage with it. Now I’ve changed my anti-virus program for Spyware Doctor that is not only perfect protection to secure PC against privacy and tracking threats including trojans, keyloggers, spybots and tracking threats but easy to use anti spam filter which is protecting your Inbox against unsolicited junk email. So, it solved my problem successfully.   Now I’m sure that if anti spam firewall , this... Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:39:00 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Surprise-Greeting-Cards/23/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Surprise-Greeting-Cards/23/ If you thought this pretty girl is me you are wrong. This is my friend Olivia, who just can’t imagine her life without her laptop. She has become a great profi in computing deals. So right now she is learning some Google tips she didn't know about. Definitions - Pull up the definition of the word by typing define followed by the word you want the definition for. For example, typing: define bravura would display the definition of that word. Local search - Visit Google Local enter the area you want to search and the keyword of the place you want to find. For example, typing: restaurant at the above link would display local restaurants. Phone number lookup - Enter a full phone number with area code to display the name and address associated with that phone number. Find weather - Type weather followed by a zip code or city and state to display current weather conditions and forecasts for upcoming days. Track airline flight - Enter the airline and... Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:53:00 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Google-Tips/22/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Google-Tips/22/   Power Tools Power Tools are in-depth sessions, each focused on a specific application or tool. These sessions strive to help you better understand processes, features and best practices with workflow or business issues. Each Power Tool class involves two (2) days of instruction. Pre-registration for a specific Power Tool class is required when registering. Session topics include: •    System Imaging & Deployment •    AppleScript •    Mastering Directory Services •    Teleworking 2009: A Technical Guide to Being & Managing a Remote Workstaff •    Total Network Awereness: Tools & Techniques •    Mac OS X Server - Behind The Box •    Mastering the Adobe Creative Suite •    Learning Flash CS4 •    FileMaker Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:50:00 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Macworld-2009/21/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Macworld-2009/21/ Today's world computer technologies are able to provide you fast and reliable computing that meet all your entire home or business needs. In case you need your computer repair there are many professional, high-quality online services offered any help on the way and that's also great.   Actually how this is really great, sitting in comfort your own home at long cold winter night, and taking a glass of old kind whiskey, open a personal blog (do you have a personal blog?) to type there: I'm falling in love with... then to write out a soulful, full of feelings, love story. Hah, if things were so I would do it with a pleasure. But the fact is - I'm not in love now (is it bad?) and my best friends, good music, whiskey and my computer brighten up my life and you know what? I must confess I love these long hours spending in silence and peace.   By the way, if you want to make your own blog to write there about your loves or whatever you want, you can use sites... Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:02:00 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Free-Blog-Hosting/20/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Free-Blog-Hosting/20/ Do you happen to have met boot sector repair problem? In case you do you can see my point. I just would like to won you that approximately 75% of all hard drive booting problems, partition access failures, and generic "hard drive failures" are the result of an overwritten or otherwise corrupted Master Boot Record or partition boot sector. How to solve the problem? Looking for a partition recovery software solution youy can find out tons of links to choose from. You can use the Exact data recovery software that can extract needed data from failing drives, BootMaster Partition Recovery, designed as an expert system to provide a safe, easy-to-use method for recovering from MBR and boot sector related failures on Windows 9X, 2000 and XP computers, Avira Boot Sector Repair Tools or something else. What is a boot sector? If you dont know all disks and hard drives are divided into small sectors. The first sector is called the boot sector and contains the Master Boot Record (MBR). The MBR... Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:47:00 +0100 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Boot-Sector-Viruses/19/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Boot-Sector-Viruses/19/ Choosing Right Laptop Dell XPS M1730 has a reputation as best desktop replacement and 3D gaming laptop, then what is good suted for games also good for office multitasking and video editing.   So, Dell XPS M1730 has Processor  Intel® Centrino® Duo processor Technology - Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor T9500 Operating system  Pre-loaded Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium   Memory  4GB2 (2GBx2) Dual-channel 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM   Harddrive  2 X 250GB SATA Hard Drive   Monitor  17.0" UltraSharp™ Widescreen WUXGA (1920x1200) TFT Display with TrueLife™   Graphic Card  Dual 256MB NVIDIA® GeForce® 8700M GT graphics with NVIDIA SLI Technology   Optical Device  8X DVD Burner*   Wireless Network Card  Intel® 4965 Wireless-N Mini-card  price is varied from 1400 to 1900 (in euro) depending on modofication Besides that getting started by browsing the products... Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:25:00 +0200 http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Choosing-Laptop/18/ http://www.blogigo.co.uk/Computing_Tips/Choosing-Laptop/18/